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AUBURNDALE – Austin Hawkins made 13 of 16 shots from the field and poured in 27 points to lead the Auburndale boys basketball team to a 63-31 whitewashing of Northland Lutheran in a Marawood Conference South Division boys basketball game Friday night at Auburndale High School.
The game was the Marawood South opener for both teams. Auburndale improves to 2-0 overall, while Northland Lutheran drops to 1-2.
Auburndale shot 26 of 48 from the field (57 percent) behind Hawkins’ second strong performance of the season. The 6-foot-5 senior had 32 points in the Apaches’ season-opening win on Nekoosa last week.
Isaac Castellano added 10 points, five assists and five steals, and Ben Bolder had 10 points and eight rebounds for Auburndale.
Auburndale led 25-18 at halftime, then blew the game open with a 20-9 advantage in the third quarter.
Northland Lutheran was just 14 of 36 shooting and was led by Curtis Engelbrecht’s nine points.
Auburndale plays at Edgar on 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. That game will be broadcast live on WOSQ-FM 92.3 and online at wdlbwosq.com.
Apaches 63, Wildcats 31
Northland Lutheran 3 15 9 4 – 31
Auburndale 8 17 20 18 – 63
NORTHLAND LUTHERAN (31): Ben Wittrock 0-0 0-0 0, Curtis Engelbrecht 4-8 0-0 9, Tim Venus 2-5 1-2 5, Gideon Nelson 3-6 0-0 6, Danny Worden 0-0 0-0 0, Michael Krueger 3-8 0-0 7, Luke Thums 0-0 0-0 0, Cody Hess 0-1 0-0 0, Cody Griesbach 0-3 0-0 0. FG: 14-36. FT: 1-2. 3-pointers: 2-11 (Krueger 1-5, Engelbrecht 1-3, Venus 0-1, Griesbach 0-2). Rebounds: 17 (Colby 5). Record: 1-2, 0-1 Marawood South.
AUBURNDALE (63): Tom Sabel 0-1 0-0 0, Matt Nikolay 2-4 0-0 6, Blake Anderson 2-4 1-2 5, Isaac Castellano 4-11 0-0 10, Zach Staats 0-1 2-2 2, Matt Lang 0-1 0-0 0, Austin Hawkins 13-16 1-4 27, Ben Bolder 4-10 2-2 10, Josh VanShoick 1-4 0-0 3. FG: 26-48. FT: 6-10. 3-pointers: 5-12 (Nikolay 2-3, Castellano 2-5, VanShoick 1-2, Anderson 0-1). Rebounds: 30 (Bolder 8, Anderson 8). Assists: 17 (Anderson 7). Record: 2-0, 1-0 Marawood South.