Kansas City, Kan. ? When the inside-out combo of Dane Erickson and Jeremy Carlisle was on the floor Thursday for the Tonganoxie High boys basketball team, there wasn’t much Kansas City Turner could do to stop the duo.

After some first-half foul troubles for the Chieftains’ one-two punch led to a halftime tie, the two returned ready to control the game in the second half, and Tonganoxie won, 74-60.

After picking up his second foul late in the first quarter, Carlisle sat the final 10:49 of the first half. When Erickson joined him on the bench with just three minutes to go in the second quarter, the Golden Bears went on a 13-2 run to close the half.

Said Chieftains coach Shawn Phillips: “It’s difficult when you lose two guys that are a big part of what you’ve been doing all year long.”

However, in the third quarter, with both players back on the court for Tonganoxie (7-8 overall, 2-7 Kaw Valley League), the road team went on a 17-0 run in just less than five minutes, with Erickson scoring 13 points.

Erickson finished with a game- and season-high of 33 points to go with eight rebounds. Carlisle, a senior point guard, had a 13-point quarter of his own in the fourth and finished with 18 points and four assists.

“When we had those two back,” Phillips said, “(Turner) didn’t really have an answer for either one of them.”

With Carlisle absent most of the first half, others picked up his scoring. Senior Austin Vickers put up five points in the first quarter, both Dylan Scates and John Lean knocked down three-pointers in the second, and Brennen Williams drove in for a scoop off the glass late in the first half at Turner (1-15, 1-8).

“We had guys step up and play when we lost Carlisle,” Phillips said.

At 7:30 p.m. today, the Chieftains will play at K.C. Bishop Ward.

Tonganoxie girls 49, K.C. Turner 19

Tonganoxie High put a stop to nearly everything Turner’s offense had to offer in the first half.

The Chieftains allowed just two points in the first 12:35 of play and went on to an easy victory.

Although the Golden Bears (1-14 overall, 0-9 Kaw Valley League) scored in the second minute of the game, Tonganoxie shut out the home team from that point until the 3:25 mark of the second quarter, which translated to a 19-0 run.

Eleven of those points came in the final six minutes of the first quarter — Madee Walker scored five, Jenny Whitledge had three, Haley Smith hit a runner in transition, and Emma Stilgenbuaer made a free throw.

The next eight came in the second quarter, when Amanda Holroyd hit a baseline jumper, Smith spotted up for a long two, Stilgenbauer knocked down two free throws, and Hannah Kemp and Whitledge both made one at the foul line.

Whitledge — who led the team with nine rebounds, — injured her left ankle with 2:31 to play in the third quarter. Her availability for Tonganoxie’s 6 p.m. game today at K.C. Bishop Ward was not known.