The Pusch Ridge Christian Academy Lions's found some homefield redemption this week after a tough overtime loss to the Valley Christian Trojans on Tuesday. Pusch Ridge Christian Academy secured a 43-38 W over Ironwood Ridge. For Pusch Ridge Christian Academy, this counts as revenge for the 30-25 loss Ironwood Ridge walked away with the last time they faced one another back in December of 2022.
Pusch Ridge Christian Academy can attribute much of their success to Sedona Dietrich, who dropped a double-double on 16 points and 14 rebounds. The matchup was Dietrich's fourth in a row with at least ten points. Another player making a difference was Nicole NJoroge, who scored 8 points along with 5 steals.
Ironwood Ridge's lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Jaidyn Saucedo, who scored 11 points along with 3 steals. Saucedo scored a full 28.9% of Ironwood Ridge's points, the seventh time in a row she's earned more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Scarlett Barton, who scored 12 points along with 7 rebounds and 3 steals.
Pusch Ridge Christian Academy has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 5-4 record this season. As for Ironwood Ridge, they now have a losing record at 4-5.
Pusch Ridge Christian Academy will head out on the road to face off against Canyon del Oro at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. As for Ironwood Ridge, they will look to defend their home court on Thursday against Rincon/University at 7:00 p.m. Rincon/University has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games.
