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Kristin Hesselbach New Berlin Eisenhower Senior Jenna Brzeski New Berlin West Senior Alex Heyer Wauwatosa West Senior Sunni Kessenich Shorewood Senior Defenders Jordan Blaser Pewaukee Senior Kelsey Thompson New Berlin Eisenhower Junior Maggie Fuhrman Wauwatosa West Senior Emma Saskowski Pius Soph. Laura Gould Shorewood Senior Goalkeeper Adriana Bratel Greendale Soph. SECOND TEAM Forwards Name Team Year Andrea Zubke New Berlin Eisenhower Junior Alyssa Heyer Wauwatosa West Senior Dana Schwab Greenfield Junior Ashley Baalke Pewaukee Soph. Mallory Shimek Greendale Soph. Midfielders Lindsay Wisniewski Pewaukee Junior Marlee Lane Shorewood Soph. Tina Bedwell New Berlin West Senior Mary Gaggioli Whitnall Senior Lexi Klotz Pewaukee Junior Defenders Jenna Kaczmarski Pewaukee Junior Katie Schauer Whitnall Senior Morgan Henrichs New Berlin West Fresh. Zoe DePrez Shorewood Senior Caroline Toberna Greendale Soph. Goalkeeper Anna Benvenuto Pius Senior Waukesha County Honorable Mention: Forwards – Alyssa Pastrich, New Berlin West, sophomore; Emma Grellinger, New Berlin Eisenhower, freshman; Midfielders – Cayley Farrell, New Berlin Eisenhower, senior; Stef Panzenhagen, New Berlin Eisenhower, senior; Morgan Knuese, New Berlin West, senior; Defenders – Christina Copoulos, New Berlin Eisenhower, senior; Kat Daigle, New Berlin West, senior; Claire Popp, New Berlin Eisenhower, freshman; Lau- ren Odegard, New Berlin West, junior;Abby Wannow, Pewaukee, sophomore; Goalkeeper – Tay- lor Rickard, New Berlin Eisenhower, senior; AC Christopherson, Pewaukee, sophomore Pewaukee's Toureene Player of the Year for Woodland soccer PEWAUKEE — Pewaukee High School senior soccer player Abbey Toureene was voted the Woodland Confer- ence Player of the Year after leading the Pirates to an unbeaten league record (11-0) this season. Toureene, a forward, was joined on the first team by teammates MacKenzie Schill, a freshman forward, Han- nah Michaelson, a sophomore midfielder, and Jordan Blaser, a senior defender. Other first-team picks included New Berlin West senior forward Lexi Porter, West senior midfielder Jenna Brzeski, New Berlin Eisenhower senior midfield- er Kristin Hesselbach and Eisenhower junior defender Kelsey Thompson – Freeman Staff CLASSIC 8 CONFERENCE 2014 All-Conference Boys Lacrosse Team PLAYER OF THE YEAR Name Team Year Jake Miller Arrowhead Senior FIRST TEAM Attack Name Team Year Benjamin Frost Arrowhead Junior Adam Walker Marquette Senior Joey Kesseler Marquette Senior Midfield Quinten Ziegler Lakeshore Senior A.J. Bolles Marquette Senior Thomas MacCudden Waukesha Senior Defense Joel Vitrano Franklin Senior Keegan Jacobus Lakeshore Senior Will Gagliano Marquette Senior Nolan Diffley Marquette Senior Long Stick Riley Liegel Lakeshore Senior Goalkeeper J.J. Murnane Brookfield Senior Drew Moesel Marquette Junior SECOND TEAM Attack Name Team Year Justin Morrison Catholic Memorial Soph. Adam Tovar Kettle Moraine Junior Jacob Kupsky Waukesha Senior Midfield Tyler McGill Arrowhead Senior Dominic Haight Catholic Memorial Soph. Jared Karow Franklin Senior Defense Matthew Daury Arrowhead Senior Alex Jamieson Arrowhead Junior Long Stick Adam Grgic Marquette Senior Honorable Mention:Attack – Austin Seckinger,Arrowhead, senior; Carson Houk, Catholic Memorial, senior; Connor Fernandes, Franklin, sophomore; Michael Cuske, Franklin, senior; Nolan Waniorek, Kettle Moraine, junior; Bryce Kerwin, Kettle Moraine, junior; Michael Gough, Lakeshore, junior; Charlie Bolles, Marquette, sophomore; Logan Godfrey,Waukesha, senior; Mid- field – Will Kirkpatrick, Arrowhead, sophomore; Kory Mueller, Catholic Memorial, senior; Alec Jakubowski, Franklin, senior; Cole Philhower, Kettle Moraine, senior; Riley Sellinger, Lakeshore, junior; Joey Dorff, Marquette, senior; Patrick Reiman, Marquette, senior; Gordon Borck, Wauke- sha, senior;Will Davis,Waukesha, senior; Defense – Ethan Arnett, Arrowhead, sophomore; Luke Theisen, Brookfield, senior; Sam