The newly repainted gym and floor at Porters Chapel Academy saw its first action Tuesday night.

It also appears there will be plenty of action coming from the improved PCA boys’ basketball team, which crushed visiting Briarfield 56-23.

Two new additions, Alton Burden and P.J. Lassiter, join returning starters Ted Brisco, Peter Harris and 6-foot-7 center Talbot Buys. Burden and Lassiter started, leaving last year’s top scorer, Kawayne Gaston, to come off the bench.

Creel said she likes the new additions, but cautioned that the Eagles are still a work in progress.

“It was a good opener to start off with and now, I know what I need to go work on,” Creel said. “We go to Canton Thursday and they will have bigger numbers and should be a good matchup for us.”

Brisco led PCA with 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists. He said the new additions will make things interesting for the Eagles this season.

“I like my team,” Brisco said. “We play real well together and get along. Lassiter brings an outside shot to us and he was better at the drive than I thought he was.”

Creel likes her new weapons as well.

“He (Lassiter) can create a lot and with him and Brisco, we now have two guys who are both left-handed,” Creel said. “Alton plays hard and he’s a real hands-on type of guy. He absorbs what I’m trying to say and can get the message across to his teammates, which I like.”

PCA struggled shooting in the first half and made just 14 of 35 shots. The Eagles also did not make a single 3-pointer in the contest and were just six of 20 from the free throw line. Still, their superior speed on defense blew open the game after Briarfield scored the game’s opening two points. PCA ran off the next 19 points and led 19-3 after one quarter.

Buys played big at the start, getting four points and six rebounds. He saw limited time the rest of the way. Burden had seven points, three rebounds and three steals in his debut while Lassiter finished with eight points, three rebounds and two assists.

The speedy Harris turned the game into complete rout in the third quarter when he scored eight of his 12 points to make it 54-18. He ended with four rebounds, four assists and three steals.

Briarfield (1-1) got six points each from Jaquan Hardmon and Lane Robertson.