Volume XVI, Number 30 | Wednesday, May 18, 2022 | |
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Brookfield Academy took a tough blow from Kenosha Christian Life, dropping the game 14-4 on Monday. Johanna Zaleski was on the rubber for the Blue Knights, striking out five. Ella Thompson threw an inning in relief out of the bullpen, striking out one.
The Blue Knights notched three runs in the fourth inning. The offensive onslaught was led by Chloe Fritz and Leora Schmidt, all driving in runs. A three up, three down inning in the bottom of the fourth held back the Eagles, and it was a close game heading into the fifth inning.
The Blue Knights watched it slip away and could not recover. Despite having the same number of hits as BA, KCL came out with more runs in the end. Naomi Grande, Schmidt, and Zaleski each collected one hit to lead the team.
On Tuesday, BA played at home against St. Francis. St. Francis captured the lead early on the hot sunny day. The Blue Knights struggled to put runs on the board and had a tough time defensively containing St. Francis. One bright spot for the Knights was a single by Natalie Cartwright in the first inning. Aurelia Rushing hit a double on the first pitch given to her in the third inning. Cecelia Evanich was sure-handed at first base, chalking up a double play for the team. Ella Thompson was in the pitcher’s circle for the team. The southpaw allowed seven hits, striking out two.
-Coach Christopher Mason
Reported by Kristi Thompson
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Last Wednesday, the Blue Knights faced Kettle Moraine Lutheran in an away game and made a statement. On offense, the boys only struck out twice in seven innings and racked up 15 hits. Michael Kieckhaefer and Nolan Kahle both led the way with three hits apiece.
Kahle also led the team's defense as the starting pitcher, earning six strikeouts. The Blue Knights came out on top and won 7-4, improving the team's record to 8-8.
The boys weren't happy with anything less than a winning record, and they dominated Heritage Christian at home the next day 24-2. The Blue Knights netted 22 hits in just five innings. Michael Kieckhaefer again led the charge with three hits and four RBIs, but also pitched a career game, totaling a shocking 10 strikeouts. He's been on fire lately and has had a fantastic season both in the field and in the batter's box.
While the varsity rested over the weekend, the varsity reserve players had the chance to play against the USM JV team at University School of Milwaukee. Unfortunately, it was a 7-4 loss, but the future looks bright for Brookfield Academy baseball, as the younger members of the team really showed what they were made of.
Finally, the varsity team stretched its winning streak to four this Tuesday against St. John's Northwestern Military Academy. Alex Star pitched all five innings and got himself eight strikeouts while only giving up three hits. On offense for the Blue Knights, Dillon Rosado had three hits and two RBI's, but Jonathan Kim stole the show with two triples. Ryan Campbell had two hits himself, one of which was a deep homerun to right center field, and it took ten minutes just to find the ball! Nolan Kahle and Brady Gomilla also had two hits. Overall, the boys have been heating up lately and are ready for the playoffs.
-Sophomore Sam Demski
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The boys varsity tennis team went 6-0 this past week, with wins over New Berlin Eisenhower, St. Thomas More, Aquinas, Sussex Hamilton, Dominican, and East Troy.
The busy week saw all three doubles teams go 6-0. These doubles teams are: Pranav Gogineni/Vibhu Guda (#1 doubles), Peyton Zeiler/Sanjit Madireddi (#2 doubles), and Krish Sharma/Charlie Hieb (#3 doubles).
The team gears up for Marquette on Friday, before subsectionals and sectionals next Tuesday and Thursday.
-Coach Michael Rajchel
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The Upper School Spring Sports Awards will take place on Wednesday, June 8, at 2:30 pm on the Fields of Freedom football/soccer field. All are welcome to attend.
The Middle School Spring Sports Awards took place yesterday, and here are the winners:
Girls Soccer
Co-MVP - Elena Petrova and Mail Williams
Co-Merit - Shivi Shah and Gretchen Peacock
Track
Varsity Girls
MVP - Lila Mason
Merit - Meghan Jeide
Varsity Boys
MVP - Andrew Schmidt
Merit - Ben Reiner
JV Girls
Co-MVP - Mila Libbey and Amen Abel
Merit - Amina Pasha
JV Boys
MVP - Xavier Loomis
Merit - Yusif Alqwasmi
Tennis
Gold Team
MVP - Eddie Schoyer
Merit - Cole Wurtzbacher and Peyton Emling
Blue Team
MVP - Ritisha Mathur
Co-Merit - Luke Bullio and Lauren Jones
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The BA golf teams competed in several meets last week.
