Hills-Beaver Creek junior Erin Boeve latches on to one of 13 rebounds during Monday’s home girls’ basketball game against Russell-Tyler-Ruthton. Boeve scored a game-high 24 points in a 58-36 victory.
By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek girls’ basketball team snapped a two-game losing skid with an impressive performance in Hills Monday.
Hosting Russell-Tyler-Ruthton in a non-conference tilt, H-BC used a 32-3 scoring run in the first and second quarters to set the stage for a 58-36 victory.
The game started out close when the teams battled to a draw at six in the first four minutes of the first quarter, but that all changed by halftime.
H-BC limited the Knights to one field goal and one free throw the rest of the first half, which ended with the Patriots sporting a commanding 38-9 advantage.
After R-T-R tied the game at six in the first quarter, H-BC ended the opening period with a 12-0 run that was capped by a pair of free throws from Cassi Tilstra with 36 seconds remaining to give the hosts an 18-6 cushion.
Tilstra, who had 10 points in the game, and Erin Boeve, who led all players with 24 points, netted six counters each in the first quarter.
Things didn’t get any better in the second quarter for R-T-R, which was outscored 20-3 in the period and trailed 38-9 when Brittney Rozeboom buried a pair of free throws with one second left.
Boeve had nine points in the second period, which all but locked the game up for H-BC.
The Knights did show some spark when they started the third quarter with a 13-3 run that made the tally 41-22, but the Patriots countered with a 9-0 surge capped by a field goal from Becky Mulder with eight seconds remaining to take a 50-22 advantage into the fourth period.
R-T-R scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter to trail 50-31, but a free throw by Mulder capped a 7-0 H-BC run to give the Patriots a 26-point cushion (57-31) before settling for a 22-point win.
Rozeboom, who had nine rebounds and three steals in the game, joined Boeve and Tilstra in double-figure scoring for H-BC by netting 11 points.
Boeve had 13 rebounds, while Tilstra charted seven assists and three steals.
The 5-3 Patriots cap the 2002 portion of their schedule by playing in Fulda tonight.
Box score
B.Rozeboom 3 0 5-8 11, Bush 1 0 0-0 2, Tilstra 3 0 4-4 10, S.Rozeboom 2 0 2-4 6, Hoyme 1 0 0-0 2, Boeve 8 0 8-11 24, Wassenaar 0 0 0-0 0, Olson 0 0 0-1 0, Mulder 1 0 1-4 3.
Team statistics
H-BC: 19 of 47 field goals (40 percent), 20 of 32 free throws (63 percent), 40 rebounds, 12 turnovers.
R-T-R: 15 of 52 field goals (29 percent), three of seven free throws (43 percent), 36 rebounds, 16 turnovers.