By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek girls’ basketball team improved its Red Rock Conference record to 6-4 with a 56-41 win over Sioux Valley-Round Lake-Brewster in Hills Tuesday.
H-BC outscored the Raiders in each of the first three quarters and battled SV-RL-B to a draw in the fourth quarter to win by 15.
The Patriots weren’t sharp the entire game, but some positive things did happen that left H-BC coach Tom Goehle feeling optimistic about his team.
"We played really well at times. At other times, we didn’t. We did go as deep into our bench as we have all season, and we got some quality minutes from our reserves," he said.
Brittney Rozeboom helped the Patriots get off to a good start by scoring 10 of her 13 points in the first half.
With Rozeboom leading the way, H-BC opened a 13-9 lead in the first quarter before outscoring SV-RL-B 12-8 in the second period to make it a 25-17 game at the intermission.
Erin Boeve took over for H-BC in the second half by netting 10 of her team-high 18 points.
H-BC outscored the Raiders 17-10 in the third quarter to increase its lead to 42-27 before battling the Raiders to a draw at 14 in the fourth quarter.
The 9-7 Patriots play in Lamberton Saturday before hosting Pipestone Tuesday.
Box score
B.Rozeboom 6 0 1-2 13, Bush 0 1 0-0 3, Feucht 1 0 0-0 2, Sandstede 0 0 0-0 0, Tilstra 1 1 4-4 9, S.Rozeboom 3 0 1-2 7, Hoyme 0 0 0-0 0, Boeve 8 0 2-5 18, Olson 1 0 0-0 2, Mulder 0 0 2-2 2.