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KRONENWETTER – Auburndale took control in the middle two quarters and blew past Northland Lutheran 58-24 in a Marawood Conference South Division boys basketball game Tuesday night at Northland Lutheran High School.
Auburndale outscored the Wildcats 21-5 in the second quarter to open up a 30-11 halftime lead.
The Apaches put the game away by shutting out Northland Lutheran 16-0 in the third quarter.
Alex Marth had 17 points, six rebounds and six steals for Auburndale.
Auburndale improves to 7-2 overall and 3-2 in the Marawood South. Northland Lutheran is now 2-8 and 0-4 in the conference.
Auburndale plays at Wausau Newman Catholic on Friday.
Complete game statistics were not provided.
Apaches 58, Wildcats 24
Auburndale 9 21 16 12 – 58
Northland Lutheran 6 5 0 13 – 24
AUBURNDALE (58): Jake Lewis 1-4 0-0 2, Nate Engelbright 0-0 0-0 0, Matt Nikolay 2-4 2-2 6, Caleb Weinfurter 1-2 0-0 2, Collin Hawkins 0-1 0-0 0, Bryan Gehrke 3-4 0-0 6, Luke Olsen 1-1 0-0 2, Cooper Krings 1-4 2-2 5, Alex Marth 6-8 5-7 17, Matt Lang 4-7 2-3 10, Dylan Peplinski 3-3 0-1 6, Christian Firnstahl 0-1 0-0 0, Logan Brown 0-1 0-0 0, Josh VanSchoick 1-3 0-0 2. FG: 23-43. FT: 11-15. 3-pointers: 1-7 (Krings 1-3, Weinfurter 0-1, Lewis 0-1, Nikolay 0-2). Rebounds: 26 (Marth 6, Nikolay 6). Assists: 14 (Nikolay 3, Krings 3). Record: 7-2, 3-2 Marawood South.
NORTHLAND LUTHERAN (24): Gavin Nelson 2-2 0-0 5, Aiden Koo 0-0 0-0 0, Adam Jensen 0-0 0-0 0, Luke Thums 0-1 0-0 0, Austin Schmidt 0-2 0-0 0, Danny Worden 1-9 1-2 3, David Burgess 0-0 0-0 0, Noah Panzer 3-4 0-0 7, Jacob Price 4-8 0-0 9, Kyle Griesbach 0-0 0-0 0. FG: 10-26. FT: 1-2. 3-pointers: 3-10 Price 1-4, Panzer 1-1, Nelson 1-1, Worden 0-4). Rebounds: 15 (Price 6). Record: 2-8, 0-4 Marawood South.