Full Show - 3/15/2025

Full show from the Donovan & Jorgenson Heating & Cooling Studio: Saturday, March 15th, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:24):
a great time of year, man, I'm telling you basketball
games all over the place and having a lot of fun.
We've got a busy show. Coach Paul Wallersheim Mint Studios
my co host this week for the entire two hours. Coach,
how you been I've been great. Great to be here, man,
it's good to see you. I know that you wish
you weren't here. You'd rather be, you know, rather be

(00:45):
like some of the guys we have coming on, like
Brian Winchester from Depure getting ready for a big game
today at two o'clock. I know that you wish you'd
be coaching, but I appreciate you being here.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
You know, I appreciate being here. I appreciate you know,
all the hard work and the excitement that goes in
to beat the plane on this day. I've had, I've
had my opportunities, so I'm I'm grateful.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I get asked you miss it? Well, you know what
I missed this time of year. These are the things
I miss. We're at at Wakshaw North the other night,
Thursday night for the WAWO Toast So West against Brookfield
Central game, standing room only. It was the atmosphere that
you had so much fun coaching then, and it was

(01:33):
a it was a good game back and forth and
Toast West ended up getting it at the end, and
it was just it made me feel like, Okay, this
part I miss.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know, I think Sectional week is the best week
of the whole tournament. So many teams have been knocked
out by that time, and you know, track has already started,
so you have your spring sports starting and there's all
the attention comes on to the select few teams that
are still left in the tournament and it's just a

(02:05):
really special feeling there.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
The state tournament part.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
If you advance past Sectionals, there's so much work to
do and you know, and it's it's at a different
you know venue up in Madison. It's it's amazing but
this the Sectional week to me is the best week
of the tournament.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I agree. Do you know the other thing about Sectional
week in State week? Brian Winchester, the head coach at
De Pier, is so kind with his time and here
I've talked to him like last I don't know how
many years in a row, but he does a great
job at a peer and I'll tell you what they
it's a really good team. They they slid by, they

(02:43):
hit a shot to beat you Boyga North to get
to this and uh they got a game today two
o'clock at Appleton North against Oshkosh North. Coach Winchester, how
you doing today? I'm good, hey, coach. We get a
chance to talk to you this time of year. I
think care every year. And man, the run that you

(03:03):
guys this this last couple of games, you've been tested
a little bit, Shaboygan North gave gave you everything you
could handle the other night, and uh, feeling awfully good
about getting that win to continue to get a game
on today.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Absolutely, you know, we're just happy to be playing today
and happy to have practice yesterday. You know, Sheboygan North
is a really good team. I think they're a top
ten team in the state. Some of their losses just
piled up in our conference versus very good, right, so
you kind of people lose a lose sight on Sheboygan
North a little bit about how good they are because
they have five or six losses and there are a

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couple of them are to us, one to a schwabin
On one in Notre Dame, you know, and it goes
on and obviously we have the regional final game against Arrowhead,
who's who's a little bit young this year, but really
really good in tournament basketball. You know, you can look
around the state. You know, there's just it's hard to
win in the tournament.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
It just is.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
And all these things, the pressure that stress, all that,
you know, things happen, and so what makes it such
a great time of year, Hey, Brian.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
For for people that haven't had a chance to see
de peer play. And I've seen you guys play twice
this year. People keep asking me about, Hey, this kid
that's going to Wisconsin, is he a kind of kid
that that has a chance to play? Is he? Man?
I love that kid. I I just think that that
he is physically mentally tough for the most kids on

(04:26):
the floor, makes really good decisions and when your team
needs a basket or they need to need to stop
on the defensive end, He's the kind of kid that
seems to make things happen.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, Zach Kinsinger is a special player, you know, four
year player for us. You know, has been around basketball forever,
older brothers who have pushed him. So there's there's no
moment that's too big for him. And he understands the
game so well and what he needs to do. And
I think you mentioned it. Not only can he get
us baskets, he can help get us stops on the

(04:59):
defense the end of the floor, which in the tournament,
you know we have we have to score it today.
But a huge key for US is going to be
able to get stops and get stops consistently, and Zach
is going to be a big part of that today.
I think you know, whether he's ready to play next
year at Wisconsin or not, it's going to depend a
little bit on their roster, but he's going to have
a good chance.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hey, Paul, when when we used to coach together, I
would I would look at stats and and if a
team had a kid average in twenty five a game,
their next kid average in six or eight and then seven.
You know, our our thought was if if that kid
gets his average and we stop everybody else, or if
we could shut him down a little bit, we got
a chance to win. When you look at the Statsford

