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SPENCER – Cole Wallace and Ben Weiland each scored 14 points to lead the Columbus Catholic boys basketball team to a 58-52 win over Spencer in the Cloverbelt Conference East Division opener for both teams on Tuesday night at Spencer High School.
The Dons led 26-21 at halftime and did just enough at the end to hold off Spencer and send the Rockets to their first loss of the season.
Weiland made four of the Dons’ nine 3-pointers in the victory as Columbus Catholic ends a two-game losing skid and improves to 4-2 overall.
Sam Bezlyk had 24 points and Wes Nieman 13 for Spencer (3-1 overall).
Both teams will host Cloverbelt East games on Friday as Spencer takes on Loyal and Columbus Catholic plays Neillsville. Both games begin at 7:15 p.m.
Dons 58, Rockets 52
Columbus Catholic 26 32 – 58
Spencer 21 31 – 52
COLUMBUS CATHOLIC (58): Mac Konieczny 2 3-5 8, Cole Wallace 4 4-5 14, Cade Jansen 0 3-4 3, Mason Edwards 0 0-0 0, Ben Weiland 5 0-1 14, Jack Kohlbeck 1 0-0 2, Sam Duns 1 0-0 2, Carter Sommer 4 5-8 15. FG: 17. FT: 15-23. 3-pointers: 9 (Weiland 4, Wallace 2, Sommer 2, Konieczny 1). Fouls: 16. Fouled out: none. Record: 4-2, 1-0 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.
SPENCER (52): Mathers McHone 1 0-0 2, Drake Johnson 1 0-0 3, Wes Nieman 6 0-0 13, Madden Prybylski 0 0-2 0, Noah Anderson 1 0-0 2, Ben Felgner 3 0-0 6, Tyler Peterson 0 0-0 0, Sam Bezlyk 9 4-5 24, Breckin Miller 0 2-4 2. FG: 21. FT: 6-9. 3-pointers: 4 (Bezlyk 2, Nieman 1, Johnson 1). Fouls: 23. Fouled out: Anderson. Record: 2-1, 0-1 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.