Basketball Recap: Donovan Dowdy's Big Game Can't Quite Lead Fredonia over Harbor Creek

Hillbillies

Previous 5 Games

12/14/24 @ Harbor Creek	36-60
12/13/24 vs Falconer	58-55
12/09/24 vs Buffalo Culinary Arts	94-30
12/07/24 vs Depew	53-43
02/24/24 @ Salamanca	36-53

Fredonia won a close one the last time they played, but unfortunately they suffered a serious change of fortune on Saturday. They lost 60-36 to the Harbor Creek Huskies. The Hillbillies' defeat signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.

Several Hillbillies players turned in solid performances despite ultimately coming up short. Perhaps the best among those players was Donovan Dowdy, who posted four points. Another player making a difference was Luca Gullo, who earned nine points.

Leading Harbor Creek to victory were JT Delsandro and Tucker Chwatek. Delsandro went 10 of 17 on his way to 22 points, while Chwatek shot 4-for-7 from downtown and dropped a double-double on 18 points and ten rebounds. That makes it four consecutive games in which Delsandro has scored at least a third of Harbor Creek's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Hayden Dylewski, who had eight points.

Having lost for the first time this season, Fredonia fell to 3-1. As for Harbor Creek, they picked up their first home victory, bumping their record up to 4-2.

Fredonia will head out to challenge Salamanca at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Fredonia is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 60.2 points per game this season. As for Harbor Creek, they will host General McLane at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Harbor Creek also hasn't been messing around on offense: they've averaged 54.4 points per game.