By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

SPENCER — The Spencer girls basketball team ended a three-game losing streak and eased past Rib Lake 42-34 in a nonconference game Monday night at Spencer High School.

The Rockets led 11-6 after the first quarter and outscored Rib Lake by three points in the second half to post the eight-point win.

Melissa Lehman scored 13 points to lead Spencer. Abby Varsho added six points and a game-high nine rebounds.

Both teams are now 5-12.

Spencer plays at Neillsville on Friday.

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

Rockets 42, Redmen 34

Rib Lake 6 13 9 6 – 34

Spencer 11 13 10 8 – 42

RIB LAKE (34): Casey Scheithauer 3-10 5-9 11, Katie Cardey 5-9 0-0 10, Jasmine Fitzl 2-5 0-0 6, Regan Dobbs 1-5 2-2 4, Hailey Wudi 1-3 1-2 3, Mariah Thums 0-2 0-0 0, Gracie Weinke 0-3 0-0 0. FG: 12-37. FT: 8-13. 3-pointers: 2-6 (Fitzl 2-4, Scheithauer 0-1, Thums 0-1). Rebounds: 28 (Dobbs 6). Turnovers: 19. Fouls: 19. Fouled out: none. Record: 5-12.

SPENCER (42): Melissa Lehman 5-10 3-4 13, Lexi Baehr 3-10 0-0 8, Abby Varsho 3-9 0-4 6, Nadia King 2-6 0-1 4, Liz Endreas 1-8 2-6 4, Courtney Buss 1-3 1-3 3, Kallie Reckner 1-7 0-0 2, Katie Fleischmann 0-0 2-2 2. FG: 16-55. FT: 8-20. 3-pointers: 2-10 (Baehr 2-6, Reckner 0-1, Buss 0-2). Rebounds: 44 (Varsho 9). Turnovers: 17. Fouls: 15. Fouled out: none. Record: 5-12.