ALBANY — Brodhead didn’t take any time to shake off the rust from the offseason, as the Cardinals defeated Albany 60-30 in their season opener on Saturday, Nov. 26.
Brodhead scored 28 points in the first half, with 10 each from sophomore Cullen Walker and junior Jaxon Dooley. Gavin Pinnow and Sam Searls added in 3-pointers apiece, and Nathan Engen a bucket for the remaining eight points.
On the other end, Albany scored just 12 points. Ethan Koss made a shot from beyond the arc and, combined with another bucket, led the team with five points. Drew Sertle also drained a 3-pointer.
In the second half, the Cardinals got into foul trouble with 12 team fouls. The Comets were unable to take advantage, though, going 8-for-16 in the half and 8-for-19 overall. Koss, Kaiden Zurfluh and Gage Roth were all 50 percent from the line. Brayden Bakken, on the other hand, went 2-for-2.
Offensively, Brodhead picked up right where it left off in the first half. Pinnow sank another two threes with a bucket for a second-half total of eight. Searls added four by going 2-for-2 at the charity stripe with another shot from the floor. Ryan Searls and Brody Riese, who were scoreless in the first half, made it into the scorebook with four and seven points, respectively.
Walker led Brodhead with 14 points, while Pinnow trailed with 11. Dooley scored all 10 of his points in the first half. Three other players totaled seven: Sam Searls, Riese and Engen. For Albany, Koss totaled 11 points. The next highest were Sertle and Nate Stokstad with five each.
NEW GLARUS 58, EVANSVILLE 49
NEW GLARUS — The Knights overcame a 16-point deficit to defeat Evansville in the Thanksgiving Classic on Saturday, Nov. 26.
Down 30-14 in the first, New Glarus finished the half on a 15-3 run to trail by just four going into the locker room. Jack Leonard had 10 first-half points with six of them beyond the arc. AC Strok added eight, going 4-for-5 from the free throw line.
Meanwhile, Kole Johnson scored all 15 of his points in the first half. He hit three 3-pointers, went 2-for-2 from the free throw line and had two other buckets. Sawyer Holman also drained a pair of shots from beyond the arc. In the first half, the Blue Devils shot seven 3-pointers.
Strok added another eight points in the second half with five free throws and a three. Max Parman also knocked down a three, paired with three more shots from the charity stripe. Defensively, the Knights limited the Blue Devils to 16 in the second half.
Strok led the team with 16 points followed by Leonard with 13 and Parman with 10. Johnson and Holman put up 15 each for Evansville. Aiden Maves added 11 points, but the remainder of the offense totaled just eight.
In other local boys basketball games, Black Hawk fell to Cambridge 66-30 in its season opener.
