Saturday Daily Dive: (12/20)

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Week 5 of the Indiana high school basketball has officially wrapped up and we had a big slate of high school hoops going on Saturday night in Indiana. Let us dive on in and take a look at a few highlights of Saturday's night of hoops.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Carmel improves to 5-0</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Arguably the hottest team in Class 4A right now are the Camrel Greyhounds and on Saturday night, they continued their elite momentum. The Carmel Greyhound improved to 5-0 on the season with a nice win over Kokomo 68-48. For Carmel, Bellamine signee [player_tooltip player_id='1560952' first='Evan' last='Harrell'] led them with 28 points. Both [player_tooltip player_id='1561440' first='Korbyn' last='Hammel'] and Erivon Burks had 17 for Kokomo.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='1560962' first='Blake' last='Neill'] gets win over his dad's team</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>One of the best stories of Saturday night happened between the anticipated matchup between Bloomfield and Owen Valley. While on paper that looks like a normal southern Indiana matchup, the story of the game was senior Bloomfield star [player_tooltip player_id='1560962' first='Blake' last='Neill'] playing against the team he father coaches. In the end, it was the son dropping 33 points and getting the win over his dad's team 62-52. With the win, Bloomfield improves to 4-1 in the season.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Lawrence North wins exciting game over New Albany </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Arguably the biggest game of the Saturday night slate happened between Lawrence North and New Albany. In what was a wild, back-and-forth game, the Wildcats of Lawrence North were able to hold off the Bulldogs 80-78. For Lawrence North, it was [player_tooltip player_id='1729136' first='Brennan' last='Miller'] who led with 24 points for them. This was a top 10 matchup in Class 4A with both looking to prove they belong in the conversation of being contenders for the state championship. Even though it was Lawrence North that was the ultimate victor, both teams showed a lot of tonight. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->