Head coach Klay Edwards and the Winfield-Mt. Union boys basketball team put the finishing touches on an unbeaten conference season Tuesday with a 54-28 win over visiting Hillcrest Academy. The victory gives the Wolves a perfect division championship season at 16-0. They led wire-to-wire on their home floor, up 9-7 after one quarter, and put the Ravens through a six minute second quarter drought, and scored 10 straight of their own to go up 21-12 at the half. The Wolves put the game away in the third quarter, racing to a 19-2 run out of the locker room to go on top 40-16 headed to the fourth quarter. After the game, WMU head coach Klay Edwards talked about his team’s run, athleticism, defense and an unbeaten conference season. “I thought offensively we shared the ball really well. Good spacing and cutting. Defensively, we were active and we started rebounding better. For Jake (Edwards) we might have had a good father/son talk after Saturday at New London about confidence and letting the game come to you. When that first one went in tonight, confidence builds. It’s really about the kids. They have gotten in here and done the work. It’s important to them. They are part of families that were part of all of the winning back in the 90s. So it’s important to them and they put the work in. I told them going through the north division undefeated is no small feat, because there are going to be nights where you just don’t have it and you are going to have to find ways to win, and we’ve done that. I’m very proud of them.”
The Wolves were led by a trio in double figures that included Jake Edwards at 17 points in five of seven shooting from deep. Cam Buffington scored 13 including a monster dunk that electrified the crowd and Abram Edwards went double double with 11 points and 10 boards. Hillcrest Academy had seven points each from Grant Bender and Seth Ours. The Wolves are now 19-2 on the year, Hillcrest is 14-6. Each team begins the playoffs Monday with the Ravens hosting Holy Trinity Catholic and the Wolves entertaining Highland.