By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

AUBURNDALE — Alex Marth scored 19 points, and Matt Nikolay added 18 points and four assists to lead the Auburndale boys basketball team to a 59-39 victory over Abbotsford in a nonconference game Monday night at Auburndale High School.

Josh VanSchoick added 10 points and five assists for the Apaches, who improve to 14-7.

Auburndale outscored Abbotsford (4-16) by at least four points in each quarter to pull out the victory.

Auburndale will compete in the third-place game of the Marawood North-South crossovers on Thursday at home against Chequamegon at 7:30 p.m.

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

Apaches 59, Falcons 39

Abbotsford 10 9 12 8 – 39

Auburndale 16 14 16 13 – 59

ABBOTSFORD (39): Garrett Rau 3-6 2-2 10, Jacob Lavin 3-5 1-1 7, Dillon Novak 0-1 0-0 0, Ethan Kramas 1-4 0-0 3, Treven Gorst 4-9 2-2 11, Tyler Kunze 3-3 0-0 8, Steward Braun 0-0 0-0 0. FG: 14-28. FT: 5-5. 3-pointers: 6-15 (Rau 2-3, Kunze 2-2, Gorst 1-4, Kramas 1-4, Novak 0-1, Lavin 0-1). Rebounds: 12 (Gorst 3, Rau 3). Record: 4-16.

AUBURNDALE (59): Jake Lewis 1-3 1-2 4, Matt Nikolay 7-14 3-3 18, Bryan Gehrke 0-1 0-0 0, Cooper Krings 1-2 1-2 4, Tyler Weber 0-0 0-0 0, Alex Marth 9-15 1-3 19, Matt Lang 1-5 0-0 2, Dylan Peplinski 1-1 0-0 2, Josh VanSchoick 4-9 1-1 10. FG: 24-50. FT: 7-11. 3-pointers: 4-13 (Krings 1-2, Lewis 1-2, Nikolay 1-6, VanSchoick 1-2, Gehrke 0-1). Rebounds: 22 (Marth 5). Assists: 16 (VanSchoick 5). Record: 14-7.