Blue Earth Area’s Will Bromeland tries to get around the Jackson County Central defender in the Buccaneers’ first game of the season.
Blue Earth Area’s full-court pressure against the Tri-City United Titans resulted in a number of easy baskets when the two boys basketball teams met in Montgomery on Friday, Dec. 20, and the Bucs went home with a 67-30 win.
BEA got on the board first when guard Gage Barker knocked the ball loose from his Titans opponent and Will Bromeland took the ball to the basket for the first of this team-leading 25 points.
Bromeland scored BEA’s first six points to match Tri-City United’s output in the first three minutes of the game.
Barker found an open Caden Juba for an easy basket to put the Bucs on top for good at 8-6.
The Maroon and Gold expanded their lead with Bromeland and Barker doing most of the damage from inside the paint.
In fact, the Bucs attempted eight 3-pointers in the first half but missed their first seven tries from outside the arc. They did not convert their first 3-point shot into points until Branson Hauskins found the range with 42 seconds left in the first half.
Hauskins’ long-range bomb concluded the first-half scoring for BEA and the Bucs headed into intermission with a 29-15 lead over the Titans.
Bromeland ended the opening stanza with 16 points.
BEA may have been cold shooting 3-pointers in the first half, but they heated up in the second half.
The Bucs’ first three shots in the second half were all taken from outside the arc and all three went in, with Bromeland sinking two of the shots and Jacob Grandgenett making the other one.
In all, BEA attempted nine 3-pointers in the second half and made seven of those attempts.
The Bucs scored the first 11 points of the second half to open up a 40-15 advantage over the Titans. BEA continued to pull away and eventually running time was started.
Bromeland’s three 3-pointers in the second half, combined with his 16 first-half points, made him the leading scorer of the night with 25 points.
Barker matched his six-point performance in the first half with six more points in the second half to finish with 12 points.
After making BEA’s only shot from behind the arc in the first half, Hauskins sank two more 3-pointers in the second half to finish with nine points.
Barker led the team with five steals followed by Sully Dalberg with four and Grandgenett with three.
Leading the team in assists was Grandgenett with five. Barker was next with four and Juba had three.
Dahlberg and Peter Fletcher led the team in rebounding with eight each.
The Tri-City United Titans made the most of their height advantage on both ends of the court when they came to Blue …
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