{"id":123443,"date":"2026-01-19T05:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123443\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:26:14","slug":"barron-collier-comes-up-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123443\/","title":{"rendered":"Barron Collier Comes Up Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/naples\/barron-collier-cougars\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron Collier<\/a> lost to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg<\/a> back in February of 2023 and unfortunately they wound up with the same result  on Saturday. The Cougars lost  82-56 to the Green Devils. While losing is never fun, the Cougars can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 267th, while the Green Devils are ranked 128th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Leading St. Petersburg to victory were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/athletes\/nijaun-harris\/?careerid=3g69knu74f5k4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Nijaun Harris<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/athletes\/emir-gainer\/?careerid=fodnlu1acrp66\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Emir Gainer<\/a>.  Harris  posted 26  points, while  Gainer  scored 21 points. Harris&#8217; big performance that  morning made it 22 games in a row in which  he has scored at least 15 points. Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/athletes\/kayden-calhoun\/?careerid=vh4ubiarffcqa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Kayden Calhoun<\/a>, who  put up 11  points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">This is the second loss in a row for Barron Collier and  nudges their season record down to 10-10. As for St. Petersburg, the  win was  the fifth in a row for them, bringing their record up to 12-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Barron Collier will have a little extra prep time after the  defeat as they won&#8217;t be playing again for a while. They&#8217;ll take on Seacrest Country Day at 7:00  p.m.  on  the 27th. As for St. Petersburg, they will head out to  face off against Osceola  at 8:00  p.m.  on Wednesday.<\/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":"Barron Collier lost to St. Petersburg back in February of 2023 and unfortunately they wound up with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-123443","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\/123443","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=123443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}