The Baltic Bulldog boys basketball team won their third straight game to start the season on Tuesday, December 16th. The Bulldogs defeated the Parker/Marion Pheasants 67-56 to move to 3-0.
Both offenses got off to a slow start in the game. Baltic led 4-0 with 4:00 to go in the first quarter. They would extend the lead to 10-4 in the next minute and a half. The Bulldogs led 14-11 with just under a minute to play before closing out the quarter on a 6-0 run for a 20-11 lead. The lead was 10 points, 25-15, with 5:28 to play in the first half, but the Pheasants went on a 10-2 run to cut the deficit to 27-25 by halftime.
The Bulldogs started the third quarter with a 10-2 run of their own to get the lead back to 10 points, 37-27, with just under 5:00 to play in the quarter. Their lead grew to 47-30 over the next three minutes. They led 52-36 going into the fourth quarter. Parker/Marion got within 11 points, 62-51, with 1:21 to play, but that was as close as they would get. Each team scored five points each to end the game.
Four players were in double figures for Baltic. Kellen Artz had a team-high 21 points. Dylan Runestad added 14 points. Ben Erickson finished with 13 points, and Cooper Garry had 12 points.
