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Softball, track and more … our Rockets are really taking off.

From the South Milwaukee School District …

SOFTBALL

The Rockets take on Oak Creek today at 4:30pm at Oak Creek East Middle School in the WIAA Regional Final. The Rockets advanced to the game by virtue of their 6-0 WIAA Regional Semifinal win on Wednesday v. Racine Park. A special note is included down below about Senior Abby Mahsem who was not only named the Journal Sentinel Softball Player of the Week, she was also selected as a Senior All-Star and will be playing in the Dells on June 16th in the Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association Senior All-Star Game! Congratulations Abby and GO ROCKETS!

http://www.wfsca.org/page/show/1198016-rosters 

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Abby Mahsem, South Milwaukee. The Rockets senior pitcher/shortstop played a large role in the team’s strong finish to the regular season.

She tossed a complete game with five strikeouts and scored two runs as South Milwaukee (15-7) beat Greenfield, 3-1, May 18 to hand the Hawks their first loss of the season. The next day she pitched two innings of relief and went 2 for 3 with three runs in an 8-6 victory over Cudahy. On Wednesday she struck out 10 in a 4-3 victory over Greendale.

Entering the Rockets’ game with Oak Creek on Friday, Mahsem led South Milwaukee with a .533 batting average and 34 RBI and shared the team lead with six home runs.

Here’s the link – http://www.jsonline.com/sports/preps/softrail26-b99506773z1-304958481.html 

BOYS’ & GIRLS’ TRACK

At Tuesday’s WIAA Regionals at Spaltholz Field, the Rockets qualified 15 girls and 19 boys for the WIAA Sectionals which are being held today. The top 3 placewinners in each event and the top 8 performances out of all 8 sectionals in the state will qualify for WIAA State next weekend. 

WIAA SECTIONALS

Wisconsin Lutheran HS

4:00pm – Field Events

4:45pm – Running Events

Admission – $5 adults & $3 for seniors and kids age 1-12 

GIRLS’ SECTIONAL QUALIFIERS

• Chenoa Stuhr (12) – (200m)
• Bristine Fowler (12) – (800m)
• Maddie Wood (10) – (3200m)
• Kelsey Tehan (9) – (300m hurdles)
• Chenoa Stuhr (12)/Chidimma Ozodi (12)/Natalie Swanson (12)/Maddie Kendall (10) – (4x100m)
• Clarice Michalski (10)/Maddie Kendall (10)/Haley Slusar (10)/Abby Kettinger (11) – (4x200m)
• Sam Meszaros (12)/Capri Fowler (12)/Becca Heller (11)/Clarice Michalski (10) – (4x400m)
• Sam Meszaros (12)/Becca Heller (11)/Maddie Wood (10)/Capri Fowler (12) – (4x800m)
• Marissa Stanley (12) – (Pole Vault)
• Natalie Swanson (12) – (Pole Vault)
• Clarice Michalski (10) – (Triple Jump)
• Olivia Osunkwo (11) – (Shot Put)
• Olivia Osunkwo (11) – (Discus) 

BOYS’ SECTIONAL QUALIFIERS

• Justin Weber (11) – (1600m)
• Jordan Janusiak (9) – (1600m)
• Josh Janusiak (12) – (3200m)
• Jacob Hochschild (10) – (300m Hurdles)
• Mua Vang (9)/Clayton Westrum (10)/Jalen Haack (12)/Evan Koronkowski (12) – (4x100m)
• Mua Vang (9)/Calvin Shilling (12)/McCoy Swanson (12)/Colin Wilson (12) – (4x200m)
• Colin Wilson (12)/Victor DeLao (10)/McCoy Swanson (12)/Calvin Shilling (12) – (4x400m)
• Damon Dettman (12)/Chris Sobczak (10)/Wyatt Schlager (9)/Andrew Wimmer (12) – (4x800m)
• Ian Pribyl (12) – (High Jump)
• Nick Honerlaw (10) – (Shot Put)
• Ian Pribyl (12) – (Shot Put)
• Joey Nelson (11) – (Discus) 

http://67.23.19.61/system/files/14232/original/REGIONAL.htm?1432689480

BOYS’ TENNIS

Joel Rodriguez (11) qualified for WIAA Sectional play this week and fell in straight sets to the #1 singles player from Marquette HS but finished with a solid season by getting to Sectionals.

