The East Lake Eagles stacked a seventh blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Wednesday. Everything went their way against Sunlake as East Lake made off with a 70-45 win. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 33-12.
Brody Church continued his habit of posting crazy stat lines, scoring 23 points along with five assists and five rebounds. He is on a roll when it comes to steals, as he's now grabbed two or more in the last three games he's played. Another player making a difference was Anthony Brown, who dropped a double-double on 11 points and 16 rebounds.
Sunlake's defeat came despite a true team effort from the offense, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was George Clark, who scored seven points along with six rebounds and three steals. Clark hasn't dropped below two steals for five straight games. Ricardo Diaz-torres was another key contributor, scoring eight points along with eight rebounds.
The victory makes it two in a row for East Lake and bumps their season record up to 11-5. As for Sunlake, their loss dropped their record down to 10-7.
Both squads will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. East Lake will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against Mitchell at 7:30 p.m. on January 12th. Hopefully Mitchell focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 12 last Friday. As for Sunlake, they will head out on the road to face off against Pasco at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Pasco will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Florida Rankings (they are ranked 640th, while Sunlake is ranked 270th).
