Delton Kellogg High School

As calmly as he could Gobles head coach John Curtis shouted out slowly to give his team a reminder as it came back down to the defensive end late in the first half Friday at Delton Kellogg. “2, 5 has made six threes. 2. 5.” Before the end, Delton Kellogg’s number 25, junior Grady Matteson, hit threes number seven, eight and nine as the Delton Kellogg varsity boys’ basketball team scored a 56-33 win over the visiting Tigers in Southwestern Athletic Conference Central Division play. The Tigers beat the Panthers by 11 the first time the two teams met back in December and were tied atop the SAC Central standings with Galesburg-Augusta coming into the Winterfest ballgame at DKHS. Matteson hit four of his nine threes in the first quarter as Delton shot out to a 20-13 lead in the first eight minutes and then extended that to 33-18 at the half. He finished the night 9-of-11, as best he could remember, behind the arc and had 33 points total. Senior guard/Winterfest duke Grant McArthur and junior guard Keegan Hill had eight points apiece for the Panthers. They scored most of their points on transition lay-ups, and Hill was especially bothersome to the Gobles’ guards at the top of the Panthers’ zone defense. Gobles was led by 14 points from junior Aiden Beam. Delton Kellogg evens its overall record at 7-7 with the win and improves to 4-3 in the SAC Central, one game behind the 5-2 Tigers and two behind the now 6-1 Galesburg-Augusta Rams … Read more in next week’s edition of the The Hastings Banner … https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EhGhJq9vC/