ARDEN HILLS, Minn. – A young Bethel University men's basketball squad looked anything but unexperienced Saturday evening inside the Robertson Center where they kicked off the Zach Filzen era with a convincing 79-56 win over Crown.
 
The Royals were connecting from long distance shooting 50 percent (11-of-22) while working it inside for 34 points inside the paint.
 
Zach Doley and Jaren Teschetter led all Bethel scorers with 15 points each while Tommy Jensen added 13. Doley also added a game-high eight boards Dom Aguilar in his Bethel debut was hot from three-point range where all 12 of his points came from.
 
The Royals only trailed for the opening 2:09 before getting their legs underneath them. The three ball was going in early and often as Jake Wald's long-distance shot sparked a 7-0 run through a four-minute span.
 
Bethel kept hitting while the defense forced the Storm to go ice cold from the field at 22.9 percent in the first 20 minutes.
 
Expanding on its 32-19 halftime lead, a driving layup from Doley at the 12:42 mark in the second put Bethel's lead into the 20s. A nice drive from Myles Coleman at the 7:09 mark gave the Royals their largest lead of the night at 62-36.
 
Bethel continues a three-game homestand to begin the year on Wednesday hosting Wisconsin-Stevens Point at 7 p.m.