In the varsity meet, BA finished fifth out of eight teams in a nine-hole event at Grant Park Golf Club. Max Duthie took honors for the BA golfers with a score of 46. Other finishers for BA were Albert Pangman with a 50, Thomas Minix a 51, and Quinn Kaiser with a 55.
At the Kaz Invitational on Saturday, BA finished a disappointing last place among 14 teams. Jon Sabani led the team with a score of 94 for 18 holes. The rest of the team competed hard but came up short in tough competition against much larger schools.
Regional competition begins at 9 am on Tuesday, May 24, at Fire Ridge Golf Club in Grafton.
The JV team finished its season at the conference meet at Mee-Kwon Golf Club on Wednesday, May 11. The team finished fourth out of eight competing teams. Max Duthie lead the way with a 46, Ben Lee had a 52, Grant Erlinder shot a 57, and Aaron Strange a 59. Congratulations to all the JV team members for a great season!
-Coach Steve Hinkens
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The JV tennis team finished up its season last week. The JV2 tennis team ended the season
playing a dual match against Marquette at Merrill Park. There were victories at #1 doubles - seniors Vishrut Agrawal/Daniel Li , #3 singles - Cole Stowell and #5 singles - Hashir Ahmad.
A special thank you to JV1 senior Vishrut Agrawal for pitching in to help out a shorthanded JV2 squad against Marquette. Vishrut, having finished his classroom obligations for the year, had
planned on enjoying a day in the sun working on his tan and catching up reading his favorite
book of poems. Now that’s a team player!
On a more serious note, thanks to JV2 players Armaan Chawla, Areeb Bajwa, Tyler Beckley, Stuart Frohna, Daniel Li, Shrikar Sudhaman, and Tegbir Chawla for always being there for your team!
The JV1 team also ended its season last week, with two dual matches and a season-ending
tournament.
Monday’s match at home against Mukwonago was a combined effort of all JV players. The JV2 participants did not disappoint, winning all five of their matches. The team went on to win 10 out of 14 matches.
On Wednesday, the Blue Knights JV tennis team hosted New Berlin Eisenhower, winning five out of seven matches. Winning BA players were: Abhi Padala (#2 singles), Aiden Canga (#3 singles), Josh Van Bogart/Zach
Weiner (#1 doubles), Ryan Simmons/Eric Wang (#2 doubles), Vishrut Agrawal/Pranoy Sangowdar
(#3 doubles), and David Roessler/Aryan Bhakhri (#4 doubles).
The JV1 squad finished the season Saturday with the Marquette Invite.
Starting off the day against Neenah, BA won six matches to two.
BA was victorious over the next opponent, Oak Creek, winning all eight of the matches.
The BA boys ended the tournament playing against a very tough Marquette team.
The #1 doubles team of Abhi Padala and Max Hong were the lone victors.
Congrats to all the seniors. You will be missed next season!
-Coach Todd Colt
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The Brookfield Academy Middle School tennis team had a busy week last week, featuring three duel matches for the Blue roster and two for the Gold. The week started off with the Gold team taking on a team from Whitefish Bay Middle School at Indian Creek Park in Fox Point. The players battled windy conditions but overcame with a dominant victory that featured singles victories from Cole Wurtzbacher, Eddie Schoyer, Tyler Weiss, and Ritik Gogineni.
The Blue team took up the mantle on Tuesday, taking on challengers from St. Dominic. The heat was a major factor, but several of the Blue Knights stood out including the singles trio of Ratisha Mathur, Julia Van Bogart, and Arisha Zia. Strong efforts on the doubles court were highlighted by a rousing fight from the team of Celia Muller and Luke Bullio.
It was the Golds' turn again on Wednesday as they traveled to Wisconsin Hills to try and avenge their loss from the season opener weeks before. While victory was not in the cards on this day, the team acquitted themselves well. The match was neck and neck throughout, and a few points were the difference on several courts, including Eddie and Peter Hutt and the doubles teams of Cole/Sanjay Dagam, Tyler/Mikaela Hargarten, and Nick Alsayegh/Peyton Emling. Teams of Ammar Pasha/Marilee Nygro and Ethan Boustany/Ritik were able to claim some late victories.
