By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

SPENCER — Bobby Pilz had a 3-pointer and a layup in the final 19 seconds to lift the Spencer boys basketball team to a 36-34 nonconference victory over Edgar Monday night at Spencer High School.

The Rockets (2-0) trailed 23-20 heading into the fourth quarter and then outscored Edgar 16-11 to pull out the victory.

Edgar led 34-31 when Pilz drilled a 3-pointer to tie the game with 19 seconds to go.

Miles Weber secured a defensive rebound after a missed 3-pointer by Edgar and whipped a pass to Pilz at halfcourt. Pilz raced to the basket and scored on a layup with about 1 second to go. Edgar was out of timeouts, and time elapsed.

Pilz had nine of his game-high 13 points in the fourth quarter for the Rockets.

Austin Borchardt and Matt Urmanski each had 10 points for Edgar (2-2).

The Rockets’ next game is Tuesday at home against Granton.

(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of MarshfieldAreaSports.com.)

Rockets 36, Wildcats 34

Edgar 9 7 7 11 – 34

Spencer 5 7 8 16 – 36

EDGAR (34): Maverick Mueller 2-4 1-1 6, Matt Urmanski 4-6 2-3 10, Tyler Engel 2-6 0-0 6, Alec Hafferman 0-4 0-0 0, Austin Borchardt 3-7 4-6 10, Taylor Kirsh 0-2 0-0 0, Camden Heidmann 0-1 0-0 0, Kaleb Wolf 0-2 0-0 0, Ben Lepak 1-1 0-0 2. FG: 12-33. FT: 7-10. 3-pointers: 3-13 (Engel 2-6, Mueller 1-2, Urmanski 0-1, Kirsch 0-1, Heidmann 0-1, Hafferman 0-2). Record: 2-2.

SPENCER (36): Calvin Lenz 2-3 0-1 4, Bobby Pilz 5-15 2-3 13, Miles Weber 4-6 0-0 8, Ryan Busse 2-4 0-0 4, Mitch Susa 1-8 3-6 5, Nate Mercier 0-6 0-0 0, Dakota Andreae 1-1 0-0 2. FG: 14-43. FT: 5-10. 3-pointers: 1-12 (Pilz 1-6, Susa 0-3, Mercier 0-3). Record: 2-0.