Eight Tigers score in road victory

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

WAUSAU — The Marshfield girls basketball team rolled to its sixth-straight victory with a 54-12 drubbing of Wausau East on Friday night at East High School.

Marshfield led 27-7 at halftime and held the Lumberjacks to just five points in the second half to roll to the win. The Tigers are now 13-1 overall and 6-0 in the Wisconsin Valley Conference. East is now 1-12 and 0-6 in the Valley.

Marshfield held East to just 9 percent shooting (4 of 43) from the field and forced 24 turnovers.

Ema Fehrenbach had 16 points, McKayla Scheuer added 10 points, and Hannah Meverden had 10 points and 11 rebounds to pace the Tigers.

Eight of the nine Tigers scored in the game, and reserve guards Dani Bender (seven), Ana Jensen (six), and Corraine Johnson (six) had solid rebounding games for Marshfield.

Marshfield has a week off before traveling back to Wausau to play West on Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on WDLB-AM 1450 and wdlbwosq.com.

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

Tigers 54, Lumberjacks 12

Marshfield 27 27 – 54

Wausau East 7 5 – 12

MARSHFIELD (54): McKayla Scheuer 5-9 0-0 10, Dani Bender 1-5 0-2 2, Ana Jensen 1-6 0-3 2, Sara Dasler 1-3 0-0 2, Corraine Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Meg Bryan 4-9 0-0 8, Maddie Nikolai 2-9 0-0 4, Ema Fehrenbach 5-12 6-7 16, Hannah Meverden 5-9 0-0 10. FG: 24-63. FT: 6-12. 3-pointers: 0-5 (Johnson 0-1, Meverden 0-1, Bryan 0-3). Rebounds: 45 (Meverden 11). Turnovers: 17. Fouls: 9. Fouled out: none. Record: 13-1, 6-0 Wisconsin Valley Conference.

WAUSAU EAST (12): McDonald 0-3 0-0 0, Xiong 0-2 0-0 0, Hess 0-2 0-0 0, Urmanski 2-12 0-2 4, Murphy 0-6 2-4 2, Murphy 1-4 1-1 3, Komrei 0-0 0-0 0, Watters 1-12 1-2 3, Twerberg 0-2 0-0 0. FG: 4-43. FT: 4-9. 3-pointers: 0-10 (McDonald 0-1, Murphy 0-2, Urmanski 0-3, Watters 0-4). Rebounds: 20 (Murphy 5). Turnovers: 24. Fouls: 11. Fouled out: none. Record: 1-12, 0-6 Wisconsin Valley Conference.