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to Peer, they Zach's averaging twenty five a game, and
then their next three it's like seventeen a game, twelve
a game, eight a game. You can't just take away
one kid from de peer and expect to win. They
they've got other guys coming, you know, they're they're two, three,
four and five scores, all are capable of putting up

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double digits and and and helping them win. That's a
tough team to coach against.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
For sure.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
You know when when I watched them at at watch
your team, Brian at at at Christmas, it was you know,
a big term they throw around nowadays is connected.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Your guys are connected.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
They they they move the ball, they they work for
the best shot. They're all connected on defense, all five
guys moving on every pass. It's really a joy to
watch as a coach, and it's it's got to and
you have to have guys that buy in. I'm sure
that they really trust the system and the culture you've

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built there.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
But how much fun is that to coach?

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Well, it's you know, when you have experienced groups like this,
you can do high level things and some of it,
you know, you get to make adjustments that you just
can't do with some other teams that maybe are less
experienced or as you mentioned, aren't as connected. You know,
there are times where you can just reference a game,
remember when we did this, and it's just a simple thing.

(07:05):
And the kids know that, you know, and they've all
been it's not just the four years that they spent
together in high school. You know, this group, our senior
class has played together since they've been in second and
third grade, so they know they know each other well,
where they're going to be at on the floor, how
to play, how to win, And I think that's been
the thing from early on with them. It's always been

(07:28):
about winning for them. It's not about who scores the
most points. Obviously, Zach, you know, is the guy that
we go to more often offensively, but Price can step up,
and Ron Damovski's just controlled games defensively for us and
is making shots and so you know, and you go
on down the line. Counter Hutchins is a double digit games,
and Nate Bonfit just rebounds the heck of the heck

(07:49):
out of it and does the dirty work for us.
So they're all they all really understand their roles really
really well, which you know has led to our successes here.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Hey, Brian, we're talking to Brian Winch, to the head
basketball coach at the pier. They've got a sectional final
game today at Appleton North at two o'clock against Oshkosh North.
You know, as coaches and and and coach Wallash, you
say this lot, Look, we don't, we don't, we don't
look at it, but we work ahead. Right, let's take
a look at who else is in our regional intersectional.

(08:20):
Any surprise to you that Ashkash North, the seventh seed
is the team you guys are playing today.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Uh, it's a huge surprise that they're a seventh seed.
And the computer, and you know Paul knows this well
and you do too. You know, the computer doesn't know
that Bryce Ott was all for two thirds of the year.
You know, that doesn't take into consideration. So the surprises
they're a seventh seed, the fact that they're playing today
is absolutely no surprise. They were a top four or
five team in the state to start to hear they're

(08:48):
a top four or five team in the state right now.
So it's you know, we knew, we knew it very well.
Could be Oshkosh Norris and uh, you know a Tuesday
practice this week, Uh, you know, we prepare, uh you know,
did some basic things that we're gonna need uh to
do well today against Dosh goshan Art.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
So there they playing. Still run into one three one,
and what do they run defensively?

Speaker 4 (09:13):
You know, they're there are a lot of men this year,
but they do go one three one, or maybe a
little bit less in the past, a little bit of
two three and they the bottom part of that two
three and he comes up high. It almost morph gives
you a little bit of a three to two.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Look.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
So we're gonna face multiple defenses today. But the thing
that they do, and that I mean, it goes you
know all the way back to coach Shady. They play
their tails off on the defensive end. I mean, they
just get after you, They dog you, uh loose balls
they're after and so we need to control. You know,
we we do a very good job of not training
the ball over, but that has to hold true again

(09:50):
today we can't allow them run all baskets. We got
to guard him in the half court and then a
huge key for us is we got to keep them
off the old glass. We tell our kids, you know,
they're they're offensive. Possession starts when they shoot it and
the ball hits the rim, because then they're going to
get it. So we got a box out and we
got a rebound with some intensity today.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
You know, Brian Winchester, the head coach to the Pier,
I promised only ten minutes because he's got he's really
busy today. They have got a two o'clock tip at
Appleton North against Oshkosh North to get up to Madison
next week. Coach, I can't thank you so much for
your time. I know today is a crazy day. I
appreciate you giving us a couple of minutes. Good luck today.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Hockey guys. Later you got a coach.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Brian Winchester, the head coach at de Pier. You know
he didn't sleep much last night. You know that you've
been through that. I know they were back in the
day when we'd have some late nights. Uh, you know,
last night looking at today over at your house and
you grab some pizzas we'd break down film and and
I know that coach Winchester figuring out what they're going

