Hills-Beaver Creek guard Tyler Bush grabs a rebound before scoring during the first half of Friday’s boys’ basketball game against Westbrook-Walnut Grove in Hills. The Patriots scored 101 points during a 61-point victory over the Chargers.
By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek boys passed the century mark in scoring when they entertained Westbrook-Walnut Grove for a Red Rock Conference boys’ basketball game in Hills Friday.
In a stunning offensive performance, H-BC canned 63 percent of its field goals on the way to a 101-40 victory over the Chargers.
Eight Patriots made contributions to the scoring blitz, and five of them reached double figures in points.
Tyson Metzger and Kale Wiertzema led the charge with 23 and 20 points respectively.
Trey Van Wyhe, Jesse Leuthold and Clint Roozenboom added 19, 14 and 12 points to the winning cause.
W-WG, a team that recently played an undefeated Pipestone Area team to a near draw in the first half, sported a 3-2 lead against the Patriots early in the first quarter.
H-BC, however, bounced back to outscore the Chargers 99-37 the rest of the way to win by 61.
After falling behind by one point early, the momentum switched to H-BC’s favor for good when it put together an 11-1 run capped by Tyler Bush’ field goal at 4:55 to gain a 13-4 lead.
The Patriots outscored the Chargers 23-5 over the remainder of the period to take a 36-9 lead into the second stanza.
The situation grew worse for W-WG in the second quarter as it was outscored 26-5, which led to a 62-14 halftime deficit.
The score was 88-30 after H-BC outscored the Chargers 26-16 in third period, and the hosts surpassed the 100-point barrier when Roozenboom hit a field goal that capped scoring in the fourth quarter with 54 seconds remaining.
Besides making 45 of 72 field goals, H-BC collected 24 more rebounds (43-19) than W-WG did in the game, and forced the Chargers to turn the ball over 21 times.
Wiertzema, who had nine rebounds, and Van Wyhe recorded double-doubles with 12 assists and 10 rebounds respectively.
Bush finished the game with 14 assists and seven steals, Roozenboom had seven rebounds and five steals, and Metzger and Zach Wysong chipped in eight and six rebounds respectively.
Box score
Bush 2 1 0-2 7, Wysong 0 2 0-0 6, Jackson 0 0 0-0 0, Roozenboom 6 0 0-1 12, Broesder 0 0 0-0 0, Wiertzema 7 2 0-1 20, Metzger 8 1 4-6 23, Leuthold 6 0 2-3 14, Van Wyhe 9 0 1-1 19, Spykerboer 0 0 0-2 0.
Team statistics
H-BC: 45 of 72 field goals (63 percent), seven of 15 free throws (47 percent), 43 rebounds, eight turnovers.
W-WG: 16 of 48 field goals (31 percent), three of eight free throws (38 percent), 19 rebounds, 21 turnovers.