By John RittenhouseHills-Beaver Creek opened the girls’ basketball season by turning in a dominating defensive performance in Hills Monday night.Entertaining Iowa foe Central Lyon, the Patriots unleashed a relentless full-court press on the lines.H-BC’s defense smothered CL and proved to be the deciding factor in a 60-18 victory.It looked like the Lions might be able to play with the Patriots early in the game, but it became evident that CL couldn’t handle H-BC’s defensive pressure in the second quarter.In the second quarter, H-BC started a 27-0 run that ended with 2:38 remaining in the fourth quarter and included pitching a shutout in the third period.H-BC senior Erin Boeve scored four of her team-high 15 points when H-BC took a 6-0 lead in the first two minutes of the game.CL battled back to trim the difference to two points (10-8) as the period progressed, but H-BC ended the quarter with a 7-0 run featuring field goals by Brittney Rozeboom, Melinda Feucht and Melinda Sandstede and a free throw from Boeve to open a 17-8 cushion.The Lions scored the first two points of the second quarter and trailed by nine (25-16) with less than three minutes left in the first half. H-BC, however, started its 27-0 run at that point by scoring the final six counters of the second period to make it a 31-16 game at the intermission.Rozeboom, who scored 13 points for the winners, netted the final four counters during a third period in which the Patriots outscored CL 14-0 to make it a 45-16 game.H-BC scored the first seven points of a fourth quarter in which it outscored the Lions 15-2 to prevail by 42 points.Cassi Tilstra added 10 points to the winning cause.Box scoreRozeboom 6 0 1-2 13, Bush 1 0 0-2 2, Feucht 1 0 0-0 2, Sandstede 4 0 0-0 8, Tilstra 5 0 0-0 10, Hoyme 1 0 0-0 2, Boeve 6 0 3-5 15, Roozenboom 0 0 0-0 0, Olson 1 0 2-2 4, Mulder 2 0 0-0 4.