Ruetz, Franklin, sophomore; Dakotah Snyder, Kettle Moraine, senior; Mark Ninomiya, Marquette, senior; Kyle Leitinger,Waukesha, senior; Jack Engdahl,Wauke- sha, freshman; Long Stick – Matt Schutte, Franklin, junior; Goal – Nick Pucek, Arrowhead, senior; Noah Bachofen, Franklin, junior; Nick Stenz, Kettle Moraine, senior; Patrick Tucker, Lakeshore, senior Arrowhead's Miller gets league lacrosse honor TOWN OF MERTON — Arrowhead High School senior Jake Miller was voted the boys lacrosse Player of the Year for the Classic 8 Conference Red. Miller was joined on the first team by Arrowhead junior attacker Benjamin Frost, Waukesha senior mid- fielder Thomas MacCudden and Brookfield senior goal- keeper J.J. Murnane. Marquette had five players selected first-team all-con- ference. – Freeman Staff By Pat Neumuth Freeman Staff WAUKESHA — Next year the Big Ten Conference will have 14 teams and the Big 12 will continue to have 10 teams. A name is just a name. The only change to the Classic 8 Conference next year is it will have just six baseball teams. After Catholic Memorial and Arrowhead high schools decided to leave the conference to compete in spring baseball, the remain- ing six schools decided to simply roll with the change. "Each school has to look at it as what's the best for their program," Classic 8 Conference Commissioner Dave Sternig said. "You go back to the time (for mer WIAA executive director) Doug Chickering time said when we'd get under 64 schools, we are not going to have summer baseball. That came and went. "The WIAA didn't want to eliminate it, but it wasn't profitable. So they moved it over to Concordia Universi- ty, and that tournament is making money. How low do you go before you can't have a state tour nament? You just react to the environ- ment does around you." Sternig hasn't talked with other conferences or schools about joining the Classic 8 for summer base- ball to make it an eight- team league. Sternig said if he was approached by another conference or schools to join the confer- ence, he'd talk with them. Next summer's schedule is already set, and it comes with one slight change. This year, each team plays each conference opponent three times for a 21-game confer- ence season. Next year, each team will play four confer- ence games for a 20-game conference season. The games will be set up in two- game blocks. Teams will play back-to-back games against the same team, each playing home and away. This will be done twice through the season. "It's tough to answer with- out knowing what it's like with just six teams in the conference, but I'm happy we didn't join (another con- ference)," Waukesha South coach Marc Montez said about the switch. "I'm curi- ous to how it will all play out just like you guys are. "Next year is going to be a lot tougher pitching-wise. Right now we are only play- ing three conference games a week. You will need a lot more depth." Added Kettle Moraine coach Brian Adamczyk, "You get the opportunity to see everyone's pitching staff. Right now in the three-game schedule, you can see the same pitcher two or three times, and this is going to change how coaches manage the game. And I think it's for the bet- ter." Sternig said there may be a lot of doubleheaders for the conference season if there are a lot of rainouts. Each team should be play- ing four conference games in a week. The one draw- back of this schedule for Adamczyk is the familiarity the teams will get with each other. "I always think it's nice to be in a bigger conference," he said. "When it comes down to it, if there's teams that wants to join I think we'd probably take them. That's my personal opinion, but we've got a good sched- ule now that works for everybody." Individual schools make up their own nonconference schedule, so the remaining six schools in the confer- ence still may play Memori- al or Arrowhead in early- summer nonconference matchups. Adamczyk said he'd continue to play CMH and Arrowhead, but there isn't much of a window for a