Aidan Sanchez pictured with current/former Breckenridge football and basketball players after his record-setting performance against the Hawley Nuggets | Photo by Carol Colby
The Breckenridge Cowboys defeated the Hawley Nuggets on Friday night, 91-77.
Junior guard Aidan Sanchez scored nearly half the Cowboys’ points, dropping a school-record 45 points in the home win and surpassing 1,000 for his career in the process. Sanchez topped Stevin Lipp’s previous single-game scoring record of 41.
Levi Christensen scored 13 points, while Cooper Roberts and Connor Ernst added 10 each.
The Cowboys improved to 17-3 overall and 9-1 in the Heart O’ Lakes Conference.
Hawley was paced by Brody Hadley’s 20 points. Coleman Hoff scored 14, Jaxon Schenck scored a dozen and Hudson Midthun added 10. The Nuggets fell to 4-13 overall and 2-10 in conference play.