Even though the West Wendover Wolverines scored an imposing 68 points on Saturday, the Spring Creek Spartans still came out on top. Spring Creek took their match against West Wendover 76-68. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Spring Creek.
Spring Creek got their victory on the backs of several key players, but it was Darren Bylund out in front who went 6 for 12 from beyond the arc en route to 30 points and 1 assists. The game was Bylund's third in a row with at least ten points. Jaron Johnson was another key contributor, dropping a double-double on 14 points and 11 rebounds.
West Wendover's loss shouldn't obscure the performances of Osvaldo Carrillo, who almost dropped a triple-double on 17 points, 12 rebounds, and 9 steals, and Adryan Carlos who scored 22 points along with 9 rebounds. Carlos scored a full 32.4% of West Wendover's points, the third time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Estaban Correa, who scored 5 points along with 5 assists.
Spring Creek now has a winning record of 2-1. As for West Wendover, they still haven't won a game yet this season and fell to 0-3.
Spring Creek will be staying on the road on Thursday to face off against North Tahoe at 5:30 p.m. on December 7th. As for West Wendover, they will look to defend their home court on Friday against Intermountain Christian at 11:00 a.m. Hopefully Intermountain Christian focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up eight on Saturday.