(10:56):
to do with an Oshkosh North team that look, he's
not surprised. They're there surprised at the seventh seed. And
now I wanted to ask him if he misses the
CD meetings, do you miss the CD meetings.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
The city meetings? That's that's the way it should be.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
There's just no way that, like you said, there's no
way that computers know that they had a player out.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
It doesn't seem like they put any stock into the
strength of your schedule. If you have a good record,
that's what plays.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Hey, So you and I are going to be doing
two to one hour preview shows on my twenty four
for the state boys tournament coming up next week one
layer twelve thirty on Thursday before divisions three and four
and then eight am on Friday. Will do another show
for five two and one. Last week we did one
on the girls side, and I sat on that three

(11:47):
hour press conference and the girls coach from Laconio came
on and said with Todd Clark obviously on that call,
and he made he said, look, obviously the WI does
not care about non conference. We shouldn't be a three seat.
We've this the fourth year we've been to the finals
or to state, not the finals to State. We've wonted

(12:07):
three years in a row. We're the three seed because
we our schedule has been tougher than anybody else in
the state, and so we have four losses. But let
me tell you, the four losses are boom and he said,
I just don't think we should have been in the three.
And then they got it, went out and got beat
But he made a comment on that call that said
the WI does not care. So I don't know what

(12:29):
we're going to schedule from here in the future, but it.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Might be they can't care.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
They can't.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Right at the base, I mean, the seeding is generally okay,
but there's there's there's a dozen throughout it, a dozen
things that you can point to that goal that doesn't
make sense.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Like Brian just talked about the best player from Ascotts
North goes out. If you gave they lost and that's
what cost them and put them at the seventh seed.
Now he's back and he said, look, they're a top
ten team. In the state. They got the seventh seed
because not be the computer. WI doesn't care that their
best players out a few games, and we know.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
The coaches are all going to hey, listen, you got
to you know, coach talk. You know, we all got
to beat the teams in order to get there, but
especially in the regionals, that it's a difference between a
home and away game a lot of times.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Hey, I'm greed, but we're gonna have some time in
the second half of this show for you and I
to chat a little bit, and I want to continue
to talk about the show. The two shows we're gonna
be doing on my twenty four. We did one last
year and we did so good. Now they want two
from us, So maybe that's what it is. I don't know.
I don't know that we did so it's.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Fun to do though.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
I really enjoyed that, and it was it was fun
looking up, you know, because a lot of times you focus,
especially down in this area, you focus on one, two,
and a little bit three. But it was it was
interesting to do a fair amount of research on the
Division four and five teams and find out the coaches
and how long they've been there. And yeah, it's it's
it's interesting stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah on the girl's side. You know I'm talking about
Turtle Lake. I like, are you kidding me? Well, you
know their off guard was, their shooting gear was out
for a game. I don't know any of that, But
then you do enough research and they have guy a
guy like coach said, who's been around the girls game forever,
guy like you as my co host. Man it it
turned and the people over at My twenty four do

(14:21):
a great job of putting that show together, and I
thank them for allowing us to do it. Coach, we're
going to get to a break. The next segment, we're
talking to the head basketball coach at Waterford and the
head basketball coach at Tosa West. When I told him
you're you were going to be in studio, he said, Hey,
that's my old boss. So we're going to talk to
Chris Neubauer about nine thirty and Nick Rogland, the head

(14:43):
coach at Waterford. I am always I'm a huge Waterford fan.
They treated us really well when when Billy Schmidt and
I went down there to do a game. Their their
athletic director has been great. Their head basketball coach. We
had a pick and safe student after the week I
drove to Waterford from pe Wak in a blizzard and
I thought, I'm gonna give this kid the trophy and
get out of here. I figured it to be him

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and I and there was like forty people that showed up,
and the grandfather would still be talking to me if
Jamison's grandfather who listens to our stuff and watched her
on the corner and I said, look, I got it.
It's a blizzard. I got to get home. He said,
I live two blocks from here. I live an hour
from here, and really big fans of the job that

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Nick and his staff have done with this water For team.
And we'll get to him on the other side of
the break. This is the Varsity Blitz High School Sports
Show presented by your local Pick and Save and Metro
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(15:47):
I do to welcome back to the Varsity Blitz High
School Sports Show, presented by your local Pick and Save
and Metro Market stores. Coming live from the Dive in
the Jorgensen Heating and Cooling studios. So a number of
weeks ago go I had the head coach from Waterford
come in with some of his seniors and just a
really good dude. And his players were really they're just

(16:11):
very respectful to the game, very thankful for coming in.
We had a picket safe student athlete week Jamison and
I went down and met him and like forty other
people from the Waterford community, and then we went down
into the mcgonaga Waterford game, from the athletic church, to
the principal, to the people in the front office, to
the head basketball coach, to the players, to the parents,

(16:33):
thanking us for doing it. I called Mick and I said, look,
I'm now like a big time Waterford fan. I need
a shirt, and he sent me a picture. I've got
one in my office. Man, I'll get this up to you.
Nick Rogland had basketball coach at Waterford. Got a big
game today one o'clock at Whitefish Bay against for Scene Park. Hey, coach,

(16:54):
how you feeling today?

