By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

GREENWOOD — Tyler Fuerlinger and Evan Nikolai each scored 17 points to lead the Marshfield Columbus Catholic boys basketball team to a 72-60 win over Greenwood on Tuesday night at Greenwood High School.

The Dons improve to 6-4 overall and 5-1 in the Cloverbelt Conference East Division. The win keeps Columbus in a tie with Neillsville for second place in the conference standings, one game behind Spencer. Columbus hosts Spencer on Jan. 15.

Greenwood is now 2-5 overall and 2-3 in the conference.

Complete statistics were not provided.

Columbus Catholic hosts Owen-Withee (6-2, 4-1 Cloverbelt East) on Friday.

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