The Summit Academy boys basketball team continued their winning ways as they defeated the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance (Bedford Stuyvesant) 110-78 on December 17.
After the decisive win over the Bulls, who are in the Brooklyn B North division, Summit is now 11-1 overall and 7-0 in the Brooklyn B division. Five of their seven B division wins have been by at least 10 points.
Monday’s game, in front of a partially filled bleachers at Summit, had five Eagles score in double figures with two players leading the way. Junior point guard Jordan Council scored 38 points with five 3-pointers, junior Donte Howard scored 29 points with 22 points in the second half, senior Shamal Grant Jr. scored 10 points, junior Amere Ward scored 10 points and junior Dylan Rawlings scored 10 points with eight coming in the second half.
The Summit Eagles previously beat Brooklyn College Academy 66-45 on Saturday 12/15 and defeated EBC/Bushwick Leaders 70-57 on Friday 12/14.
Summit has now won four games in a row since their only loss of the season to A division William E. Grady High by nine points.
The game between Summit and Grady was close until the end when Summit had a few turnovers towards the end of the 4th quarter in the away game.
Council and Howard, who were the two leading scorers for Summit, have a family connection and the coach was proud of how they stepped up in the second half.
“They are actually cousins,” Grant said. “They both played well, especially Jordan. He took control. Jordan took control and settled us down. Both of them made a lot of shots in the second half. Those two played really well today.”
The score was 51-27 at the half but the coach emphasized better overall defense after committing 15 fouls in the first half.
Council, who scored a team-high 38 points and averaged a team-high 16 points per game last year as a sophomore, had high expectations from his coach coming into the season and he is living up to them.
“This is what I expected from him (Jordan),” Grant said. “I expected him to be our leader. He is doing a great job being our leader. Whenever it gets out of hand he comes in and settles us down. He makes some big shots. This is what I expected from him in his junior year.”
Summit’s next game is on January 4.
