Girls
ACA stopped a fifteen-game losing streak to MA with a 47-38 victory on the road. The officials had no intention of going home as they whistled 55 fouls in the game. The two opponents combined for seventy free throw attempts while five players fouled out. ACA made at least thirty free throws in a game for just the second time in program history and the forty-one attempts tied for third-most ever in a game. The team shot 73% from the stripe.
Rachel Rine and Jaide Newkirk scored the first five points of the night to give the visitors the early lead. MA cut the lead to one by the end of the quarter and took their only lead with a basket to start the second. Rine answered on the next possession with a three and Alabama Christian never trailed again. MA managed to keep the game close and trailed 25-22 at the break.
Both teams left the offense in the locker room in the third period. Neither team scored for almost three minutes until Jaide Newkirk broke the seal on the goal with a score in the lane. The teams combined for just six points in the third. MA got as close as five points with 57.9 seconds left in the game, but Rachel Rine clinched the win with six straight made free throws over the final 38.6 seconds.
Rachel Rine broke her own single-game record she shared with Carlie Ainsworth with fourteen made free throws in the contest. The senior led the team with 25 points and seven rebounds. Katelyn Sutton finished with nine points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals while Jaide Newkirk had eight points, four rebounds and two blocks.
Boys
ACA fell on the road 47-61 against MA Tuesday night. At the end of the first period, Devin Moseley and Jayden Jones hit back-to-back buckets to tie the score, 10-10, with less than a minute to go. The visitors gave up a three and then turned the ball over against the press and fouled the MA shooter. After hitting one free throw, the home-standing Eagles led 14-10 heading to the second. Christian Snipes scored the first points of the second quarter, but MA responded with an 8-0 run to take a ten-point lead. The teams played evenly for the remainder of the half as Mac Moorer hit a trey to close the gap to 23-30 at halftime.
MA stretched the lead to as much as sixteen in the third quarter as they began to take control of the game. Darius Gardner and Christian Snipes combined to score on three consecutive possessions at the end of the quarter, but MA scored on a putback at the buzzer to lead 47-35. ACA fought in the fourth, but were never able to get the deficit to single digits in the fourteen point loss.
Christian Snipes scored ten points to lead ACA withfour rebounds. Mac Moorer had nine points and two steals while Jayden Jones scored eight points with four rebounds, two assists and two steals.
Both varsity squads travel to St James Friday night to continue Area play.