Brookfield/Elm Grove Monthly

DECEMBER 2013 Page 4B/Freeman Brookfield & Elm Grove STATE GIRLS SWIM MEET PREP GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: Brookfield Central 3, Brookfield East 1 East's Powell has strong showing Lancers finally top Spartans Central wins falls in sectional regional match CentralBy Christine Hibbs over East Freeman Correspondent By Tony Mooren Freeman Correspondent Mary Langenfeld/Special to The Freeman Brookfield East's Lindsay Powell swims the backstroke leg of the 200-yard individual medley at the WIAA Division 1 state swim meet in Madison. Senior 17th in two races, 23rd in another MADISON – Senior Lindsay Powell had a nice state meet for the Brookfield East High School girls swimming and diving team. Powell finished 17th in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:13.55, was 23rd in the 100 backstroke in a time of 1:00.62, led off a 17th-place 200 medley relay team (1:53.02) that also included freshman Elaine Klatt, senior Maggie Lingle and junior Jessica Westcott and was a member of a 19thplace 400 freestyle relay team (3:43.87) that also included sophomore Meredith Gustafson, Lin- gle and Westcott. Lingle finished 21st (2:15.29) in the individual medley and Gustafson was 22nd in the 100 butterfly (1:00.31). Brookfield Central's medley relay team of sophomore Rachel Illgen senior Leah Lee, junior Nicolet Wahlgren and sophomore Erin Locante finished 21st in 1:54.42. Wahlgren was 24th (1:02.01) in the butterfly. Waukesha South/Mukwonago won the meet by four points over runner-up Arrowhead. Neither Brookfield school scored a point. – Freeman Staff BROOKFIELD – The fifth time's a charm? The popular thinking is that the third time's the charm, but that certainly wasn't the case in a WIAA regional championship match last month. Brookfield Central, a fourtime loser to Brookfield East this season, stunned the Spartans 22-25, 25-19, 2519, 25-15. Senior Nicole Hinz and sophomore Aileen Herman provided an effective 1-2 punch that was augmented nicely by sophomore Shannon Kebisek. Hinz, who led the team with 20 kills, punctuated the victory by scoring five of the last six points for the Lancers. "She's been our workhorse: a senior captain, a four-year starter who just wasn't going to end her career against Brookfield East," Central coach Scott Spiess said. "She often leads us in kills and digs." She settled for leading in kills – but Herman nearly had match-high honors with 19 kills to go along with 12 digs. "She had the match of her life," Spiess said of Herman. "She's very smart, understands what the defense is giving her and didn't make her power a priority. She was going for angles and open areas instead." Herman said she tried to hit to spots on the court "where they're not supposed to be. It was successful and it felt great tonight. We hate losing to East and we knew this was our last shot. Our mindset was: Now or never and I felt more confident this time. In our previous matches, the momentum had always gone East's way, but we kept our energy up the entire time." BROOKFIELD – After notching a big victory the week before over their crosstown rival to extend its season, the Lancers came up short. Unable to pull off an upset against the No. 1 seed, the fifth-seeded Brookfield Central High School girls volleyball team suffered a season-ending 25-22, 25-10, 25-17 loss to the Divine Savior Holy Angels in Division 1 sectional semifinal play at Central. The Lancers started strong in Game 1, taking a 19-14 lead with sophomore Aileen Herman pounding a kill on the serve from senior teammate Laura Hauser. But the Lancers' lead soon evaporated as Divine Savior went on a 10-0 scoring binge with sophomore Sarah Klug serving. "We had a pretty big lead, and we really lost our defense at one point and couldn't get that first side out that we needed," Brookfield Central senior Nicole Hinz said. "They had all of the hitters there and had multiple opportunities and were able to kill it. We kind of broke down a little bit. "We lost that game, and that was our opportunity to win and it didn't work out. In the next two games, the nerves set in and the realization that this could be the last game of our season. We were nervous and it showed. We kind of played hesitant, and serve receive started to break down toward the end of the second game. It was kind of hard to bring ourselves back up." Brookfield Central stopped Divine Savior at 24-20 and got within two points with sophomore Shannon Kebisek serving. But Divine Savior penetrated, with Brookfield Central's block unsuccessful. "Serve receive was something that was a little bit of a battle for us all season. When we played well, we could play with anybody; when we broke down, we could lose to anybody It was that type of thing," Brookfield Cen. tral coach Scott Spiess said. "The rotation that we got stuck in wasn't one that we generally got stuck in. Every team has its bad rotation. That was not our worst rotation, but they just pressured us with the serve and got us on our heels a little bit. Once they strung those first couple points together, our passers lost a little bit of confidence. Before you knew it, it was a 10-0 run – huge, obviously, for the momentum and the match." A 12-0 run led to DSHA's victory in the second game. Central stayed close in the third game until DSHA's Katie Machi stepped into the service position. After Machi and teammmates rattled off seven unanswered points for an 18-6 lead, Brookfield Central answered with Kebisek serving five straight. Brookfield Central got within five points, 22-17, but was stopped short. Kebisek had three ace serves and six set assists. Hinz led Brookfield Central with eight kills and eight digs, while Herman added five kills and 11 digs. Spiess, who said middle blockers Molly Schindler, a senior, and Ellery Nordling, a freshman, played well, didn't talk to the team about the four times the Lancers lost to East, "just about moving forward. This was just another opportunity to extend our season and end theirs." East had been 10-0 in games against Central this fall and East coach Chris Polowy said, "Our girls were on tilt the whole time. When you beat a team four times, you come in looking ahead a little bit and (the Lancers) played an unbelievable game." Juniors Taylor Wilkerson, Petra Bryda and Haley Massa provided superb balance with the trio scoring between four and five points apiece for East in the first game, but that balance deserted the team thereafter. Kebisek led Central in the second game that featured 29 changes of serve and a long service run of only two points. Central slowly built a lead after a 4-4 tie and with no service run, East couldn't get back into the game. It was Herman's turn to lead the team in the third game with six points. Central led 7-6 when Hinz went on a four-point service run and the Spartans never recovered. An ace and some East errors contributed to 7-0 Central lead in the final game. The Spartans battled back to within two points at 13-11, but Hinz had a kill and sophomore Abigail Strebig had two points in a threepoint service run by Kebisek that effectively ended the match. The difference? "We knew what they did and were used to the defense they play," Hinz said. "We cracked down on their defense and were waiting for the chance to finally beat East. The difference was everyone was playing so well, it was easy to keep everyone pumped up and energized." 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