Top-seeded Aberdeen Christian jumped out to an early lead and cruised to a 55-17 win over Britton-Hecla in Region 1B boys’ basketball tournament action Tuesday night at the Aberdeen Civic Arena.
The Knights scored the game’s first ten points and never looked back, using a balanced offensive attack and aggressive defense to stifle the Braves.
Christian coach Matt Rohrbach was pleased with how his team started the game.
“I thought we did a good job of honing in on what we needed to get better at and I thought our defense kind of got us going early,” Rohrbach said. “Malek (Wieker) obviously hit two threes in the first quarter which was nice.”
Wieker scored six of the first ten points on back-to-back 3-pointers, while the Knights opened up an 18-4 lead at the end of the first quarter. Wieker noted that the team wanted to get off to a fast start.
“There’s been some games this year where we didn’t really get off to a fast start and that kind of got us in trou
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