Huron boys' basketball team competes against Yankton
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YANKTON — Matthew Mors scored 46 points and the second-ranked Yankton Bucks needed all of them Tuesday night, as the Bucks held off a pesky third-ranked Huron Tigers boys’ basketball team for a 66-60 ESD win. The tough loss ended Huron’s six-game winning streak and puts their record at 6-2 for the season.
Yankton, which had lost its first game last weekend after opening with seven straight wins, moves to 8-1.
“We’re not really into moral victories,” said Tiger coach Jon Schouten following the game. “I guess you could say that tonight.”
Mors showed from the opening tip why he is on nearly every collegiate basketball coach’s watch list - as a sophomore - as the 6-foot, 7-inch forward scored inside and outside, amassing 14 of Yankton’s 15 first quarter points.
Huron, which had benefitted from quick starts in its two straight games against Brookings and Mitchell, instead found itself playing catchup from the outset. Nathan Boerhns hit a short jumper, then a long three on consecutive possessions to forge an early tie. A pair of hoops from Tanner Evers and a driving layup by Kobe Busch kept it to a three-point, 15-12, Yankton lead after one quarter.
“For whatever reason we came out flat tonight,” Schouten said. “We normally come out fired up and ready to play and I thought that we were kind, of watching for the first few possessions tonight.”
The pace slowed significantly, over the first half of the second quarter. Teegan Evers carved the lead to a single point two minutes into the period, but baskets on back-to-back possessions from Cooper Cornemann and Rex Ryken pushed the margin back to five points. Teegan Evers hit another jumper seconds later as the clock rolled past four minutes, but that was it for the next few possessions for the Tigers.
Yankton, meanwhile, sandwiched baskets by Mors around a three-pointer from Cole Sawatzke to push the margin to 10 points, at 26-16. A runner by Tanner Evers and a pull-up three-point bomb from Teegan Evers pulled the Tigers within five, at 26-21, but a last-second drive by Cornemann gave the Bucks a 28-21 lead at the break.
Yankton looked to put the game away in the third quarter, as Mors scored the team’s first 11 points of the quarter, while Huron managed only a pair of Teegan Evers’ baskets to make it 39-25, with just over four minutes gone. The Tigers, however, went on one of their patented points runs, keyed by Teegan Evers.