Hill City vs New Underwood | Basketball | 12/19/2019

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Hill City New Underwood

Rangers

Tigers

The New Underwood (SD) varsity basketball team won Thursday's home non-conference game against Hill City (SD) by a score of 35-21.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Hill City	9	3	3	6	21
New Underwood	7	14	8	6	35

Final score provided by J. Poppen.

Recap
Box Score
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Game Stats

Hill City (19-20)

Hill City has not entered stats for this game.

New Underwood (19-20)

New Underwood

Scoring

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FG	FGA	FG%
	Team Totals	35	13	47	28
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	2	0	5	0
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	0	3	0
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	0	0	3	0
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	2	1	1	100
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	8	4	11	36
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	6	3	6	50
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	6	2	8	25
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	11	3	10	30

New Underwood

Three-Pointers

#	Athlete Name	3FGA
	Team Totals	7
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	1
14	Garrett Medley (So)	2
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	3
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	1

New Underwood

Two-Pointers

#	Athlete Name	2FG	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	13	40	33
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	0	4	0
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	1	0
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	1	1	100
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	4	10	40
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	3	6	50
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	2	8	25
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	3	10	30

New Underwood

Free Throws

#	Athlete Name	FT	FTA	FT%
	Team Totals	9	22	41
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	2	4	50
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	0	1	0
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	2	4	50
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	5	13	38

New Underwood

Rebs, Asst, Steals and TOs

#	Athlete Name	Off	Def	Tot Reb	Ast	Stls	TO
	Team Totals	9	21	30	8	10	12
4	Connor Heinert (Sr)	0	1	1	0	0	1
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	0	0	0	0	2	0
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	1	1	0	0	1
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	1	2	3	3	2	0
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	0	0	0	1	1	2
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	0	1	1	3	1	3
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	1	5	6	0	0	0
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	4	10	14	0	4	3
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	3	1	4	1	0	2

New Underwood

Blocks, Charges and Fouls

#	Athlete Name	Blk	Defl	PF
	Team Totals	4	15	14
4	Connor Heinert (Sr)	0	1	1
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	1	3	4
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	0	1
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	0	2	1
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	0	1	1
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	1	1	1
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	0	3	1
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	0	4	0
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	2	0	4

Game Story

South Dakota High School Basketball - Hill City knocked off by New Underwood

December 19, 2019: New Underwood, SD 57761

The New Underwood Tigers basketball team scored 35 points and held the visiting Hill City Rangers to 21 in the Tigers non-league triumph on Thursday.

The Tigers now sport a 3-0 record. They put it on the line next when they travel to Belle Fourche for a non-league contest on Friday, January 3. New Underwood will battle a Broncs team coming off a 52-47 non-league loss to Sundance (Sundance, WY). The Broncs record now stands at 3-2.

The Rangers (0-3) will now prepare for their contest against Hot Springs (Hot Springs, SD). The Bison enter the A Region 8 contest with a 0-1 record. In their last contest, Hot Springs was defeated by Chadron (Chadron, NE), 53-15, in a non-league contest.

Rankings & Records

Hill City (19-20)

National	SD	Class
17,874	141	53

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Win %	Region %	PF	PA
5-16	2-7	4-6	1-10	.238	.222	755	1,246

New Underwood (19-20)

National	SD	Class
15,918	126	58

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	PF	PA
9-13	2-7	6-5	1-7	2-1	.409	.222	972	1,081

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	Final
Hill City	8.8	10.9	8.9	10.5	-	36.0
New Underwood	10.6	10.3	11.8	11.2	6.0	44.2

Team Stat Comparison

Hill City		New Underwood
-	Points Per Game	44.1
-	Rebounds Per Game	29.8
-	Assists Per Game	11.0
-	Steals Per Game	10.5
-	Blocks Per Game	2.2

Team Leaders

Hill City		New Underwood	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#10 Dusty Merchen8.8	5.0
-	Rebounds Per Game	#41 Kolter Clark8.2	2.6
-	Assists Per Game	#32 Conner Knuppe2.5	1.0
-	Steals Per Game	#10 Dusty Merchen2.9	0.8
-	Blocks Per Game	#32 Conner Knuppe0.5	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Hill City	4-6		New Underwood	6-4

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
12/13/19	Belle Fourche	Hill City	(L) 57-45	1/3/20	New Underwood	Belle Fourche	(L) 58-23
3/3/20	Hill City	Belle Fourche	(L) 79-40
12/21/19	Hot Springs	Hill City	(L) 37-22	1/18/20	Hot Springs	New Underwood	(W) 55-38
2/8/20	Hill City	Hot Springs	(W) 51-40
1/3/20	Hill City	Rapid City Christian	(L) 80-27	2/20/20	New Underwood	Rapid City Christian	(L) 65-29
1/4/20	Kadoka	Hill City	(L) 47-33	2/11/20	Kadoka	New Underwood	(L) 57-27
1/10/20	Edgemont	Hill City	(W) 50-48	12/13/19	Edgemont	New Underwood	(W) 62-21
				3/2/20	Edgemont	New Underwood	(W) 54-29
1/14/20	Hill City	Philip	(L) 60-39	2/4/20	Philip	New Underwood	(W) 54-42
1/30/20	Wall	Hill City	(W) 54-41	1/25/20	Wall	New Underwood	(L) 49-47
2/6/20	Newell	Hill City	(W) 44-42	1/17/20	Newell	New Underwood	(W) 63-42
				1/28/20	Newell	New Underwood	(W) 57-40

Record Breakdown

Hill City (19-20)		New Underwood (19-20)
5-16	Overall	9-13
2-7	League	2-7
3-8	Non-League	4-4
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
4-6	Common Opponent	6-4
4-6	Home	6-5
1-10	Away	1-7
0-0	Neutral	2-1
0-1	Playoff	1-1
5-15	In-State	9-13
0-1	Out-of-State	0-0