{"id":147920,"date":"2026-02-08T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/147920\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:55:04","slug":"east-lake-beats-st-petersburg-for-their-11th-straight-win-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/147920\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lake Beats St. Petersburg for Their 11th Straight Win + How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID1e48a6de8c5f4ae6b98e2b5aba2f9772\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770540904_12_85d4f7e8-e09f-4a9f-a0b2-b6b7af6979c1.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID9ea111a182c944d48fdf077504e3f236\" 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\">Eagles<\/p>\n<p>01\/31\/26 @ St. Petersburg69-6201\/27\/26 @ Fivay72-4201\/26\/26 vs Wesley Chapel60-3801\/23\/26 vs Carrollwood Day71-6701\/21\/26 vs Pinellas Park81-42<a id=\"IDd3eb46eab04d47e29c2bde8b093a60e1\" 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\/tarpon-springs\/east-lake-eagles\/basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 6 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/tarpon-springs\/east-lake-eagles\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">East Lake<\/a> extended their winning streak  to 11  on Saturday, bumping them up to 23-2. They walked away with  a   69-62  victory over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg Green Devils<\/a>. The  win almost wasn&#8217;t to be: the Eagles were down  58-44 in the third  quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">East Lake&#8217;s victory was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/tarpon-springs\/east-lake-eagles\/athletes\/jordan-bryant\/?careerid=0dteiimb75r33\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jordan Bryant<\/a>, who  dropped  a double-double with 18  points and 16  boards. Bryant has been hot, having also posted two or more  blocks the last six times he&#8217;s  played. Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/tarpon-springs\/east-lake-eagles\/athletes\/jeremiah-cooper\/?careerid=pjpvkv1tm38h1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jeremiah Cooper<\/a>, who  went 6-for-13  to rack up 18 points in addition to eight  rebounds and four  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> East Lake was working as a unit and  finished the game with 14  assists. They are  a perfect 22-0 when  they&#8217;ve passed the ball that well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">As for St. Petersburg, they moved to 16-9 with that  defeat, which also ended their nine-game winning streak. They were up  58-44 in the third  quarter but couldn&#8217;t hold on to the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Despite the  loss, St. Petersburg saw an underclassman step up: sophomore <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>  dropped  a double-double with 36  points and 18  boards. As a matter of fact, that&#8217;s the most  points  Harris has scored all season. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/athletes\/zak-mellouki\/?careerid=5qohm6fpjtdh1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Zak Mellouki<\/a> was another key player,  putting up eight points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:6\"> East Lake wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next  matchup,  a  74-49  win against Steinbrenner on the 5th. As for St. Petersburg, they also didn&#8217;t take long to hit the court again: they&#8217;ve already played their next  contest,  a  67-53  victory against Northeast on the 5th.<\/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":"Eagles 01\/31\/26 @ St. Petersburg69-6201\/27\/26 @ Fivay72-4201\/26\/26 vs Wesley Chapel60-3801\/23\/26 vs Carrollwood Day71-6701\/21\/26 vs Pinellas Park81-42+ 6 more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-147920","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\/147920","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=147920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}