summer team playing a spring team. Marc Montez said the con- ference will still be competi- tive despite the loss. "Do I hold any grudges? No. Never," Marc Montez said about CMH and Arrow- head leaving. "Both (Arrow- head coach) Vince (Mancu- so) and (CMH coach) Tim (Gotzler) have great base- ball programs, so you just wish them the best. Whatev- er happens with the Classic 8 and summer baseball, I'm sure we will meet up with them again." It keeps trending toward spring baseball, but that's not all true. Chilton moved from spring to summer baseball as it rejoins the Eastern Wisconsin Confer- ence. Waukesha West coach Chad Montez — who is the only summer baseball coach to be part of the Wis- consin Baseball Coaches Association and WIAA coaches advisory committee — talked with several spring coaches at the WBCA All-Star Classic last week- end. He said they reported spring isn't perfect. He thinks talks about combin- ing spring and summer to what has been called "sprummer" will resurface again. "Everyone in Iowa plays summer," said Chad Mon- tez, who is getting promoted from vice president to presi- dent of the WBCA in Febru- ary. "I think they've got it right and I think Wisconsin plays spring because most of the country does." If the rest of the Classic 8 had its way, it would keep its baseball in the summer. The three Waukesha public high school athletic direc- tors and baseball coaches talked recently and came to the concensus to stick with summer. "Another thing that no one talks about is practice time," Chad Montez said. "If you go to spring, you'll be inside for two or three weeks. Gym time is a reason why we chose to stay sum- mer as a district. You've got boys and girls track, girls soccer, boys golf, rugby, boys and girls lacrosse and girls fastpitch. And now you are going to throw in another sport to it? Where are you going to practice?" Email: pneumuth@conleynet.com League moves on without CMH, Arrowhead in summer By Mark Hutchinson Freeman Staff MILWAUKEE — A fog began to thicken. The plot did, too, during the latter stages of the sec- ond WIAA Division 1 state girls soccer semifinal last month at Uihlein Soccer Park. And then that plot took a dramatic twist. D.C. Everest scored two goals within the last 7 min- utes, 43 seconds to overtake Kettle Moraine 2-1, to improve its record to 25-3 and claim a spot in today's 5 p.m. championship match. Both the Evergreens and Lasers were making their state tournament debuts, and for the majority of the match, Kettle Moraine held the upper hand. Then, sud- denly, the Lasers' season was over. They finished 14-7-1. "This game doesn't define this team, this group of girls," KM coach Will Loepfe said. "They've had a great season. This was a huge accomplishment getting here. "We battled. There are some girls, obviously, on this team who will be coming back next year, so this was a quality experience for them. I couldn't be prouder of them. I couldn't be prouder of our seniors. We gave it our all." If the Lasers were nervous about playing in their first state tournament match, they didn't show it. They bat- tled the Evergreens from the get-go and shut out the Wis- consin Valley Conference champions in the first half. Everest entered the state tourney having scored 81 goals. "We started out strong and we all played really hard for all 80 minutes," KM senior defender Lauren Hotchkiss said. "Both teams played really hard." Robert F. Borkowski/Special to The Freeman Kettle Moraine's Julia Zach collides with D.C. Everest's Gabi Kitchell during a WIAA Division 1 state semifinal. Arrowhead, KM soccer players honored by Classic 8 TOWN OF MERTON — The Arrowhead and Kettle Moraine high school girls soccer teams each had two players selected first-team All-Classic 8 Conference. KM junior midfielders Chase Rehm and Julia Zach were selected to the first team along with Arrowhead senior midfielder McKenna Vento and senior defender Jacki Quast. — Freeman Staff

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