GOLF

On Tuesday at WIAA Regionals at Oakwood, Matthew Boyle (11) & Ryan Graber (11) qualified for WIAA Sectional play next Tuesday at Ives Grove. Good luck gentlemen!

GIRLS SOCCER

The Rockets won last night 10-3 over Brown Deer as Megan Hilbelink (12) scored 4 goals, Hannah Fryer (12) scored 3 goals, Emily Grunert (10) scored 2 goals and Sofia Ladewig scored 1 goal. IN the tough Woodland Conference, the Rockets improved their conference record to 5-6. The JV plays today at 4:30pm at home against Franklin. Then the Rockets take on Oak Creek on Tuesday at Oak Creek High School (5:00pm JV & 7:00pm Varsity).

The Rockets earned the #6 seed in the WIAA Regionals that begin on Thursday, June 4th. They will travel to Greendale to take on the Panthers at 6:30pm on Thursday night.

BASEBALL

The Rockets won last night at Whitnall 4-0. Junior Matt McCarty led the way by pitching a complete game shutout and throwing 10 strikeouts. The Rockets host Whitnall tonight at 5:00pm and SWCHA tomorrow at 3:30pm (the freshman are at home at 9:30am and the JV play at home at 12:30pm as well).

 GOOD LUCK ROCKETS!

When you’re 5-0, people take notice.

Three South Milwaukee football seniors have been named semifinalists for three Wisconsin Sports Network awards. They are:

• Ian Pribyl: top running back
• Justin Oliden: top quarterback
• Mitchell Dess: top receiver
• Calvin Shilling: top defensive back

Check out the full list here. Finalists chosen after the Level 1 playoffs. Winners are announced the week of the state finals. A panel of WSN staff along with several veteran prep sports journalists throughout the state will review the finalists and select a winner for each award, with an announcement made the week of the state football finals.

South Milwaukee — now rated No. 4 in Division 2 — play at 7 p.m. at Shorewood/Messmer tonight. Then it’s Homecoming week!

Other sports updates from the school district … h/t Ante Udovicic.

ROCKET GIRLS TENNIS

The Rockets beat Racine Horlick 4-3 last Saturday in their only completed match of the Racine Case tournament. Yesterday, the Rockets lost to Pius 6-1 in the final Woodland Conference match of the regular season. Mackenzie Meyers (11) won a hard fought straight set victory for the lone Rocket win.

On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week the Rockets will take on the rest of the Woodland Conference in the conference tournament being held in the Greendale and Greenfield area. The JV Tennis team will compete in the Woodland JV Tournament on Saturday in Greendale and Greenfield…good luck!

ROCKET BOYS VOLLEYBALL

The boys defeated West Allis Central 25-23 & 25-19 in their first match of the varsity tournament hosted by Central last Saturday. The Rockets lost earlier this week to a very tough Greendale team. On Monday the boys travel to Kenosha Tremper for a triangular and on Wednesday they travel to Wauwatosa West HS for a Woodland match.

ROCKET GIRLS SWIM

Wednesday September 24^th, 2014 CONFERENCE RELAYS at Greenfield HS…

The team took 6^th out of 13 schools

• The 200yd Freestyle Relay team of Hernandez, M. Conner, K. Mildebrandt, N. Swanson took 5^th with a time of 2:00.02
• The 300yd Butterfly Relay team of Swanson, A. Holliday, E. Hernandez, E. Uehling took 5^th with a time of 3:38.44
• The 500yd Freestyle Relay team of Mildebrandt, T. Halama, N. Swanson, A. Holliday took 4^th with a time of 5:25.61
• The 400yd Freestyle Relay team of Halama, V. Hernandez, N. Swanson, A. Holliday took 6^th with a time of 4:23.84
• The 300yd Breaststroke Relay team of Hernandez, H. Bocek, M. Conner, Z. Bellis took 6^th with a time of 4:11.14
• The 100yd Freestyle Relay team of Mildebrandt, E. Hernandez, M. Zabler, T. Halama took 6^th with a time of 59.86

Good luck to the team tomorrow at Kenosha Bradford!