Speaker 7 (16:58):
Feeling grateful we play another game of basketball?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, you sounded a little tired to coach Wallershive and
I we got great nights to sleep last night. Coach,
I'm not sure if you did. Hey, let's talk a
really good win against Wittnell. Let's just talk about the
game and not the nonsense caused by the Witnow side
at the end of the game. Let's talk about getting
that win. Witnell knocked you out last year. You came

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back in the regular season, you know, in a non
conference game and beat him and then beat him again.
And that's a really good Witne basketball team. Coach, you
guys played out awfully well to get that win. Fifty
six forty nine.

Speaker 8 (17:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
Crazy thing is we didn't actually play really well. We
played well enough to win. Defensively, we played pretty good.
We're down eight nothing. The first half battled back. I
think we're down two at half, and then second half
came out in Whitnell just I mean, they blew the

(18:01):
doors off again. We're down eight again, you know, and
then just our defensive habits forced them to kind of
play a little differently than what they wanted, to force
them off their landmarks. They couldn't play with the temple
that they like to play with. We forced some tough shots,
rebounded at a high level, and scored enough points to
get out of there with a win.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
We're talking with Nick Reglan. He is the head basketball
coach at Waterford. Again, they play Racine Park the number
one seat on the bottom against number one seat on
top at Whitefish Spae at one o'clock today. I know
you've looked at at Racine Park quite a bit. They Man,
they have had a heck of a year. They're gonna
give you everything you can handle. Talk a little bit

(18:42):
about Racine Park and the kind of team they top.
The run and jump, right, They're going to run and
jump all day long.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
Absolutely, they're gonna be They're gonna run and jump on
a make.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
On a miss, on a miss, that's all. You don't
see that often.

Speaker 7 (18:59):
No, that's really the toughest one to kind of just
prepare for and simulate. But yeah, they're gonna they're gonna
play really tough defense. And then offensively, they got guys everywhere.
You know, normally, normally there's a guy or too that
you can kind of designate as somebody that you can
help off of, or maybe you don't have to close

(19:20):
out as far or we're okay with him beating us.
We've seen parks got dudes everywhere, and that that that
score it different in different ways, but everything starts with
their defense. They're gonna they're gonna pressure, and you know
we talked about changing witness temple. That's what Park's gonna
try to do to us. They're gonna try to They're
gonna try to speed us up and get us to

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play faster than what we're comfortable with and force us
in us the stakes that typically for them turn into layups.
So you know, we got to be ready to take
care of take care of the ball, handle some pressure,
and that'll be that'll be the key to the game
right there.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
That you know, we played them at Martin Luther last year.
They knocked us out in the regional championship and we
had to prepare a little bit. We lost to Greendale
on Friday, but we would have had them next if
we would have won that game. So I looked at
them a little bit this year, and you're exactly right.
The part of all five guys you have to extend

(20:19):
out on, which makes it tough because we're our team
really had to find maybe even two guys at times
because of our personnel that we would try not to
extend out on. And I was this, this is a
really difficult team to match up with. Because all five
guys shoot the three, and they just extend you out,

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especially if you like, like you're talking about, if you
like to find one guy right that you can help
off on. They're tough to do that against.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Yeah, and you know they can all shoot it, but
they can also get downhill and get pretty strong. So
definitely a tall task. We've got a couple of couple options,
you know, were our typical defensive habits. I think we're gonna.
We also played them earlier in this year, so we

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have a little bit of familiarity. We did not have
Jamison for that game, but we think some of our
some of our defensive habits, and then we got a
couple of packages that we've kind of had. We've used
them at different times of the year. I have not
it's not been on tape recently, so you know, we've

