Central Lee boys put up blow outs

DONNELLSON - The Central Lee boys basketball team won its second game in a row and is seeing balanced scoring and production from it's offense.
The Hawks rolled West Prairie 68-26 as part of the Central Lee Shoot-out Saturday in Donnellson. The win was stacked on top of the Hawks 71-42 win over New London Friday night in the SEI Superconference South division opener at Central Lee High School.
Saturday Will Hayes and Brayden Wyrick combined for 37 points as the Hawks took control from about the 5 minute mark of the first period and never looked back. The Hawks opened  a 10-point first quarter lead and stretched that to a 20-point lead at the half 31-11. Hayes accounted for 14 first half points, and then Wyrick got hot when West Prairie turned their attention to stopping Hayes, which makes a nice dual option for the Hawks.
Chase Johnson had eight points in the win and Owen Swan, who led all scorers Friday night against the Tiger with 21 points, was held to seven on Saturday. Wyrick had 15 in the win over New London and Hayes had 13. Eight Hawks scored Saturday night and 10 scored in the win over New London.
"Our guys played well tonight. We wanted to focus on what we do and really try to execute things offensively," said Head Coach Kritter Hayes following Saturday's win.
"We have a lot of weapons and our ball movement is key to opening up things for our big guys inside. We are really playing solid defense right now and learning to communicate and help each other out defensively."
Hayes said that will help the Hawks with transition and allow Swan, Aden Ross, Kegan Damico and Dante Merschman to open things up from the guard spots.
 "Our coaching staff did a great job tonight making adjustments at halftime to extend our lead early in the second half. Our players responded and our players that came off the bench did fantastic being ready to finish this game off in a positive manner. We will keep working to improve on the things we can control moving forward."
The Hawks move to 2-1 on the year and 1-1 in the SEI Superconference. They travel to Burlington Notre Dame on Tuesday night.
In the junior varsity game, Carson Morrison scored 15 to lead Central Lee past New London 51-13. Gage Van Ausdall and Brody Moeller each contributed eight in the win.