Neillsville holds off Spencer boys basketball

Neillsville’s Santana Subke goes up for a shot between three Spencer defenders during Tuesday’s game at Spencer High School. (Photo courtesy of Sara Warren)

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SPENCER – The Neillsville boys basketball team maintained its one-half game lead on top of the Cloverbelt Conference East Division standings with a 62-56 win over Spencer on Tuesday at Spencer High School.

Santana Subke (14 points, 15 rebounds), Andrew Brown (14 points, 11 rebounds), and Mason Roenz (10 points, 12 rebounds) all had double-doubles for Neillsville, which improves to 17-5 overall and 12-1 in the Cloverbelt East.

The Warriors lead Marshfield Columbus Catholic by one-half game atop the Cloverbelt East standings, with the two teams meeting at Neillsville on Monday. Columbus also has a game at Loyal on Friday.

Kaleb Brandt had 19 points and Caleb Rucker added 16 for Spencer (6-16, 4-9 Cloverbelt East).

Spencer plays at Colby in conference action Friday to finish its Cloverbelt East schedule.

Warriors 62, Rockets 56
Neillsville 31 31 – 62
Spencer 29 27 – 56
NEILLSVILLE (62):
Braylon Boyer 1-3 0-0 3, Bryce Erickson 2-7 2-3 7, Andrew Brown 6-20 2-6 14, Alex Roman 3-10 0-2 8, Michael Byrne 2-3 0-0 6, Mason Roenz 4-10 2-6 10, Santana Subke 6-17 2-6 14. FG: 24-70. 3-pointers: 6-16 (Byrne 2-2, Roman 2-6, Boyer 1-2, Erickson 1-3, Brown 0-3). Rebounds: 53 (Subke 15). Fouls: 11. Fouled out: Brown. Record: 17-5, 12-1 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.
SPENCER (56): Connor Bacon 1-3 0-0 2, Noah Schultz 3-8 0-0 7, Nathan Rucker 0-2 0-0 0, Luke Roehrborn 1-4 2-2 4, Caleb Rucker 7-15 0-0 16, Carson Schmidt 0-3 0-0 0, Kaleb Brandt 6-14 4-4 19, Degan Hainz 3-7 2-4 8. FG: 21-56. FT: 8-10. 3-pointers: 6-17 (Brandt 3-5, C. Rucker 2-5, Schultz 1-5, N. Rucker 0-1, Roehrborn 0-1). Rebounds: 33 (Brandt 9). Fouls: 20. Fouled out: Roehrborn. Record: 6-16, 4-9 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.