Mike Lewis spun into the paint, rose and powered in a layup to give the Huron High School boys basketball team a quick 5-2 lead at Chelsea High School on Tuesday night.

It was a sign of things to come.

The Huron forward had his way in the paint, pouring in a game- and career-high 32 points, along with a game-high nine rebounds, to lead the River Rats to a 75-61 Southeastern Conference win over the Bulldogs.

“I had a pretty good feeling early on in the game,” said Lewis, a junior. “And my teammates, they realized that I was hot and they were getting me the ball. I just attribute all my success in this game to my teammates. It was a team win. You can’t do it by yourself.”

“When you have a guy that’s unguardable - and Mike Lewis was tonight, he was unguardable - and you’re a disciplined team, you’re going to keep feeding that guy and keep finding ways to get him the ball,” said Huron coach Waleed Samaha.

The River Rats (7-1, 2-0 SEC Red) did so early and often, as Lewis scored 11 first-quarter points.

Chelsea (6-1, 2-1 SEC White), however, was finding ways to weave through Huron’s full-court pressure. After Patrick Roberts, who scored a team-high 14 points, scored on a breakaway layup and buried a 3-pointer on consecutive possessions, the Bulldogs were within one, 12-11, with 2 minutes, 52 seconds to go in the first.

Chelsea’s ability to pick through Huron’s press was a resurfacing problem for the River Rats all night.

“Chelsea is so well coached, they know how to find openings against defense. We knew that coming in,” said Samaha. “It should never be because of our mistakes. We had some breakdowns defensively and it’s just unacceptable. We just don’t tolerate it.”