Today is Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday night, September 1, saw a closely contested and hard-fought game for Whippet Soccer’s 1st annual youth night. Your Whippets never gave up after going down 2-0 and fighting back through a sensational hat trick from Sebastian Cuellar Meza to see things tied at 3 with 10 minutes remaining. Another comeback was necessary when in the 76’ minute Rosenberg Escobar tied things up for Whitewater again at 4-4.
Two minutes from full time, Living Word Lutheran scored the final goal of the contest, thus sealing their chances for victory. It was a tough loss but you can bet that we will be ready for another hard-fought match on Tuesday when we host Racine Park.
Whitewater:
- 27’ goal by Sebastian Cuellar Meza assisted by Sebastian Alvarez
- 41’ goal by Sebastian Cuellar Meza assisted by Rosenberg Escobar
- 70’ goal by Sebastian Cuellar Meza assisted by Chris Cortes\
- 76’ goal by Rosenberg Escobar assisted by Ethan Dugan
- Casey Schlicher 3 saves
- Phoenix Jones 2 saves
Living Word Lutheran:
- 14’ goal by Denny Oechsner
- 26’ goal by Ethan Breckenfelder
- 66’ goal by Timmy Bagin
- 72’ goal by Ethan Breckenfelder
- 78’ goal by Timmy Bagin
Article Submitted by Sam Burns
Whitewater High School Head Boys’ Soccer Coach
dburns@wwusd.org
File Photo Courtesy of Bob Mischka
Whitewater headed to West Allis to compete in the 52nd annual Bulldog Invite hosted by West Allis Central on Friday, September 1st at McCarty Park. Under sunny skies with temperatures around 80 degrees and a mild breeze, the Whippets performed very well rubbing elbows with schools much larger than ours. Nearly all the athletes ran faster than they did a week ago at Alumni!
In the girls’ varsity race, the team was once again led by Mady Hefty who started a little back in the field but sliced her way to a 25th place finish with a season best time of 21:51 and finished with a medal. Athena Soto, Carley Boudreau, and Nola Coburn packed up nicely gaining confidence together, and rolled through the course to finish in 45th, 47th, and 48th places, respectively. Their times were 22:42, and a tie at 22:57 for both Carley and Nola in a battle to the finish line. Lauren Buehler and Silvia Harris ran solid races to finish in 82nd and 83rd. They stopped the clock at 25:38 and 25:42. Isabella rounded out the 7 varsity runners by placing 98th in 27:28. Overall the team finished 10th out of 14 complete teams. The JV team was led by Sami Van Daele to place 50th in 26:39. The JV team placed 8th overall out of 14 complete teams.
The boys’ race featured Jack Hefty sharing the lead with another runner for much of the race before both boys were overtaken by the eventual winner. Jack blitzed to the finish to outkick his opponent and place 2nd overall with a time of 16:54. Nate Holden placed 10th in 17:36. Xavier Zei came across as the team’s third runner to take 21st in a time of 18:28. Miles Nickelsburg rounded out the medalist for the team by placing 29th in 18:46. Quincy Boudreau came across the line in 68th with a time of 20:11 for a big improvement from last week. The final varsity runner was Onyx Thompson in 87th with a time of 20:50. The varsity team placed 3rd overall with 17th complete teams. In the JV race, Andrew O’Toole led the team with a top 10 finish to take 9th with a time of 20:02. Wyatt Esch secured a medal by placing in the top 30 with a new personal best of 20:52 and placed 24th. The JV team finished in 7th with 18 complete teams in this event.
The team will take a week off from racing next week to get some good practices in before lacing up their spikes again to compete in the Marshall Invite on Tuesday, September 12th.
Full results can be found here: http://milesplit.live/meets/563696
Article Submitted by Chad Carstens
Whitewater High School Head Cross Country Coach
ccarstens@wwusd.org
Photo Courtesy of Jeff Hefty
No. 11 Warhawk Football Picks Up Thrilling Win at No. 19 John Carroll
Editor’s note: This was Jace Rindahl’s first game as UW-W’s head coach.
By Angela Kelm
UW-W Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Information
The No. 11 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team opened the 2023 campaign with a thrilling 27-23 comeback win over No. 19 John Carroll in University Heights, Ohio Saturday afternoon.
The Warhawks started the opening drive from their own 25 after a touchback and moved the ball to the John Carroll 38 over the next eight plays. That’s where the drive stalled and UWW turned the ball over on downs.
The Blue Streaks capitalized marching down the field and capping a seven-play drive with a 32-yard passing touchdown to take the early lead. After a missed extra point, JCU led 6-0 at the 9:15 mark. That score held well into the second quarter.
Parker Breunig jumped a passing lane for the interception midway through the second to give the ball back to Alec Ogden and the Warhawk offense. He found Tommy Coates for seven yards on the first play before UWW went to the ground game. The tandem of AlijahMaher-Parr and Tamir Thomas from the backfield drove the Warhawks down to the JCU 11. A 42-yard scamper by Maher-Parr bolstered the drive and helped set up a 28-yard field goal from Jeff Isotalo-McGuire to make it 6-3.
