Bruins earn win at Douglas

After overcoming a first-quarter deficit, the Brookings-Harbor High School boys varsity basketball team put together a complete game down the stretch and crushed the Douglas Trojans on the road Friday night, 56-27.

Cody Cozad led the Bruin offensive outpouring with 23. BHHS also spread the scoring around with nine players recording points.

The win brings the boys record to 6-3 in  league and assures they will at least share a tie for second place going into next week’s league action.

“It was a possession game (in the first half),” Wood said.

Part of the first-half success was due to getting extra possessions by rebounding, Wood said. The Bruins commanded that stat 19-8 in the first two quarters.

In the second half the Bruins felt things were going their way, Wood said, and made it a point to get extra possessions with tempo and turn those into points. They succeeded.

“We were able to push the ball and get some good looks in transition and attack and get to the line and knock down free throws,” Wood said. As a result the Bruins steadily added to their lead in the third and fourth quarters.

“The kids were just great,” Wood said. “They executed very well.”

They also shot the ball very well. The Bruins out-converted the Trojans 53 percent to 25.

Wood said the Bruins were also effective on the defensive end. In particular they set out to eliminate the penetration by Trojan Tony Cortez, who torched BHHS with 20 points Jan. 15. Jose Munoz and Geoff Gowman were charged with the task most of the night and held Cortez to 7 points.

“(Munoz and Gowman) did a really good job on him,” Wood said.

In general, Wood said his team played as well as they have all season defensively.

“Our execution was good,” Wood said. “(The Bruins) continued to play hard, and I’m very proud of them.

“The kids were just great.”

Tuesday Feb. 9, the Bruins will be in search of another win versus the 1-8 Siuslaw Vikings. Game time is 7:30 p.m.