By John RittenhouseThe Ellsworth boys’ basketball team has proved it can dominate teams with a balanced offensive attack so far this season.Monday in Hills, the Panthers showed they can win games by playing outstanding defense.Ellsworth turned in a relentless defensive performance that featured the Panthers limiting H-BC to 20 percent shooting from the field during what ended as a 75-34 victory for the visitors.Thanks to its defensive effort, the Panthers locked up their 13th consecutive win by halftime.Ellsworth kept H-BC from scoring a single point while racing to a 23-0 lead 9:05 into the game.The Panthers led 45-3 before Tom Scholten converted H-BC’s first field goal of the game, a three-point shot, with 46 seconds left in the first half.When the half was compete, EHS sported a commanding 45-7 advantage.Facing a 38-point deficit entering the second half, H-BC couldn’t find a way to get back into the game during the final 18 minutes.EHS, which led by as many as 48 points in the second half, used a 30-27 scoring edge to prevail by 41 points.Cody Schilling, who scored 15 first-half points, led the Panthers with 21 counters, four rebounds and four steals.Nick Deutsch added 14 points and seven assists to the winning cause, while Aaron Vander Stoep netted 10 points and charted seven assists.Halden Van Wyhe scored 10 points for H-BC. Scholten collected seven rebounds and Adam Finke passed for three assists.The 13-0 Panthers play road games in Tracy tonight and Tyler Tuesday.H-BC, 0-11 overall, hosts Westbrook-Walnut Grove tonight and West Lyon Saturday before playing in Tyler Monday.Box scoreEllsworthNolte 0 0 2-2 2, DeBerg 3 0 0-0 6, Deutsch 1 4 0-0 14, Kramer 1 1 0-0 5, Schilling 8 1 2-3 21, Matejske 0 0 1-2 1, Van Der Stoep 2 2 0-0 10, Herman 1 0 1-2 3, Chapa 1 0 3-6 5, Lindemann 0 0 0-0 0, Kix 0 0 0-1 0; Jansma 3 0 0-0 6.H-BCVan Wyhe 2 1 3-3 10, Rozeboom 1 0 1-3 3, Finke 0 0 1-4 1, Scholten 0 1 3-6 6, DeBoer 0 0 0-0 0, Hup 3 0 1-1 7, Sandbulte 1 0 0-0 2, Esselink 1 0 0-2 2.Team statisticsEllsworth: 29 of 52 field goals (56 percent), nine of 16 free throws (56 percent), 24 rebounds, 14 turnovers.H-BC: 10 of 51 field goals (20 percent), nine of 19 free throws (47 percent), 27 rebounds, 24 turnovers.