On Monday, the Pleasant Grove Eagles lost to the Sunnyside Wildcats on the road by a 51-36 margin. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 507th, while the Wildcats are ranked 232nd).
Malachi Barnes was his usual excellent self, putting up 19 points for Sunnyside. That makes it three consecutive games in which Barnes has scored at least a third of Sunnyside's points. The team also got some help courtesy of CJ Jones, who posted 12 points.
Pleasant Grove's loss dropped their record down to 6-9. As for Sunnyside, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 10-5 record this season.
Pleasant Grove will have a little extra prep time after the defeat as they won't be playing again for a while. They'll take on Franklin at 7:30 p.m. on January 10th. As for Sunnyside, they wasted no time getting back out on the court and have already played their next contest, a 48-43 win against Selma on the 4th.
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