The Dwight Morrow Maroon Raiders's road trip will continue as they head out to face the River Dell Golden Hawks on February 22nd. One thing working in Dwight Morrow's favor is that they have posted big point totals in their last five contests.
Dwight Morrow pushed their score all the way to 68 on Saturday, but even that wasn't enough to win. They fell to Pascack Hills 73-68. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Thursday (67), Dwight Morrow still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, River Dell made easy work of Passaic Valley on Friday and carried off a 64-44 win. The win made it back-to-back wins for River Dell.
River Dell relied on the efforts of Pat Sweeny, who scored 21 points, and Sean Golden, who dropped a double-double on 24 points and 17 rebounds. That makes it three consecutive games in which Golden has scored at least a third of River Dell's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Ryan Rossig, who scored five points.
Dwight Morrow's defeat dropped their record down to 15-11. As for River Dell, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last 11 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 15-9 record this season.
Dwight Morrow beat River Dell 66-59 in their previous meeting last Sunday. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Golden, who scored 20 points along with eight rebounds. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Dwight Morrow still be able to contain Golden? There's only one way to find out.
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