The Spencer boys basketball team got 39 points from its senior backcourt duo of Austin Bacon and Brett Kasch and just enough from everyone else to hold off Greenwood for a 67-59 Eastern Cloverbelt Conference road win on Dec. 19. The win kept the Rockets unbeaten heading into the holiday break, and a half-game ahead of Neillsville for the top spot in the league standings. Kasch scored 20 points

Greenwood senior guard Treyton Thomas didn’t score often in the Indians’ 59-57 Eastern Cloverbelt Conference win at Loyal on Dec. 6, but when he did, it mattered. Thomas’ slashing layup against fullcourt pressure in the waning moments of the ECC opener for the two rivals was the game-winner, with the Greyhounds unable to get off a final shot for the possible tie or victory. Thomas scored

The Spencer-Columbus wrestling practice gym has gained some new wall decorations in the past few years, namely, the four WIAA Division 3 individual state champion weight bracket charts earned by 2-time titlists Hunter Luepke and Logan Zschernitz. While their legacies loom large in Rocket wrestling history, those two guys are gone now, and the team working under head coach Jake Zschernitz this season

Prior to Dec. 6, it had been a long time since a Spencer boys basketball team had been able to knock off rival Marshfield Columbus. Consider that one checked off the Rockets’ to-do list. With 26 points from senior guard Austin Bacon and 21 from his backcourt running mate Brett Kasch, Spencer upended the defending Eastern Cloverbelt Conference champs 75-74 to jump out to a 2-0 start on the 2019-20

When Loyal senior point guard Remi Geiger knocked down a 3-pointer with 3:38 to go in the first half of the Greyhounds’ Dec. 5 home game against Greenwood, Loyal fans were ready. Out came the “1,000” signs in droves in the stands as the crowd rose to its feet to applaud the latest member of the Loyal basketball 1,000 Point Club. A starter since the begininning of her freshman year, Geiger has

The Granton boys started out strong in their non-conference game against Independence at home on Dec. 5, keeping scoring low and close. That closeness ended about halfway through the first half of the game, when the Indees began to benefit from free-throw opportunities and mistakes on offense, taking a 92-52 win at the game’s end. Up until the 11:00 mark of the first half, the Bulldogs were