Whitnall Basketball Teams Sweep St. Francis

The streaking continued its hot streak with a 43-25 road win over St. Francis on Friday, the Falcons third win of the week and fourth in a row.

Whitnall’s Ashley Markowiak led all scorers with 15 points, Ann Marie Bay added nine and Elena Busalacchi had 10 rebounds, but a key to the game was Lizzy Menden’s defensive effort that helped limit St. Francis’ leading scorer, Amanda Scherbarth, to six points.

"Lizzy’s contribution was huge,” Whitnall coach Keith Larson said. “She gave a solid, relentless effort on defense against one of the conferences top players.”

Whitnall improved to 6-2 overall, 3-1 conference and New Berlin West (4-3, 3-2) on Friday.

"West will be tough as they have their post player back who was out last season with an injury,” Larson said, referring to Stephanie Turner, who is averaging 10.4 points per game. “Their losses have been to ranked teams; they are a solid team with not many weaknesses.”

Meanwhile, the Whitnall boys remained undefeated with a 57-28 home win over St. Francis, pushing their record to 8-0 overall, 4-0 conference.

Michael Bonin had a game-high 13 points with Luke Mentkowski added 10.

In other action, the Greenfield girls snapped a five-game winning with a 56-33 home nonconference win over Milwaukee Pulaski, the Hawks’ (1-5) first win of the season.