(21:32):
we've not had to get out of Man in a
couple of weeks now. But we're we're ready, We're ready,
We're gonna. I feel like, you know that as a coach,
you want to be comfortable and you want to make
sure that you got your guys playing their best basketball,
and that's where our guys are at.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
So I think it just all starts for them, and
it all starts with taking care of the ball. If
you could take care of the ball, that gives you
a big head start into controlling tempo that game.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
Absolutely, And that's where I think Jamison just his presence
now this this game. That's a third ball handler. It's
a big, strong kid that talk about alleviating pressure on
our point guard. And another guy that we liked to
bring it up.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Hey, Nick, I know I said I wouldn't talk too
much about the end of the last game he had,
but you brought up Jamison. And it didn't surprise me
even one bit that in the tape I watched, he
was the guy that was pulling your players back, pulling
and getting everybody away and let's just get to the

(22:42):
locker room. Boys, we don't want any issues here. Let's
get to the locker room and let's get ready for
Racine Park. And it doesn't surprise me that that that's
the kind of leader he is. And uh, I just
kind of smirked, and I watched it, and I kind
of knew he'd be the guy that was just you know,
in the middle, like push and everybody aside. Let's just
get the locker room boys, and let's talk about the win.

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They get ready for Racine Park. I'm a big fan
of that kid, and and Nick. It's been great for
me to have you in studio. You and I have
got a chance to know each other a little bit.
And like I told you, I normally don't have a
dog in the fight, but I'm kind of a Wolverine
fan today. I hope you guys get the deal done.

Speaker 7 (23:22):
I really appreciate that it'll be It's gonna be a
fun day of basketball, for sure.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
It was.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
It was a great opportunity for us to come in
and for the boys to get to sit down in
a radio studio, and then the family is to hear
their kids on the radio. Definitely a memory that not
a lot of kids get to have. So appreciative that
you reached out to us and made it happen, and
also for the opportunity to highlight the great things that

(23:48):
Waterford High School is about. You know, you hit the
nail on the head in your intro this time and
last time.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah, Well, I'm telling you from from the athletic tractor
to you, to the staff to the principal, it just
was a great experience, and we appreciate that. He is
Nick Ragland. He is the best head basketball coach at Watford.
Again one o'clock today at Whitefish Bay against we're seeing
Park Nick. Good luck today, look forward, Hopefully we'll be
talking next week.

Speaker 7 (24:17):
That sounds like a really good plan.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Appreciate it. You got a coach, you got its, So Paul.
At the game we did on Thursday, the Tosa west
Brookfield Center game, I got a chance to talk to
coach Newbar before the game and I said, man, you've
won you know, ten eleven in a row. What changed?
And he said, you know, after that, we had a

(24:39):
rough spot there and we had a team meeting and
he said, we got after a little bit. You know,
we we everybody aired out any grievances, and what came
from that meeting is we had to be better defensively.
And he goes, trust me, you're going to see it.
He said, we're a better defensive team now than the
last time you saw us. And I think that has
a lot to do with why where you've won ten

(25:00):
or eleven in a row, we are now joined And
he was right by the way defensively, man, did they
get after it? The head basketball coach at Toasta West.
I think he was on your staff at one point,
wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Chris Newbar for sure? Yeah. Yeah, he's a really good coach.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, really good coach. He coach Newbar or how are
you doing?

Speaker 9 (25:19):
Hey, good morning, guys. How are you guys doing?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Good? Good man? That was a fun game for me
to be at, and you had a big smile, and
I appreciate you. Taking a couple of minutes after the game,
You're like, come on, man, I got to get on
the bus, I got to get in the locker room.
I go take the headset. New Bar, get on my
show for a minute. We got to interview you. But
you were a Chris when you said to me, look,
I think what you're going to see. The difference in

(25:42):
our team is defensively and I one hundred percent. I
don't know how many turnovers Broke Central had that game,
but boy, you guys did a nice job of turning them.

Speaker 9 (25:51):
Over in that particular game number three, DJ Hennings, he
was all over the game, making really difficult for him me.
We wanted him to stay attached to him as much
as possible. You know, we did some switching here and there,
when they were running their double stagger screens and you know,

(26:13):
trying to figure that out. But they all bought in.
And it all starts with the number three with us.
He's our best defensive player, boy.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
And you know, offensively, I think he took two shots.
He hit a big three when you guys, man, you
needed a basket, and he got a wide open three
and hit it. And then he right away got everybody
into the defense they wanted that you wanted, and he
just you're right. It was almost like he was second
grading Rise. And when I say that, he didn't care

(26:43):
too much what was behind him. He wasn't helping out
weak side. He was making everything difficult. And in fact,
anybody that you put on Rise, they were attached to him.
And when you take a kid who's, you know, averaging
twenty five twenty six a game, and you hold him
to ten or twelve, you got a chance and then
turn everybody over the way you did. You got a

(27:04):
chance to win that game. And and when you had
talked about, look, the whole difference in this team is
what we're doing on the defensive end. I gotta tell you, coach,
I was really impressed with it. Feel pretty good about
this game today.

