{"id":117878,"date":"2026-01-14T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117878\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:23:10","slug":"westland-hialeah-drops-season-high-score-on-north-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117878\/","title":{"rendered":"Westland Hialeah Drops Season-High Score on North Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID4ddb2da26e9a4235a6c802ccf783566e\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768404190_518_364962b7-7013-4a7b-bd43-77150a693ad9.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID19bfab2aa1ed4938b0bef9f043459399\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\">Wildcats<\/p>\n<p>01\/09\/26 @ North Miami7112\/18\/25 vs Edison6612\/16\/25 @ Reagan5611\/20\/25 vs JC Bermudez Doral4912\/04\/25 vs North Miami39<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/hialeah\/westland-hialeah-wildcats\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Westland Hialeah<\/a> had lost seven straight on the road dating back to last season, but  on Friday they dropped down to 1-15 to make it eight. They were beaten by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/north-miami\/north-miami-pioneers\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Miami Pioneers<\/a> 101-71. On the bright side, the 71- point  performance marked the Wildcats&#8217; highest-scoring  game to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">As for North Miami, their win  ended  an  eight-game drought at home  and  bumped them up to 6-12. They not only won  on Friday, but they posted their biggest win  since December 4, 2025 (when they won  69-39).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> North Miami was led to victory by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/north-miami\/north-miami-pioneers\/athletes\/calando-joseph\/?careerid=lhug5ojr7g6td\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Calando Joseph<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/north-miami\/north-miami-pioneers\/athletes\/julius-ochoa\/?careerid=m89g5k6crvvi2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Julius Ochoa<\/a>.  Joseph  went 7-for-12 from beyond the arc to rack up 29  points and seven  boards, while  Ochoa  shot 64% from the field en route to 20 points and five  assists. The dominant performance also gave  Joseph a new career-high in  shooting accuracy (56%). Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/north-miami\/north-miami-pioneers\/athletes\/messy-beilzaire\/?careerid=2ssnjik94ako8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Messy Beilzaire<\/a>, who  posted 12  points and five  rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Westland Hialeah will get a bit of extra time to process the  loss as their next game is a ways off. They&#8217;ll take on Forges Academy at 7:30  p.m.  on  the 21st. As for North Miami, they will head out to  challenge Hialeah  at 7:30  p.m.  on Tuesday. The  contest will  give the Pioneers their first taste of in-conference action this season.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildcats 01\/09\/26 @ North Miami7112\/18\/25 vs Edison6612\/16\/25 @ Reagan5611\/20\/25 vs JC Bermudez Doral4912\/04\/25 vs North Miami39 Westland Hialeah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-117878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}