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Prep girls notes: DSHA leads state contingent headed to elite tourney

05/02/2014, 6:45am CDT
By ERIC ANDERSON
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Through eight games this season, the Milwaukee DSHA girls soccer team still has a clean sheet: The Dashers have shut out all eight of their opponents.

That sterling defensive record will be put the test this weekend, as DSHA faces some of the top teams in the Midwest at the Tournament of Champions in Burlington, Iowa. Five state sides are in the tournament's 34-team field.

The Dashers (7-0-1), ranked first in the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association Division 1 state poll and 30th in the Student Sports Fab 50 national rankings, open Bracket A play against West Des Moines Dowling (Iowa) this afternoon.

With a win, DSHA – which is playing in the tournament for the seventh time and won a title back in 2009 – could face No. 49 St. Charles North (Ill.) in the semifinals.

The other state team in Bracket A, Whitefish Bay, is in the loaded top half of the bracket. The Blue Dukes (5-2-1), ranked second in the state in Division 2, face 41st-ranked St. Louis Visitation today and will play either No. 1 Kansas City St. Teresa's or No. 38 Aurora Metea Valley (Ill.) on Saturday. Bay is making its fifth appearance in the tournament.

Middleton (3-2-0) and Sussex Hamilton (2-5-0) are in Bracket B, with the Cardinals in the event for the sixth consecutive year and the Chargers making their Tournament of Champions debut. Middleton opens against Collinsville (Ill.), while Hamilton plays Belleville West (Ill.) in its first match.

Waunakee, also making its sixth straight trip to Burlington, rounds out the state contingent. The Warriors (7-2-0) are in Group C and will play Manteno (Ill.), Granite City (Ill.) and Ankeny Centennial (Iowa) in round-robin play.

  • Waukesha Catholic Memorial improved to 12-0-0 with an 8-0 rout of Kettle Moraine Lutheran on Wednesday, extending its winning streak to 27 – that's believed to be the longest such streak in state history, surpassing the 25-game runs put together by Ashland in both 2009 and '10. The Crusaders also are unbeaten in 42 games (41-0-1) since a 2-1 loss to Waukesha West on May 24, 2012 – the longest unbeaten streak in state history is believed to be 56, set by Catholic Memorial from 1995 to '97.
  • The Crusaders moved up five spots to No. 18 in this week's Students Sports Fab 50 and rose one place to second in the website's Great Lakes Region rankings. DSHA  remained sixth in the regional rankings, while Brookfield Central checks in at No. 10.
  • The annual Racine County Invitational is today and Saturday at Racine Horlick, with Racine St. Catherine's looking to defend the title it won for the first time in 2013.
  • All 10 Milwaukee City Conference teams are expected to be in action at one location Saturday as Milwaukee Pulaski plays host to a pair of tournaments. Madison, Pulaski-Arts, Riverside, South, Tech and Washington are set to play in the City Tournament, followed by the second day of the City Cup – Hamilton, King, Reagan-WCLL and School of Languages make up the field for that event, which features the top four finishers from last season and starts today at Milwaukee Tech.
  • Ally Gall, Elle Pagel, Mary Kate Stanich and Jess Thierfelder scored two goals apiece as Somers Shoreland Lutheran recorded the first varsity victory in program history in style Monday, routing Living Word Lutheran 9-0 in Wilmot.
  • Sophomore Nicole Shields and freshman Genevieve Cruz both bagged braces in the second half and junior Maddie Lyon posted the shutout as host Racine Horlick surged to a 4-0 victory over Kenosha Tremper on Tuesday – it was the Rebels' first win over their Southeast Conference rivals in nine years.
  • More and more schools are adding artificial turf fields: All four high schools in Waukesha are having them installed this summer. The city's three public schools – North, South and West – raised the remaining combined $232,000 needed by Thursday to complete a $1.5 million project to add ProGrass fields to each of their stadiums. The school district is contributing $501,000 to the project, called the "Fields of Many Dreams" project, while local club SC Waukesha committed $500,000 over 10 years to be a partner with rights to use all three facilities. Waukesha Catholic Memorial also will be installing ProGrass at its InPro Field – the company is discounting costs for the four Waukesha schools along with Sussex Hamilton High School and Carroll University. Meanwhile up north, Superior recently broke ground on the National Bank of Commerce Spartan Sports Complex, which will include an artificial turf football-soccer field.

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