Posted: March 7, 2010 |(0) Comments

New Berlin Eisenhower girls basketball

A 14-1 second-quarter outburst paved the way to the Lions' 59-40 win at Wauwatosa West on March 3, the regular-season finale for both squads.

Anna Hahn had a game-high 16 points for Eisenhower, and she had plenty of offensive support. Amy Borkenhagen had 12, Nicole Bauman chipped in with 11 and Kali Shandley and Megan Tkachuk had eight each as the Lions closed the league season with their 16th win in 17 tries.

It is the fifth conference title for the Lions in coach Gary Schmidt's nine years at the helm. Eisenhower has won three of the last four crowns and two straight.

Eisenhower (20-2 overall) is the top seed in its seven-team regional and will host Milwaukee Marshall/Juneau or Milwaukee School of Languages at 7 p.m. Thursday in a WIAA Division 2 regional semifinal.

"It's the old cliché, you've got to be good, you've got to be lucky and you've got to be healthy," Schmidt said. "Right now, we're getting real healthy and we're playing pretty good and now we could use that luck variable to go our way. I do feel good about our chances. We're certainly not looking past our very first game. But we feel good about our season. Our confidence level is up and we have to get a little bit of luck along the way."

Muskego girls basketball

The Warriors clinched a share of the Southeast Conference title with a 64-32 victory at Racine Horlick on March 4.

The win pulled Muskego into a first-place tie with Racine Case, which had beaten Kenosha Bradford, 57-50, one day earlier. Muskego and Case both finished 12-2.

The Warriors won last year's title with an unbeaten league season.

A trio of seniors led the way in the title-clinching win. Rachel Neuberger scored a season-high 19, followed by Sarah Mlachnik's 14 and Katie Ellerson's 13 as the Warriors improved to 18-4 overall.

Three days earlier, the Warriors dropped nonconference foe Lake Geneva Badger, 64-34, at home behind Mlachnik's 20 points.

Muskego had a first-round bye in the WIAA Division 1 regional and will face eighth-seeded Brookfield East or ninth-seeded Horlick in a regional final at home at 1 p.m. Saturday.

New Berlin West girls basketball

Stephanie Turner and Hailey Kunz combined to outscore visiting St. Francis themselves in the Vikings' regular-season finale March 3.

Turner had 23 points and Kunz 17, including four 3-pointers, as West won, 62-35, to close out the regular season on a five-game league winning streak.

Rebecca Gasper chipped in 10 points in the blowout for the Vikings (15-7 overall), who finished 13-5 in the Woodland Conference Blue Division, four games behind champion Pewaukee.

Second-seeded West opened WIAA Division 2 postseason with a home quarterfinal game with St. Joan Antida on Tuesday, after deadline. The winner plays Thursday against Wisconsin Lutheran or Milwaukee Lutheran in a semifinal, time and location to be determined.

New Berlin West boys basketball

A disastrous second quarter gave the visiting New Berlin West Vikings no chance against the defending Division 2 champion Wisconsin Lutheran Vikings in a regional semifinal March 4.

Loyola University-Chicago recruit Flavien Davis was limited to 10 points, about half his season average, but Tim Rotruck had a game-high 16 and Terry Nash added 11 as Wisconsin Lutheran cruised to a 65-42 victory.

Wisconsin Lutheran (20-3) went on an 18-0 run from the end of the first quarter until late in the second to turn an 11-11 game into a 29-11 advantage. From there, the reigning champs never led by fewer than 14.

New Berlin West (17-7) struggled mightily in the second quarter. West missed its first five shots - four of which were 3-pointer attempts - and turned the ball over six times. They did not score in the period until Kyle Rampone made one of two free throws with 1 minute, 45 seconds remaining.

Some of those struggles were a result of Chad Mathwig's foul trouble. The junior post player picked up his second foul with 35 seconds left in the first quarter. He went to the bench and did not return until 6:11 remained in the second; during that stretch Wisconsin Lutheran went on a 7-0 run and West turned the ball over twice.

Mathwig finished with 14 points for West, which had its six-game winning streak snapped.

 

- David Cotey