Dons fall to 7-8, host Spencer on Friday

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

LOYAL — First-place Loyal held Marshfield Columbus Catholic to just seven points in the first half and cruised to a 60-37 victory in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division girls basketball game Tuesday night at Loyal High School.

The Greyhounds led 34-7 at halftime and maintained their big lead the rest of the way.

Devyn Schoonover led Loyal (13-3, 11-0 Cloverbelt East) with 15 points, which included three of the Greyhounds’ seven 3-pointers.

Columbus Catholic shot just 24 percent (10 of 42) in the loss to fall to 7-8 overall and 4-6 in Cloverbelt East.

Jess Trad led the Dons with 12 points, making all seven of her free throw attempts.

Columbus Catholic hosts Spencer on Friday.

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

Greyhounds 60, Dons 37

Columbus Catholic 7 30 – 37

Loyal 34 26 – 60

COLUMBUS CATHOLIC (37): Morgan Albrecht 1-6 1-4 4, Baylie Neider 1-6 3-4 5, Maren Seefluth 2-6 2-2 6, Kendra Baierl 1-3 0-2 2, Jess Trad 2-8 7-7 12, Abby Baierl 3-8 0-0 6, Natalie Pospyhalla 0-4 0-0 0, Sierra Litwatis 0-0 0-0 0, Marissa Immerfall 0-1 2-2 2. FG: 10-42. FG: 15-21. 3-pointers: 2-13 (Albrecht 1-3, Trad 1-5, Pospyhalla 0-2, A. Baierl 0-3). Record: 7-8, 4-6 Cloverbelt East.

LOYAL (60): Amanda Zettler 1-1 0-0 2, Devyn Schoonover 6-9 0-0 15, Jaedyn Pieper 1-5 0-0 3, Alexis Dietsche 0-3 0-0 0, Morgan Reinwand 2-10 3-5 7, Ryleigh Wilke 2-7 2-2 8, Hailey Rueth 1-8 8-10 10, Karsyn Rueth 5-14 0-0 11, Bailey Parker 2-2 0-0 4. FG: 20-59. FT: 13-17. 3-pointers: 7-16 (Schoonover 3-3, Wilke 2-3, K. Rueth 1-3, Pieper 1-4, H. Rueth 0-1, Dietsche 0-2). Record: 13-3, 11-0 Cloverbelt East.