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SPENCER – Spencer senior Austin Bacon surpassed the 1,000-point plateau for his career, but the Rockets lost its regular-season home finale to Athens 74-60 on Monday night.
Bacon scored 15 points and now has 1,003 points for his varsity career.
Brett Kasch had a game-high 25 points for Spencer, which falls to 16-5 this season.
Cameron Ford had 19 points, Cooper Diedrich added 15 and Javon Penney scored 12 for Athens (15-6).
Spencer wraps up its regular-season schedule on Saturday. The Rockets will play in the second-place game of the Cloverbelt Conference crossovers against Thorp at Altoona High School at 1 p.m. The game will be live-streamed on zaleskisports.com/live-sports.
Bluejays 74, Rockets 60
Athens 43 31 – 74
Spencer 35 25 – 60
ATHENS (74): Cameron Ford 19, Jake Denzine 6, Cooper Diedrich 15, Cobie Ellenbecker 5, Javon Penney 13, Dayne Diethelm 9, Aiden Janke 7. Record: 15-6.
SPENCER (60): Brett Kasch 25, Hayden Bauman 7, Austin Bacon 15, Cody Vircks 7, Carson Schmidt 2, Eric Ehlert 4. Record: 16-5.