Hills-Beaver Creek junior guard Zach Wysong lets go of a shot over Adrian’s Kyle Knips during Thursday’s boys’ basketball game in Adrian. Wysong hit three three-point shots and scored 17 points to lead the Patriots to a 53-48 come-from-behind victory over the Dragons.By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek boys overcame a one-point first quarter to post a Red Rock Conference basketball victory in Adrian Thursday.After falling behind 15-1 in the first minutes of play, the Patriots rallied to outscore the Dragons 52-33 the rest of the night while securing a 53-48 victory.Although the situation changed as the game progressed, H-BC appeared to be in trouble when Adrian rolled to a 14-point lead in the first quarter.AHS senior guard Brandon Wolf, who led all players with 20 points along with charting five assists in the game, scored the game’s first eight points by hitting two of his six three-point shots in the contest and another field goal in the first 1:30.H-BC’s Kale Wiertzema, who had seven rebounds and five assists for the Patriots, made a free throw moments later to make it 8-1.Adrian, however, countered with a 7-0 run capped by Kyle Knips’ field goal at the 3:30 mark that ended the scoring in the first quarter.H-BC climbed back into the game by outscoring AHS 16-7 in the second quarter to trail 22-17 at the intermission.After trimming the difference to 10 points twice early in the stanza, H-BC trailed by five (19-14) when Wiertzema hit a shot with 58 seconds left. Zach Wysong, who led the Patriots with 17 points, drained a three-point shot at the buzzer to bring the Patriots within five points after trailing by eight.Wiertzema scored the first two points of the third quarter to make it a 22-19 game, but Adrian countered with an 8-2 run capped by a three from Wolf at the 5:05 mark to make it a 29-21 game.The Patriots controlled play the rest of the third quarter by mounting a 16-2 run that ended with a Wiertzema field goal with 46 seconds remaining to take a 37-31 lead that was trimmed to four points (37-33) by period’s end.Adrian managed to tie the game three different times (37-37, 40-40 and 42-42) in the first 3:27 of the fourth quarter, but H-BC’s 6-0 spurt, which ended with a field goal by Tyler Bush with 2:16 remaining, gave the Patriots a 48-42 lead.Wolf nailed a pair of threes to trim the difference to three points (48-45 and 51-48) twice in the final two minutes, but Bush sank a pair of charity shots with 31 seconds remaining to ice the win for H-BC.Trey Van Wyhe led H-BC with 13 rebounds in the game. Kyle and Casey Knips collected 11 and 10 rebounds respectively for AHS.Box scoreH-BCBush 2 1 2-2 9, Wysong 3 3 2-2 17, Broesder 1 1 0-0 5, Wiertzema 5 0 2-5 12, Van Wyhe 3 0 2-5 8, Spykerboer 0 0 0-0 0, LeBoutillier 0 0 2-2 2.AdrianWolf 1 6 0-0 20, Block 3 0 3-4 9, Weidert 0 0 0-0 0, K.Knips 3 0 0-1 6, Brake 2 0 0-2 4, Stover 0 0 0-0 0, C.Knips 4 0 1-2 9.Team statisticsH-BC: 19 of 48 field goals (40 percent), 10 of 16 free throws (63 percent), 30 rebounds, nine turnovers.Adrian: 19 of 54 field goals (35 percent), four of nine free throws (44 percent), 30 rebounds, eight turnovers.
