Blake Anderson drills six 3’s as Auburndale boys basketball whip Nekoosa

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AUBURNDALE – Blake Anderson hit six 3-pointers and scored a game-high 23 points to lead the Auburndale boys basketball team to its 10th win of the season as it defeated Nekoosa 61-43 in a nonconference matchup Monday night at Auburndale High School.

Anderson was 6 of 9 from 3-point range and made all three of his free-throw attempts to finish with 23 points. He added four assists and four rebounds in the victory as the Apaches improve to 10-1.

Zach Staats added 18 points and Matt Nikolay had seven points, five steals and four assists for the Apaches.

Owen Linzmeier scored 20 points for Nekoosa (6-7).

Auburndale plays at Prentice on Thursday.

Apaches 61, Papermakers 43
Nekoosa 9 10 11 13 – 43
Auburndale 14 19 14 14 – 61
NEKOOSA (43):
Owen Linzmeier 8 1-3 20, Brett Germechle 2 0-0 4, Brad Savage 0 0-0 0, Matt McDonald 0 0-0 0, Riley Erickson 0 0-2 0, Ty Crider 3 0-0 7, Andrew Melvin 2 0-0 4, Tanner Stephens 0 2-2 2, Ben Hasenohrl 2 0-0 6. FG: 17. FT: 3-7. 3-pointers: 6 (Linzmeier 3, Hasenohrl 2, Crider 1). Record: 6-7.
AUBURNDALE (61): Tom Sabel 0-1 0-0 0, Matt Nikolay 1-9 4-4 7, Blake Anderson 7-10 3-3 23, Isaac Castellano 2-3 0-0 5, Zach Staats 6-10 6-8 18, Alex Marth 1-3 0-0 2, Matt Lang 0-1 0-0 0, Josh VanShoick 2-3 2-4 6. FG: 19-40. FT: 15-19. 3-pointers: 8-16 (Anderson 6-9, Nikolay 1-4, Castellano 1-2, Marth 0-1). Rebounds: 20 (VanShoick 5, Marth 5). Record: 10-1.