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ALTOONA – Alex King scored 29 points to lead Neillsville to an 85-80 win over Altoona in a wild first-place game at the Cloverbelt Conference Boys Basketball Crossovers on Saturday afternoon at Altoona High School.
Braden Trunkel made four 3-pointers and added 18 points for the Warriors, who improve to 19-3 with the win.
In the second-place game, Thorp downed Spencer 64-51.
Austin Bacon scored 25 points for the Rockets and Eric Ehlert added 10 as Spencer finishes its regular-season schedule with a 16-6 record.
Ethan Reis and Isaac Soumis both scored 18 points for Thorp.
Second-place game
Cardinals 64, Rockets 51
Spencer 25 26 – 51
Thorp 30 34 – 64
SPENCER (51): Brett Kasch 1 1-2 3, Hayden Bauman 1 2-2 4, Austin Bacon 8 6-8 25, Cody Vircks 1 0-0 2, Kaleb Brandt 2 0-0 4, Eric Ehlert 4 0-0 10, Gavid Kilty 1 0-0 2. FG: 18. FT: 9-12. 3-pointers: 5 (Bacon 3, Ehlert 2). Fouls: 12. Fouled out: none. Record: 16-6.
THORP (64): Zander Rockow 1 0-0 2, Aiden Rosemeyer 0 0-0 0, Jack Syryczuk 4 0-0 10, Ethan Reis 6 3-5 18, Jon Slagoski 6 1-2 13, Aiden Reis 1 0-0 3, Isaac Soumis 7 2-4 18. FG: 25. FT: 6-11. 3-pointers: 8 (E. Reis 3, Syrycuk 2, Soumis 2, A. Ries 1). Fouls: 16. Fouled out: Soumis. Record: 16-5.
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First-place game
Warriors 85, Railroaders 80
Altoona 38 42 – 80
Neillsville 45 40 – 85
ALTOONA (80): Nick McMahon 3 1-4 9, Keshawn Harris 11 1-2 25, Evan Moss 4 2-3 12, Brayden Turk 9 2-3 23, Anthony Giani 2 2-4 6, Marsten Salsbury 1 0-0 2. FG: 30. FT: 8-16. 3-pointers: 8 (Turk 3, Harris 2, McMahon 2, Moss 1). (Statistics incomplete). Record: 15-6.
NEILLSVILLE (85): Isaac Weirs 2 1-2 6, Braden Trunkel 6 2-5 18, Alex King 9 9-9 29, Drew Brown 2 4-5 8, Monte Diestler 4 2-4 10, Josiah Katcher 3 2-2 8, Santana Subke 3 0-0 6. FG: 29. FT: 20-27. 3-pointers: 7 (Trunkel 4, King 2, Weirs 1). Record: 19-3.