Hills-Beaver Creek junior post Trey Van Wyhe lets go of a shot in front of Sioux Falls Christian’s Dustin Warntjes during Monday’s boys’ basketball game in Hills. The Patriots beat SFC and Southwest Christian to extend their winning streak to 10 games.
By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek boys’ basketball team owns a 10-game winning streak after besting a pair of foes since Friday.
H-BC earned a share of the Red Rock Conference championship by topping Southwest Christian by four points in Edgerton Friday. The Patriots beat Sioux Falls Christian by three points in Hills Monday.
The 17-4 Patriots can win the RRC crown with a win in Adrian Tuesday.
H-BC 59, SFC 56
The Patriots came out on top by three points in a hard-fought game against the Chargers in Hills Monday.
SFC stunned the Patriots by taking 9-6 and 25-23 leads at the first two quarter breaks, but H-BC rallied to outscore the Chargers 36-31 in the second half to prevail by three.
H-BC moved in front by two points (37-35) by outscoring SFC 14-10 in the second period. The Patriots led by as many as 10 points in the fourth quarter before SFC made some late threes to make it a three-point difference in the end.
Trey Van Wyhe and Kale Wiertzema led H-BC’s second half charge. Van Wyhe, who led the winners with nine rebounds, scored 12 of his team-high 22 points in the third and fourth quarters. Wiertzema scored nine of his 12 points in the second half. He also charted seven assists and six rebounds.
Tyson Metzger added seven rebounds to H-BC’s cause.
Box score
Bush 0 0 7-8 7, Wysong 0 0 0-0 0, Roozenboom 1 0 0-0 2, Broesder 0 0 2-2 2, Wiertzema 1 2 4-7 12, Metzger 1 0 6-8 8, Van Wyhe 9 0 4-4 22, Leuthold 2 0 0-0 6.
Team statistics
H-BC: 17 of 40 field goals (43 percent), 23 of 29 free throws (79 percent), 34 rebounds, 14 turnovers.
SFC: 17 of 50 field goals (34 percent), seven of eight free throws (88 percent), 14 rebounds, 14 turnovers.
H-BC 64, SWC 60
The Patriot boys locked up a share of the RRC championship by topping the Eagles by four points in Edgerton Friday.
H-BC sported leads at all four quarter breaks and put the game away by making some clutch free throws down the stretch.
Metzger, who scored 33 points in the game, made three free throws in the game’s final 12 seconds to ice the contest.
H-BC raced to a seven-point lead (20-13) in the game’s first quarter before SWC whittled the difference to three points (32-29) by halftime and to one point (49-48) by the end of the third quarter. The Patriots outscored the Eagles 15-12 in the final eight minutes of play to prevail by four.
Wiertzema, who snared six rebounds, recorded a double-double with 13 points and 12 assists for H-BC. Van Wyhe scored 12 points and grabbed six rebounds. Jesse Leuthold added five rebounds.
Box score
Bush 0 0 1-2 1, Wysong 0 0 0-0 0, Roozenboom 0 0 2-2 2, Broesder 0 0 0-0 0, Wiertzema 3 1 4-6 13, Metzger 7 3 10-12 33, Leuthold 1 0 1-4 3, Van Wyhe 5 0 2-5 12.
Team statistics
H-BC: 20 of 40 field goals (50 percent), 20 of 31 free throws (65 percent), 23 rebounds, nine turnovers.
SWC: 24 of 65 field goals (37 percent), six of eight free throws (75 percent), 33 rebounds, 10 turnovers.
