STEVE CARPENTER - Hutchinson CC Sports InformationThe Hutchinson Community College men's basketball team won consecutive games for the first time in 26 days and moved into a tie for third place in the Jayhawk West on Monday night at the Sports Arena.Sophomore&nbsp;<a href="http://bluedragonsports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/brown_tyler_348p">Tyler Brown</a>&nbsp;scored a game-high 23 points to pace the Blue Dragons to a key 75-51 Jayhawk West victory over the Pratt Beavers. Hutchinson and Pratt split the season series.The victory moves Hutchinson, 19-7 overall, into a tie for third place with Pratt with four games remaining in the regular season at 10-7. Seward County also won Monday to remain two games behind both the Blue Dragons and Beavers. Pratt falls to 16-10 overall. The Blue Dragons travel to Dodge City for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff Wednesday.Brown knocked down 5 of 8 3-point goals to spark the Blue Dragons. Brown had two 3-pointers and one three-point play in an early 15-6 run that helped Hutchinson to an early 23-9 lead with 9:24 remaining in the first half.Brown then scored 14 of his 23 points in the second half to help extend a 39-24 Blue Dragon halftime lead. He had three 3-pointers in the second half and his second three-point play gave the Dragons a 58-33 lead with 11:46 remaining.The Blue Dragon guard from Derby surpassed the career 500-point plateau by hitting 8 of 12 shots overall and going 2 of 2 from the free-throw line. He added five rebounds and four assists.Three other Blue Dragons scored in double figures on Monday.Sophomore&nbsp;<a href="http://bluedragonsports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/mitchell_d.j._eej6">D.J. Mitchell</a>&nbsp;scored 13 points with five assists and four rebounds. Freshman&nbsp;<a href="http://bluedragonsports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/king_clarence_pkcx">Clarence King</a>&nbsp;came off the bench to score 12 points with a career-high eight rebounds. Freshman&nbsp;<a href="http://bluedragonsports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/baker_josh_xj07">Josh Baker</a>&nbsp;had three 3-point goals and finished with 11 points and a career-high-tying eight rebounds.The Blue Dragons shot 41.9 percent for the game (26 of 62, hitting 9 of 25 from 3-point range and 14 of 15 from the free-throw line.The Dragons totally turned the tables on Pratt in the rebounding department. In Hutchinson's 94-91 double-overtime loss to the Beavers in January, Pratt out-rebounded the Dragons 57-41 and had 29 offensive rebounds. Monday night the Blue Dragons out-rebounded the Beavers 44-36 and allowed only 10 offensive rebounds.Jamel Horton led the Beavers with 23 points, hitting 4 of 6 from distance. Tommy Thomas as the only other Pratt player in double figures with 10 points.Hutchinson held Pratt 30 points under its 81-point season-scoring average. The Beavers shot 19 of 62 (30.6 percent, going 6 of 27 from 3-point range and 7 of 9 from the free-throw line.Pratt scored the first points of the game, but went scoreless for the next 4:52 as Hutch scored eight unanswered to go up 8-2 on a&nbsp;<a href="http://bluedragonsports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/singleton_saquan_s9fa">Saquan Singleton</a>&nbsp;dunk with 14:58 to play. Thomas made it 8-4 with a bucket for Pratt with 14:06 remaining. That's when Brown took over for the Blue Dragons.Leading 17-9, Brown nailed a 3-pointer and then completed a three-point play for a 23-9 lead with 9:24 to play in the half. Pratt scored the next four points, but the Dragons countered with a 14-5 run over the next 5 minutes to build a 37-18 lead on a Baker 3-pointer with 3:42 remaining in the half.Despite shooting only 39 percent in the first half, the Blue Dragons led 39-24 at halftime.The Dragons had runs of 11-6 and 11-2 in the first 9 minutes of the second half to lead 61-35 after a King three-point play with 11:02 remaining. Baker's third 3-pointer of the game pushed the Dragon cushion to 30 for the first time at 70-40 with 4:13 remaining.GAME NOTES&nbsp;– The Blue Dragons now own a 147-25 all-time record against Pratt, including 68-11 in games in Hutchinson. … This was all-time win No. 1,825. … The 27 points scored by Pratt in the second half was an opponent low for a second half this season against the Blue Dragons. …&nbsp;<a href="http://bluedragonsports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/mitchell_d.j._eej6">D.J. Mitchell</a>&nbsp;surpassed the career 800-point mark (805).

Brown's 23 paces Dragons to victory over Pratt