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Fort Benton boys cage Box Elder on day one of 9C tourney
Fort Benton's Logan Giles, right, tries to shoot over a Box Elder defender during a District 9C boys tournament game Thursday night at the HHS gymnasium. The Longhorns crushed the Bears to set up a semifinal showdown with Hays-Lodge Pole tonight.
The Fort Benton boys basketball team lost only two games during the regular season and that's why they entered the District 9C tournament as a favorite to advance to divisionals next week.
But in the early going against Box Elder, in the quarterfinals of the 9C tournament Thursday inside the HHS gymnasium, the seventh-seeded Bears weren't intimidated by the Longhorns, who trailed at the end of the first quarter to upstart Box Elder. Yet, in the second stanza, Hayden Diekhans got hot and so did the rest of his team. His 3-pointers sparked a run that would eventually reach 45-5 as the Bears scor...
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