HENRYVILLE — After some frustrating early-season moments, Henryville has gotten itself into a mid-season groove.
The Hornets claimed their sixth consecutive victory on Tuesday night, overcoming the towering frontline of visiting Rock Creek Christian to post a 47-40 victory at Furnish Gymnasium.
Henryville limited the visitors to 14 points in the second half and outrebounded the bigger visitors 28-21 en route to the win.
“My guys have listened to everything we work on in practice every day,” said Hornet head coach Perry Hunter. “You look at the two teams, you wouldn’t think we would possibly be able to outrebound that team. But we’re getting into the right position and when they missed tonight, we weren’t giving them a second chance to score. That’s big against that team.”
Taylor Weeks scored 14 points, hitting 8-of-10 from the foul line for Henryville (8-4), which hit 17-of-20 collectively from the stripe. Senior Kyle Robertson scored in double figures for the second straight game for the Hornets, netting 12 points.
“We have to find ways to win and we’ve been doing that,” said Hunter. “Tonight we had to grind it out and play good sound defense and rebound. It wasn’t fancy, but effective.”
Ethan Hawn had 14 points and Shawn Austin scored 10 in the loss for the Lions, who had 16 turnovers and shot 7-of-12 at the foul line.
“(Henryville) played fundamentally better basketball and played more disciplined basketball,” said Lions coach Chris Brown. “We have to be better in both of those areas to win games on the road.
“Tonight we missed free throws, our guards turned it over and our interior players didn’t rebound. And all three of those things are how we win games. We got outplayed in all three facets tonight.”
Henryville will travel to New Washington on Friday, while the Lions (7-6) are off until Jan. 23 when they host Medora.
ROCK CREEK CHR. 14 12 8 6—40
HENRYVILLE 13 13 9 12—47
Rock Creek Christian (7-6) — Hawn 14, Austin 10, Mays 10, Barker 6, Neptune 0, McGregory 0.
Henryville (8-4) — Stone 3, Weeks 14, Wolf 2, Mayfield 9, Robertson 12, Carlson 5, Gardner 2.
3-point field goals — Rock Creek 1 (Hawn); Henryville 4 (Robertson 2, Stone, Mayfield).
Rebounds — Rock Creek 21 (Austin 7); Henryville 28 (Weeks 6).
Turnovers — Rock Creek 8, Henryville 16.
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