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The Marshfield Columbus Catholic boys basketball team has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com March High School Athlete of the Month.
The High School Athlete of the Month Award is sponsored by Cost Cutters Family Hair Care and Burt Trophy & Awards.
Varsity athletes from the following high schools are eligible to be nominated for the award: Abbotsford, Athens, Auburndale, Colby, Columbus Catholic, Edgar, Granton, Greenwood, Loyal, Marathon, Marshfield, Neillsville, Owen-Withee, Pittsville, Spencer, Stratford and Thorp.
This month, we went with a Team of the Month to celebrate five local teams that competed in state tournaments in their respective sports.
The Columbus Catholic boys basketball team won a close race by just five votes over the Colby girls basketball team, garnering 35 percent of the nearly 1,000 votes cast.
Other nominees for the March award were: the Marshfield gymnastics team, the Marshfield wrestling team, and the Stratford wrestling team.
Marshfield Columbus Catholic won four playoff games in early March to secure a spot in the WIAA State Boys Basketball Tournament for the second time in three years, and the third time in school history. The Dons routed Cloverbelt East rival Loyal 64-36 on March 1, and Edgar 58-39 on March 2, to win the regional title, then rolled through the sectional with a 63-42 win over Almond-Bancroft on March 7 and a 79-69 victory over Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran on March 9 in the sectional championship game. The Dons won their Division 5 state semifinal over Bangor 69-66 as Tom Nystrom hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer and Bryce Fuerlinger grabbed a D-5 state tournament record 25 rebounds. Columbus Catholic fell in the state finals to Sheboygan Lutheran 77-69. Ethan Meece scored 22 points and Noah Taylor had 17 in the championship game for the Dons.
The winner of the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com High School Athlete of the Year will be announced Monday, July 10.
Nominate someone for the April voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by April 23. Please include relative statistics and reasons for that athlete’s nomination. Voting for the March award will take place at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from May 1-7.
The Columbus Catholic boys basketball team joins previous 2018-19 Athlete of the Month winners: Spencer/Columbus Catholic football player Jarred Mandel (September), Marshfield football player Ryan Krueger (October), Columbus Catholic girls basketball player Hailey Roehl (November), Stratford boys basketball player Vaughn Breit (December), Auburndale wrestler Dylan Baird (January), and Stratford wrestler Dylan Schoenherr (February).