Hills-Beaver Creek senior Clint Roozenboom drives to the basket during Friday’s boys’ basketball game against Westbrook-Walnut Grove in Hills. Roozenboom scored H-BC’s 101st point during a 101-40 victory over W-WG.
By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek boys’ basketball team secured a pair of comfortable victories over the weekend.
The Patriots rolled to a 61-point win over Westbrook-Walnut Grove in Hills Friday before besting West Lyon (near Inwood, Iowa) by 18 points Saturday.
H-BC, the winner of three straight games, hosts Adrian tonight before playing road games against Red Rock Central and Southwest Star Concept Saturday and Tuesday respectively.
H-BC 81, WL 63
The Patriots outscored the Lions in every quarter during Saturday’s border battle against West Lyon.
H-BC drained 49 percent of its field goals and took advantage of some of WL’s 32 turnovers to win the game by 18 points.
The Patriots stormed to a 23-13 lead in the game’s first quarter before using a 23-21 scoring edge in the second period to make it a 46-34 game at the intermission.
A 15-12 scoring edge for the Patriots in the third quarter made it a 15-point (61-46) difference heading into the fourth quarter, when they outscored the Lions 20-17 to win by 18.
Kale Wiertzema recorded a rare triple-double for the winners by scoring 15 points and charting 10 steals and 10 assists.
Tyler Bush scored 20 points and passed for six assists, while Tyson Metzger added 20 points to the winning cause. Trey Van Wyhe netted 14 points and pulled down five rebounds for the winners. Jesse Leuthold added six rebounds.
Box score
Bush 4 0 12-17 20, Wysong 1 0 1-2 3, Roozenboom 0 0 0-0 0, Broesder 0 0 0-0 0, Wiertzema 2 2 5-6 15, Metzger 5 1 7-8 20, Leuthold 3 0 3-7 9, Van Wyhe 7 0 0-0 14, Spykerboer 0 0 0-0 0.
Team statistics
H-BC: 25 of 51 field goals (49 percent), 28 of 40 field goals (70 percent), 20 rebounds, 15 turnovers.
WL: 28 of 67 field goals (42 percent), four of 11 free throws (36 percent), 29 rebounds, 32 turnovers.
H-BC 101, W-WG 40
The Patriots dominated play while routing the Chargers by 61 points in Hills Friday.
H-BC canned a sizzling 63 percent of its field goals and scored 88 points in three quarters while coasting to a comfortable victory over W-WG.
It looked like the Patriots might be in for a tough game when they trailed 3-2 early in the first quarter, but H-BC went on an 11-1 run capped by a field goal by Bush at the 4:55 mark of the first period before outscoring W-WG 23-5 the rest of the stanza to open a 36-9 cushion by quarter’s end.
H-BC used a 26-5 scoring advantage in the second quarter to increase its lead to 48 points (62-13) by halftime, and the Patriots outscored the Chargers 26-16 in the third quarter to make it an 88-30 game heading into the final eight minutes of play.
Fans stuck around to see if the Patriots would reach the 100-point barrier in the fourth quarter, and their wait was rewarded when Clint Roozenboom converted a field goal with 54 seconds remaining to cap the scoring in the game.
Metzger, who had eight rebounds in the game, led the Patriots with 18 points.
Wiertzema (20 points, 12 assists and nine rebounds) and Van Wyhe (19 points and 10 rebounds) had double-doubles for the winners. Roozenboom scored 12 points to go along with seven rebounds and five steals. Leuthold recorded 14 points, Bush 14 assists and seven steals and Zach Wysong contributed six rebounds for the winning cause.
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.