Alex Pastis scored a game-high 25 points and Myles Myers added 17 points as Academic Magnet beat Battery Creek 74-66 in a highly-anticipated boys’ high school basketball game on February 2.

Four Battery Creek players reached double figures in the scoring column in the loss. Adonis Williams led Battery Creek with 19 points, five rebounds and five assists. Tim Ford scored 16 points, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out one assist for the Dolphins in the setback. Markell Smalls, another key Battery Creek player delivered 15 points, six rebounds and seven assists. Aiding the Battery Creek attack, Trevon Simmons scored 11 points and hauled in four rebounds.