Hot shooting Rustlers too much for Braves

by Daily Inter Lake
| December 10, 2023 6:18 AM

GREAT FALLS — Landon Grosenick and Jonah Vantassell hit four 3-pointers and scored 21 points each as Great Falls Russell ran away from Flathead in boys basketball Saturday, 91-32.

Lyric Ersland hit a pair of 3-pointers and scored 10 points as the Braves (0-2) tried to keep pace in the first quarter; then the visitors scored just once in the second.

Flathead has its home opener Friday against Gallatin, at 7 p.m.

Flathead 17 2 6 7 - 32

CMR 30 38 10 13 - 91

FLATHEAD — Lyric Ersland 4 2-3 12, Brodee Zahn 1 0-0 2, Gabe Sims 0 2-2 2, Brody Thornsberry 1 1-2 3, Korbin Eaton 2 0-0 5, Jordan Griffin 2 2-4 6, David Moody 1 0-0 2. Totals 11 7-11 32.

GREAT FALLS CMR — Hunter McMann 1 1-1 3, Landon Grosenick 7 3-4 21, River Wasson 4 3-4 12, Dean Blair 7 1-2 16, Hunter Goad 2 0-0 4, Ron Rickett 1 2-2 5, Nicholas Donester 1 0-0 2, Ben Cunningham 3 1-1 7, Drew Etcheberry 2 0-0 4, Jonah Vantassell 8 1-1 21. Totals 35 12-15 91.

3-point goals — Flathead 3 (Ersland 2, Eaton), CMR 11 (Vantassell 4, Grosenick 4, Wasson, Blair, Rickett). Fouls — Flathead 12, CMR 13. Fouled out — none.