{"id":120797,"date":"2026-01-16T17:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/120797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:29:14","slug":"dunedin-falcons-vs-st-petersburg-catholic-barons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/120797\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin Falcons vs. St. Petersburg Catholic Barons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/dunedin\/dunedin-falcons\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dunedin Falcons<\/a> just played yesterday, but they&#8217;ll still head out to face the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-catholic-barons\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg Catholic Barons<\/a>  at 7:30  p.m.  on Friday. Dunedin has given up an average of 60.7  points per game this season, but Friday&#8217;s  game will give them a chance to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">Dunedin is headed into the  contest out to prove that what happened against East Lake  on Thursday (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. The Falcons had to suffer through  a    97-41 loss at the hands of the Eagles. While losing is never fun, the Falcons can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 490th, while the Eagles are ranked 84th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> St. Petersburg Catholic played against Zephyrhills Christian Academy on Thursday and won via forfeit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> St. Petersburg Catholic&#8217;s win  ended  a  three-game drought at home  and  bumped them up to 8-10. As for Dunedin,  this is the second loss in a row for them and  nudges their season record down to 6-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Everything came up roses for Dunedin against St. Petersburg Catholic when the teams last played  back in January of 2025, as the  squad secured  a  73-44 victory. Will the Falcons repeat their success,  or do  the Barons have a new game plan this time around? We&#8217;ll find out soon enough.<\/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":"The Dunedin Falcons just played yesterday, but they&#8217;ll still head out to face the St. Petersburg Catholic Barons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-120797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120797","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=120797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}