Lakeland boys win first

The Lakeland varsity boys basketball team scored its first victory of the season Saturday night in LaGrange by a count of 41-36 over Bethany Christian.

Leading by a 17-16 margin at halftime, the Lakers reeled off a 12-4 spurt in the third quarter to take a 29-20 advantage. The visiting Bruins out scored Lakeland, 16-12 in the final stanza, but it wasn’t enough to catch the Lakers.

Spencer Mortola paced the winning ledger with 15 points, nine of those coming on a trio of three-point buckets. Chandler Mynhier added 10.

Caleb Morris and Sol Brenneman topped the Bethany scoresheet with 15 and 14 tallies, respectively.

GAME SUMMARY

Lakeland 41

Bethany Christian 36

Scoring by quarters

     BC     12     4     4     16     -36

     LL      11     6   12     12    -41

Bethany Christian

Sol Brenneman 7, 0-0, 14; Nate Nussbaum 0, 0-0, 0; Ike Lehman 0, 0-0, 0; Christian Romero 0, 0-0, 0; Isaac Schertz 1, 0-0, 3; Abe Thorne 1, 2-6, 4; Byeong Chan Lin 0, 0-0, 0; Jesse Loewen 0, 0-0, 0; Caleb Morris 6, 1-3 15; Totals 15, 3-9, 36

Three-point field goals 3 (Morris 2, Schertz 1)

Lakeland

Daemyn Priestley 1, 0-0, 3; Eric Herber 0, 0-0, 0; Mitch Herber 2, 4-4, 8; Dustin Cunningham 1, 0-0, 3; Marco Olivares 0, 2-2, 2; Spencer Mortola 5, 2-4, 15; Joseph Trost 0, 0-0, 0; Chandler Mynhier 4, 2-2, 10; Brant Betts 0, 0-0, 0; Totals 13, 10-12, 41

Three-point field goals 5 (Mortola 3, Priestley 1, Cunningham 1)