Red Mountain boys basketball coach Greg Sessions wasn't elated with his team's play Friday night, but from a casual fan's point of view it didn't seem half bad.

Jumping out to a 21-12 lead after the first quarter and for the most part gradually improving on its advantage, Red Mountain scored a 69-45 win over South Mountain in a matchup of the Division I Mountain Lions and the Division II Jaguars at Red Mountain.

"It might have been one of our worst games," Sessions said after Red Mountain improved to 7-1 overall and notched its third power-point win this week. After all, Sessions has seen all the games his team has played.

Sessions amended his statement a little later, harkening back to some rough patches his team often endured last year.

"We have been more consistent this year," Sessions said. "We'd go on big runs last year and then give it right back. Get a big streak and then vaporize. We have had better consistency."

Red Mountain entered the contest with its five starters averaging between 8 and 13 points a game. Leading the way Friday was 5-foot-9 senior shooting guard Logan Larsen, who scored 19 points. Fourteen of those came in the first period, including 4-of-4 shooting from 3-point range. Larsen spotted up from the angle left, angle right, left baseline and right baseline in canning his treys. The other seven points in the quarter came from center Justin Park. Park was a force inside and finished with 12 points.

The rotation of guards -- senior Kevin Torres, Larsen, and sophomores Colton Plourd and Andy Sessions -- were adept at feeding the 6-5 Park and 6-3 forward Juan Zuniga much of the game in half court or transition or making penetration that led to layups and runners. Torres chipped in with 11 points, eight in the second half. Plourd made a key steal that led to a Larsen layup and tallied a layup himself in about a 20-second span of the third period that blunted a South run that sliced a 46-26 deficit to 46-34. South never got closer after that.

"Our kids are doing a lot to help each other," Sessions said. "Kevin's doing a nice job of getting us where we need to be on offense. The others are following his lead."

South (1-2) was led by senior guard  Juan Murphy with 12 points. Teammates Allante Smith and Hanok Tekest had eight points apiece.