By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

SPENCER — Bobby Pilz poured in 29 points, which included five 3-pointers, and the Spencer boys basketball team pushed past Rib Lake 64-54 in a nonconference game Monday night at Spencer High School.

Pilz made 9 of 13 shots overall, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range, to lead the Rockets.

The game was tied 29-29 at halftime before Spencer outscored the Redmen 17-13 in the third quarter and 18-12 in the fourth to earn the win.

Spencer improves to 9-1. Rib Lake is now 6-5.

The Rockets hosts Greenwood on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division game. The game will be broadcast on WOSQ-FM 92.3 and wdlbwosq.com.

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

Rockets 64, Redmen 54

Rib Lake 15 14 13 12 – 54

Spencer 14 15 17 18 – 64

RIB LAKE (54): Joe Frombach 4-9 2-2 12, Austin Ewan 0-0 0-0 0, Noah Weinke 2-5 0-0 6, Jordan Blomberg 2-5 2-2 6, Dalton Strebig 0-4 0-0 0, Jared Hovde 5-9 3-3 14, Jordan Cardey 5-7 0-1 11, Joe Scheithauer 2-7 1-2 5. FG: 20-46. FT: 8-10. 3-pointers: 6-14 (Frombach 2-5, Weinke 2-4, Hovde 1-2, Cardey 1-2, Stebig 0-1). Record: 6-5.

SPENCER (64): Nate Mercier 3-9 0-0 7, Calvin Lenz 2-2 2-6 6, Bobby Pilz 9-13 6-8 29, Miles Weber 3-5 0-0 6, Ryan Busse 2-6 4-4 8, Mitch Susa 2-10 3-4 8, Dakota Andreae 0-1 0-0 0. FG: 21-43. FT: 15-22. 3-pointers: 7-19 (Pilz 5-7, Mercier 1-4, Susa 1-7, Busse 0-1). Record: 9-1.