Cherry Gelato Heat Beat Ghost Train Haze Hawks 129-117
Cherry Gelato built a 13-point halftime lead at Moon Rock Blunt Arena, held off a Ghost Train Haze push in the third and left with its first win of the season.
| TEAM | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cherry Gelato | 34 | 35 | 28 | 32 | 129 |
 Ghost Train Haze | 25 | 31 | 29 | 32 | 117 |
The Cherry Gelato Heat waited four games for a win. They had this one wrapped up by halftime.
Cherry Gelato ripped through a 34-25 first quarter at Moon Rock Blunt Arena and kept the pressure on with 35 more in the second, walking into the locker room up 69-56.
Ghost Train Haze answered with a 29-28 third, but the margin barely moved at 97-85. The fourth finished dead even at 32-32, and Cherry Gelato closed out a 129-117 road victory.
The Southeast Division picture tightens. Cherry Gelato moves to 1-4, still fifth, and takes a 1-0 lead in the season series. Ghost Train Haze drops to 2-3 and holds second place, but the loss is its third straight.
There is no time to sulk for the Ghost Train Haze Hawks, who host the King Louis Cavaliers on Thursday. Cherry Gelato heads home to meet the XJ-13 Pacers on Friday.
Tale of the Tape
| Cherry Gelato Heat | Ghost Train Haze Hawks | |
|---|---|---|
| 1-4 | Record | 2-3 |
| Gold Strain Series | Series | Presidential Line |
| Hybrid | Strain type, as printed | Sativa |
| Flower · Live Resin · Diamonds | Build | Flower · Distillate · Kief |
| New Pack Line · ROVE | Packaging | Classic Pack · Nature's Chemistry |
| Blunt · Pre-Roll · Mini Blunt · Mini Pre-Roll | Roster | Blunt · Pre-Roll · Moon Rocks |
Seven packs between two benches
Few Presidential Cannabis League matchups put this many packs on the floor. Cherry Gelato is one of the rare teams that fills every spot on the depth chart, from a 1.5g Blunt and a 1g Pre-Roll down to a trio of 0.7g mini blunts and a trio of 0.5g mini pre-rolls.
Ghost Train Haze answers with three, and one is a format Cherry Gelato does not carry at all. Next to its 1.5g Blunt and 1g Pre-Roll sits a 1.5g jar of Moon Rocks.
Shopping for that jar starts with the label, not the shelf. The guide to ordering Moon Rocks jars across New York says each licensed store shapes its own assortment, so ask by exact name, series and format, and keep the official image handy to show the budtender.
What's inside
Cherry Gelato is a ROVE collaboration that wears the Gold Strain Series patch in New Pack Line boxes. Every pack runs flower, live resin and diamonds, marked Hybrid, with a sweet cherry and creamy Gelato profile that rounds the fruit out.
Ghost Train Haze travels the Presidential Line in classic packaging alongside Nature's Chemistry. Its recipe is flower, distillate and kief, marked Sativa, and the jar reads bright, spiced and haze-forward, with the kief showing as a dusty outer coat.
Those Cherry Gelato minis are not a different product. As the note on why a mini comes down to size explains, each small blunt still rolls in tobacco-free hemp and each small pre-roll still uses paper, just like their full-size teammates.