INSTITUTE — Spring Valley’s boys basketball team knew right where to go in key situations on Tuesday against Parkersburg — Will Perdue and Harrison Riggs.

The two Timberwolves guards combined for 49 of Spring Valley’s 67 points, helping them earn their eighth win of the season, 67-60, over Parkersburg at West Virginia State University in the Country Roads Shootout.

The two combined to shoot 17 of 26 from the floor and 12 of 16 from the free throw line.

Perdue scored 22 points as he got 11 points in each half. He made 9 of his 11 free throw attempts.

“They’re two guys that we look to score,” Spring Valley coach Rick Chaffin said. “Both of them are capable of scoring 20 points a night. We’re down a guard. Had a kid break his ankle last night. We felt that our other freshman Bennett Rich did a super job. Rebounded and shot the ball well.

“To have Perdue and Harrison on the floor, especially at the end of the game, I feel pretty good about that.”

Parkersburg falls to 5-10 on the season and has now lost three of its last five.

The Big Reds entered Tuesday’s contest having won their last two contests over Belpre (Ohio) and Riverside.

“We got to be able to convert better,” Parkersburg coach Phil Wilson said. “I thought we had fixed that problem, but we came back out here and reverted back to our old self. We shot 19 3s. I’m trying to knock that down a little bit and see if we can get that cut in half.”

Spring Valley’s largest lead was 19 points, attained with 4:43 left in the third after Riggs scored his sixth straight point.

Parkersburg then finished the third quarter outscoring Spring Valley, 12-2, while forcing five Timberwolves turnovers.

Chaffin didn’t change his between-quarter message. Rather, he just simply reminded Spring Valley of the situation.

“I reminded them that we were winning the game,” Chaffin said. “Then, second, take your time and not rush some things. We rushed a couple shots. The turnovers were unforced turnovers. We needed to get back to what we were doing. Let’s run our offense. They responded after a timeout.”

Wilson was pleased with how Parkersburg responded after being down 19.

“Our problem is we show stints of that every game,” Wilson said. “We got to be able to put it together for a full game, at least three and a half [quarters] out of four. We start off slow, then we try to rally at the end. It’s just too late at that point.”

The largest lead either saw in the first quarter was a seven-point Spring Valley margin in the opening 4:39 after a quick seven-point spurt to go up 9-2.

Both sides traded baskets towards the end of the quarter, but Spring Valley took a 16-11 lead into the second quarter.

The Timberwolves stretched their lead to double figures midway through the second quarter, using a stretch of 11 consecutive points to make it 27-15.

Four Timberwolves scored in that 11-point swing, and Spring Valley went into the locker room at halftime up 33-22.

The Timberwolves opened the first few minutes of the third quarter by outscoring the Big Reds 10-2 to take a 43-24 lead.

Riggs scored eight of Spring Valley’s first 10 points of the quarter.

The senior guard led all scorers with 27 points, including 17 in the second half. He also grabbed six rebounds and dished out four assists.

Riggs shot 12 of 14 from the floor in the seven-point victory.

“He’s the guy that we count on a lot,” Chaffin said. “He does so many things. He’ll bring the ball down, he’ll play the post, he’s a wing player. We’re, obviously, looking for him for scoring. He’s seeing double-figure scoring, but he’s also got double-figure rebounds.

“He’s our senior and our leader, and we expect that out of him.”

Parkersburg started chipping back into the game by getting deflections, turnovers and points off them.

The Big Reds scored 13 points off turnovers on Tuesday.

Parkersburg closed the third quarter on a eight-point run but still trailed, 45-36, after three.

The Big Reds scored three triples in the final minute of regulation but never got closer than that five-point deficit, as Spring Valley got free throws to drop from Perdue.

Perdue dropped in six free throws in the final minute.

Parkersburg saw four players finish in double figures, with Chandler Jackson scoring a team-high 18 points and 10 rebounds, four of them on the offensive glass.

Quinten Wilson, Jaxon Thomas and Mathias Williams all earned double-figure performances.