OKABENA -- Completing its first 20-win season as Southwest Star Concept, the Quasars got 15 points, 12 boards and four blocks from James Granstra to help beat the Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin Wolverines Monday, 76-36, in boys' basketball.
Ben Scheevel added 13 points, seven rebounds and seven assists, while Trevor Leopold (five assists) and Lloyd Kalfs each had 10 points.
Matt Strom finished with 13 points for ML-B-O, which shot 12-for-52 from the field in the game. SSC hit 31-of-57 shots.
SSC (20-4) plays either W-WG or Fulda Saturday in Worthington.
ML-B-O 20 16 -- 36
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SSC 39 37 -- 76
MCC 68, RRC 51
LAMBERTON -- Murray County Central scored the final 24 points of the first half and beat Red Rock Central.
Paul Counter -- who scored this 1,000th career point Friday -- led all scorers with 21 points for the Rebels. Derik Johnson had 15 points, while Brian Everson and Cole Hegstad each had 10.
Kyle Huls led RRC (13-12) with 16 points, Josh Fredrickson had 13, and Blake Walker had 10.
RRC faces Canby Saturday in Marshall. MCC plays Edgerton Thursday.
MCC 38 30 -- 68
RRC 15 36 -- 51
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Ellsworth 86, Adrian 62
ADRIAN -- Cody Schilling scored 27 points and Aaron Van Der Stoep had 25 to lead Ellsworth.
Ryan Lonneman paced Adrian with 27 points. He was followed by 14 from Brian Tjepkes and 11 from Danny Parsley.
Adrian (12-11) plays H-BC Saturday in Worthington. Preceding them will be Ellsworth's game against either RL-B or ML-B-O.
Ellsworth 45 41 -- 86
Adrian 25 37 -- 62
H-BC 68, Edgerton 63
HILLS -- Aaron Esselink scored 19 points and Cody Rozeboom had 14 points and nine rebounds to pace Hills-Beaver Creek.
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Terence Reid followed with 12 points for the Patriots (12-13), while Tom Scholten had 10 points and nine boards.
Trey Manitz led Edgerton with 24 points. Kevin Vander Schaaf totaled 11 points.
Edgerton 36 27 -- 63
H-BC 29 39 -- 68
SWC 83, Fulda 65
FULDA -- Eric Schaap and Trent Ryswyk each had 12 points, Tyler Mouw 11 points, and Ryan Pronk 10 points and seven assists to lead Southwest Christian (16-7).
Tom Kuhl had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and David Crowley added 16 points for Fulda (1-20).
SWC takes on the winner of the MCC/Edgerton game Saturday in Worthington, while Fulda plays W-WG Thursday.
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SWC 45 38 -- 83
Fulda 25 40 -- 65
W-WG 80, RL-B 70
WESTBROOK -- Jonathan Kells led Westbrook-Walnut Grove with 27 points, along with nine rebounds, five steals and seven assists, in its victory.
Prestin Parker added 17 points and Jace Jarmer had 15 points and 12 rebounds for W-WG (14-10).
Cole Baumgard led RL-B with 21 points. Lon Eichenberger -- who also had his 1,000th career point Friday -- hit six 3s en route to 18 points.
RL-B 31 39 -- 70
W-WG 39 41 -- 80
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Blue Earth 67, Windom 47
WINDOM -- Grant Holmseth tallied 16 points, Jon Trasamer had 13 and Cody Sukalski recorded 10 to lead Blue Earth.
Bryce Grove ended with 17 points for Windom (7-17), while Michael Johnson ended with 10.
Windom plays at Martin County West Saturday.
Blue Earth 33 34 -- 67
Windom 29 18 -- 47