Speaker 9 (27:20):
Well, I never feel good about a game. I'm always
nervous about it. We know, we put a lot of
work in the scouting and preparing for the teams. Ultimately,
you know, players make plays and players win the game.
So if our guys make some plays, you know, I'll
take our chances.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
One o'clock tip at all konamwalk against Mont Horreb. I
don't know a ton about more Mont Horrb, do you, Coach?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
I saw?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
I think Mount Horror played Greendale at Christmas, and I
mean Greendale is a solid team and it was not
a close game. It was a twenty five point game.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Mont Horror beat Monona Girl forty nine. Coach Newbar, tell
us a little bit about what you see with that
Mount horrorbe team.

Speaker 9 (28:05):
Well, one of the big big things for this game
is their lean scorer, Manchester, who averages thirty three a game,
most likely is out with the shoulder injuries. He separated
his shoulder in a playoff game one of the early
playoff games. Wow. Rumor has it that he might try
to go today, but they had it in their in
their town paper that he was out unless they get

(28:27):
the state. That is huge for them. He is a
really really talented player, really good player, and he's got
several Division one scholarship offers. But after that, twenty and
twenty fourth for them, really can shoot the ball. So
you know, we're worried about them. You know, they play
some dribble drive, they run a lot of good sets.

(28:49):
Their coach really well. They're big, strong kids. So it's
going to be a battle. And you know, we got
to do what we do, what we've been doing all year. Offensively,
we can't turn that thing over, we can't drive into
triple coverage. We got to share the ball, make that
extra pass. You know, same cliche, you know, pass up

(29:10):
a good shots for a great shot. But it's true,
that's what we have to do.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Hey, a coach, if I can Jalen Brown offensively, and
and he's a problem defensively as well. Brooks Central had
a hard time keeping him away from the basket, right,
You guys spread the floor really nicely, and he does
a nice job of being able to get to the basket,
finish or get to the free throw line. And if
they people do sink. You know, Jake Hansen hit some

(29:37):
big threes the other night. In fact, he may have
hit two or three in a row early in the
game when he was getting pretty open. Looks that it's
a it's a difficult team I think to defend is
Waotosa West. And I sat on that broadcast. Look if
you can keep them from getting to turnover or getting
the ball, you know, out of a made shot or

(29:59):
off the glass and getting a three on two or
a four on three, because you guys get the ball
down quickly, I think to be able to slow you
down a little bit and get you in the in
the in the half court is the best bet to
play against Tosta West. But then all of a sudden,
when Jalen Brown gets going downhill and and and Klasky
gets you know, getting the ball around the paint and

(30:21):
he can finish and Hansey can shoot it. Man, it's
a when you guys got things going offensively, it's a
difficult team to stop.

Speaker 9 (30:30):
I agree. Uh, you know, we have a three hunded monster.
Everybody's been saying that all year. But besides those guys,
during this whole run, our bench has been unbelievable. And
and you had mentioned or we had mentioned that we
kind of had that coming to Jesus moment where we're like, hey,
you know, what are we gonna do. We're gonna go
this way or this way. Part of it was finding

(30:52):
on the defensive end, but the other thing was our
bench players accepting their role and excelling at it. And
they have done that great And for example number twenty
two last night, Messiah Chambers played unbelievable defense. Yes, his
stats don't show up, and they don't show up in
the box score, but his contribution to the team are

(31:13):
winning plays that make us win. Roman Long has bought
into uh being a defensive stopper and getting given you know,
whatever the defense gives him, he'll take that. He won't
force stuff. And Max Gogan, Uh, he's a three point specialist,
and man, that little guy can shoot the heck out
of the ball. And when we get contributions from one

(31:33):
of those guys a little bit offensively, you know, off
the bench, we're really good because our three main guys
are going to go out and get theirs and then
you you know, other team's got to figure out how
they're going to stop that. And then if we sprinkle in,
you know, a fourth or fifth guy, we're really hard
to guard.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Hey, coach Newbaria head coach at Toast West if next year,
if you need another assistant coach. We're at the table
right We're doing the game Hunter and I and and
Matthew Klasky's mom was sitting right next to us, and
I'm telling you if I wish I could record that.

