Posted: Sept. 15, 2009

One week after losing four key players to injuries in a win over New Berlin West, the Greendale football team (3-0, 2-0) got healthy in time to post a 31-0 win over the visiting St. Thomas More Cavaliers on Friday.

Running back Luke Drumel scored a pair of short touchdown runs and racked up 143 rushing yards on 17 carries for the Panthers. Quarterback Ernie Valente, who was knocked out of the game two weeks ago with a concussion, returned to rush for 110 yards and one touchdown and passed for 70 yards. Andrew Brees, another player injured against West, caught two passes for 48 yards and also kicked a 4o-yard field goal.

Lineman Jordan Campbell returned - he also left the West game with a concussion - for the Panthers, who play at New Berlin Eisenhower at 7 p.m. Friday. The Lions (2-1, 1-1), who suffered a 42-21 loss to Pewaukee on Friday, handed Greendale its only regular season loss last season, a 26-21 decision.

Franklin cross country

Tyler Jensen's best race of his life resulted in a 10th-place finish at the River Valley Blackhawk Invitational on Saturday.

Jensen ran a personal best by 12 seconds in 17 minutes, 18 seconds. Teammate Derek McElroy was close behind in 16th in 17:30 as the Sabers finished sixth of 17 teams.

Jensen and McElroy ran together for much of the race and were 35th and 38th after the first mile before turning it on.

Oak Creek girls volleyball

The Knights opened the Southeast Conference season with an emphatic win over the visiting Racine Case Eagles on Sept. 8.

Oak Creek posted a 25-17, 25-14, 25-10 victory to improve to 15-2 overall.

Six-foot middle hitter Alyssa Schneider led the defensive effort with five blocks, and Mariah Bukiewicz and Lyndsay Zabkowicz had six digs each. Veronica Chandre handed out 24 assists and Lauren Moshea drilled nine kills.

Whitnall swimming

The Falcons (2-0) won nine of 12 events to remain perfect in the Woodland Conference with a 96-80 win at league newcomer South Milwaukee on Sept. 9.

Kate Schubert posted a win in both the 100-yard butterfly in 1:01.81 and later in the 100 backstroke in 1:03.50. She also joined Sarah Arteaga, Samantha Wesel and Danika Johnson for a win in the 200 medley in 1:59.28.

Arteaga took first in the 200 individual medley (2:22.00) and the 100 breaststroke (1:13.62) and was on the winning 200 free relay along with Johnson, Laura Sullivan and Leah Jenk (1:54.80).

Other Whitnall winners were Johnson in the 50 free (28.12), Tess Dorlack in diving (137.05 points) and Wesel in the 500 free (5:41.02).

Oak Creek cross country

The Knights' boys finished in the top half of the 16-team South Milwaukee Invitational at Grant Park on Saturday thanks to Seth LaBodda's 19th-place run of 17:49.6.

Tony Rodriguez (18:09.6) and Ryan Clementz (18:10.2) finished back to back in 30th and 31st for the Knights, who took eighth with 222 points.

For the girls, who were 12th of 15 teams, Megan Gray almost cracked the top 20. She was 21st in 16:31.6, just behind South Milwaukee's Rachel Westover, who was 20th in 16:31.4

Whitnall tennis

The Falcons rebounded from a league-opening loss Sept. 3 with three consecutive Woodland Conference victories.

Whitnall beat host Greenfield, 6-1, on Sept. 8; visiting St. Thomas More, 7-0, Sept. 9; and visiting South Milwaukee, 6-1, Sept. 10.

The Falcons' first doubles team of Megan Hyland and Danielle Starke won all three of their matches and were among several multi-match Whitnall winners.

Whitnall soccer

Bryon Nagy's game-winner in the 74th minute gave Whitnall a 3-2 home win over New Berlin West on Sept. 9 and improved the Falcons to 3-0 in the Woodland Conference (4-5-2 overall).

Whitnall's Billy Cameron scored a pair of first-half goals to give the Falcons a 2-1 lead before a Whitnall own goal tied the score in the 34th minute. It remained 2-2 until Nagy's shot.

Franklin swimming

Behind the victorious diving trio of Jenna Renner, Cassidy Burger and Melanie Pearson, the Sabers placed second at the South Milwaukee Rocket Relays on Saturday.

The Franklin divers won with 128.1 points and posted the Sabers' only victory at the meet.

Franklin was second in four events: the 200-yard medley relay of Megan Newsom, Sarah Talbot, Emily Nienhaus and Jessica Zeman (2:07.95); the 300 freestyle team of Melanie Lepowski, Abbey Christopherson, Courtney Owen and Zeman (3:01.22); the 300 backstroke unit of Angie Herrick, Newsom, Owen and Nienhaus (2:28.89) and the 400 free relay of Samantha Schermeister, Owen, Lepowski and Nienhaus (4:10.9).

South Milwaukee won the meet with 254 points. Franklin was second with 240.

Franklin tennis

The Sabers improved to 3-1 in the Southeast Conference with a tough, 4-3 win against visiting Muskego on Sept. 10.

Muskego took the first three singles flights, but Franklin's Nicole Thompson picked up a win at fourth singles and the Sabers' doubles teams went 3-0 to preserve the win.

At the Martin Luther Quad on Saturday, the Sabers defeated the host school and Slinger by identical 4-3 scores after losing to Greendale, 5-2.

The third doubles team of Sanjana Segu and Shannon Murawski went 3-0 on the day to improve to 9-4 overall.

 

- David Cotey