The Big Lake Hornet winter sports teams had boys basketball and Eagles hockey compete since our last report.

Boys Basketball

The Hornet boys went 2-0 this past week to improve their record to 6-5.

Jan. 11, the Hornets hosted Cambridge-Isanti and came away with a 82-79 win.

The Hornets were led by five players scoring in double digits including leading scorer O’Brien with 22 points. Kade Layton tallied 16 while Owen Layton had 14. Kunz and Stepp each had 11 points in the win.

C-I was led by Braden Jones, who had 27 points.

Jan. 18, the Hornets hosted Breck and finished them off with a 85-76 victory.

Braden Jones topped all scorers in the contest with 24 points. Hill had 15,  Stepp 11 and O’Brien 10.

Breck was led by Jimmy Koch with 18 and Will Walker with 17.

The Hornets looked to continue their winning ways with a home game against St. Francis Friday, then a road matchup against Becker Monday.

Boys Hockey

The Becker/Big Lake hockey squad went 0-2 this past week to bring their record to 2-12.

Last Thursday, Jan. 13, they traveled to the Mora Civic Center to take on Mora/Milaca and lost by one goal, 6-5 in OT

M/M jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period before the Eagles closed out the first with two goals to make it 3-2. Jack Beckstrom scored the first on the power play and was assisted by Brayden Graning and Jase Tobako. Graning made it 3-2 with an even-strength goal and was assisted by Beckstrom.

In the second period, Graning tied the contest at three with a power play goal at 3:19. His goal was assisted by Beckstrom and Tabako.

In the third, Mora/Milaca tallied twice to go up 5-3 before Graning scored at 15:37 (assisted by Eli Scheideman) to make it 5-4, then Erik Baker tied it with a goal at 16:57 (assisted by Scheideman) to send it to overtime.

In the extra session, M/M got the winning score at 7:55 when Parker Mitchell scored an even strength goal.

Eagles goalie Declan Weber finished with 30 saves.

Fri., Jan. 14, the Eagles hit the road for East Bethel to take on Northern Edge and lost in a shutout, 7-0.

Northern Edge scored twice in the first, twice in the second and three times in the third to complete the rout.

Weber faced 47 shots while the Edge’s goalies faced just 17.