It was a good run, but the Trinity Christian Tigers unfortunately witnessed the end of their five-game winning streak on Monday. They fell 76-69 to Community Christian. The loss unfortunately continues a disappointing trend for Trinity Christian in their matchups with Community Christian: they've now lost four in a row.
When it comes to explaining why Trinity Christian lost, one person who can't be blamed is Carter Jordan. Despite the final result, he dropped a double-double on 24 points and 14 rebounds. That was a full 34.8% of Trinity Christian's points, marking the third time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Christian LoPresti, who scored eight points along with 11 rebounds and three steals.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Community Christian to victory, but perhaps none more so than Evan Gattis, who scored 22 points along with seven assists and three steals. Gattis has been hot recently, having posted three or more steals the last three times he's played. Another player making a difference was Jared Kovach, who scored 19 points along with seven rebounds and three steals.
Trinity Christian's defeat ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 19-10. As for Community Christian, their victory was their 12th straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 23-1.
Trinity Christian and Christ Covenant will face off at 7:30 p.m. on February 13th without much rest after finishing up games yesterday. Trinity Christian is facing Christ Covenant at the right time seeing as Christ Covenant is stuck on a nine-game losing streak. Community Christian does not have any more games scheduled as of now.
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