By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek girls couldn’t record their third straight victory when they entertained Edgerton for a Red Rock Conference basketball game Thursday.The Patriots played well to whittle what was a 16-point deficit down to five points in the second half, but the Flying Dutchmen withstood the challenge to notch a 62-55 victory.According to H-BC coach Jason Blosmo, the Patriots played with desire during the game. Their desire, however, wasn’t enough to overcome some scoring lulls that eventually settled the issue."The one thing we did do was play hard. We just couldn’t make up the difference when we had a couple of streaks of not scoring when we were being impatient on offense," Blosmo said.Edgerton started the game well and led by 16 points during the first half before H-BC trimmed the difference to 10 points (38-28) by halftime.The Patriots crept within five points of Edgerton in the second half, but that proved to be as close as H-BC would come to catching EHS.Blosmo said the Patriots did a good job of limiting their turnovers (14) during the game. He is looking for improvement in the rebounding and defensive areas of the game.Kerri Fransman led H-BC with 17 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals in the game.Stacy Bush chipped in 15 points and Chelsi Fink added 11. Brittany Helgeson and Amanda Tilstra collected six rebounds each. Helgeson charted four assists.Box scoreFransman 2 3 3-5 16, Bush 4 2 1-2 15, Tilstra 0 0 3-5 3, Fink 4 1 0-2 11, Roozenboom 3 0 2-3 8, Hoyme 1 0 0-0 2.Team statisticsH-BC: 20 of 57 field goals (35 percent), nine of 17 free throws (52 percent), 30 rebounds, 14 turnovers.Edgerton: 25 of 45 field goals (56 percent), 10 of 26 free throws (38 percent), 45 rebounds, 23 turnovers.