With four seniors on last year’s first-team roster, there was plenty of room for turnover this year on the 55th annual Kenosha News All-County Boys Basketball Team.
FIRST TEAM
Here is a closer look at the 2018-19 All-County Boys Basketball second team:
The Kenosha vs. Racine All-Star boys and girls basketball games, featuring each county’s top seniors, will take place at the Racine Park Fieldhouse tonight as part of the seventh annual Mark Your Moment Basketball Showcase and All-Star Games.
The prolific scoring efforts of Shoreland Lutheran senior Chelby Koker certainly made plenty of local girls basketball news in 2018-19.
Jaeden Zackery and Chelby Koker were honored with one final award recently for their standout senior seasons with the Central boys and Shoreland Lutheran girls basketball teams, respectively.
Bolton earns All-Metro honors
Former St. Joseph standout Sidney Cooks made her first NCAA Tournament appearance a memorable one.
For the second straight season, the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association bestowed Central senior guard Jaeden Zackery with an award commensurate with his talented peers throughout the state.
Three former Kenosha County girls basketball standouts will pack their bags for the NCAA Division I Tournament later this week.
Hannah and Ellie Harmeyer are about as close as sisters can be.
It took a buzzer-beater from Southern Lakes Conference rival Elkhorn in last week’s Division-2 sectional semifinal to keep the Central boys basketball team from a return trip to state.
When Division-3 girls basketball coaches met this past weekend to vote for the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches All-State teams, they shared a similar sentiment about Shoreland Lutheran star Chelby Koker.
After a stellar season, UW-Parkside redshirt senior forward Chip Flanigan was honored appropriately by the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
The ball hit what looked like every part of the rim, came up off the backboard and back down again.
Following its first season in the conference, the UW-Parkside women’s basketball team had three players named to the All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team, which was announced Friday.
SOMERS — Last season was obviously a difficult one for the UW-Parkside men’s basketball team.
SOMERS — In the movies, Luke Reigel would’ve stood at the front of the bus and delivered an inspiring speech.
BURLINGTON — This time, the Central boys basketball team couldn’t escape Elkhorn.
After a breakout junior season for the Belmont women’s basketball team, Shoreland Lutheran graduate Ellie Harmeyer was commended by the Ohio Valley Conference.
Shoreland Lutheran’s Chelby Koker finished her four-year girls basketball varsity career as the most prolific scorer in Kenosha County history and one of the top scorers in girls state history.
As Yogi Berra would say, it’s deja vu all over again.
SOMERS — If the players on the UW-Parkside men’s basketball team are intentionally trying to give coach Luke Reigel severe heartburn every night, they’re doing a splendid job.
The UW-Parkside women’s basketball team didn’t go down without a fight Tuesday in a season-ending 77-59 road loss to Ashland (Ohio) in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinals.
Luke Reigel isn’t going to take time to pat himself on the back.
There’s only one result that would be surprising when the UW-Parkside men’s basketball team hosts Lake Superior State in a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference quarterfinal at 7:30 tonight at the DeSimone Gymnasium.
PADDOCK LAKE — After three seasons that have included two Southern Lakes Conference championships, three regional titles and a sectional title, senior guard Jaeden Zackery admitted he’s losing track of where he’s keeping the pieces of net the Central boys basketball team keeps cutting down.
RACINE — After getting torched by senior sensation Marquise Milton for an average of 34.5 points per game in a pair of regular-season losses, the Indian Trail boys basketball team knew that it had to take a different tact on Friday against Southeast Conference rival Racine Horlick in a WIAA …
The Central boys basketball team left no doubt in its WIAA Division-2 playoff opener Friday night.
WILMOT — One 3-pointer after another, the Wilmot boys basketball team found the rim or the backboard, anything but the net, and time seemed to be dwindling away on the Panthers’ season with a deluge of missed shots.
Luke Reigel is in his 16th season coaching the UW-Parkside men’s basketball team, and he gained plenty of coaching experience before that.
A remarkable run for the Shoreland Lutheran girls basketball team, along with the prep career of the most prolific scorer in Kenosha County history, both came to an end Thursday night.
The UW-Parkside women’s basketball team finished its regular season on a winning note Thursday.
The Central boys basketball team begins its quest to return to the WIAA Division-2 State Tournament for the second straight season when it hosts Waterford in a regional semifinal tonight.
The Shoreland Lutheran girls basketball team will face one of the hottest teams in the state when it takes on Marshall in a WIAA Division-3 sectional semifinal 7 p.m. tonight at West Allis Central.
SOMERS — When the Great Lakes Valley Conference came down hard on the UW-Parkside athletic program prior to the 2017-18 academic year, both players and coaches on the men’s basketball team had to make choices they’d prefer not to have faced.
The Tremper boys basketball team stormed back from a one-point halftime deficit to keep its season alive Tuesday night.
Last week saw the state high school girls basketball teams get their post-season run up and running.
SOMERS — The Shoreland Lutheran girls basketball team came into Saturday night’s WIAA Division-3 regional title game against visiting Lake Mills as the favorite based on win-loss records and experience.
Hawks cruise to win over HOPE Christian
SOMERS — On Senior Day at the DeSimone Gymnasium, there couldn’t have been a better way for Chip Flanigan to finish off his final home game.
The UW-Parkside women’s basketball fell to Ferris State in heartbreaking fashion Saturday at DeSimone Gymnasium.
Playing in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin semifinal is the wrong time to have a slow start.
The UW-Parkside men’s basketball team has both a huge opportunity and a huge challenge at 3 p.m. today when it hosts defending NCAA Division II national champion Ferris State in a regular-season home finale at the DeSimone Gymnasium.
SOMERS — Senior guard Chelby Koker has scored over 2,000 points in her remarkable career with the Shoreland Lutheran girls basketball team.
The Wilmot girls basketball team carried an 11-game winning streak into the postseason.
The Central boys basketball team has made a lot of history over the last four seasons.
Ali Bettencourt rediscovered her shot Thursday night.
If you thought the UW-Parkside men’s basketball team was going to coast to a win after leading by nine points in the second half Thursday night against Lake Superior State, you haven’t been following the Rangers this season.
If not for the fact they practice there, the UW-Parkside men’s and women’s basketball teams might’ve had to schedule some time to get reacquainted with shooting on the baskets at the DeSimone Gymnasium.