Lloyd churns out 23 points against Brookings

By: 
Jill Meier, Journal editor
Aydin Lloyd came off the bench and scored a team-high 23 points in Brandon Valley’s 75-34 win over Brookings last week. The Lynx boys play three games this week. Jill Meier/BV Journal

For 32 minutes, Brookings endured the backlash from Brandon Valley’s Jan. 16 road loss to Watertown, and the beating, well, it was a bit brutal on the Bobcats. The Lynx boys fine-tuned their perimeter game, canning 10-of-27 tre’s en route to the 75-34 ending Thursday night in Brandon.
“Last night was a night where everything seemed easy,” said BV head coach Brent Deckert, who allotted minutes to every player on the Lynx bench. “Since the Watertown game, we’ve been a bit more focused and intense at practice. There’s no such thing as a good loss, but if helps our team refocus, then it’s a good thing for this team.”
Junior reserve Aydin Lloyd was primed for play Thursday. He came off the bench and burned up the nets for 23 points behind five 3-pointers, two buckets and a 2-for-2 performance at the free throw line. 
“Aydin has been good all year off the bench for us, so good that we took all of his JV minutes away and have him just play varsity,” Deckert said.
Brookings got off to a competitive start, dropping in two 3’s for their only points of the quarter and only lead of the night. In the meantime, the Lynx were fueled by a trio of points from Joe Kolbeck, four points from Gavin Terhark, a couple by Jackson Hilton and six from Lloyd, which added up to a 15-6 lead after a quarter of play.
Terhark was a scoring factor for the Lynx early in the second, pumping in the first six points. After going scoreless for almost eight minutes, Karter Kruit plugged in for two for the Bobcats to make it 20-8 game with 6:30 to play in the half. Following contributions from Kolbeck (3-pointer) and a bucket from Jaxon LaBrie, BV and Brookings traded possessions multiple times before Kruit snagged one from long range to make it 27-12. The Lynx reeled off the next six points, which were answered by a pair of free throws before Lloyd launched one from the outside. Jay Jurgens closed out the half with a reverse lay-up to give BV the 38-15 advantage at the break. 
LaBrie had the hot hand to start the third, popping in back to back 3’s. BV also got baskets from Hilton, Kolbeck and Scholten before Lloyd reeled off eight points and grabbed an offensive rebound and dished it to Jurgens for the 65-28 score at the end of the third.
Lloyd found the hoop from long range one more time to start the fourth. A highlight of the quarter was Cole Sylliaasen’s timely run along the baseline, where he grabbed the rebound and threw it up to elevate BV’s 70-29 lead. Scoring was scattered the rest of the way, with the Lynx getting production from Hunter Marso (3-pointer), and free throws from Jurgens and Carter Van Heel. The Bobcats closed out the night with an assortment of free throws, and a basket by Jada Kuchlong.
Despite charting 37 percent beyond the arc (10-27), Brookings’ defense dictated what BV could do. 
“We made a bunch of 3’s because Brookings plays zone and has heavy gap pressure,” Deckert said. “Brookings was able to take away our penetration and some of our inside game, but the next available perimeter shot was normally open and we knocked a few in.”  
BV’s hustle was evident in the rebounding numbers – 36 in all. Leading the charge was Payton Tietjen with eight, Terhark with seven, and four apiece from Lloyd and Jurgens. Jaksen Deckert and Sylliaasen both helped out with three.
Deckert dished off five of BV’s 18 total assists; Kolbeck and Thomas Scholten accounted for four and three, respectively. Jurgens had BV’s lone block and the Lynx turned the ball over just six times.
The Lynx boys are in the midst of a three-game week, which started with Tuesday’s home game against rival Sioux Falls Washington. On Friday, Aberdeen Central pays a visit to the Lynx gym at 7 p.m. and the team wraps up the week Saturday afternoon at O’Gorman, tipping off at 3 p.m.
“This week will be a fun week,” Deckert says of the schedule. “We’ve been able to settle in and get some valuable practice time in, but this group loves to compete. Three games in one week is hard, but when you add the likes of SFW, Aberdeen and O’G, it brings a whole different flavor. It will be a great test for our guys.”
 
Brookings            6 15 28 34
Brandon Valley  15 38 65 75
 
Brandon Valley (2PFG, 3PFG, FT, TP): Dawson Johnson 0-1 0-0 0-0 0; Jaxon LaBrie 1-1 2-5 0-0 8; Jaksen Deckert 0-3 0-3 1-2 1; Cole Sylliaasen 1-1 0-3 0-0 2; Thomas Scholten 2-2 0-0 0-0 4; Joe Kolbeck 1-1 2-3 1-1 9; Hunter Marso 0-0 1-2 0-0 3; Aydin Lloyd 3-8 5-8 2-2 23; Payton Tietjen 0-2 0-0 0-2 0; Jackon Hilton 3-5 0-1 0-2 8; Gavin Terhark 4-8 0-2 3-3 11; Jay Jurgens 2-3 0-0 1-2 5; Carter VanHeel 0-1 0-0 1-2 1. Totals: 17-36 10-27 11-16 75.
 

 

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