Rockets fall to 1-4 in last five games

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

COLBY — The Spencer girls basketball team lost for the fourth time in its last five games, falling to Colby 44-42 in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division matchup Thursday night at Colby High School.

Colby led 28-20 at halftime before the Rockets stormed back but came up a bucket short.

Spencer (6-7, 5-5 Cloverbelt East) held a 12-5 advantage on free throws made but missed 11 attempts at the line. Colby outrebounded the Rockets 46-29.

Samantha Hayes led Colby (7-7, 7-3 Cloverbelt East) with 12 points.

Sydney Kind had 12 points for Spencer but was held to 3 of 15 shooting. Nadia King added eight points.

Spencer hosts Granton on Thursday.

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

Hornets 44, Rockets 42

Spencer 20 22 – 42

Colby 28 16 – 44

SPENCER (42): Sydney Kind 3-15 3-5 12, Nadia King 2-6 4-12 8, Liz Endreas 3-5 0-0 6, Courtney Buss 2-4 1-2 5, Macie Weber 1-4 2-2 4, Lexi Baehr 1-5 2-2 4, Kallie Reckner 1-4 0-0 3, Jessica Becker 0-0 0-0 0, Katie Fleischmann 0-0 0-0 0. FG: 13-43. FT: 12-23. 3-pointers: 4-14 (Kind 3-9, Reckner 1-4, Baehr 0-1). Rebounds: 29. Fouls: 14. Fouled out: none. Record: 6-7, 5-5 Cloverbelt East.

COLBY (44): Samantha Hayes 4-9 4-5 12, Haylee Geiger 2-9 1-3 7, Neilana Golz 3-6 0-1 6, Jenna Jicinsky 2-7 0-0 5, Paige Bruesewitz 2-4 0-0 5, Ashley Streveler 2-6 0-0 5, Kendra Bellendorf 1-4 0-0 2, Carley Elmhorst 1-4 0-0 2, Hannah Gurtner 0-1 0-2 0. FG: 17-52. FT: 5-11. 3-pointers: 5-15 (Geiger 2-5, Jicinsky 1-2, Bruesewitz 1-3, Streveler 1-4). Rebounds: 46. Fouls: 21. Fouled out: Jicinsky, Hayes. Record: 7-7, 7-3 Cloverbelt East.