NEILLSVILLE BOYS BASKETBALL BLOWS PAST INDEPENDENCE

Zaleski Sports

INDEPENDENCE – Andrew Brown scored 28 points to lead the Neillsville boys basketball team to a dominating 65-33 victory over Independence in a nonconference game Monday night at Independence High School.

The Warriors led by six at halftime before blowing the game open with a 44-18 second-half advantage.

Mason Roenz added 11 points and 14 rebounds for Neillsville, which improves to 9-2.

Neillsville will play a Cloverbelt Conference East Division game at Marshfield Columbus Catholic on Thursday at 7:15 p.m. Both teams are undefeated in the conference. The game will be live-streamed at zaleskisports.com.

Warriors 65, Indees 33

Neillsville 21 44 - 65

Independence 15 18 - 33

NEILLSVILLE (65): Kolin Schmitz 0-1 0-0 0, Braylon Boyer 3-7 0-0 8, Carter urban 0-2 0-0 0, Bryce Erickson 1-6 0-0 2, Andrew Brown 11-24 5-8 28, Taytor Lowry 3-11 0-0 8, Max Kreitlow 0-0 0-0 0, Alex Roman 0-16 0-0 0, Michael Byrne 4-9 0-0 8, Mason Roenz 5-10 1-3 11, Santana Subke 0-0 0-0 0. FG: 27-86. FT: 6-11. 3-pointers: 5-34 (Lowry 2-5, Boyer 2-6, Brown 1-7, Schmitz 0-1, Urban 0-2, Erickson 0-3, Roman 0-1). Rebounds: 55 (Roenz 14). Record: 9-2.

INDEPENDENCE (33): Tyler Kingsbury 11, Ben Pyka 13, Brandon Sylia 3, Angel Mendoza Reyes 2, Abelardo Lopez Cruz 2, Nathan Pyka 2. Record: 1-8.