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Sam Brumfield (Hillcrest Boys Basketball)

By Craig Olson, 01/25/22, 1:30PM CST

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Senior Sam Brumfield of the Hillcrest boys’ basketball team is the Olson Oil Company Athlete of the Week.

Brumfield started the week by scoring 26 points to lead the Comets in their 65-48 home court win over the Underwood Rockets on Tuesday night.

He followed that effort by establishing a new school record by scoring 45 points in the 62-39 win Thursday night in Battle Lake, breaking the previous record of 44 points, set by Chris Tungseth in 2016.

Brumfield closed out his week by scoring a team high 18 points as the Comets posted a 63-60 overtime win against Rothsay on Friday night at HLA. 

For the week, Brumfield averaged 29.7 points per game in the three Hillcrest wins.   He also had 12 rebounds and 12 steals during the 3 games.  He made 21-of-37 (57%) 2-point field goal attempts, 12-of-20 (60%) on 3's and 11-of-15 (73.3%) on free throws.

The Comets have now won eight straight games.