It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.

The Youngsville boys basketball team trailed at the half, but turned things on in a big way in the second half of a 50-33 victory over the Maplewood Tigers on Friday at Youngsville High School.

The Eagles trailed 14-11 after a quarter and 20-19 at the break, but quickly turned things around in the third quarter. After being held to just 2 points in the first half, Koby Hendrickson scored 6 points in the third quarter alone as the Eagles built a 31-27 lead through three quarters.

In the fourth, Youngsville kicked things into overdrive.

Blake Myers scored 8 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter and Nathan Lucks added 7 of his own in the stanza as the Eagles used a 19-6 fourth-quarter advantage to turn a close game into a rout.

Lucks finished with a team-high 16 points to go with Myers’ 13 and Hendrickson made it a trio in double figures with 12 points.

Youngsville won’t have to wait long to try to extend the momentum of Friday’s victory. It hosts Kane at 6 p.m. today.

MAPLEWOOD (33)

Beauchat 2 0-0 4, EPeterson 1 2-3 5, Williams 3 0-0 6, CPeterson 1 0-2 3, Woge 2 1-5 5, Doolittle 4 0-1 10. Totals 13 3-11 33.

YOUNGSVILLE (50)

Hendrickson 6 0-0 12, Hill 1 0-0 2, KMesel 1 2-2 4, Senz 0 3-4 3, Myers 5 3-4 13, Lucks 7 1-3 16, TMesel 0 0-0 0. Totals 20 9-13 50.

Maplewood 14 6 7 6 — 33

Youngsville 11 8 12 19 — 50

3-point goals–CPeterson, Doolittle 2, EPeterson, Lucks.