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SPENCER – Greenwood stepped out to a seven-point lead by halftime and held off Spencer to win its first Cloverbelt Conference East Division game of the season, 43-40, in girls basketball action Friday night at Spencer High School.
Greenwood is now 2-6 overall and 1-4 in the Cloverbelt East, while Spencer drops to 2-4 and 2-2 in conference play.
Greenwood led 24-17 at halftime before the Rockets mounted a run that came up three points short.
Freshman Autumn Davis had four 3-pointers and a team-high 14 points for Spencer, which made just 12 of 65 shots from the field and 11 of 24 at the free throw line in the loss.
Avry Wuethrich had 13 points to lead Greenwood.
Spencer plays a nonconference game at Wausau Newman Catholic on Tuesday.
Indians 43, Rockets 40
Greenwood 24 19 – 43
Spencer 17 23 – 40
GREENWOOD (43): Avry Wuethrich 13, Bria Thomas 2, Addison Davidson 7, Tysen Lindner 9, Britney Walde 7, Tatym Travis 4, Sara Beth Reiff 1. Record: 2-6, 1-4 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.
SPENCER (40): Hallie Meyer 4, Claudia Krause 4, Hannah Schreiner 7, Sam Soback 6, Jaela Krause 3, Autumn Davis 14, Emma Nieman 2. Record: 2-4, 2-2 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.