The Otto-Eldred Terrors and the Elk County Catholic Crusaders squared off in some playoff action on Thursday, but sadly the Otto-Eldred Terrors had to settle for second. They were dealt a 50-22 defeat at the hands of the Crusaders. While losing is never fun, Otto-Eldred can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania basketball rankings (they are ranked 371st, while Elk County Catholic is ranked 43rd).
Otto-Eldred lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Kate Rhinehart, who scored six points.
Otto-Eldred dropped their record down to 14-11 with that defeat, which was their third straight on the road. As for Elk County Catholic, the victory (which was their fifth in a row) raised their record to 16-2.
Otto-Eldred will head out on the road to face off against Port Allegany at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Hopefully Port Allegany focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 18 on Thursday. Elk County Catholic does not have any more games scheduled as of now.
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