The Raiders took on the Gryphons on senior night.
The game started with both teams having turnovers in their first possession, but Sickles scored the first basket of the game with a mid-range pull-up. Alyssa Valerio got a steal for Plant City, and Jaiden Lewis got the first basket of the game for the Raiders. The Raiders then got an inbound pass, and Emily Bautista-Cruz got her first basket of the game. Sickles regained the lead, but then Samari Ingram took it back for the Raiders with a 3 of her own. Sickles responded with a post move to tie the game up. Sickles stole the ball from the Raiders and got the fast break layup. A timeout was called with 2:57 left in the first, with the Raiders down 9-7. Jahni Shaw checked in for the Raiders and instantly made an impact with a steal and fastbreak layup. Sickles got to the free throw line and went 1-2. After an easy Sickles layup, another timeout was called. Bautista-Cruz made another basket for the Raiders to bring it within 1 point. The Raiders stole the ball, and Sami’yyah Davis hit a fastbreak layup to steal the lead as the quarter ended with the Raiders up 13-12.
The second quarter started with another steal and fastbreak layup from Raiders Davis. Ingram hit a nice 3-pointer, then a timeout was called with 6:05 left in the half. After the timeout, both teams turned the ball over. Jahni Shaw got to the free throw line for the Raiders and went 1-2. The Raiders got an inbounds pass, and Davis made the mid-range. Shaw got back to the free throw line for the Raiders and went 1-2. After another Sickles miss, Jaiden Lewis got to the free throw line for the Raiders and went 0-2 . Sickles turned it over, and the Raiders Alyssa Valerio got to the free throw line, where she went 2-2. The Raiders kept going as Harmoney Ford got an offensive rebound and made the basket. Sickles scored their first point of the second quarter by making two free throws with 1:39 left in the half. The Raiders turned it over and gave it right back. Sickles got back to the free throw line as the Raiders were in foul trouble, and the shooter went 1-2. It was halftime and the Raiders outscored Sickles 13-3 in the second quarter and had a 26-15 lead at halftime.
Lewis got to the free throw line on the first possession of the second half for the Raiders and went 1-2. After a Raiders steal, Lewis got to the free throw line and went 1-2 again. After the Sickles miss, Valerio drove it from baseline to baseline and got a fastbreak layup. After the 4-0 run, Sickles called a timeout. Davis got to the free throw line for the Raiders and went 0-2. The next three minutes was a scoring drought from both teams as neither team could get it in the net. Ja’nelle Graham checked into the game for the Raiders and got a layup to end the scoring drought. Ingram got to the free throw line for the Raiders and went 0-2. Ja’nelle Graham got an offensive rebound for the Raiders and got the putback. The third quarter ended with the Raiders outscoring Sickles 8-0 in the third quarter with a 34-15 lead.
Sickles got the ball first to start the fourth, and they were looking for their first basket of the second half but airballed the floater attempt. Lewis got the first basket of the quarter for the Raiders, and a timeout was called with 6:23 left in the game. Sickles got to the free throw line and went 1-2. Graham got the offensive rebound and the putback for the Raiders to extend the lead. Graham then got to the free throw line on the next possession after she was fouled while grabbing the offensive rebound and she went 0-2 from the line. Sickles got to the free throw line and went 2-2. Sickles got a steal and fast break basket. Lewis went to the free throw line for the Raiders and went 2-2. Valerio got to the free throw line and went 0-2 from the line. Sickles got to the free throw line with 1:21 left in the game and went 0-2 from the line. Shaw got to the free throw line with 1:10 left in the game but went 0-2. Sickles got a steal and then finished with a fastbreak layup. The game ended with the Raiders winning 44-23 on senior night.
