The Fike Demons's road trip will continue as they head out to face the West Johnston Wildcats at 6:00 p.m. on February 19th. Hopefully Fike focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 20 on Friday.
Fike struggled with three-point shooting accuracy on Friday (Hunt was 75% better) and sadly the final score reflected it. Fike ended up on the wrong side of a tough 51-30 walloping at the hands of Hunt. While losing is never fun, Fike can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 481st, while Hunt is ranked 236th).
Even though the team lost, they still had their share of impressive performances. One of the best came from Jorden Simpkins, who scored six points.
Even though they lost, Fike smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 11 offensive rebounds. This was only their 14th loss (out of 20 games) when they hit their own glass that hard.
Meanwhile, West Johnston came tearing into Friday's contest with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 14 points) and they left with even more momentum. They took down South Johnston 59-42.
Fike has traveled a rocky road recently having lost three of their last four games, which put a noticeable dent in their 6-17 record this season. As for West Johnston, their victory was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 13-11.
Fike came up short against West Johnston in their previous matchup back in January, falling 70-62. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of West Johnston's Kameron Taylor, who scored 22 points along with six rebounds and five assists. Now that Fike knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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