{"id":164431,"date":"2026-02-22T04:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:24:34","slug":"braden-river-falls-short-of-st-petersburg-in-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164431\/","title":{"rendered":"Braden River Falls Short of St. Petersburg in the Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">It&#8217;s hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/bradenton\/braden-river-pirates\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Braden River<\/a> can now relate to. They came up short against  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> on Friday, falling  66-41. The Pirates were in a tough position after the first half, with the score already sitting at  37-13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> St. Petersburg found their leader in 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>, who  dropped  a double-double with 23  points and 17  rebounds. Harris&#8217; big performance that  evening made it 31 games in a row in which  he has scored at least 15 points. <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> was another key player,  putting up 13 points along with eight  assists and three  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Braden River&#8217;s loss dropped their record down to 23-7. As for St. Petersburg, they are  on a roll lately: they&#8217;ve  won 13 of their last 14 matchups. That&#8217;s provided a massive bump to their 20-9 record  this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">As of now, neither Braden River nor St. Petersburg have any future games scheduled.<\/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&#8217;s hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Braden River can now relate to.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-164431","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\/164431","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=164431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}