When you host a tournament, you want to make it a party.

It proved to be a birthday party for Bureau Valley senior Maddie Wetzell and the Storm Wednesday in the Bureau Valley Thanksgiving girls basketball tournament.

The Storm scored the first 12 points of the game and led as much as 23 points in the third quarter on the way to a 47-39 win over Erie-Prophetstown at the Storm Cellar.

“It’s tough playing back-to-back nights. You don’t get a practice to prepare, just go out there and play,” said BV coach Jon Henegar, whose team beat Rock Falls 60-27 on Tuesday. And I thought we came out and did a great job coming out and playing all four quarters. Made some mistakes along the way, but that’s going to happen. Game 2 of the year. We played through a lot of the mistakes.”

Wetzell said it

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