FOCUS ON GIRLS BASKETBALL Team of the week
Area rankings
Team, record Last week
1. Kettle Moraine (8-1) 1
2. Pewaukee (7-1) 2
3. Brookfield East (9-1) 3
4. Arrowhead (7-1) 4
5. Germantown (6-3) 5
6. Pius XI (6-2) 6
7. Oak Creek (5-3) 7
8. Cedarburg (9-1) 8
9. New Berlin Eisenhower (7-1) 9
10. Homestead (8-1) 10
The next 10
11. Milwaukee Academy of Science (7-3) 11; 12. New Berlin West (7-1) 12; 13. Union Grove (9-2) 13; 14. Slinger (8-1) 14; 15. Franklin (7-1) 15; 16. Waukesha West (5-4) 16; 17. Milwaukee King (6-1) 17; 18. South Milwaukee (8-2) 20; 19. Grafton (9-1) –; 20. Kewaskum (8-0) –.
Player of the week
Grace Lomen, Catholic Memorial: What a night it was for the UW-Parkside recruit Tuesday. The 5-foot-9 guard hit 13 of 24 shots, went 11 for 15 from the free throw line and scored a career-high 37 points in a 79-78 victory at Oconomowoc. She topped off the performance with a free throw with no time left on the clock that sealed the win. She also scored her 1,000th point during the performance. Lomen leads the team in scoring (19.9 ppg), rebounding (11.1 rpg), steals (3.3) and is tied for the lead in steals (2.8 spg).
Union Grove
The Broncos handed a Racine County rival its first loss of the season and successfully met another challenge to their supremacy in the Southern Lakes last week to raise their record to 9-2. The run started with an 82-41 victory over at Wilmot, which entered play tied for second in the conference.
Senior guard Payton Calouette scored a career-high 17 points in the victory and junior guard/forward Sophia Rampulla posted one of her five doubledoubles of the season (12 points, 13 rebounds). The next night against The Prairie School junior guard Sydney Ludvigsen finished with 19 points and five rebounds, while senior guard Emmy Pettit (13 points, five rebounds) and Rampulla (five points, 19 rebounds) also played large roles in a 71-55 non-conference victory over the previously undefeated Hawks.
Coming up
Milwaukee Academy of Science at
Sun Prairie, 7:15 p.m. Tuesday: The Novas head west for a non-conference matchup against the sixth-ranked team in the wissports.net Division 1 coaches poll.
Union Grove at South Milwaukee, 4
p.m. Tuesday: The Southern Lakes leader pays a visit to a top contender in the Woodland East.
Brookfield East at Slinger, 3 p.m.
Tuesday: The four-time defending champion of the North Shore Conference plays host to East, the team to beat in the Greater Metro.
Arrowhead vs. Homestead at Middleton Tournament, 1 p.m. Tuesday: The winner of this top-10 matchup faces the winner of Middleton vs. Chippewa Falls on Wednesday.
Germantown at Watertown Holiday Shootout, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday: The defending Division 1 state champion will be tested by the No. 1 Division 4 team in the state, La Crosse Aquinas, on Tuesday and Reedsburg, the top-ranked Division 2 team, on Wednesday.
Viking Holiday Classic at New Berlin We and New Berlin Eisenhower, Tuesday and Wednesday: The highlight of Day 1 is Grafton at Eisenhower at 1 p.m. The top games of Day 2 are Cedarburg vs. Catholic Memorial at 3 p.m. at West, Franklin at New Berlin Eisenhower at 6 p.m. and Martin Luther at New Berlin West at 6.