The heat persisted for the final two matches of the week, both for the Blues. First they traveled to Hart Park in Wauwatosa where they took on a talented Longfellow Middle School team. The Blue Knights were solid behind victories from the doubles teams of Luya Zhang/Lola Kandula, Luke/Ritisha, and Julia/Arianna Eyzaguirre.
They brought this confidence with them to Wisconsin Hills where a strong effort was highlighted by a hard-fought tiebreak victory from Julia and Arisha in doubles. The season finishes next week with one match for the Golds and one for the Blues on Tuesday and Wednesday.
-Coach Tim Corwin
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On Saturday, May 14, the Middle School track & field team competed in its last meet of the season. The Tosa Invite was held at Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Raabe Stadium. Our athletes demonstrated their skills while competing against 10 other private schools. There were so many amazing performances!
For the JV (5th & 6th Grades) girls, Amen Abel came in second place in the 100 and the 200, Mila Libbey came in second place in the 400 and the 800, and Katherine Courtright came in third place in the 400.
For the JV boys, Xavier Loomis got first place in the 200, second place in the 400, and third place in the 100. Alex Wilhelm got second place in 800 and third place in the 1600. The 4x100 relay team of Josh Silva, Avi Chopra, Charlie York, and Tate Nowacki came in third place.
Ellie Decker came in second place in the high jump for the varsity (7th & 8th Grades) girls. The 4x100 relay team of Meghan Jeide, Katie Loomis, Elisabeth Wilson, and Anna Phillips came in third place. The 4x200 relay team of Jeide, Loomis, Phillips, and Lila Mason came in second place. The 4x400 relay team of Phillips, Elena Petrova, Brooke Nowacki, and Stella Koenings performed well.
The varsity boys really put on a show! Mason Dorn and Luke Rogutich came in second and third in the 100. Andrew Schmidt and Rogutich came in second and third in the 200. Schmidt also came in first in the 400, with a meet record time of 1:00.52. Tyler Fletcher and Ben Reiner came in first and third in the 800. Samuel Miller tied for first in the 1600 in an incredible race. Garrett Priebe came in third in the shot put. The relay team of Rogutich, Daniel Cha, Gus Jurgens, and Dorn finished first in the 4x100 and the 4x200.
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The 4x100 relay team of Reiner, Beau Libbey, Fletcher, and Schmidt finished second, while the team of Ethan Potthast, Ritik Gogineni, Sawyer Holubowicz, and Cha finished third. The Spring Medley relay team of Cha, Jurgens, Libbey, and Reiner came in third as well. With this, the varsity boys won the meet by 23.5 points!
I have had so much fun coaching these athletes and am so proud of all of them.
-Coach Elizabeth Schemm
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On May 11, 2022, the BA Middle School girls soccer team hosted The Prairie School. The Blue Knights were determined to limit Prairie's scoring opportunities by playing more compact, shifting to a stronger defense. The strategy worked for a significant amount of time. After 55 minutes of play, Prairie held a 3-0 lead. However, the Blue Knights defense was wearing on them. BA capitalized on the fatigue. Shivi Shah placed a brilliant thru pass where Elena Petrova hit full stride on the outside edge to beat the defenders to the ball. Elena took the ball to the net beating the goalkeeper on a one vs. one opportunity, reducing the Prairie Schools lead to 3-1.
A few minutes later, Elena Petrova served a thru pass beyond Prairie School's defenders. Lucia Heckenkamp burst through and took the ball 15 yards down field before being called for offsides bringing the opportunity to a halt. Shortly after, BA would play a corner kick right in front of Prairie's goal, just missing the strike to complete the goal. That would have put the Blue Knights within one.
The Prairie School responded, however, to the threats, scoring two goals of its own in the last eight minutes of play. The Prairie School took the game 5-1. Lori Camacho Adams, Ella Posnik, Char Hughes, and Chelsea King delivered their best performances of the season, exerting pressure throughout the game and forcing Prairie to give up the ball on numerous occasions. Well done! We look forward to a rematch with Prairie for the last game of the season, this Thursday, May 19.
-Coach Joel Heckenkamp
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