TOLEDO — The Toledo boys basketball team cracked a whole lot of eggs to make its omelet Wednesday night, and mixed in just about all of the ingredients it has at its disposal in an 83-29 rivalry rout of Winlock.
“It was a lot of good things,” Toledo coach Grady Fallon said. “Really balanced.”
All 11 Riverhawks to suit up Thursday were in the scoring column before halftime, with Fallon rotating subs in within the opening five minutes. Toledo blitzed out in front with a 27-6 run in the first quarter, then decided to do it over again in the second to go into the break already halfway to triple-digits at 54-12.
After having played just one game in the past 13 days, the fast start — before any rivalry weirdness could take hold — was exactly what the doctor ordered for the heavily-favored Riverhawks (8-2, 2-2 C2BL).
“You can’t go in overconfident, and you can’t play bad,” Fallon said. “You have to come in and play your game. Gosh, we go out there and score 27 points in the first quarter, that was huge. That set the tempo for tonight.”
Rogan Stanley led the way on offense with 18 points in just 18 minutes, while Cooper Fallon added 14.
Jake Nef added 10 points off the bench, while Christian Malunat subbed in and led the Riverhawks with seven rebounds.
Kaven Winters scored nine points and Eli Weeks had eight. Malunat, Rayder Stemkoski and Adam Kruger all had four assists.
“That’s been huge this year,” Grady Fallon said of his rotation. “We’re deeper than we have been in awhile, getting good minutes out of a lot of people.”
Landen Cline scored eight points to lead the Cardinals, who didn’t break 20 until well into the fourth quarter, and Freddy Patching had seven.
Winlock will face 2A Rochester in a non-league matchup on Monday. Toledo will face Onalaska next Wednesday, trying to stretch a four-game winning streak into the home stretch of C2BL play.
“(Hopefully) we can springboard off this and attack these last eight games in league,” Fallon said. “It’s tough. It’s whoever’s playing well at the right time. I think we’re getting better each game.”
