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New Underwood Rapid City Christian

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Comets

The Rapid City Christian (Rapid City, SD) varsity basketball team won Thursday's home conference game against New Underwood (SD) by a score of 65-29.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
New Underwood	5	13	7	4	29
Rapid City Christian	14	20	18	13	65

Final score provided by M. Koch.

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Game Stats

New Underwood (19-20)

New Underwood

Scoring

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FG	FGA	FG%
	Team Totals	29	10	39	26
4	Connor Heinert (Sr)	0	0	2	0
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	9	3	4	75
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	0	1	0
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	5	1	4	25
22	Cole Byrne (Sr)	0	0	1	0
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	2	1	3	33
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	2	1	8	13
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	5	2	6	33
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	4	1	9	11
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	2	1	1	100

New Underwood

Three-Pointers

#	Athlete Name	3FG	3FGA	3FG%
	Team Totals	2	11	18
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	1	2	50
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	1	0
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	1	3	33
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	0	1	0
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	0	1	0
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	0	3	0

New Underwood

Two-Pointers

#	Athlete Name	2FG	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	8	28	29
4	Connor Heinert (Sr)	0	2	0
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	2	2	100
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	0	1	0
22	Cole Byrne (Sr)	0	1	0
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	1	2	50
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	1	7	14
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	2	6	33
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	1	6	17
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	1	1	100

New Underwood

Free Throws

#	Athlete Name	FT	FTA	FT%
	Team Totals	7	11	64
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	2	2	100
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	2	2	100
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	0	1	0
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	1	2	50
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	2	2	100
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	0	2	0

New Underwood

Rebs, Asst, Steals and TOs

#	Athlete Name	Off	Def	Tot Reb	Ast	Stls	TO
	Team Totals	5	13	18	5	9	21
4	Connor Heinert (Sr)	1	1	2	1	1	5
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	0	1	1	0	2	1
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	2	2	0	0	2
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	0	0	0	2	3	2
22	Cole Byrne (Sr)	0	0	0	0	0	1
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	1	1	2	0	0	1
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	1	2	3	0	0	6
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	2	2	4	0	1	1
40	Ethan Tussing (Jr)	0	1	1	0	0	0
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	0	2	2	2	2	0
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	0	1	1	0	0	2

New Underwood

Blocks, Charges and Fouls

#	Athlete Name	Blk	Defl	Chrg	PF
	Team Totals	6	5	1	21
4	Connor Heinert (Sr)	0	1	1	1
10	Dusty Merchen (Sr)	1	3	0	4
14	Garrett Medley (So)	0	1	0	0
15	Linkin Ballard (8th)	1	0	0	1
24	Owen Perry (Sr)	0	0	0	1
32	Conner Knuppe (Sr)	2	0	0	2
35	Grant Madsen (Jr)	1	0	0	4
41	Kolter Clark (Sr)	1	0	0	4
43	Chance Derner (Sr)	0	0	0	4

Rapid City Christian (19-20)

Rapid City Christian has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

South Dakota High School Basketball - Rapid City Christian routs New Underwood

February 20, 2020: Rapid City, SD 57702

In Thursday's non-league outing, the Rapid City Christian Comets (Rapid City, SD) basketball squad overwhelmed the visiting New Underwood Tigers (New Underwood, SD), by a count of 65-29.

The Comets (10-11) will now prepare for their outing against Lead-Deadwood (Lead, SD). The Golddiggers go into the non-league outing with a 8-13 record. In their last contest, Lead-Deadwood was routed by Custer (Custer, SD), 65-40, in a league contest.

The Tigers (8-10) will now prepare for their contest against White River (White River, SD). The Tigers enter the B Region 7 contest with a 18-2 record. In their last contest, White River triumphed over Corsica/Stickney (Corsica, SD), 74-55, in a non-league contest.

Rankings & Records

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

Rapid City Christian (19-20)

National	SD	Class
9,940	81	34

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	PF	PA
12-10	7-0	5-3	5-6	2-1	.545	1.000	1,391	1,107

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	Final
New Underwood	10.6	10.3	11.8	11.2	6.0	44.2
Rapid City Christian	21.3	13.6	13.4	13.8	9.0	63.2

Team Stat Comparison

New Underwood		Rapid City Christian
44.1	Points Per Game	63.0
29.8	Rebounds Per Game	36.7
11.0	Assists Per Game	15.5
10.5	Steals Per Game	10.1
2.2	Blocks Per Game	2.8

Team Leaders

New Underwood		Rapid City Christian	National Avg.
#10 Dusty Merchen8.8	Points Per Game	#15 Jack Roisum14.2	5.0
#41 Kolter Clark8.2	Rebounds Per Game	#23 Mitch Heidecker10.1	2.6
#32 Conner Knuppe2.5	Assists Per Game	#3 Payton Causey5.4	1.0
#10 Dusty Merchen2.9	Steals Per Game	#15 Jack Roisum2.1	0.8
#32 Conner Knuppe0.5	Blocks Per Game	#24 Terrance Asbridge0.9	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
New Underwood	4-8		Rapid City Christian	8-3

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
12/19/19	Hill City	New Underwood	(W) 35-21	1/3/20	Hill City	Rapid City Christian	(W) 80-27
1/3/20	New Underwood	Belle Fourche	(L) 58-23	2/11/20	Rapid City Christian	Belle Fourche	(L) 62-55
1/11/20	Lemmon	New Underwood	(L) 53-29	1/20/20	Rapid City Christian	Lemmon	(L) 73-49
1/18/20	Hot Springs	New Underwood	(W) 55-38	2/28/20	Rapid City Christian	Hot Springs	(W) 67-32
1/25/20	Wall	New Underwood	(L) 49-47	1/9/20	Rapid City Christian	Wall	(W) 81-29
1/31/20	Lyman	New Underwood	(L) 84-46	12/20/19	Rapid City Christian	Lyman	(W) 60-49
3/3/20	New Underwood	Lyman	(L) 69-36
2/1/20	New Underwood	Harding County	(L) 66-46	1/16/20	Rapid City Christian	Harding County	(L) 90-89
2/4/20	Philip	New Underwood	(W) 54-42	12/14/19	Rapid City Christian	Philip	(W) 72-25
2/11/20	Kadoka	New Underwood	(L) 57-27	2/6/20	Rapid City Christian	Kadoka	(W) 60-38
2/14/20	Bennett County	New Underwood	(W) 48-28	1/23/20	Bennett County	Rapid City Christian	(W) 81-26
2/28/20	New Underwood	Jones County	(L) 54-40	1/11/20	Jones County	Rapid City Christian	(W) 56-41

Record Breakdown

New Underwood (19-20)		Rapid City Christian (19-20)
9-13	Overall	12-10
2-7	League	7-0
4-4	Non-League	3-9
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
4-8	Common Opponent	8-3
6-5	Home	5-3
1-7	Away	5-6
2-1	Neutral	2-1
1-1	Playoff	1-1
9-13	In-State	12-8
0-0	Out-of-State	0-2