ROCKET CROSS COUNTRY

Josh Janusiak (12) continued his superb running with yet another victory at UW-Parkside Chris Sobczak (10) and Jordan Janusiak (9) took 6th & 7th place respectively and the boys overall took 2nd as a team!

On the girls side Maddie Wood (10) was solid once again and took 3rd place. The girls’ team took 8th out of 28 teams overall.

Good luck to all of the Rocket Harriers as they take on the Janesville CC Meet for the first time in decades. This is a huge meet with over 75 teams running.

 

From the school district …

VARSITY FOOTBALL

The Rockets improved to 4-0 on a rainy cold Friday night after a 13-6 win over Whitnall.

Justin Oliden (12) threw a 60-yd TD pass to Mitchell Dess (12) and Dess also picked off a Whitnall pass late in the game to help to seal the victory. This was a defensive battle and Coach Morse’s defense held the Falcons to 18 yards rushing. Joey Nelson (11) led the way on defense with 9 tackles and Mike Kowalski (11) had 2 sacks

The Rockets next game is this Friday at Spaltholz Field with kickoff at 7:00pm. The 4-0 Rockets will take on the 3-1 Greenfield Hawks in a key Woodland East showdown.

Friday forecast – High of 70 and sunny!

ROCKET GIRLS’ SWIM

The Rockets hosted their 8th annual Rocket Relays on Saturday and tied for 3rd place as a team! Great job by Coach Sarah Nowak and Coach Kasia Brzezicka and all of the Rocket swimmers & divers!

• New Berlin Eisenhower 324
• Franklin 254
•  South Milwaukee 242
•  Oak Creek 242
•  Wauwatosa West 226
•  Greenfield 202
•  Racine Park 164
•  Racine Horlick 158
•  Greendale 148
•  St. Thomas More/St. Francis 100
• Cudahy 98
•  Kenosha Bradford 62

1st Place in the 400 yd Individual Medley Relay (4:50.05)

• Holliday, Alexis 10
• Bocek, Haille 11
• Uehling, Eryka 10
• Bellis, Zoe 10

3rd Place in the 300 yd Backstroke Relay (3:36.46)

• Conner, Morgan 9
• Thayer, Mackenzie 9
• Reed, Christine 11
• Bocek, Haille 11

4th Place in the 850 yd Freestyle Crescendo Relay (9:28.54 26)

• Bellis, Zoe 10
• Uehling, Eryka 10
• Swanson, Natalie 12
• Holliday, Alexis 10

4h Place in the 400 yd Freestyle Relay (4:21.04)

• Thayer, Mackenzie 9
• Hernandez, Vanessa 9
• Halama, Taylor 12
• Uehling, Eryka 10

Results from 9/10/14 Dual Meet

South Milw Rockets defeated St. Thomas More/St. Francis on Wednesday!

Varsity Score was 39 STM/SF vs 134 SM.  The JV score was 29 STM/SF vs 103 SM.

200yd Medley relay

• Haille Bocek, Zoe Bellis, Emma Hernandez, Taylor Halama took 1st with a time of 2:15.29
• Mackenzie Thayer, Melanie Zabler, Kourtney Kaszuba, Morgan Conner took 2nd with a time of 2:27.69

200yd Freestylers: Alexis Holliday took 1st with a time of 2:10.87 and Natalie Swanson took 2nd with a time of 2:24.61.

200yd I.M.: Haille Bocek took first with a time of 2:41.59, Vanessa Hernandez took 2nd with a time of 3:01.53

50yd Freestylers: Zoe Bellis took 1st with a time of 27.20, Taylor Halama took 2nd with a time of 29.99

Diving: Allison Osell took 1st with a score of 184.60

100yd Fly: Emma Hernandez took 1st with a time of 1:30.92

100yd Freestyle: Natalie Swanson took 1st with a time of 1:04.77, Natalie Swanson took 2nd with a time of 1:05.99

500yd Freestyle: Alexis Holliday took 1st with a time of 5:38.07, Kelly Mildebrandt took 2nd with a time 6:34.28

200yd Freestyle Relays

• Taylor Halama, Natalie Swanson, Alexis Holliday, Zoe Bellis, took 1st with a time of 1:54.11
• Vanessa Hernandez, Kelly Mildebrandt, Grace Schneider, Emma Hernandez took 2nd with a time of 2:09.04

