Hills-Beaver Creek junior guard Cassi Tilstra puts up a jump shot in front of Adrian’s Kylie Heronimus (12) and Maria Gengler (40) during Monday’s girls’ basketball game in Hills. H-BC ended Adrian’s chances to gain a share of the Red Rock Conference title by besting the Dragons 48-41.By John RittenhouseHills-Beaver Creek ended any chances of Adrian repeating as the Red Rock Conference girls’ basketball champions by defeating the Dragons 48-41 in Hills Monday.Adrian, which needed to beat H-BC to remain one game back of Fulda in the RRC standings, was outscored 12-5 in the game’s final 3:09 by an H-BC team trying to gain momentum for postseason play.Adrian slips to 12-2 in league play, while Fulda, 15-0, clinches the RRC title.Monday’s game in Hills was tight from start to finish.Neither team led by more than one point in the first seven minutes of play, but H-BC scored four straight points with Stacy Bush draining a field goal with 58 seconds left in the first period to give H-BC a 9-6 cushion.Adrian’s Maria Gengler, who led all players with 15 points, converted a three-point play to tie the game at nine before Dragon Andrea Lonneman sank a field goal with 11 seconds left to give AHS an 11-9 edge at period’s end.H-BC moved in front 15-13 at the 4:58 mark of the second period when a 4-0 spurt ended with Cassi Tilstra connecting for a field goal. Adrian scored the final four points of the first half and led 17-15 when Sarah Kruger hit a shot with 50 seconds remaining in the second stanza.Kylie Heronimus gave Adrian its biggest lead of the game (20-17) when she drained a three-point shot at 5:57 of the third quarter, but H-BC countered with a 7-0 run capped by a field goal from Tilstra at 3:10 to give the Patriots a 24-20 cushion.Adrian answered with a six-point surge that ended with Gengler scoring from close range with 59 seconds left in the third quarter to give the Dragons a 26-24 edge. H-BC, however, outscored AHS 5-2 the rest of the period and led 29-28 when Bush hit a three-point shot with 43 seconds remaining in the stanza.H-BC extended its lead to three points twice in the early stages of the fourth quarter, but Adrian regained the lead at 34-33 with 3:51 remaining when Gengler converted a field goal.The score was tied at 36 when Kerri Fransman gave the Patriots the lead (39-36) with a three-point shot with 3:09 left to play. Adrian climbed to within two points (39-37) moments later, but H-BC outscored the Dragons 9-4 the rest of the way to prevail by seven.Erin Boeve, who led H-BC with 13 points, netted 10 counters in the decisive fourth quarter. Tilstra and Fransman scored 12 and 10 points for the winners.Gengler is the lone Dragon to reach double figures in scoring. Lonneman collected 11 rebounds.Box scoreAdrianHenning 1 0 0-0 2, Heronimus 3 1 0-0 9, Banck 0 0 0-0 0, Kruger 4 0 0-2 8, Cox 0 0 1-2 1, Lonneman 3 0 0-0 6, Gengler 6 0 3-5 15, Loosbrock 0 0 0-0 0H-BCRozeboom 0 0 0-4 0, Fransman 2 2 0-0 10, Bush 1 1 0-0 5, Sandstede 0 0 0-0 0, Tilstra 5 0 2-5 12, Boeve 5 0 3-5 13, Olson 2 0 2-3 6, Mulder 1 0 0-0 2.
