{"id":160891,"date":"2026-02-19T06:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:01:16","slug":"dynamic-duo-of-michael-daniel-and-martell-smith-lead-miramar-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160891\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Duo of Michael Daniel and Martell Smith Lead Miramar to Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/miramar\/miramar-patriots\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miramar<\/a> had no problem doing just that  on Saturday. They enjoyed a cozy  69-55 win over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/fort-lauderdale\/fort-lauderdale-flying-ls\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale Flying L<\/a>. Winning may never get old, but the Patriots sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID0fa23e755abb43f3a6a14cd299347f20\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771480876_674_454ca78f-6b9e-4871-a208-10b9d98ff6b9.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID16ae0da4942f465c81f2dbdabc52550c\" 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\"> Martell Smith<\/p>\n<p>02\/14\/26 vs Fort Lauderdale2002\/06\/26 vs Cooper City1102\/04\/26 vs Everglades901\/31\/26 vs St. Thomas Aquinas301\/30\/26 vs Pembroke Pines Charter7<a id=\"IDfbe70008b52942b8a114f0d2b8ec8479\" 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\/miramar\/miramar-patriots\/athletes\/martell-smith\/?careerid=6f1otnb0j7m55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 23 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">Leading Miramar to victory were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/miramar\/miramar-patriots\/athletes\/martell-smith\/?careerid=6f1otnb0j7m55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Martell Smith<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/miramar\/miramar-patriots\/athletes\/michael-daniel\/?careerid=db0stf6kd6ci2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Michael Daniel<\/a>.  Smith  shot 67% from beyond the arc on his way to 20 points and six  boards, while  Daniel  posted 13  points in addition to eight  assists and three  steals. Smith continues to improve, besting his previous  point total in each of the last three games he&#8217;s  played. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/miramar\/miramar-patriots\/athletes\/alan-charles\/?careerid=mlagjfc97jdbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Alan Charles<\/a> was another key player,  putting up seven points and five  assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> They weren&#8217;t the only ones working in the  assist department: Miramar was working as a unit and  finished the game with 17  assists. They are 19-6 when  they&#8217;ve passed the ball that well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">Miramar&#8217;s record is now 20-8. As for Fort Lauderdale,  this is the second loss in a row for them and  nudges their season record down to 13-11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Coming up, Miramar will be playing at home against South Plantation  at 7:00  p.m.  on Saturday. Fort Lauderdale does not have any more games scheduled as of now.<\/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":"It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Miramar had no problem doing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-160891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160891","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=160891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}