{"id":143762,"date":"2026-02-04T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:44:10","slug":"basketball-recap-okeechobee-takes-a-loss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143762\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Recap: Okeechobee Takes a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/okeechobee\/okeechobee-brahmans\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Okeechobee<\/a> extended their losing streak  to 12  on Tuesday, dropping them down to 4-21. They were beaten by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-jaguars\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port St. Lucie Jaguars<\/a> 72-30. The Brahmans were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at  38-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">As for Port St. Lucie, they pushed their record up to 15-11 with the  win, which was their sixth straight  at home. The  home  victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as  they  averaged 67.0 points over those games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> Port St. Lucie found their leader in sophomore <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-jaguars\/athletes\/bryan-desgrottes\/?careerid=ctf7ugiiuot11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bryan Desgrottes<\/a>, who  dropped  a double-double with 35 points and 14  boards. The Jaguars are undefeated when  Desgrottes posts 25 or  more  points, but 10-11 otherwise. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-jaguars\/athletes\/alijah-baez\/?careerid=6kbugqko6js22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Alijah Baez<\/a> was another key player,  going 6-for-12  on his way to 15 points along with five  assists and five  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Okeechobee does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Port St. Lucie, they will head out on the road to  challenge  Jensen Beach  at 6:00  p.m.  on Thursday. The Jaguars&#8217; defense better be ready for this one: the Falcons have averaged an impressive 57.6  points per game 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":"Okeechobee extended their losing streak to 12 on Tuesday, dropping them down to 4-21. They were beaten by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-143762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143762","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=143762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}