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Sports Wrapups: Dec. 7

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Muskego girls basketball

The Warriors bounced back from a season-opening loss to Nicolet by thumping host Kettle Moraine, 50-36, Dec. 1.

Muskego's Katie Ellerson led all players with 26 points, including six 3-pointers, with 12 rebounds and six steals and teammate Rachel Neuberger had eight points and eight rebounds for the Warriors (1-1).

Samantha Pfeiffer led Kettle Moraine with 12 points.

Muskego will host Franklin (1-2) at 7 p.m. Friday.

New Berlin Eisenhower boys basketball

Mitch Sperka's early scoring exploits and a balanced attack led to consecutive victories for the Lions.

Sperka dropped a game-high 24 points and 14 different Lions scored in Eisenhower's 86-29 blowout victory over the visiting Cudahy Packers on Dec. 1.

The Lions led, 44-7, at halftime after holding the Packers to just one second-quarter point.

Sperka made four 2-pointers, four 3-pointers and four free-throws.

The senior followed that effort by leading all players with 18 points in Eisenhower's 63-42 road win over the Muskego Warriors on Friday.

This time, 10 Lions scored, including Zach Tranchita, who finished with 10.

New Berlin West boys basketball

The Vikings rebounded nicely from their season-opening overtime loss to Delavan-Darien with back-to-back dominating Woodland Conference efforts.

West held the host South Milwaukee Rockets to single digits in all four quarters and Chad Mathwig led all players with 17 points as the Vikings picked up a 45-28 victory Dec. 1.

The Vikings' Mark Kaczynski added 12 points and Jesse Riehle chipped in eight.

Three days later at home against the Greenfield Hustlin' Hawks, the Vikings got defensive again in a 65-32 victory.

Five Vikings scored seven points or more, including Mathwig and Dustin Elias, who scored 14 each.

New Berlin West girls basketball

The Vikings outscored the visiting South Milwaukee Rockets, 8-3, in overtime to pull out a 45-40 win in both teams' Woodland Conference opener Dec. 1.

West's Martha Radtke led all players with 12 points and Stephanie Turner chipped in eight for the Vikings, who made 19 of 26 free throws.

Victory came a bit easier when West visited Greenfield on Friday. The Vikings jumped out to a 19-7 first-quarter lead and coasted to a 63-25 win to improve to 2-1 overall as of Monday.

Turner had a game-high 15 points and West's Hailey Kunz added 12.

New Berlin Eisenhower girls basketball

Nicole Bauman and Anna Hahn combined for 69 points to lead the Lions to victories over Cudahy on Dec. 1 and Wisconsin Lutheran on Friday.

Bauman had 18, including four 3-pointers, and Hahn had 14 in the nonconference home win over Wisconsin Lutheran that bumped the Lions to 3-0, entering this week.

Amy Borkenhagen, Megan Tkachuk and Lauren Tranchita had eight points each to balance out the Lions' attack.

In the Woodland Conference opener three days earlier at Cudahy, four Lions scored nine points or more, led by Bauman's 20.

Hahn had 17, Borkenhagen 10 and Kali Shandley nine.

New Berlin wrestling

The New Berlin co-op finished second of six teams at the Wisconsin Lutheran Invitational on Saturday thanks to two individual champions.

Hlu Vang won the 103-pound title and Zach Brucker did the same at 140.

The host school edged New Berlin by one point for the title, 217-216.

New Berlin also won its Woodland Conference season opener, a 31-28 victory over visiting Greenfield.

New Berlin won eight matches including a pin by Vang at 103, technical fall by Ross Riopelle (119), major decisions by Adam Ruiz (140) and Carl Stanfield (189), decisions by Brucker (145), Nate Kirby (160), Heng Vang (112) and Nick Binder in overtime (171).

Muskego boys basketball

After falling at home to New Berlin Eisenhower, 63-42, despite 10 points each from Danny Frawley and Jake Pope on Friday, the Warriors dropped to 0-4 with a 58-32 loss to Homestead in the Terry Porter Classic at Milwaukee South on Saturday.

Frawley and Nick Hirsch scored six points each for Muskego.

- David Cotey and Mike Marit

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