Greyhound Update: Boys Volleyball Team Captures First League Match

Here is the week's recap of Shorewood High School sports, courtesy of Athletic Director Bill Haury:

Football – Saturday night, the varsity team played Dominican at Whitefish Bay.  For the second consecutive week, it was all Messmer/Shorewood in the first half, with the Greyhounds scoring 49 of their 56 points before halftime.  The scoring started with Alec Grimmer making a tackle in the Domincan end zone for a 2-point safety, and the returning the ensuing kick-off 77 yards for a touchdown.   Nate Wickstrom scored next on a 28-yard pass from Taylor Dennis to increase the lead to 15-0.  Antoine Davis scored next on a 7 -ard run and Jonathan Carson caught a 25-yard pass from Dennis to stretch the lead to 29-0.  Davis then scored on runs of 44 and 36 yards to give the Greyhounds a 42-0 lead.  The half ended with Xavier Johnson scoring on a one yard run to register the 49-0 halftime lead.   The second half saw the backup players get significant time and Michael Fazio caught a 56-yard pass from Riley Sellinger in the fourth quarter to finish the scoring on a 56-20 victory.  Davis finished the game with 140 yards on 9 carries, Dennis was 5 of 7 for 69 yards and 2 touchdowns.  The team is now 3-2 in Midwest Classic Conference play.

Boys Soccer –  Monday night, the Greyhounds hosted the Trojans of Wauwatosa West in an important Woodland Conference match.  It was a close, hard fought match, but in the 67th minute West got an open shot on goalkeeper Alex McMurtry and scored the game-winner.  Up to that point, Alex had made some big saves, but the crowd in front of his goal made it difficult to stop the point-blank shot.  Shorewood put seven shots on goal to West’s six, but came up short, 1-0.

On Wednesday, the team traveled to New Berlin Eisenhower and in a very offensive game, tied 2-2.  Each team recorded 22 shots on goal.   The first half ended with no score for either team, but 13 minutes into the second half Henry Cummings put Shorewood on the scoreboard.  The Lions stepped up their offense and scored two goals to take a 2-1 lead late in the game.  With 5 minutes remaining, Michael Landers scored to tie the game at 2-2.  Through two overtime periods, neither team could score and the game ended in a tie.  The varsity team is now 2-1-2 in Woodland Conference play and 4-4-2 overall.  This week will be a very tough week with two conference games and then a non-conference game at Whitefish Bay Friday night.

Girls Swimming – On Wednesday, the team traveled to New Berlin West for one of the tougher dual meets in its Woodland Conference schedule.  Coach McCabe wanted to have the girls swim events that they had not gotten a chance to thus far in the season.  Even with the alteration in the meet lineup, the girls won 94-89.  Shorewood won all three relays, beginning with the 200 medley team of Ellen Stello, Rachel Munson, Diana Yakshimamedova and Genevieve Hayes; the 200 freestyle relay team of Munson, Stello, Melissa Clausen and Kristin Malone, and the 400 freestyle relay team of Malone, Clausen, Hayes and Yakshimamedova set a new pool record of 3:49.65.  Individual winners were Malone in the 200 and 500 freestyle, setting a new pool record of 1:55.42 in the 200.  Munson won the 50 freestyle and took second in the 100 freestyle.  Ellen Stello won the 100 butterfly & 100 breastroke.  Genevieve Hayes won the 100 freestyle and was second in the 100 backstroke.  Melissa Clausen was third in the 200 individual medley and 100 freestyle.  Lucy Petrick was third in the 500 freestyle.  Hannah Miller was third in the 100 breastroke.  The team is now 2-0 in Woodland Conference dual meets and 5-0 overall.

Cross Country – The teams were at Washington Park to compete in the Marquette HS Invitational on Friday.   The varsity girls finished third. Haley Holan led the Greyhounds with her ninth-place finish, followed by Abby Pech in 13th, Haley Florsheim in 15th, Laura Gould in 49th, and Lindsey Morris in 54th for a team total of 132 points.  Angie Sperry was only 9 seconds and four places behind Lindsey, and Grace Corry 12 seconds and 11 places behind Angie.

The varsity boys finished sixth, with Peter Morris leading the team with a ninth-place finish.  Charles Stahle was close behind in 12th place, 4 seconds behind Peter.  Jacob Goldberg finished 23rd, John Papke was 29th, and Michael Dellutri was 48th for a team total of 122 points, just 12 points behind Brookfield East.   Close behind Michael were John Traudt and Sam Kuhlmann in 50th and 51st place respectively.   Dan Vrobel was the final Shorewood finisher in 61st place.

Girls Tennis – The team competed against Brown Deer on Thursday, wining 7-0.  Singles winners were Saabirah Abdullah at No. 1, Victoria Nelsen at No. 2, Eland Lambert at No. 3, and Anjana Murali at No. 4.  Doubles winners were Mary Matoba and Lizzie Tews at No. 1, Grace Hayes and Kirstin Repins at No. 2, and Ellen Gough and Ari Schwartz at No. 3.  The team is now 6-0 and leads its division in the Woodland Conference. This week is the crossover match against the first-place team from the other division.  The girls will be looking to possibly win their first Woodland Conference dual match championship when they go against Greendale.

Girls Volleyball –  Tuesday night, Saint Francis came to play a Woodland Conference match in the Arena.  The first match was a battle that went in Shorewood’s favor 27-25.  In the second match, the Greyhounds were down 7-1, when Sydney Cross scored 19 straight points to lead the team to a 25-9 victory.  The third match was another battle, but the Shorewood girls won 25-23 to win the match. 

Thursday, the teams traveled to Pewaukee.  The varsity team played very tough, taking the Lady Pirates to four games, 16-25, 17-25, 22-25, 18-25.  Sydney Cross led the team with 13 kills, Maja Ivanovic had 23 assists, Ashley Eimers had four blocks, and Zoe Deprez had 12 digs.  The girls are now 2-3 in Woodland play and 3-3 overall.

Boys Volleyball – .  After falling behind 7-1, the varsity team battled back to tie at 21 all before losing the 1st game 22-25.  After that, it was all Shoerewood, as they won the next three games, 25-21, 25-17 and 25-19 to win the match.  Adam Kessenich had 15 digs, Ken Plaisted had 32 assists, Andrew Mueller had 16 kills, Karl Apfelbach had three blocks, and Sean Kelley had three aces.