{"id":94343,"date":"2025-12-24T00:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94343\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:33:25","slug":"st-petersburg-catholic-takes-a-loss-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94343\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Catholic Takes a Loss + How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-catholic-barons\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg Catholic<\/a> managed to slip by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/bradenton\/saint-stephens-episcopal-falcons\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saint Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal<\/a> the last time these teams faced off, but didn&#8217;t have those same answers this time around. The Barons were beaten by the Falcons 75-38 on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Barons can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Florida basketball rankings (they are ranked 533rd, while the Falcons are ranked 151st).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Several Barons players turned in solid performances despite ultimately coming up short. Perhaps the best among those players was  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/st-petersburg\/st-petersburg-catholic-barons\/athletes\/willem-dericks\/?careerid=ufik8e7ijobh1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Willem Dericks<\/a>, who  posted five  points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/bradenton\/saint-stephens-episcopal-falcons\/athletes\/lawaiian-long\/?careerid=mkkaqhjhm4gtd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Lawaiian Long<\/a> produced another solid  effort  putting up 22 points for Saint Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal. Long has been hot recently, having  posted 22 or more  points the last four times he&#8217;s  played. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/bradenton\/saint-stephens-episcopal-falcons\/athletes\/owen-boyle\/?careerid=sfhvvphlkj8aa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Owen Boyle<\/a> was another key player,  scoring nine points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">St. Petersburg Catholic has  traveled a rocky road recently, having  lost three of their last four contests. That&#8217;s put a noticeable dent in their 5-5 record  this season. As for Saint Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal, the  victory was  the sixth in a row for them, bringing their record up to 8-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> St. Petersburg Catholic and Bloomingdale will round out the year against one another  at 6:00  p.m.  on  the 29th. As for Saint Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal, they will get to enjoy the win for a while: their next game is against Sarasota Christian at 7:00  p.m.  on January 6, 2026.<\/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":"St. Petersburg Catholic managed to slip by Saint Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal the last time these teams faced off, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-94343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94343","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=94343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}