The #3 Red Lake County boy’s basketball team capped off their regular season with an exclamation point, as Connor Duden became the Rebels’ all-time career scoring leader en route to a 97-60 win over the Win-E-Mac Patriots on Tuesday in Oklee.
FIRST HALF –
The Rebels got off to a soaring start to open up the game, as Owen Chervestad and Connor Duden were taking over the offense early. Those two, along with Ethan Majeres, helped the Rebels open the half on a 15-3 run. The Patriots didn’t seem to have any answers, as the Rebel full-court press continued to disrupt, causing turnovers which led to easy layups the other way. Win-E-Mac did have a cool moment, however, as Joe Courneya recorded his 1000th point of his career as a sophomore with a 3-pointer, and the game stopped and a standing ovation from the Rebel fans celebrated the accomplishment. Unfortunately for the Patriots, that would be their last sense of joy for the half. Nine different Rebels scored in the half, and the team made 11 3-pointers en route to a dominant 62-32 lead at the half.
SECOND HALF –
As the second half started, both teams played relatively sloppy basketball in the first few minutes. But then, Connor Duden hit a layup, which broke the Rebels’ career scoring record, initially set at 1,791 points. As the half went on, the Rebels continued to empty their bench, getting all 16 players on their varsity roster into the game. Before that, however, Duden hit a 3-pointer to reach 1,799 career points, breaking the Plummer scoring record of 1,796, set 40 years ago before the merger by his mom, Jodi Duden. The Rebels coasted to a 97-60 win, with 12 different players scoring in the game. After the game ended, Rebel head coach Steve Philion announced that Owen Chervestad has been selected to play in the Minnesota High School All-Star Basketball Game on March 29th, and that he also signed a letter of intent hours before the game to play basketball at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Red Lake County improves to 24-2 on the season, and Win-E-Mac drops to 9-17 on the year.
C-Squad – Win-E-Mac won 36-26. JV – RLC won 57-27.
| 1st | 2nd | Final | |
| Win-E-Mac | 32 | 28 | 60 |
| Red Lake County | 62 | 35 | 97 |
| For Win-E-Mac | Points |
| Joe Courneya | 19 |
| Hayden Johnson | 14 |
| Braylon Hamre | 14 |
| Kolten Schow | 8 |
| Jayden Haugen | 5 |
| For Red Lake County | Points |
| Connor Duden | 21 |
| Owen Chervestad | 20 |
| Luke Peterson | 17 |
| Ethan Majeres | 9 |
| Ethan Johnson | 7 |
| Ben Gullingsrud | 5 |
| Gavin Thomas | 5 |
| Gunnar Halverson | 4 |
| Will Gieseke | 3 |
| Thor Thompson | 3 |
| Nick Suchy | 2 |
| Benji Bramer | 1 |
