BLOOMINGTON - Outscoring its rivals by the tidy sum of 61 points over the previous five quarters, the Bloomington High School basketball team may have been due for a letdown in the second quarter of Friday's Big 12 Conference game at the Robert Frank Sports Complex.

And Urbana's 20-point outburst after managing just four in the opening eight minutes certainly qualified.

Still, one sub-par quarter wasn't nearly enough to prevent BHS from thumping Urbana, 70-50, for the Purple Raiders' sixth straight victory.

"The first quarter I thought defensively we were really good," BHS coach Jamie Codron said. "The second quarter we got a little too fancy, trying to do too much and not playing real solid fundamentally. They score 20 in that quarter, which I wasn't real pleased about."

The Raiders moved to 6-1 and 5-0 in the Big 12 ahead of today's 12:30 p.m. game against St. Louis Oakville in the Midwest Showdown Shootout at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Tylon McAllister hit two 3-pointers and Bryan Huff, Kenny King and Clarence Calhoun each connected on one as BHS made 8 of 12 first-quarter shots on its way to a 21-4 lead.

"We came out strong," said Calhoun, who finished with 11 points off the bench. "Then we got a little loose. But we still put out a good win as a team."

Urbana (0-7, 0-3) pulled within 25-17 on a Rakeem Sallee 3-pointer before the Raiders stretched their lead back to 13 at 37-24 entering halftime.

With Calhoun and D'Mitri Riggs each scoring six points in the third quarter, BHS held a comfortable 60-36 advantage entering the final period.

"We've got to make sure we're not going out there not knowing what's going on. We have to be in the game the whole time," Codron said. "But overall effort wise, I thought we did OK."

McAllister topped the Raiders with 13 points. Riggs and Kenny King joined Calhoun with 11.

BHS shot 55 percent from the field (28 of 51) and outrebounded the Tigers, 34-29, with the help of nine boards from James Monroe.

Sallee and Matthew Wilson scored 12 points apiece for Urbana, which made 20 of 56 shots for 36 percent. The Tigers committed 23 turnovers, six more than BHS.