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SPENCER – Loyal pulled away in the second half to earn a 57-49 victory over Spencer in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division boys basketball game Tuesday night at Spencer High School.
The Rockets led 26-25 at halftime, but couldn’t hold on and dropped their second-straight conference game.
Sam Bezlyk finished with a double-double, piling up 21 points and 17 rebounds for Spencer, which falls to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in the Cloverbelt East.
Cain Toufar had 18 points and Reed Stieglitz scored 16 for Loyal (1-4, 1-1 Cloverbelt East).
Spencer hosts Abbotsford for a nonconference game Thursday.
Greyhounds 57, Rockets 49
Loyal 25 32 – 57
Spencer 26 23 – 49
LOYAL (57): Reed Stieglitz 5-12 3-6 16, Parker Smith 1-5 0-1 2, Bryce Deegan 4-10 1-2 9, Hudson Hanson 0-1 0-0 0, Isaac Jacobi 1-4 0-2 2, Cain Toufar 8-15 2-3 18, Jacob Schill 3-9 1-2 10. FG: 22-56. FT: 7-16. 3-pointers: 6-16 (Stieglitz 3-6, Schill 3-7, Smith 0-1, Deegan 0-2, Jacobi 0-2). Rebounds: 42 (Smith 9, Toufar 9). Record: 1-4, 1-1 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.
SPENCER (49): Weston Nieman 1-4 0-0 3, Drake Johnson 2-4 0-0 5, Austin Lalicata 0-3 0-0 0, Madden Prybylski 4-7 2-3 10, Davide Chemello 2-8 0-1 4, Sam Bezlyk 8-12 2-2 21, Mathers McHone 0-2, Breckin Miller 2-7 2-3 6. FG: 19-47. FT: 6-8. 3-pointers: 5-21 (Bezlyk 3-5, Nieman 1-2, Johnson 1-3, Prybyski 0-1, McHone 0-1, Lalicata 0-3, Chemello 0-3, Miller 0-3). Rebounds: 24 (Bezlyk 17). Record: 1-4, 0-2 Cloverbelt Conference East Division.