Wisconsin High School Basketball News

One of the top football players in the City getting water and carrying towels? One of the state's top long and triple jumpers picking up warm-ups and handling all the unsung work that comes with being a team manager? And doing so where everyone could see him? You bet.

Honored: Gatorade announced its state soccer player of the year awards Tuesday, and the Wisconsin honor went to Cedarburg's Josee Stiever again.

Janesville Craig's Olivia Bolton chews gum and blows a giant bubble while watching her teammates take on and defeat the Janesville Parker Vikings, 11-1 in a regional semifinal softball game Tuesday.

The Bulldogs beat Luxemburg-Casco, 53-45, on Saturday to take home the school's first WIAA Division 2 girls championship title, after twice losing to the Spartans during the regular season.

Selected: Menomonee Falls volleyball standout Simone Lee was one of 27 players from around the country selected to participate in a second tryout for the U.S. girls national volleyball team, which features players born in 1996 or '97. The tryout is scheduled for June 13-16 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The Bulldogs beat Luxemburg-Casco, 53-45, on Saturday to take home the school's first WIAA Division 2 girls championship title, after twice losing to the Spartans during the regular season.

With her back feeling much better than it did in an injury-riddled last year, North Shore track fans saw the real ability of one-time Whitefish Bay distance running state champ Kenzie Vicker.

All-North Shore Conference guard Myles Henry took his considerable talents and a bunch of his friends with him when he graduated last spring after leading the Nicolet boys basketball team to a 17-8 record, which included a WIAA regional championship.

"This was the best I've seen the North Shore Conference in 14 years," Hepp said.

Not a lot of free throws went in and not a lot of baskets found the net either, but for the Homestead girls basketball team Jan.

Whitefish Bay boys basketball coach Kevin Lazovik was no doubt greatly disappointed that the Blue Dukes North Shore game with first-place Germantown slated for this past Tuesday was postponed until Tuesday by the blizzard.

You like girls basketball? Sometimes I enjoy watching it more than I do boys games.

So that's why Nicolet boys coach Paul Hepp will just breath a sigh of relief and happily walk away with a somewhat-less-than-perfect 53-47 WIAA Division 1 regional semifinal win over Pius XI Tuesday night.

When freshman Emily Cervantes joined the Catholic Memorial girls soccer team, senior Carina Krausert decided to take her under her wing.

His brother, Andy, is the former head coach at his alma mater Brookfield East and is now an assistant principal Falls, and Corey Golla, a former middle schoolteacher of his and athletic director at East, is now the principal at Falls.

The fifth-seeded Oak Creek girls basketball team defeated No. 1 Nicolet last night in a girls basketball Division 1 sectional semifinal at Whitefish Bay and we've just posted a photo gallery from the game.

The Bulldogs beat Luxemburg-Casco, 53-45, on Saturday to take home the school's first WIAA Division 2 girls championship title, after twice losing to the Spartans during the regular season.

St. Francis avoided turning its recent contest at Brown Deer into a track meet, but the Mariners could not avoid their sixth straight loss.

Howards Grove's new boys basketball coach will have some big shoes to fill next winter.

The Bulldogs beat Luxemburg-Casco, 53-45, on Saturday to take home the school's first WIAA Division 2 girls championship title, after twice losing to the Spartans during the regular season.