Valor Christian had to travel to play their first game of the season, but the final result was worth the trip. They took their contest on Tuesday with ease, bagging an 87-60 victory over the Sand Creek Scorpions. The Eagles pushed the score to 74-44 by the end of the third, a deficit the Scorpions cut but never quite recovered from.
Ashton Johnson had a dynamite game, going 8-for-10 from beyond the arc to rack up 29 points. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in three-point shooting accuracy (80%). Drake Bebout was another key player, putting up ten points in addition to eight rebounds and five assists.
Valor Christian was working as a unit and finished the game with 18 assists. They racked up seven more assists than Sand Creek's also-impressive total of 11.
Defeat or not, Sand Creek got some senior leadership from Jeffrey Cooks and Tristan Daigle. Cooks shot 54% from the field on his way to 19 points, while Daigle posted 13 points. Another player making a difference was Izah Yates, who put up eight points.
Coming up, Valor Christian will be defending their home court for the first time this season when they go up against Rock Canyon at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. As for Sand Creek, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 63-55 loss against Pueblo West on the 5th.
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