WHITTIER (Interstat) — Ryan Osborne scored 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds, and Rio Hondo defeated Cuyamaca 87-69 in a men’s junior college basketball game Wednesday. Osborne added one assist in 32 minutes for the Roadrunners, who improved to 4-1. Cuyamaca, nicknamed the Coyotes, fell to 0-4. Rio Hondo entered after a 102-88 win at Los Angeles Southwest and a 92-90 home loss to Long Beach. Cuyamaca entered after losses to Los Angeles Pierce, Los Angeles City and Canyons.

Rio Hondo led 40-23 after the opening period and maintained control. The Roadrunners closed the opening period on a 17-5 run, turning a 23-18 edge into a 40-23 lead. Osborne scored early at the rim and from beyond the arc, while Ben Vandenberg made two free throws and a 3-point jumper during Rio Hondo’s initial surge. Cuyamaca answered with Jalen Brown and Isaiah Aquino, but Rio Hondo’s half-court execution and free-throw shooting kept the Coyotes chasing. Cuyamaca scored 46 points after the opening period, but Rio Hondo added 47. Cuyamaca cut the deficit to 66-58 with 6:42 remaining on a Brown layup, but Kenneth Bailey made a 3-point jumper and Osborne followed with a layup to push the lead back to 71-58. Bailey later sealed it with a 3-pointer, and Osborne closed the scoring with a layup.

Cuyamaca scored 69 points from 73 possessions and had an offensive rating of 94.8. Rio Hondo scored 87 points from 69 possessions and had an offensive rating of 126.7. The Coyotes shot 31 of 70 from the floor, 3 of 14 from 3-point range and 4 of 10 from the free-throw line. The Roadrunners shot 34 of 62 from the floor, 7 of 16 from 3-point range and 12 of 14 from the free-throw line. Rio Hondo held a 38-27 rebounding advantage. Both teams had seven offensive rebounds and three assists. Cuyamaca committed five turnovers and 14 fouls. Rio Hondo committed seven turnovers and nine fouls.

Brown led Cuyamaca with 17 points, six rebounds and one assist in 24 minutes. Aquino had 12 points, five rebounds and four assists in 31 minutes. Khalid Deiranieh scored 16 points and grabbed six rebounds in 29 minutes. Atreju Delacruz added nine points, two rebounds and two assists in 34 minutes. Noah Soltero made a jump shot and two free throws during the first period, and Lamont Wilkerson added layups in the second.

Vandenberg finished with 18 points, five rebounds, two assists and one block in 23 minutes for Rio Hondo. Bobby Reyes had 14 points, five rebounds and four assists in 33 minutes. Bailey contributed 11 points, two rebounds and four assists in 31 minutes. Bobby Cotton added eight points, five rebounds and one assist in 14 minutes, and Isaiah Edwards had eight points, four rebounds and one assist in 25 minutes. Reyes made two free throws late in the opening period and two more early in the second, and Cotton made two layups during the second period.

Osborne’s 25-point effort followed recent games of 12 points against Long Beach and 18 points against Palomar. He was the Roadrunners’ top scorer and helped Rio Hondo answer each Cuyamaca run. The Coyotes’ best stretch came midway through the second period, when Brown, Deiranieh and Delacruz combined for baskets that trimmed an 18-point deficit to single digits. Rio Hondo responded with Bailey’s outside shooting and Osborne’s interior scoring. Bailey made a 3-pointer with 6:29 remaining and another with 1:42 left, while Osborne converted layups late in the period.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Rio Hondo 90, Cuyamaca 74, and its ELO system gave Rio Hondo a 79.5 percent probability to win.