Basketball Recap: Decatur Community Piles Up the Points Against Hill City

Red Devils

Team Score

12/17/24 vs Hill City	59
12/06/24 vs Rawlins County	45
12/14/24 vs Southwest	44
12/13/24 vs Maywood/Hayes Center	35
12/10/24 vs Hitchcock County	34

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Decatur Community). They breezed by the Hill City Ringnecks to the tune of 59-14 on Tuesday. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 35-7.

Brylee Minnick continued her habit of posting crazy stat lines, going 14 for 19 on her way to 32 points in addition to seven rebounds and six steals. That makes it five consecutive games in which she has scored at least a third of Decatur Community's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Makadyn Ketterl, who posted nine points along with eight boards and three steals.

Decatur Community was working as a unit and finished the game with 18 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

Decatur Community now has a winning record of 3-2. As for Hill City, they are on a ten-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-3.

Both teams are looking forward to the support of their home crowds in their upcoming games. Decatur Community will host Trego at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Decatur Community has been getting the ball to fall more lately as they've increased their point totals each of their last three games. As for Hill City, they will be playing in front of their home fans against Hoxie at 6:00 p.m. on Friday.