By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

SPENCER — Nate Mercier hit five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 22 points to lift the Spencer boys basketball team to an 81-32 rout of Granton in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division matchup Tuesday night at Spencer High School.

Dakota Andreae hit 7 of 10 shots and scored 17 points, and Bobby Pilz added 14 points for the Rockets (3-0, 2-0 Cloverbelt East).

Max Opelt led Granton (0-4, 0-3 Cloverbelt East) with 11 points.

Spencer led just 12-10 after the first quarter but put up a whopping 30 points in the second quarter to take a 42-21 halftime lead. The Rockets finished off the game outscoring Granton 39-11 in the second half.

Check out the Cloverbelt East boys basketball standings here.

Spencer’s next game is Friday at Loyal.

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

Rockets 81, Bulldogs 32

Granton 10 11 8 3 – 32

Spencer 12 30 19 20 – 81

GRANTON (32): J. Jacobson 3-11 0-0 7, Austin Naedler 0-5 0-0 0, Ben Anding 2-4 1-2 6, K. Johnson 0-2 0-0 0, S. Naedler 1-1 0-0 2, M. Tyler 0-0 0-0 0, Dillon Pongratz 3-3 0-0 6, Max Opelt 5-11 1-4 11. FG: 14-37. FT: 2-6. 3-pointers: 2-15 (Jacobson 1-5, Anding 1-3, A. Naedler 0-5, Johnson 0-1, Opelt 0-1). Record: 0-4, 0-3 Cloverbelt East.

SPENCER (81): Jonny Tomke 1-3 0-0 2, Noah Zastrow 2-2 0-0 4, Nate Mercier 8-17 1-3 22, Calvin Lenz 2-3 1-1 5, Bobby Pilz 6-14 2-4 14, Miles Weber 3-8 0-0 6, Jack Burnett 0-1 0-0 0, Jake Meyers 1-2 0-0 2, Ryan Busse 1-2 0-0 2, Mitch Susa 2-10 2-2 7, Dakota Andreae 7-10 3-6 17. FG: 33-72. FT: 9-16. 3-pointers: 6-25 (Mercier 5-12, Susa 1-6, Pilz 0-6, Tomke 0-1). Record: 3-0, 2-0 Cloverbelt East.