The Heath Bulldogs waltzed into their matchup on Tuesday with four straight wins but they left with five. They walked away with a 43-31 victory over Johnstown-Monroe. That's another feather in the cap for Heath, who also won these teams' last head-to-head.
Heath was led to victory by Jaxon Duston and Ben Mason. Duston scored 11 points along with eight rebounds and five steals, while Mason almost dropped a double-double on 13 points and nine rebounds. Duston has been hot recently, having posted two or more steals the last three times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Preston Devito, who scored seven points.
Heath has been performing well recently as they've won eight of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-5 record this season. As for Johnstown-Monroe, their defeat ended a five-game streak of away wins and brought them to 11-9.
Heath will head out on the road to square off against Lakewood at 7:15 p.m. on Friday. Lakewood will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Ohio Rankings (they are ranked 593rd, while Heath is ranked 165th). As for Johnstown-Monroe, they will look to defend their home court on Friday against Newark Catholic at 7:15 p.m. Newark Catholic will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Ohio Rankings (they are ranked 676th, while Johnstown-Monroe is ranked 283rd).
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