Carter Salisbury scores school-record 45 points in BV’s win over Hall

SPRING VALLEY – Earlier this season, Bureau Valley senior Carter Salisbury broke the school’s single-game scoring record with 41 points.

After that game, Salisbury talked to previous record-holder and former teammate Dalton Dean.

Salisbury said he’ll definitely be calling Dean after Tuesday’s performance.

Salisbury put on an offensive show, breaking his own mark with 45 points to lead the Storm to an 80-65 victory over Hall in a Three Rivers Conference East Division game.

“I think it’s one of those things that once it starts, you can kind of feel when it’s going well,” Salisbury said. “You get that feeling, and it started probably a couple minutes into the first quarter when you get the nerves out and stuff starts to flow.”

Salisbury started strong with eight points in the first quarter but really took off in the second quarter.

He poured in 21 points in the second quarter, including a buzzer-beater to give the Storm a 42-35 halftime lead.

For the game, he buried five 3-pointers and connected on 16 of 17 free throws.

“Sals does a lot of things well,” BV coach Jason Marquis said. “He put a lot of time in to get stronger and faster.

“His teammates’ movement and being active off the ball helps get him better looks. He finishes very well. He anticipates very well. He cuts hard without the ball and works hard without the ball. He shot well. We rebounded well, got the ball up the floor, and that helped us to get Sals and others going.”

After Salisbury scored 21 of Bureau Valley’s 26 points in the second quarter, the Storm (13-14, 3-8 TRC East) spread it out more in the third quarter as they outscored the Red Devils, 24-9, to take a 66-44 lead into the fourth.

Salisbury scored seven points in the third, Adam Johnson scored six of his 14 points, Cooper Balensiefen added five points, Brock Foster scored four points and Sam Wright added a bucket.

“I think anytime he’s playing that well, he draws a lot of defensive intensity,” Marquis said. “Early in the year we had a tendency to kind of watch. There’d be a magician effect where we just kind of waited to see what Sals did. I thought tonight when he drew the defense, other kids got in a position to score and were available, so that helped us. Sals is very good about not getting tunnel vision, so as teams come to him, he finds the open man.”

The Red Devils kept pace with the Storm for much of the first half as the game was tied at 16 after the first quarter and was tied at 35 with a little over a minute left in the second quarter before Salisbury scored seven points in the final 59.5 seconds.

“The effort was there, but our problem is we just turn the ball over too much,” Hall coach Mike Filippini said. “We had [22] turnovers and half of them are dribbling off our foot or trying to go between two guys. It’s not like it’s pressure turnovers where we’re trapped and we don’t know what to do and we just throw it away. It’s little turnovers. That’s what’s been plaguing us all year.

“The good thing is, there’s still two weeks until regionals start. Hopefully, we can cut down some of those turnovers and see what happens.”

Mac Resetich and Ethan Plym scored 17 points each for the Red Devils (7-18, 2-8 TRC East), while Drake Garland contributed 12 points.