This story is sponsored by: The Marshfield Tiger Booster Club
By Paul Lecker
MarshfieldAreaSports.com
MARSHFIELD – The Marshfield boys basketball team dominated on both ends of the court, from start to finish, and rolled to a win over D.C. Everest on Tuesday night at the Fredrick Construction Fieldhouse at Marshfield High School.
The Tigers started the game on an 11-0 run, finished up shooting 66 percent from the field on 25 of 38 shooting, and nailed nine 3-pointers on the way to a 61-42 victory, their 21st-straight Wisconsin Valley Conference victory dating back to February 2023.
Brooks Hinson made three 3-pointers in the opening run over the first five minutes of the game, finished 7-for-8 from the field and had a game-high 18 points for Marshfield, which improves to 10-5 overall and 7-0 in the WVC.
“It might have been our most consistent performance of the year for the whole 36 minutes, on both ends of the floor,” Marshfield coach Chris Fischer said. “Early, I thought we guarded really well, understood what they were trying to do against us, and took away what they like to do best. It was a collective effort. It’s a really good win.”
Marshfield pushed the lead to 22-7 after Hinson’s fourth 3 of the first half and the teams played basically even the rest of the half as the Tigers took a 30-16 lead into halftime following a 3-pointer from Marshfield’s Camden Kolstad and a buzzer-beater by D.C. Everest’s Xavier Edwards.
Chris Pohl knocked down a 3-pointer and an alley-oop dunk off a perfect pass from Landon Lee in the opening 1:10 of the second half, pushing the Tigers’ lead to 35-16, and they were able to cruise from there.
Another 3-pointer from Kolstad and a basket from Lee gave Marshfield its biggest lead at 44-21.
D.C. Everest had a mini 7-0 run on two 3-pointers from Cohen Priebe and a free throw, but did not get closer than 14 the rest of the way.
“They (D.C. Everest) are very patient and wait for you to have some kind of breakdown,” Fischer said. “It’s really difficult to guard for long periods of time, but I thought we did that well.”
Pohl finished with 12 points, all in the second half, and Lee added 11 for the Tigers.
Edwards topped D.C. Everest (8-8, 3-4 WVC) with 13 points and Priebe had 12.
Marshfield hosts Wausau East on Friday at 7:15 p.m.
Tigers 61, Evergreens 42
D.C. Everest 16 26 – 42
Marshfield 30 31 – 61
D.C. EVEREST (42): Sam Dassow 1-4 1-1 3, Brennan Pederson 1-2 0-0 2, Ransom Dickerson 1-1 0-0 3, Chase Pavlovich 1-1 0-0 3, Xavier Edwards 5-7 2-2 13, Cade Felch 1-5 1-1 3, Vander Truax 1-2 0-0 2, Luke Auner 0-1 0-0 0, Cohen Priebe 3-6 3-4 12, Casey Stuedemann 0-2 1-2 1. FG: 14-31. FT: 8-10. 3-pointers: 6-17 (Priebe 3-6, Dickerson 1-1, Pavlovich 1-1, Edwards 1-2, Felch 0-2, Pederson 0-1, Truax 0-1, Dassow 0-3). Rebounds: 15 (Edwards 5). Turnovers: 13. Fouls: 8. Fouled out: none. Record: 8-8, 3-4 Wisconsin Valley Conference.
MARSHFIELD (61): Chris Pohl 5-10 1-1 12, Joey Ketterer 2-4 0-0 4, Ben Jordan 0-0 0-0 0, Jack Sternitzky 0-0 0-0 0, Brooks Hinson 7-8 0-0 18, Landon Lee 4-7 1-1 11, Afton Hamill 0-0 0-0 0, J.J. Steinbach 1-1 0-0 2, Camden Kolstad 2-2 0-0 6, Magnus Machtan 0-0 0-0 0, Ethan Knecht 0-0 0-0 0, Valin Ramberg 4-6 0-0 8. FG: 25-38. FT: 2-2. 3-pointers: 9-16 (Hinson 4-5, Kolstad 2-2, Lee 2-3, Pohl 1-3, Ramberg 0-1, Ketterer 0-2). Rebounds: 10 (Pohl 4). Turnovers: 6. Fouls: 12. Fouled out: none. Record: 10-5, 7-0 Wisconsin Valley Conference.