John Carroll responded, using a 50-yard run to open the next drive to set up a touchdown to take a 13-3 lead into the intermission. On the other side of the break, the offenses were on display.
The Warhawks pulled closer with their first drive of the second half. Ogden spread the ball around hitting Drake Martin twice for 13 yards, then Coates for 12, then Nick Wind for 12 before dropping a perfect pass into the hands of Steven Hein for the 37-yard score. Isotalo-McGuire hit the extra point to pull UWW within three, 13-10.
The Blue Streaks pushed the lead back to six, 16-10 with a field goal in the ensuing drive, but the Warhawk offense was clicking and took their first lead in the game in their next possession.
The big play of the drive was a 46-yard rush on 3rd-and-1 from Ogden as he crossed the goal line for the touchdown. Isotalo-McGuire’s extra point gave UWW the lead 17-16 with 6:19 on the clock in the third.
The fourth quarter saw the offenses continue to surge as Isotalo-McGuire hit another field goal, this one from 24 yards out just two plays into the final period to make it 20-16 UWW.
John Carroll put together an extended 10-play scoring drive in their next possession. A short four-yard pass was the one that hit paydirt for the Blue Streaks as JCU reclaimed the lead 23-20 with 8:47 remaining.
The John Carroll defense stiffened and forced a punt after just 1:47 ticked off the clock. The Warhawk defense responded in kind forcing a three-and-out to give the ball back to the offense. The JCU punt went out of bounds at the UWW 15 as the Warhawk offense took over with 4:45 left.
UW-Whitewater put together one of their best drives of the day in their next possession. Ogden found Hein for nine yards to open the drive before Thomas went off the right side of the line for six more and a first down. Coates hauled in an 18-yard catch from Ogden to take the Warhawks near midfield. On 3rd-and-10, the Ogden-Coates connection was clutch again to keep the drive going with a 14-yard strike.
Thomas took the next two carries up the middle for 15 yards. After no gain on the next play, Ogden hit Hein for 11-yards and another first down at the JCU12. Maher-Parr picked up one more yard before Ogden went back to the air.
The first-year Warhawk took the snap out of the shotgun, surveyed and picked Wind as his target drifting deep into the left side of the endzone. The high-arced pass narrowly made it over the outstretched arms of the Blue Streak defensive back as he leapt in an attempt to tip the ball away. Wind had to make an acrobatic catch as he nearly laid out to get his right hand on the ball, tipping it up as he gained footing before hauling in the catch with both hands just inside the pylon at the back of the endzone. The 11-yard strike and extra point gave UWW the 27-23 lead with just 39 seconds remaining.
John Carroll tried to manage the clock after gaining a first down, but Thomas Wojnowski sealed the game for UW-Whitewater with an interception at the JCU 46 with just five ticks of the clock left.
Staying true to the rich tradition of Warhawk football – UWW pounded the rock with 232 rushing yards compared to 175 for JCU. UWW gained 276 through the air for a total of 508 yards of offense.
Maher-Parr was the leading rusher for the Warhawks with 94 yards on 13 attempts. Thomas gained 80 on 15 carries in the game. Ogden was 23-41 for 230 yards and two passing touchdowns without tossing an interception. On the ground, he added 55 yards and a rushing touchdown.
Coates was Ogden’s favorite target with 9 receptions for 77 yards. Hein hauled in six catches for 99 yards and a touchdown.
Defensively, Hawk Heffner led the Warhawks with eight total tackles. Lucas Sadler, Trey Castella and Roy Panthier all got into the backfield to record tackles for loss while Wojnowski and Breunig led the secondary with a pair of interceptions.
The 2023 Whippet Girls’ Swim season has officially started. The Whippets competed at Conference Relays at Badger on Thursday, August 31. And let us be the first to tell you…these girls sure made a splash!
Georgia Esch, Atreya Wilson, Lucy Davis, and Zoe Zei competed in the 200 Medley where they swam some impressive splits. We are looking forward to them swimming even faster times this season!
We had some new Whippet swimmers compete in their first ever high school swim meet. We were excited to cheer on Adalynn Frye, Payton Peacock, Zoe Zei, and Marijose Verduzco. It was awesome to see them take everything they’ve learned in practice and apply it in a meet!
The Whippets took on the 1000 Freestyle Crescendo with a lineup of Maggie Maas, Charlotte Hajewski, Emerson Dunham, and Makayla Bazeley. They took home some new hardware of a 3rd place finish! The same group placed 2nd in the 100 Backstroke Relay with a time of 4:53.66. Maggie Maas had an impressive split of 1:15.89, and that was with no goggles. Makayla Bazeley’s lead off split was quick enough to put her second all-time on the Whippet Top 10 list!
Two Whippet Relays faced off against one another in the 400 Freestyle Relay. We saw noticeable time improvements from our practice meet to now. Some noticeable splits would include Payton Peacock (23 second drop), Sanibel Fox-Simes (7 second drop), Zoe Zei (21 second drop), Adalynn Frye (22 second drop), and Atreya Wilson (9 second drop).
We are so excited to see what the rest of the season holds for each of our Whippet Swimmers!
Article and Photos Courtesy of Sarah Reynolds
Whitewater High School Head Swim Coach
sreynolds@wwusd.org
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