100yd Backstroke: Haille Bocek took 1st with a time of 1:12.75, Mackenzie Thayer took 2nd with a time of 1:15.36

100yd Breaststroke: Zoe Bellis took 1st with a time of 1:19.42, McKenzie Halwas (STM/SF) took 2nd with a time of 1:27.69

400yd Freestyle Relays

• Mackenzie Thayer, Haille Bocek, Natalie Swanson, Alexis Holliday took 1st with a time of 4:20.93
• Emma Hernandez, Vanessa Hernandez, Kelly Mildebrandt, Morgan Conner took 2nd with a time of 4:43.66

ROCKET CROSS COUNTRY

The 34th Annual Rocket Invite Cross Country was held at Grant Park last Saturday. As usual Coach Druckrey, Coach Watson, Coach Hiegel, Coach Oelschlager, and Coach Miller ran a fantastic meet! Great job by the Rockets!

The individual champion on the boys side was Josh Janusiak (12). Maddie Wood (10) took 2nd overall for the girls. Good luck on Saturday at the Racine St. Catherine’s Meet at UW-Parkside!

Boys Varsity (115 runners total)

1, Joshua Janusiak SR 16:03

13 Jordan Janusiak FR 16:49

14 Chris Sobczak SO 16:49

41 Justin Weber JR 17:43

75 Damon Dettmann SR 18:28

86 Wyatt Schlager FR 18:47

87 Sam Zakovich SR 18:48

Girls Varsity (95 runners total)

2 Maddie Wood SO 19:16

28 Rebecca Heller JR 21:13

45 Samantha Meszaros SR 22:01

53 Alex Krane FR 22:23

60 Madeline Smith SO 22:47

70 Rebecca Schoenike SR 23:26

Boys JV (257 runners total)

44 Andrew Gargulak JR 19:36

47 Andrew Wimmer SR 19:39

57 Nick Schultz SR 19:56

80 Aaron Sowinski SO 20:33

99 Ethan Lentz FR 21:17

108 Danny Rolefson SO 22:16

110 Max Moran FR 22:20

Girls JV (181 runners total)

117 Hannah Breher FR South Milwaukee 26:41.29

119 Melissa Merkel SO South Milwaukee 26:51.15

166 Alexis Evert FR South Milwaukee 30:53.23

168 Jordan Barnes JR South Milwaukee 31:03.15

ROCKET GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL

The Rockets took first place at the Riverside HS Varsity Invitational last night! In doing so they avenged a close loss to Brown Deer from last week by defeating Brown Deer not once but twice to win the tournament! Congratulations Rocket Girls’ Volleyball!!

Good luck today at Greenfield to the freshmen, JV & Varsity teams!

Update: Adds cheerleading even for Feb. 15.

From the South Milwaukee School District …

Friday, February 14

Rocket Girls’ Basketball at Cudahy (JV @ 5:45pm and Varsity @ 7:30pm). Huge game for the girls…good luck!

Rocket Boys’ Basketball hosts Cudahy (4:15pm Frosh, JV @ 5:45pm and Varsity @ 7:30pm). Huge game for the boys as well…good luck! This will be South Milwaukee Youth Boys’ Basketball Night as well!

Saturday, February 15

Rocket Wrestling travels to Bay View HS for a 9:45am start for WIAA Regionals. I will update you soon regarding Sectionals as well depending on how Regionals go.

Rocket Boys’ Swimming & Diving travel down to Carthage College for the WIAA Sectional Swim meet at 11:00am on Saturday. Good luck Rockets!

Rocket Cheerleading travels down to Wilmot HS Saturday morning to compete in the WACPC Cheer Regionals. They will be competing in the co-ed competition for the first time in school history and they should perform around 1:30pm. Best of luck Rockets in your quest for State!!!

Monday, February 17th

Rocket Boys’ Basketball travels to Oak Creek (4:00pm Frosh, JV @ 5:30pm and Varsity @ 7:15pm).

Tuesday, February 18

Rocket Girls’ Basketball hosts Shorewood and Oak Creek (frosh only) (4:15pm Frosh v. OC, JV @ 5:45pm and Varsity @ 7:30pm).

Rocket Boys’ Basketball at Shorewood (Frosh at 4:15pm JV @ 5:45pm and Varsity @ 7:30pm). 