(32:09):
First of all, she knows the game really well, and
she it was a rollercoaster ride for her. I had
so much fun watching her trying to move the cheerleaders
out of her way, and then she she knows the
game like crazy and she's like, look they're doubling. You
gotta go opposite. And I was just like, this is awesome.

(32:31):
I was taking some of her lines and using them
on the broadcast. But you want to talk about a
woman who's fully invested in her son and this program,
and I just it brought joy to me. Coach, I
gotta be honest with you, because it was she was
almost in the fetal position at one point when you
were down like seven or eight, and then like a

(32:51):
big smile on her face and jumping up and down
when you guys won. So it was a great crowd.
Kadem Bats was there and anytime the athletic director is
standing next year. You know it's a big game, and
he you played at a really high level. Coach, good
luck today one o'clock against at O'connomwalk against a good
Mount horrb team, and hopefully we're talking to you the

(33:14):
next week. Coach.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
All right, good luck, Chris, appreciate you being on.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
You got it, Chris newbar Head coach at Tosa West again.
One o'clock tip against Mount horrebe at O'connomwalk. When you
get to a break on the side of the break,
Ryan Walt from Wisconsin Lutheran will join us. This is
the Varsity Blitz high school sports show as I was
presented by our local Pick and Save and Metro Market
stores on Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeartRadio app

(33:44):
Save Patrick say, it is not what it used to
be for me, Paul, I can tell you that. In fact,
growing up, you know, my mother's maiden name was o'fay
McGivern and o'fay, and my dad always said, don't go
out and say Patrick's Day. You get to be one
hundred percent Irish all year long. Let those idiots go
out one day of the year and let them pretend

(34:06):
they are Irish. Welcome back, to the Varsity Bill. It's
high school sports show presented by your local Pike and
shave A metro market stores. Coming from the Donavan and
Jorgansen Heating and Cooling studios. My co host for the
entire show. He's Paul Wallershem, the head basketball coach at
Greendale Martin luther trying to get a hold of Ryan Waltz,
head basketball coach at Wisconsin Lutheran. Man, They're at Wrokshaw

(34:29):
South today four o'clock tip against West Dallas Central, and
we'll be talking to coach Mawatchek at ten twenty. Those
two teams same conference split, similar to the wild host
Westbrook Central game that we did, right, they were the
same conference split. The only lost Wisconsin Luthin has this
year is to Westdallis Central.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
State.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, in state correct. That thing's going to be a war.

Speaker 8 (34:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
You've that West Dallas Central team. They are just a big, physical,
push you around type team and they've got some veteran coaches.
You know, as Wisconsin Lutheran does. They just have bad
I mean, Wisconsin Lutheran has such smart, good basketball players.

(35:17):
It's just a it's a little bit of a you know,
for sure, contrast and styles. Although West Tallis Central isn't
a team that likes you know, that really gets up
and down the.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Court, right, Yeah, they don't. Well, I've seen Wisconsin Lutheran
a number of times, and you're right, they have got
they're really well coached, and they've got some really smart
basketball players that can knock down shots. And you know what,
they get after it too. Defensively, they'll they'll definitely get
after you. We are now joined by Ryan Walls, head
basketball coach at Wisconsin Lutheran High School. Again. They've got

(35:47):
a four o'clock tip at Walkshaw South today against West
Dallas Central coach Wallas. How you doing today?

Speaker 8 (35:54):
Oh, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Good morning guys.

Speaker 8 (35:55):
Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 9 (35:57):
Just outside chopping up with a tree.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
We lost the tree in.

Speaker 8 (36:00):
The windstorm last night, so busy to work this morning
right away.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
This is great man, Good for you.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
You know what, you're probably tape tape the heck with
tape the heck with the pre game.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
I got a tree to take care of.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
I think that. I think that's good because that gives
you an hour to think about something other than basketball.
And we you know, and how big and strong the
boys over at West EU Central.

Speaker 8 (36:24):
Al Right, well, you know life doesn't stop just from basketball, so.

Speaker 10 (36:28):
It really coach disagree, and I'm gonna hold on. I'm
gonna get that up on my wall in my office.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
My wife with discrete with when I you know, I
stopped coaching, my wife said, I thought you'd be home more.
I go, I'm still going to games, still getting the practices. Hey, coach,
congratulations on a really good year. I you know, I
loved the fact that when when I came to see
you earlier in the year and I said, hey, it's
you know, it's a new day now, Conkin nipples that duke,

(36:59):
and you said you kind of had a smile. You said,
you know, I think we got a chance to be okay.
And I said okay, And you said we got a
chance to be okay and kind of smiled and walked away.
And Coach, it's been better than okay. It's been a
team that I know you enjoy coaching. These kids play
for each other, they enjoy hanging out together, and it's
been a fun year for you.

