{"id":153929,"date":"2026-02-13T03:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153929\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:39:15","slug":"clearwater-comes-up-short-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153929\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearwater Comes Up Short + How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/clearwater\/clearwater-tornadoes\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clearwater<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-green-devils\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg<\/a> squared off in some playoff action  on Saturday, but Clearwater had to settle for second. They took  a  61-56 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Green Devils. The  defeat   continues a  trend for the Tornadoes in their meetings with the Green Devils: they&#8217;ve now lost nine in a row.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID0e6663eeec9840e1946f627e339e0623\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fe58e818-cc83-4a84-acb7-c61b3363612e.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"IDcc15bd8d26944c7fa02d6e444ae60ff0\" 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\"> Kyden Heniger<\/p>\n<p>02\/07\/26 vs St. Petersburg2102\/05\/26 vs Countryside2001\/27\/26 vs Pinellas Park1701\/22\/26 @ Boca Ciega1001\/20\/26 @ East Lake8<a id=\"ID356fc93a05324f5898e8f5645d3fdf38\" 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\/clearwater\/clearwater-tornadoes\/athletes\/kyden-heniger\/?careerid=lf7f3ei4c6rg0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 21 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Despite the loss, Clearwater still got an impressive performance from  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/clearwater\/clearwater-tornadoes\/athletes\/kyden-heniger\/?careerid=lf7f3ei4c6rg0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Kyden Heniger<\/a>, who  posted 21  points. Heniger continues to improve, besting his previous  point total in each of the last four games he&#8217;s  played. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/clearwater\/clearwater-tornadoes\/athletes\/kris-foote\/?careerid=geh52vc0nkurb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Kris Foote<\/a> was another key player,  almost  dropping  a double-double with 12 points and nine  rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> <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> continued  his habit of posting crazy stat lines for St. Petersburg,  dropping  a double-double with 21  points and 12  boards. The  matchup was  Harris&#8217; 29th in a row with at least 15 points. The team also got some help courtesy of <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  had 11 points and four  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">Clearwater&#8217;s loss dropped their record down to 21-5. As for St. Petersburg, they are  on a roll lately: they&#8217;ve  won 11 of their last 12 contests. That&#8217;s provided a massive bump to their 18-9 record  this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Clearwater and St. Petersburg are set to take part in some playoff action in their next matches. The Tornadoes will take on Gulf Coast at 7:00  p.m.  on Saturday. Clearwater will need to watch out since the Sharks have now posted at least 55  points  in their last 14 games. As for St. Petersburg, they will be playing in front of their home fans against Dunbar  at 7:00  p.m.  on Saturday. The Green Devils will be up against the Tigers&#8217; rather soft defense (which has allowed 59.42  points per  matchup), so fans could be in store for a big offensive performance.<\/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":"Clearwater and St. Petersburg squared off in some playoff action on Saturday, but Clearwater had to settle for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-153929","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\/153929","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=153929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}