Posted: Jan. 12, 2010

Oak Creek swimming

One of the longest losing streaks in the Southeast Conference is over.

The Knights posted a 107-79 win over visiting Racine Horlick on Jan. 5, snapping a string of 37 straight dual-meet losses that dated back to Dec. 8, 2005.

Three Knights earned multiple victories. Evan Koch won the 200- (2 minutes, 4.11 seconds) and 500-yard (5.46.54) freestyles and was on the winning 400 free relay (3:45.44). Sam Vissers took first in both the 200 individual medley (2:21.77) and 100 butterfly (1:05.04) and Jake Wergin won the 50 free (25.57).

Both Wergin and Vissers joined Koch and Zack Kaestner on the winning 400 free relay.

Oak Creek also placed fourth at the 11-team South Milwaukee Rocket Invite on Saturday.

The Knights were third three times: Wergin in the 50 free (24.17), Vissers in the 100 free (54.16) and the 400 free relay (3:45.66).

Greendale girls basketball

Lauren Piotrowski and Brooke Robinette's aim from the 3-point arc sparked the Panthers to a pair of Woodland Conference victories.

Those two combined to hit six 3s and score 23 points in Greendale's 43-38 home win over New Berlin West on Friday. Kelsey Pohlmann chipped in nine for the victors, who also got two 3s and seven points from Mary Merg.

Merg led the way with 13 points three nights earlier in Greendale's 48-34 win over host Brown Deer. Piotrowski knocked down two 3s en route to 12 points and Robinette had 10 points, including one 3-pointer.

Greendale entered this week on a three-game winning streak with a 6-4 overall mark, 5-3 conference.

Franklin girls basketball

Taylor Atkinson's 19 points and Mariah Hill's 17 sparked Franklin to a 57-52 overtime victory at rival Oak Creek on Jan. 5.

The Sabers battled back from a 24-13 halftime deficit, finally erasing it with a 19-8 run in the fourth quarter.

Hill made five of the Sabers' eight 3-pointers.

Franklin, however, could not maintain its momentum at Kenosha Tremper three days later in a 38-34 loss that dropped the Sabers to 5-6 overall, 1-3 in the Southeast Conference, entering this week.

Atkinson had a team-high 11 points.

Oak Creek girls basketball

Ashley Luke and Cydney Weisflog provided the Knights with just enough offense in a 44-34 defensive struggle at Racine Horlick on Friday, a win that evened the Knights' SEC mark at 2-2.

Luke tallied 13 points and Weisflog 11 with three 3-pointers in the 10-point win.

The win came on the heels of the Knights' 57-52 overtime loss to visiting Franklin three days earlier.

Angela Rodriguez and Weisflog had 12 points each and Luke added 10 for the Knights (7-2).

Franklin boys basketball

One of the Sabers most balanced scoring efforts went for naught in a 69-66 loss to visiting Kenosha Tremper on Friday, Franklin's first league loss of the season.

Nick Romanowski led Franklin (5-4, 3-1) with 19 points, Josh Marino had a season-high 19 and Macon Plewa (11) and Matt Krueger (nine) combined to chip in for 20, but it was not enough for the Sabers, who slipped to 5-4 overall.

Tremper's Sam Savaglio led all players with 24 points.

Whitnall wrestling

The Falcons (3-3) could not hand the New Berlin co-op (4-0) its first loss of the season and dipped to .500 themselves with a 36-24 home loss Jan. 6.

Matt Price's 5-4 win over Adam Ruiz at 140 and Stefan Glidry's 10-4 victory over Nels Rieth gave Whitnall a 6-3 lead, but New Berlin won the next six and never looked back.

At 103 pounds, Whitnall's Kameron Borgeois pulled out a narrow, 2-1 win over Hlu Vang and Demetrious Wall followed with a 1-minute pin of Heng Vang at 112. Later, Whitnall's Evan Olson beat Nick Devroy, 3-0, at 125.

Greenfield/Greendale swimming

The PantherHawks measured up nicely with the state's best once again, this time posting four top-three swims en route to ninth place at the 19-team Marquette Invitational at Waukesha South on Saturday.

Jack Lennertz picked up the team's lone win, a victory in the 100 butterfly in 51.47 seconds. He was also third in the 50 free in 22.14.

Matt Jungers swam second in the 200 individual medley (1:58.27) and Mike Lucchesi was third in the 200 free (1:46.22).

Whitnall girls basketball

The Falcons handed St. Francis its second loss of the season Jan. 5, but were unable to do the same three nights later against Woodland Blue-leading Pewaukee.

Amy Ford had 12 points and Kalina Al-Mohareb 11 as Whitnall (4-6, 4-4) outscored host St. Francis, 20-10, in the fourth quarter to pull out a 48-43 road win.

All of Ford's points came on 3-pointers. As a team, the Falcons hit seven shots from beyond the arc.

The second half was not as kind to the Falcons in a 51-38 loss at Pewaukee on Friday. Whitnall trailed, 21-19, at halftime before the Pirates pulled away.

Ford finished with a team-high 10 points. Three Pewaukee players had 10 or more, led by Emily Wirth's 13, as the Pirates improved to 9-1.

Playing without Rachel Serio, who suffered two broken ribs the night before, the Falcons could not get any consistency going and lost, 58-40, to visiting Lomira on Saturday despite Donaldson's 15 points and Alyssa Moffatt's 11.

Whitnall swimming

Nate Ratkowski placed fourth in the 100 freestyle in 53.78 and Curtis Wigington sixth in the 100 breast in 1:10.84 to highlight the Falcons' seventh-place effort at the 11-team South Milwaukee Rocket Invitational on Saturday.

Greendale/St. Thomas More wrestling

Chandler Gayan went 4-1 with four pins at 152 pounds at the 51st annual Travis Wichlacz Invitational in West Bend on Saturday.

Gayan was the only member of the co-op to win four matches. A.J. Sciano went 3-2 at 215 with two pins and a forfeit.

Gayan's pin in 3:28 of Ryan Harrington was the co-op's only victory in a 70-6 loss at Pewaukee on Jan. 6.

Franklin swimming

A second-place swim by Josh Lefeber highlighted the Sabers' fifth-place effort at the South Milwaukee Rocket Invite on Saturday.

Lefeber was the runner-up in the 200 freestyle in 1:50.68. He also swam fourth in the 500 free (5:04.41) and was on the third-place 200 free relay along with James Konkel, Zach Thiemer and John Jablonowski (1:38.56).

Greendale boys basketball

A season-low in points allowed the Panthers' losing streak to reach four games as of Monday.

New Berlin West held Greendale to 20 percent shooting (nine of 44) en route to a 48-23 victory at West on Friday.

The Panthers made just one of 13 3-pointers and did not have a player score more than six points.

Greendale's offense was better three nights earlier, but not good enough to avoid a 63-48 loss to visiting Brown Deer.

David Jordan had a season-high 11 points for the Panthers. Jacob Merk added 10.

Oak Creek boys basketball

The Knights allowed 82 points for the second straight game and remained winless in the SEC following an 82-61 loss to visiting Racine Case on Friday.

The Knights, who also allowed 82 points in a road loss to Franklin three days earlier, got 17 points from Danny Rajchel and 12 from Nick Stout. Horlick countered with 21 from Davontae Mullen and 20 from Ryan Niesen.

 

- David Cotey