Thursday, February 20 – Note the earlier times

Rocket Boys’ Basketball hosts Heritage Christian (JV @ 5:15pm and Varsity @ 7:00pm). 

Friday, February 21

Rocket Girls’ Basketball hosts Greendale (4:15pm Frosh, JV @ 5:45pm and Varsity @ 7:30pm). This will be South Milwaukee Youth Girls’ Basketball Night as well!

Some South Milwaukee sports news beyond the football field … thanks for the update from Ante Udovicic.

ROCKET MARCHING BAND

The Rocket Marching Band has had a successful competition season this Fall. Their season started with a 3rd place finish in AAA band competition at Waukesha South on September 28th. Back-to-back competitions were held October 5 at Greendale and October 6 at Wisconsin Lutheran High School, where the Rocket Marching Band earned their highest score in competition ever at Greendale, and finished in 2nd place at both competitions.  This year’s show, How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse, is a favorite among audiences.  Their full competition show will be performed at the last home football game for Homecoming on October 11th, followed by a final competitive performance at the WSMA State Marching Band competition at UW-Whitewater on Saturday, October 19th.  The performance time at Whitewater is 6:00pm.  Details on admission fees and band schedules are available at the WSMA website.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

The Rockets had their final home match of the season last week and it produced their most exciting win when they came back from a 2-1 deficit to win in 5 games! Great job Rockets. Good luck today in Pewaukee and on Saturday at the Brookfield East tournament!

GIRLS TENNIS

Congratulations to Ines Hoxha (12) & Kristen Bizub (12) on taking 3rd at #1 doubles in the Woodland Conference! Congratulations toAmber Bizub (11) & Chidimma Ozodi (11) as well for taking 3rd at #3 doubles! Great job girls, and great job by the team finishing in 7th place in the Woodland just 4 points out of 4th place!

CROSS COUNTRY

Here are the runners who broke 17 minutes for the girls this past Saturday at the Purgold Invitational (Sheridan Park). The 2 times are their overall time and then their pace per mile. The Girls took 3rd overall!

• 12 12 Rebecca Heller SO South Milwaukee 15:53.17   6:24 
• 16 16 Maddie Wood FR South Milwaukee    16:13.60   6:32 
• 17 17 Capri Fowler JR South Milwaukee       16:31.52   6:39 
• 25 24 Bristine Fowler JR South Milwaukee    16:46.17   6:45 
• 30 28 Samantha Meszaros JR South Milw.    16:51.16   6:47

Here are the runners for the boys who broke 19 minutes. The boys took 8th overall. Josh Janusiak (11) took 2nd place!

• 2 2 Joshua Janusiak JR South Milwaukee 16:24.30    5:17 
• 50 48 Chris Sobczak FR South Milwaukee 18:06.85    5:50 
• 57 55 Damon Dettmann JR South Milw.    18:34.25    5:59 
• 58 56 Steve Merkel SR South Milwaukee 18:35.86     6:00 
• 63 61 Justin Weber SO South Milwaukee 18:53.94     6:05 

And here is an alumni update …

TAYLOR ZAESKE (2013)

See below for a cool update about 2013 SM Alum Taylor Zaeske and former GVB standout and who is the ECAC Girls’ Volleyball Player-of-the-Week for the 2nd week in-a-row! Pretty great start to her college volleyball career I would say. Way to go Taylor!

ALY PINKOS (2010)

Aly was named to the Midwest Women’s LaCrosse Conference All-Academic Team in July, 2013. While we don’t have LaCrosse here, Aly was a great athlete at SM as a #1 tennis player, basketball player and starting pitcher in softball. Nice job Aly!

http://www.cuwfalcons.com/sports/wlax/2012-13/releases/20130711268xgy

TREY McKINNEY-JONES (2008)

Trey took part in the Milwaukee Bucks Fan Fest last Saturday and played in the 24 minute scrimmage. Trey was 0-2 from the field, but pulled down 5 rebounds and had an assist and showed that he can certainly play in the league. Anyone want to guess who the last player (long after any other player was out there) was out on the court after the scrimmage ended signing autographs? Yep, that would be Trey. A Bucks person had to walk up to get him to stop signing and head back to the locker room, otherwise Trey might have been there for 20 more minutes.