Tyler Lehman is starting to show his offensive side.
In Tuesday night’s 75-60 win over Lake of the Woods at home on Parent’s Night, the Littlefork-Big Falls junior finished with 17 points, including 12 in the second half. Lehman was coming off a 19-point performance Friday in a win at Ely.
“He’s put together a couple nice games,” Vikings head coach Jeff Maish said.
Garrett Larson scored a game-high 28 points against the Bears (5-14), Zach Stencel added 11 points, Kyle Burmeister scored eight points and Jesse Steele tallied seven points in front of a big crowd at Littlefork-Big Falls High School.
Lake of the Woods got a team-high 19 points from Nick Schoper, 14 points from Mac Johnson and 11 points from Chris Novak.
After taking a 32-22 lead into the break, the Vikings (11-5) continued to run up and down the court with the Bears in the second half. The back-and-forth pace led to numerous turnovers and a big Vikings run. Leading by 10 at 46-36, Lehman sank a 3-pointer and sent L-BF into a 16-5 run.
Bears head coach Robert Laine, a former L-BF basketball coach, called a timeout with 8:04 remaining, but the damage had been done and the Vikings led 62-41.
Each team’s reserves started entering the game over the final two minutes.
Game notes
• L-BF sixth-grader Emily Kneable entertained the big crowd by singing the national anthem, while two different L-BF dance line teams entertained the crowd at halftime.
• Two technical fouls were called in the first half — one on Steele, and the other on Lake of the Woods coach Robert Laine for having six players on the court.
• Three Bears fouled out — Johnson, Schoper and Novak.
Friday’s results
L-BF 67, Ely 65
With Minnesota Vikings mascot Ragnar in attendance, Littlefork-Big Falls held on to defeat Ely 67-65. Ragnar is originally from Ely.
Stencel missed two free throws with just over 6 second remaining, but Ely guard Sean Fisher missed the game-tying basket as time expired.
Larson led the Vikings with 19 points and 10 rebounds, Lehman had 19 points and nine rebounds and Steele posted 17 points and five assists.
Marshall Hasz led the Timberwolves (9-8) with 15 points, while Fisher and Jerod Gheen tallied 14 points apiece.
