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Bush enters, 1,000-point club Saturday

By John RittenhouseHills-Beaver Creek High School senior Tyler Bush joined an elite group of athletes during the course of the South Section 3A Boys Basketball Tournament title game in Marshall Saturday.Bush, who scored 19 points in the contest to help the Patriots beat Adrian, recorded his 1,000th career point during the contest.The H-BC guard hit a shot on the run in the second quarter to join a list of nine Patriots basketball players who have scored 1,000-plus points during their careers.Kale Wiertzema, Bush’s current teammate, became the sixth H-BC boy to join the 1,000-point club during a home game against Sioux Valley-Round Lake-Brewster Dec. 14.Steve Esselink, a 1999 H-BC graduate, is the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,650 points.Chad Koel and Terry Arends, respective 1990 and 1964 graduates, scored 1,414 and 1,395 points during their H-BC playing days.Like Bush and Wiertzema, Aric Leenderts and Matt Metzger reached the 1,000-point plateau in the same season (1996). Leenderts scored 1,121 points, and Metzger 1,092.Erin Boeve and LeAnne Goehle scored 1,000-plus points as members of the H-BC girls basketball program.Boeve, the school’s all-time leading rebounder with 1,155 caroms, scored 1,556 points before graduating in 2004. Goehle, a 1979 graduate, netted 1,131 points.

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