Marshfield wraps up another Wisconsin Valley Conference girls basketball title

Taylor Varsho

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MARSHFIELD – The Marshfield girls basketball team are champions again.

Marshfield wrapped up its fourth straight Wisconsin Valley Conference championship, and seventh in the last nine years, by dismantling Wausau East 62-19 on Tuesday night at the Marshfield High School Fieldhouse.

The Tigers led 14-6 after the first quarter and 34-12 at halftime as they rolled to their 12th win in their last 13 games and improve to 16-3 and 10-0 in the Valley. East falls to 3-16 and 0-10 in conference.

Taylor Varsho scored 21 points, grabbed nine rebounds, had five assists and five steals for Marshfield. The junior guard pulled into sixth place on Marshfield’s all-time scoring list with 869 career points, passing Johnalee Hildebrandt, who played from 1980-83. Varsho is six points behind Janelle Tomlinson (1996-2000) for fifth and stands just 56 points behind Jamie Braun’s single-season record of 465 points set in 2005-06.

Eleni Seitz added 14 points and six rebounds for the Tigers, who had nine different players score at least one point.

Marshfield plays a nonconference game at Altoona next Tuesday.

Tigers 62, Lumberjacks 19
Wausau East 6 6 5 2 – 19
Marshfield 14 20 12 16 – 62
WAUSAU EAST (19):
Jamie Dimka 3-5 0-0 7, Claire Sichterman 2-5 3-5 7, Anna Bauman 2-7 0-2 4, Kaleigh Karlen 0-5 1-2 1, Tracy Terczynski 0-2 0-0 0, Abbie Pospychala 0-1 0-3 0, Allyson Salzer 0-1 0-0 0, Vanessa Boorse 0-12 0-0 0, Blake Grogan 0-1 0-0 0, Katelyn Stine 0-1 0-0 0. FG: 7-40. FT: 4-12. 3-pointers: 1-10 (Dimka 1-3, Sichterman 0-1, Bauman 0-1, Boorse 0-5). Rebounds: 9. Turnovers: 15. Total fouls: 21. Fouled out: none. Record: 3-16, 0-10 Wisconsin Valley Conference.
MARSHFIELD (62): Taylor Varsho 7-13 5-5 21, Eleni Seitz 4-13 6-8 14, Alyssa Brenner 2-6 4-5 8, Leah Ripp 3-3 0-2 7, Tiffany Stargardt 2-5 0-2 4, Courtney Bauer 1-3 1-2 3, Mary Wolff 1-3 0-0 2, Sarah Wolff 1-2 0-0 2, Brianna Hill 0-0 1-2 1, Becky Boehning 0-2 0-0 0. FG: 21-50. FT: 17-26. 3-pointers: 3-10 (Varsho 2-4, Ripp 1-1, Brenner 0-2, Stargardt 0-1, M. Wolff 0-1, S. Wolff 0-1). Rebounds: 29 (Varsho 9). Assists: 8 (Varsho 5). Turnovers: 14. Total fouls: 13. Fouled out: none. Record: 16-3, 10-0 Wisconsin Valley Conference.