Falcons down TR to cap regular season

TWO RIVERS – The Sheboygan Falls Falcons made 9-of-12 free throws in the fourth quarter to win their final regular season game of the season 50-42 over the Two Rivers Purple Raiders Friday, Feb. 26.

Falls senior Zach Berg made 6-of-6 free throws and scored a game-high 13 points to lift the Falcons to victory.

By dropping the Purple Raiders, Falls finished 6-8 in the final Eastern Wisconsin Conference standings. (11-11 overall).

The No. 4 seeded Falcons played their first-round WIAA Division 2 regional playoff game Tuesday, March 2, against No. 5 seed Campbellsport.

The winner advances to play the winner of the Plymouth versus Mayville first-round regional playoff game Thursday, March 4, at a site to be determined.

Falls senior Dan Duda hit three 3-pointers, including two in the first quarter and finished with 10 points. Junior Nick Roelse added nine points and had 12 rebounds, with eight assists. Senior Spencer Hurlburt scored four points and grabbed six rebounds, with four assists.

The Falcons pushed the lead to 11 points in the third quarter at 31-20, but the Raiders finished on a 7-0 run. The Falcons committed two key turnovers and gave up a 3-point goal.

“This was one of our better games of being patient on offense,” said Falcons coach Eric Spielman. “I thought Roelse distributed the ball more and we moved the ball well.”

Division 1 standout and University of Wisconsin college recruit Josh Gasser scored 16 points to lead the Port Washington Pirates over Falls 62-43 in a non-conference contest Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Port Washington.

Port outscored the Falcons 21-9 in the first quarter and maintained a defensive edge on Falls the rest of the way.

“I’m somewhat happy on we played against Port,” stated Spielman. “They had an edge in size and ran the ball well.”

Spielman felt that outside of the first quarter, the Falcons hung with the Pirates pretty well.

“We knew it was going to be a tough game, but we worked on getting ourselves ready for the tournament,” Spielman explained.

Duda led the Falcons in scoring with 12 points. Roelse added 11 points and had nine rebounds.

Two Rivers edged the Falcon junior varsity squad 47-46 off of some late turnovers in the fourth quarter. Aaron Krueger led the team with 15 points and Alex Wagner had 12 points.

“We made some bad decisions and gave the game away,” said coach Jeff Duda.

Falls finished the season 7-7 in the EWC (12-10 overall).

Jake Hucke scored 15 points to lead the Falls freshman to a 59-47 win. The Falcons led the whole way, as Jacob Tenpas added 13 points.

As a team, the Falcons shot 25-of-39 from the free-throw line, making key shots in the fourth quarter, after the Raiders started to foul.

The Falls freshman squad finished the season 13-1 in the EWC (18-2 overall). BOYS BASKETBALL

SHEBOYGAN
FALLS	50
TWO RIVERS
	42

Score by Quarters
Sheboygan Falls…….14 7 10 19 - 50
Two Rivers…………….12 2 13 15 - 42
Sheboygan Falls scorers: Zach Berg 13, Dan Duda 10, Nick Roelse 9, Lewis Halverson 8, Matt Hasler 5, Spencer
Hurlburt 4, Alex Grabowski 1.
Two Rivers scorers: Dusty Lachowicz 10, Jalen Franko 6, Blake Loucks 6, Kraig Shillcox 6, Brett Linzmeyer 4, Dan
Suave 4, Zach Chynoweth 3, David Werner 3.
Three-point goals: Sheboygan Falls - Duda 3, Berg, Halverson, Hasler. Two Rivers - Franko 2, Werner.
Statistics: Sheboygan Falls - field goals 14-39 (36 percent), free throws 16-24 (68 percent), rebounds 26 turnovers 10.
Two Rivers - field goals 18, free throws 3-4 (75 percent).

SHEBOYGAN
FALLS	43
PORT
WASHINGTO 62
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Score by Quarters
Sheboygan Falls….....9 11 9 14 - 43
Port Washington…..21 11 13 17 - 62
Sheboygan Falls scorers: Dan Duda 12, Nick Roelse 11, Spencer Hurlburt 7, Lewis Halverson 4, Mitch Thimmig 4,
Zach Berg 2, Zach van Engen 2, Bobby Musil 1.
Port Washington scorers: Josh Gasser 16, Gary Steinmetz 12, Shane Kennedy 12, Jay Davel 2, Zach Schultz 4, Luke
Schuller 2, Joey McLine 4, Sawyer Mosely 8, Kyle Rischmeyer 2.
Three-point goals: Sheboygan Falls - Duda 2, Hurlburt, Roelse, Thimmig. Port Washington - Gasser 2, Mosely 2.
Statistics: Sheboygan Falls - field goals 17-45 (38 percent), free throws 4-8 (50 percent), rebounds 17, turnovers 17.
Port Washington - field goals 25, free throws _______________________ 12-13 (92 percent).