By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

LOYAL — Loyal outscored Spencer by 23 points in the first half and cruised to a 62-20 defeat of the Rockets in Cloverbelt Conference East Division girls basketball action Tuesday night at Loyal High School.

The Greyhounds improve to 15-2 overall and remain undefeated at 12-0 in the Cloverbelt East. Loyal holds a 1½ game lead over Owen-Withee in the standings with four games to play in the conference season as it looks for its first-ever Cloverbelt East championship.

Sophomore Karsyn Rueth had 16 points and nine rebounds to pace the Greyhounds.

Nadia King led Spencer (4-11, 4-9 Cloverbelt East) with six points and three steals.

Spencer’s next game is Thursday at home against Gilman.

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

Greyhounds 62, Rockets 20

Spencer 4 3 8 5 – 20

Loyal 18 12 17 15 – 62

SPENCER (20): Nadia King 2-9 2-5 6, Courtney Buss 2-4 0-0 4, Lexi Baehr 1-8 0-2 3, Melissa Lehman 1-3 1-3 3, Jessica Becker 0-1 2-2 2, Abby Varsho 0-1 2-2 2, Liz Endreas 0-2 0-0 0, Katie Fleischman 0-2 0-0 0, Katlynne Walter 0-0 0-0 0. FG: 6-30. FT: 7-14. 3-pointers: 1-8 (Baehr 1-5, King 0-2, Fleischman 0-1). Rebounds: 18 (King 3). Turnovers: 16. Fouls: 14. Fouled out: none. Record: 4-11, 4-9 Cloverbelt East.

LOYAL (62): Karsyn Rueth 6-14 3-4 16, Devyn Schoonover 4-6 0-0 10, Morgan Reinwand 3-6 1-6 7, Jaelynn Young 3-8 0-1 6, Missy Benz 3-5 0-0 6, Jaedyn Pieper 1-7 1-2 4, Ryleigh Wilke 1-5 1-2 4, Amanda Zettler 1-2 0-0 3, Jackie McPherson 1-1 0-0 2, Katie Hoeser 1-4 0-0 2, Bailey Parker 1-2 0-0 2, Amber Acker 0-0 0-0 0. FG: 25-60. FT: 6-15. 3-pointers: 6-17 (Schoonover 2-4, Rueth 1-2, Wilke 1-3, Zettler 1-1, Pieper 1-5, Hoeser 0-1, Young 0-1). Rebounds: 48 (Rueth 9). Turnovers: 11. Fouls: 15. Fouled out: none. Record: 15-2, 12-0 Cloverbelt East.