With a playoff game on the line, the Oakland Wildcats rose to the challenge on Tuesday. They secured a 70-64 W over the Cougars. Having run the score up that high, both teams might be doing some extra defensive drills very soon.
Leading Oakland to victory were Jonathan Chapple and Anthony Lacy. Chapple scored 17 points along with seven rebounds, while Lacy dropped a double-double on 19 points and 12 rebounds. Isaac Johnson was another key contributor, almost dropping a double-double on nine points and nine rebounds.
Capital Christian lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Jaylen Valdez, who scored 16 points along with six rebounds and three steals. Valdez has been hot recently, having posted 16 or more points the last three times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Myles Wiggins, who dropped a double-double on 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Even though they lost, Capital Christian were working as a unit and finished the game with 17 assists. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Oakland only racked up nine assists.
Oakland is on a roll lately: they've won 16 of their last 19 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 23-8 record this season. As for Capital Christian, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 23-9.
Oakland will be playing at home against Clovis East at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Oakland is strutting with some offensive muscle, as they've averaged 64.4 points per game this season. Capital Christian does not have any more games scheduled as of now.
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