Posted: Jan. 26, 2010

Oak Creek girls basketball

Oak Creek's Ashley Luke (21 points) and Cydney Wiesflog (15) combined to outscore Racine Park by themselves in a 61-27 home win Friday.

The Knights' defense did not allow a single point in the fourth quarter (18-0) as Oak Creek improved to 10-3 overall, 5-2 conference.

The Knights grabbed their biggest win of the season three days earlier by knocking off first-place Muskego, 47-43.

Luke (eight) and Angela Rodriguez (seven) dominated the final quarter, scoring 15 of the Knights' 21 points.

Weisflog hit two 3s to go with her 13 points.

Muskego's Katie Ellerson scored a game-high 17 points, but the loss snapped the Warriors' 25-game Southeast Conference winning streak that dated back to Jan. 8, 2008.

Franklin gymnastics

The Franklin co-op won three of five events and cracked 140 again, this time with a 140.45-136.90 win at Burlington on Jan. 21.

Erin Honerlaw was near-perfect on the beam with a winning score of 9.5. Jenna Renner won the vault with an 8.975 and Melanie Pearson took the bars in 8.575.

The co-op also tallied a 142.575 for a win at the five-team Watertown Invitational on Saturday.

Renner won the vault (9.0), Sammie Olson the bars (9.125) and Honerlaw the beam (9.175).

Franklin girls basketball

The Sabers' Nikki Dailey scored 18 of her game-high 22 points from behind the arc to help notch a 63-39 home conference win over Racine Horlick on Friday.

Four of Dailey's 3s came in the third quarter, when Franklin outscored its guests, 27-11.

The Sabers' Taylor Atkinson and Mariah Hill each chipped in 11 points.

Franklin's Hill scored a game-high 20 points in a free-throw-filled 48-41 win at Kenosha Bradford on Jan. 19.

The Sabers shot 17-for-31 from the line.

Greendale boys basketball

Greendale (5-10, 3-8) had nine players score, but needed a late defensive play to pull out a 51-49 win over visiting Greenfield on Friday.

The Panthers' Cordney Wren knocked away a 3-point attempt from Jason Mermolia with less than 5 seconds left and Assad Eyad's attempt at the buzzer was off the mark as Greendale (5-10, 3-8) snapped its six-game losing streak.

The Panthers held Alec Molter, won of the area's top scorers, scoreless in the first half. He finished with 10 points. Mermolia had a game-high 19.

Greendale's Jacob Merk hit three 3-pointers and led the Panthers with 12 points.

Greendale girls basketball

Greendale's Mary Merg (12), Brooke Robinette (11) and Kelsey Pohlmann (10) all scored in double digits as the Panthers won their fifth straight conference game, 49-23, at Greenfield on Friday.

The Panthers (9-4, 8-3) held the Hustlin' Hawks to only nine first-half points.

Franklin wrestling

Franklin's Sam Kortes (119 pounds) improved his record to 31-3 following a first-place finish at the Deforest Norskie Invite on Saturday.

Kortes ended his perfect day with a 8-4 win over Neenah's Alex Kueck in the title match.

The Sabers' David Cabral (130) also finished first; he beat Mukwonago's Joe Mattson, 9-2 in the finals.

Franklin, which finished third of 10 teams, also got wins from Sam Tyczkowski (112), Adam Stelloh (140) and Adam Langowski (171) in third-place matches.

The Sabers' Jason Attebury was fourth (103). Chris Clapper (135), Steve Anderson (152), JT Turnbough (189) and Brenden Butler (285) were fifth. Colin DeClark (125) and Lee Smith (145) were sixth.

Whitnall girls basketball

The Falcons snapped a four-game losing streak thanks in large part to Wauwatosa West's poor free-throw shooting.

Lisa Donaldson and Amy Ford scored nine points each to lead Whitnall to a 35-33 home win Jan. 21, the Falcons' first victory since Jan. 5.

Wauwatosa West made just 8-of-24 free-throw attempts compared to Whitnall's 5-of-10, including five of their last eight down the stretch.

Donaldson scored six of her points in a 16-point third quarter that helped Whitnall recover from a 15-12 halftime deficit.

Greenfield/Greendale swimming

The co-op won eight events but did not have the depth to match Racine Case at the Kenosha Bradford Invite on Saturday.

Case won only two events, but tallied 431 points. Greenfield/Greendale was second with 371 at the 10-team meet.

