BOURBON – Pure shooters can get into a zone. Meredith Brouyette had the blinders on, focused on the little orange cylinder.

Brouyette’s white-hot start Wednesday night, scoring 14 of the game’s first 16 points of the night was a sight to behold in Tippecanoe Valley’s 66-29 blowout of Triton in a dramaless backyard girls basketball matchup.

Brouyette scored the game’s first eight points. Anne Secrest then followed with a steal and conversion. Brouyette somehow stood wide open in the corners again and buried two more three’s, all in the first five minutes of the game.

Baskets by Hannah Dunn and Brynda Krueger made it 20-0, and it was about all she wrote.

“We started off bad and they’re pretty good,” surmised Triton head coach Adam Heckaman trying to lighten the mood afterwards. “We wanted to try to take Secrest away, and I felt like we did a good job of that early covering her. We take her away and we need to know where (Brouyette) is at. We lost her. We didn’t find her. She can make shots and she did. Those two were the ones we wanted to key in on, and we didn’t do a good job keying in, and that helped them get the good start.”

Brouyette finished with 17 points, hitting 5-7 from downtown before letting off the gas in the second half.

Secrest, normally the one who scores in bunches for Valley, did most of her work in the third quarter to finish with 15 points and nine rebounds. Secrest, not the focal point as she didn’t need to be, still piled up five steals, four assists, three offensive rebounds and a blocked shot.

“You have to give Anne some credit, she doesn’t get frustrated and she just keeps on playing,” Kindig said. “We’re starting to learn that it takes not just one person; it’s the other players that step up if we want to be successful this year and make a run in the tournament.”

Krueger finished with eight points, eight assists, four boards and four steals, part of a 14-steal night for Valley on the defensive side.

Valley capitalized on Triton’s turnovers to the tune of 27 points on the other end, using a stingy halfcourt trap to bait Triton into corners and bad passing lanes.

The Trojans were just 9-37 from the floor (24 percent) never finding any offensive rhythm. The combo of Hannah Wanemacher and Jaela Meister were 5-24 from the floor, Wanemacher winding up with 14 points despite not getting her first bucket until the 2:39 mark of the second quarter.

Meister, continuing to fight through a knee injury, will have a tougher fight in the coming days after tweaking the knee midway through the fourth quarter. With all that went wrong on the court, Heckaman was confident the injury was not disaster. Short of a doctor’s opinion, Heckaman stated Meister had ‘popped’ the knee before and was able to recover with some rest. Time will tell.

“She’s kind of a day-by-day, quarter-by-quarter type person right now,” Heckaman said of Meister.

Triton falls to 3-8 and will host Caston in a Hoosier North Athletic Conference matchup Saturday. Tippecanoe Valley, ranked No. 8 in the Class 3-A poll this week, moves to 8-1 overall with a date at North Miami Friday night. Now 3-0 on a current five-game road trip, Kindig is feeling pretty good about how his club is executing.

Added Kindig, “We just need to keep getting better and better and by tournament time, we’re going to be OK.”

In the JV matchup, Tippecanoe Valley led for the entire contest, but had to hold on for a 27-23 win against Triton. A double-digit lead in the second half dwindled to four with under a minute remaining, but Triton couldn’t get the buckets late to catch Valley.

Kilee Slone led Tippecanoe Valley with nine points and Abigail Powell paced Triton with seven points.