The Poetry Community Christian Pioneer will challenge the Yavneh Academy Bulldogs at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Poetry Community Christian will come in still looking for their first win of the season.
Last Thursday, Poetry Community Christian lost to Trinity Christian Academy at home by a 44-25 margin. The Pioneer were down 37-16 at the end of the third quarter, which was just too much to recover from.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Yavneh Academy). They blew past Jefferson 60-18 on Monday. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 34-7.
It was another big night for Lilly Yalovsky, who dropped a double-double on 26 points and ten steals. That makes it eight consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of Yavneh Academy's points. Jordyn Spalding was another key player, going 5 for 8 en route to 10 points plus three steals.
Yavneh Academy was working as a unit and finished the game with ten assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.
Poetry Community Christian's defeat dropped their record down to 0-3. As for Yavneh Academy, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 3-5.
Poetry Community Christian took a serious blow against Yavneh Academy when the teams last played back in December of 2023, falling 50-4. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Yalovsky, who scored 22 points. Now that Poetry Community Christian knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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