It would be hard to produce a more dominant three-minute stretch than what Homewood-Flossmoor’s Issac Stanback put together at the start of the second quarter Friday night.

Stanback, a senior forward, had 11 points and seven rebounds in the first three minutes of the quarter, sparking the host Vikings to a 74-57 SouthWest Suburban Blue win over Lockport.

“I was just trying to play my game and take what came to me,” Stanback said. “I think I’m playing at the highest level I’ve played at in high school, but every game I have to do something better.

“I have to keep improving.”

Stanback finished with 22 points and 16 rebounds, while Maurion Scott added 18 points for H-F (17-5, 6-1).

Matt Hatzopoulos had 14 points and six rebounds for Lockport (12-9, 3-4). Thomas Halatek produced 13 points and eight rebounds.

The Porters led 16-13 after a quarter before Stanback went wild. His 11-point surge, capped off by a 3-point play, gave H-F a 26-21 lead with 5:14 left in the third.

Three of Stanback’s baskets came on putbacks, and he came up with multiple offensive rebounds on the same possession three times.

“I practiced that a lot growing up, that double-jump so if you go up and miss or get hit and don’t get the call, you’re ready to get back up there and get another rebound,” Stanback said. “You have to keep fighting no matter what.”

H-F coach Marc Condotti felt Stanback helped shift the game in his team’s favor. The Vikings also turned up their pressure defense to get Lockport out of sync.

“Issac provided that spark for us,” Condotti said. “He can do that. He can have those stretches where he does things like that. He plays really hard, and he got us going.”

Lockport didn’t go away easily. The Porters were down just 29-27 before Damen Trice hit a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to give the Vikings a five-point lead. H-F executed its end-of-quarter plays all game, scoring in the final 15 seconds of each of the first three quarters.

“We work on those plays a lot,” said Trice, who finished with eight points. “Coach is always focusing on those situations and we know they’re big.

“The three at the end of the half got us going and it gave me some confidence.”

H-F used an 11-0 run midway through the third quarter to pull away and led by double digits the rest of the way.

Trace Williams added 11 points for the Vikings.

“H-F is so talented and so well-coached that you have to do so many things right to beat them,” Lockport coach Brett Hespell said. “We did a lot of them right in the first half but keeping that going is easier said than done.”

Steve Millar is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.