SALAMANCA — While Tyler Hind poured in a typically dazzling 25 points Friday night against Salamanca, rebounding and defense from forward/centers Gabe McCoy and Andrew Bernard kept Randolph in control.

Thanks to Hind’s scoring and the Cardinals’ rebounding prowess, Randolph (10-3, 4-1) pulled away in the second half to deny Salamanca 67-50 in CCAA East I boys basketball play. A three-pointer (one of the Warriors’ eight for the game) on Salamanca’s opening possession of the second half cut the Cardinals’ lead to five, but it was almost all Cardinals from there.

“We just kept playing hard, kept playing good defense, kept getting stops,” Cards coach Kevin Hind said. “Their big guy (sophomore Jarod White) came in and did a good job but Ty kept us going throughout the game, hitting big shots and Gabe stepped up tonight and had some good rebounds.

“Our effort was good, but give them credit too: they play hard, Adam’s (Bennett) doing great things with them and they threw some different stuff at us and slowed us down at times, but the bottom line is we kept hitting shots when we needed to.”

Hind added seven rebounds and five assists to his 25 points and McCoy had a double-double of 16 points and 10 boards. Dawson Bosley marked five steals.

“They’re an incredibly well-coached team,” Salamanca coach Adam Bennett said. “They have everything you want in a basketball team. They have size and length and post play and shooting. They just have everything that you could possibly want, so their length wore us out when they went to that 1-3-1 (zone).

“It’s really hard when you’re looking at Gabe McCoy on the wing in a 1-3-1. Obviously, we’re the smallest team in the league and we try to do things to work around it and I thought our guys worked really hard, but their length and athleticism was a problem for us.”

Isaac Brown led Salamanca (8-4, 2-3) with 16 points and five rebounds and Aaron George had 12 on four three-pointers. The 6-foot-5 White came off the bench and scored seven points.

After a 68-59 loss to Allegany-Limestone on Tuesday, Bennett said rebounding hurt the Warriors in each of their last two games.

“We out-shoot Allegany from twos, from threes, from the line, but they get 20 more shots because of rebounding,” Bennett said. “I thought we battled on the boards tonight but it’s hard with size when you’re 5-8 and you’re going against 6-7. There’s a lot of times that heart can win it, but most of the time size is going to win out.

“The good thing for us is it’s a great game for us at this point of the year. I wouldn’t want us to be playing our best basketball right now and we’re not and we’ve got some things that we can work on and things that we can see and adjust to going down the second half of the season here that are going to help us.”

The Cardinals’ big men even helped pull defensive attention away from Hind.

“We can’t do as much as we want on Ty when we don’t match up with their size,” Bennett said. “We kind of had to play man-to-man and they’re very well-coached, they run a lot of good stuff for him and it really makes you think defensively so it’s a catch-22 because if you sell out and just stop Ty, Gabe and Andrew are going to have some easy looks down low. We tried to balance it, we tried to switch things up, but Ty’s a great player and he’s used to great defense on him and I thought he reacted well tonight and played well.”

Knowing the atmosphere Randolph would face in a rivalry game, Kevin Hind said he knew the game was “a big one” for his team.

“Coming in, in my stomach, I was nervous,” he said. “It just felt like a playoff game. WE hadn’t been on the road in a while (six of Randolph’s last seven games were at home), we’ve got four in a row. They had a great crowd, good atmosphere, I had just a nervous knot in my stomach coming in. It’s just a great environment and that’s what it’s all about.”

Many spectators on hand sported purple clothing for the Warriors’ second annual Beat CF night. Salamanca raised $1,643 for cystic fibrosis research, topping the $1,333 it raised last year.

Randolph (67)

Steward 2 3-3 7, I. Hind 1 0-0 3, T. Hind 11 2-5 25, Morrison 2 0-0 6, Bosley 1 2-2 4, McCoy 8 0-2 16, Bernard 2 2-4 6. Totals: 27 9-16 67.

Salamanca (50)

Hedlund 2 0-2 5, J. McKenna 0 5-6 5, Brown 4 6-6 16, L. McKenna 1 0-0 2, George 4 0-0 12, McAuley 1 0-0 3, White 2 3-4 7. Totals: 14 14-18 50.

Randolph 18 30 48 67

Salamanca 13 22 35 50

Three-point goals: Randolph 4 (I. Hind, T. Hind, Morrison 2), Salamanca 8 (Hedlund, Brown 2, George 4, McAuley). Total fouls: Randolph 16, Salamanca 16. Fouled out: John (S).

JV: Salamanca, 34-29.