The PantherHawks won all three relays: Jack Lennertz, Craig Fleischhacher, Matt Jungers, Shawn Fleischhacher in the 200-yard medley (1 minute, 46.21 seconds); Marc Liederhach, Craig Fleischhacher, Jungers and Lucchessi in the 200 free (1:33.02) and Andrew Staszak, Lucchessi, Shawn Fleischhacher and Lennertz in the 400 free (3:26.38).

Lucchessi also claimed the 200 free (1:47.07) and 500 free (4:59.25), Lennertz won the 50 free (22.71) and 100 butterfly (51.94) and Jungers took the 200 individual medley (2:01.87).

The co-op also beat host Whitnall, 116-64, in a Woodland Conference dual on Jan. 21.

Oak Creek wrestling

The Knights needed a win in the final match to either tie or defeat Southeast Conference rival Muskego at home Jan. 28.

The Warriors' 189-pounder Jordan Gruettner made sure they didn't get it.

Gruettner pinned Kyle Wey in 1:17 to clinch a 40-31 victory for the Warriors.

Oak Creek rallied from a 15-0 deficit to take a 31-30 lead into the final two matches, but Roland Dunlap scored a major decision over Oak Creek's Mitch Dolan at 171 to set up Gruettner's victory.

The Knights' Ryan Clements (130 pound), Nick Nommensen (152) and Josh Regazzi (160) earned pins, Seth LaBodda (112) and Randy Maas (140) scored major decisions and Matt Blower (125) won by decision.

Franklin swimming

Josh Lefeber placed second in the 200 free and set a new school record in 1:49.81 at the Kenosha Bradford Invite on Saturday.

Lefeber also won the 100 breaststroke in 1:04.82 to help the Sabers take eighth of 10 teams.

The 200 free relay of James Konkel, John Jablonowski, Zach Thiemer and Lefeber was fifth in 1:38.01.

Lefeber's pair of victories highlighted the Sabers' 117-69 Southeast Conference loss at Kenosha Bradford on Jan. 19.

Lefeber won the 200 free in 1:56.80 and the 100 breast in 1:06.76.

Whitnall boys basketball

Host Wauwatosa West took over sole possession of second place in the Woodland Conference Black Division with a 64-55 win over Whitnall on Friday.

The Falcons' William Pelkofer scored a game-high 23 points, but no other Whitnall player scored more than Geoffrey Wisialowski's nine, all of which came on 3-pointers.

The Trojans were much more balanced as Ray Sterling led with 21 points, followed by Sam Krenzien's 18 and Anthony Carroll's 13.

The loss dropped Whitnall (8-4, 7-4) to third behind the Trojans and undefeated New Berlin Eisenhower.

Whitnall wrestling

Three Falcons went undefeated at their own Zelinski Memorial Duals on Saturday.

Demetrius Wall (112), Zach Noel (130) and Zach Menden (140) all went 5-0 as Whitnall went 4-1 to win its pool, which included Beaver Dam, Marquette and Waukesha South.

Oak Creek boys basketball

Despite Nick Stout's season-high 30 points, the Knights' losing streak reached 10 games with an 80-75 defeat at Racine Park on Friday.

Park outscored the Knights, 28-15, in the final quarter after trailing, 60-52.

It was the second time in three nights a fourth-quarter collapse was costly for Oak Creek. Visiting Muskego outscored its hosts, 20-11, in the fourth quarter to seal a 55-40 win Jan. 19.

The Knights were led by Stout's 12 and Danny Rajchel's 10 points.

Greendale/St. Thomas More wrestling

Greendale's Chandler Gayan (145 pounds) finished the day with a 3-2 record and took seventh at the Sheboygan North Raider Invitational on Saturday.

Following a first-round loss, Gayan won consecutive matches by pin before losing in the consolation semifinals. He won the seventh-place match with his third pin.

Greendale's AJ Sciano (215) and Forrest Bedard (285) were both 1-2 but did not place.

Greendale co-op hockey

The Ice Force continues to hover around .500 with another weekly split.

Greendale's Marques Surita scored three goals and had an assist in his team's 5-2 win over the winless Wauwatosa co-op at the Pettit Ice Center on Jan. 19.

The Ice Force dipped to 8-10 overall, however, with a 7-2 loss to Wausau East at Wilson Park three nights later.

 

- David Cotey and Dan Deutschendorf