By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek girls’ basketball team completed a 14-10 regular season by defeating Pipestone 38-31 in Pipestone Monday.Seven days after losing to the Arrows in Hills Feb. 17, H-BC used a strong defensive effort to beat Pipestone on its home floor.H-BC limited the Arrows to 36 percent shooting from the floor and kept the hosts from scoring less than 10 points in three of the game’s four quarters."I thought we played very well defensively," said Patriot coach Tom Goehle. "We forced them to try and score from the perimeter, and they didn’t do it."The teams battled to a draw at nine in the first quarter before H-BC opened an eight-point lead at one stage of the second quarter.Pipestone trimmed the difference to five points (18-13) before the first half was complete, and the Arrows trailed by as many as six points in the third quarter before trimming the difference to two points (25-23) by period’s end.The score was tied at 29 in the fourth quarter when H-BC started a 9-2 run that gave it a seven-point victory.Cassi Tilstra, who scored 12 points along with Erin Boeve, netted eight points in the fourth quarter for H-BC. Tilstra also recorded five assists, while Boeve snared six rebounds.Kerri Fransman led the Patriots with four steals in the game.H-BC drew the third seed for the South Section 3A Tournament. The Patriots play No. 6 Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin in a 6 p.m. quarterfinal-round tilt Saturday in Worthington.Box scoreRozeboom 2 1 1-2 8, Fransman 0 2 0-0 6, Bush 0 0 0-0 0, Sandstede 0 0 0-0 0, Olson 0 0 0-0 0, Mulder 0 0 0-0 0, Tilstra 4 1 1-2 12, Boeve 6 0 0-0 12.Team statisticsH-BC: 16 of 42 field goals (38 percent), two of six free throws (33 percent), 23 rebounds, nine turnovers.Pipestone: 15 of 42 field goals (36 percent), one of two free throws (50 percent), 24 rebounds, 15 turnovers.
