{"id":131643,"date":"2026-01-26T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131643\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:46:15","slug":"emir-gainer-and-nijaun-harris-secure-win-for-st-petersburg-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131643\/","title":{"rendered":"Emir Gainer and Nijaun Harris Secure Win for St. Petersburg + How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg<\/a> had won four straight at home, but  on Friday they bumped up to 14-8 to make it five. They took down the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/northeast-vikings\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Northeast Vikings<\/a> 75-58. That result was just more of the same for these two, as the Green Devils also won the last time the pair played  back in January of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID7d11b7ea33d9450aac45efd1aa0369d3\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769388375_19_58d50ea6-b6a4-4038-93bb-9b0c77506578.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID9cba4e758dfa4b75b495e9b7df4fa30e\" 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\"> Nijaun Harris<\/p>\n<p>01\/23\/26 vs Northeast2701\/21\/26 @ Osceola2201\/17\/26 vs Barron Collier2601\/16\/26 @ Gibbs1901\/13\/26 @ Pinellas Park15<a id=\"IDe003d9a2f6494c8f94b48134920e5a92\" style=\"color:#212021;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/athletes\/nijaun-harris\/?careerid=3g69knu74f5k4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 19 more games<\/a><\/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  dropped  a double-double with 27  points and 11  rebounds, while  Gainer  went 8-for-13  to rack up 19 points in addition to five  assists and five  boards. The  game was  Harris&#8217; 24th in a row with 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\/nicholas-wilson\/?careerid=aov1uh47080bb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Nicholas Wilson<\/a>, who  posted nine  points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">As for Northeast, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-13. While losing is never fun, they can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 380th, while St. Petersburg is ranked 110th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Loss or not, Northeast got some senior leadership from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/northeast-vikings\/athletes\/dominic-brown\/?careerid=48oda43uo3d11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Dominic Brown<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/northeast-vikings\/athletes\/jaiel-soto\/?careerid=c3eclurco1fee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jaiel Soto<\/a>.  Brown  scored 15 points along with seven  assists and seven  boards, while  Soto  shot 50% from the field en route to 16  points and three  steals. Brown is also on a roll when it comes to  three-point shooting accuracy, as he&#8217;s  posted one of at least 50% in the last five games he&#8217;s  played. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/northeast-vikings\/athletes\/walter-brown\/?careerid=8nfjpgi407mo8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Walter Brown<\/a> was another key player,  putting up nine points and five  assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Coming up, St. Petersburg will square off against Lakewood at 7:45  p.m.  on Tuesday. As for Northeast, they will face off against Osceola at 7:45  p.m.  on Tuesday. The Vikings will need to watch out since the Warriors have now posted at least 55  points  in their last nine contests.<\/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":"St. Petersburg had won four straight at home, but on Friday they bumped up to 14-8 to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-131643","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\/131643","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=131643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}