Newton boys can’t slow down visiting DCG in Little Hawkeye Conference matchup

The Newton boys basketball team fell behind 14-0 against Dallas Center-Grimes on Friday and never recovered.

The Mustangs shot nearly 80 percent from the floor, made 12 3-pointers and were called for only six fouls in their 84-39 road win over the Cardinals during Little Hawkeye Conference play.

It was the most points DCG has scored against Newton since at least 2014. The Mustangs posted their fifth straight win over the Cardinals, too.

“We talked a lot about not losing No. 4 on the perimeter because he was the one kid we said we couldn’t let shoot the ball,” Newton boys basketball coach Jason Carter said about Chase Perrin. “We also need to get better at being physical with big guys inside. We are not very big, especially with Jackson (Riney) not in the lineup. That’s a huge loss for us, but we have to be able to guard and help on the backside. It just kind of snowballed from there.”

Perrin scored a game-high 30 points in DCG’s win. He was 8-of-10 from 3 and added four steals.

Perrin hit the first bucket of the game for DCG but did not score again until he made another 3 midway through the second. The Mustang guard drilled four 3s in the third and scored 19 of his 30 in the second half.

Newton recovered from the slow start with 8-0 run that included back-to-back 3s from reserves Micah Mattes and Drew Bauer, but the Cardinals trailed 17-8 after one.

Isaiah Slaughter, who led the Cardinals with 12 points, buried a 3 early in the second to keep Newton close, but DCG scored 23 points in the frame and led 40-19 at halftime.

Carter thought his team was not aggressive enough against the Mustangs’ twin towers of 6-foot-10 Luke Lorenzen and 6-7 Brody Burke.

“I thought we played really timid,” Carter said. “I don’t feel like we attacked the paint like we should have. It’s hard for kids who have never played against that kind of size to understand you’re playing into their favor if you don’t attack them. We needed to make them move their feet. We dribbled side to side way too much.”

The Cardinals traded baskets with DCG (2-2, 1-0 in the LHC) early in the third. Slaughter connected on a fadeaway jumper and Brody Wobschall scored all four of his points on back-to-back possessions.

But DCG used an 8-0 run to extend the margin to 52-25. Six of those points came from triples by Perrin and he added two more treys later in the frame including one that came at buzzer.

Newton (2-3, 0-2) was limited to seven points in the fourth. Grant Osby, who was plagued by foul trouble, hit a free throw, Dawson Maki drilled a bank shot, Slaughter canned a jumper and Reagan Maki scored his first career varsity points to cap the scoring.

DCG, though, used a 20-4 run to put the win on ice. Cooper Huston scored 10 of his 14 points during that stretch.

The Mustangs blocked seven shots, five of which came from Burke and Lorenzen inside.

“I think we should have gotten into the paint more to find a good shot, whether that’s a dump off inside or a kick out for open 3s,” Carter said. “We made it really easy for them to guard us.”

Slaughter added four rebounds, three assists and three steals to his 12 points.

Mattes and Bauer chipped in six points each off the bench and Mattes dished out two assists. Maki contributed four points and three boards, Wobschall totaled four points and two rebounds and Karter Holmes tallied three rebounds and three steals.

The Cardinals shot 32.7 percent from the floor, made 6-of-18 from 3 and were 1-of-2 from the free-throw line. Newton was called for 14 fouls and committed 15 turnovers.

Lorenzen finished with 14 points and eight rebounds and Burke chipped in seven points, seven rebounds and six assists.

DCG shot 31-of-39 from the floor, connected on 12-of-16 from 3 and made 10-of-14 from the foul line.

Notes: Lorenzen is the son of former Iowa Hawkeye Al Lorenzen. … Carter said he did not play two bigs at the same time to counter DCG’s size because it shrinks the floor at the offensive end. “We already struggle to score,” Carter said. “(Grant Osby) and (Tyler Thompson) have very similar skill sets so we feel like we need to space the floor for our guards, who are our better scorers. It’s hard for us to play two bigs and if we do we’ll need to spend more time on it in practice before we try it in a game.”