Speaker 8 (37:21):
Yeah, it's been great. You know, right away from the
last you know, last summer, in the familiarity of being
in the system and you could see that there was
a good connection. It was just a matter of, you
know how those young guys going to develop into those
new roles. Con obviously did a tremendous amount of the
heavy lifting for us last year, and the role players

(37:43):
had to be good, but you know, he did most
of the decision making. And so now this year, you
you flipped that and you've got young guys now who
we're young, I guess now our seniors or juniors and
have to step up. And they've just done a tremendous
job of doing that across the board. And so it's
been a real fun year for me. You know that Again,

(38:05):
the greatest thing that I can share with most people
who don't know anything about our team is the fact
that we we assist on over seventy percent of our
field goals.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
That's a huge number, coach, and that that that tells
you that these kids obviously share the ball and want
you know, who's got a better, better shot, Let's get it,
get it to him, coach. When when you when you
lose a kid like Nipple, you've got two of his
younger brothers that both they certainly add a lot to
this team. And they're really young. But boy, I'll tell

(38:37):
you that I really like your guards and I think
that they really kind of dictate the pace and the
toughness of your team. Uh, You've got some kids that
just finish anywhere around the basket. Zen's is a really
good basketball player, and I think, Coach, there are people
that thought, well, they're going to take a step back,
and I knew after I talked to you early on

(38:58):
that you know, maybe you're not going to take as
far as step back as some people think, because you
got some kids that have been part of the program
and understand what it takes to win. And it's been
really fun to see this team just continue and coach,
when you have a team like you had last year,
the team like you have this year, kids understand how

(39:19):
hard it is to continue to win because everybody's got
you circle on their schedule. Any surprises for you, how
these kids have really kind of adapted to be in
the hunted.

Speaker 8 (39:32):
No, I don't think so. I think it was just
more of the timeline of their progression. We knew we
would get there eventually, but they just got there way
quicker than I ever expected. So by mid December, they
were playing, you know, at a championship level basketball, and
then they just kind of maintained that the whole season.
We were thinking that maybe if we could get there

(39:52):
by mid Jajanuary early February, that would be a good
target for us. But they just, like I said, they
just geled, They matured, They grew defensively very quickly together
as a team, which is huge. You got to learn
how to defend and uh and so yeah, you mentioned
you know, guys like you know, Isaiah Melock and Alex Green,
you know who are you know role players last year

(40:13):
have stepped up into a bigger role and have you know,
really succeeded in doing what we've asked them to do.
And then, you know, you you're having a team, and
you can't have a superstar at every position, right, so
you've got to have guys who understand their role and
they know what suspect and have to make a complete team.

(40:35):
I think that's where West Dalis Central has really really
improved this year, taking their really talented players and then
just guys fitting into roles and that's why you've seen
them have some of those early season struggles and be
really successful as of late. It's it's teams figuring out
how to play together, figuring out roles, trusting each other,
and then just playing good basketball.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Hey, the one kid you haven't brought up, and I
need to bring them up because I really like his game,
and that's Riley Wallas. He's I enjoy watching him play. Coach.
He's a bit on the small side, as quick as
a hiccup. He's tough and spacing, he understands all of it.
He takes charges, he gives the ball up at the
right spot, he defends. I'm a big fan of watching

(41:19):
him play, and I think that you know, obviously he's
been around the game a long time. You got to
be really proud of the kind of basketball that he
the kind of basketball player he's becoming.

Speaker 8 (41:29):
Well, because he's you know, he's my son. I'm always
proud of him, no matter, you know, whether he's playing
well or not. But he's put in a lot of
time and he's worked really, really hard. Yep, you've got
to add some weight and hopefully with a hill will
add that time in the weight room. But he's played
a lot a lot of basketball like a lot of
these guys, and played with a lot of these guys together,

(41:50):
and so again talk about understanding his role. He knows
his role is to handle the ball, not turn it over,
play the defense and space, and hit the open threes
when he gets the chance. And he's done a great
job of doing what we've asked him to do. We
don't ask him to do a lot more than that
because we got other guys that can do some of
those other things. And so you know, like like I
said before, guys have to fill those roles, step into

(42:12):
him and find some success. And he's been able to
do that.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
I'm very happy for him.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Yeah, well, Paul's coaching his son. Now I had a
chance to coach my son, and now you're doing it.
I can tell you that sometimes it's a roller coaster,
but when it's over, you go back and you edit
out any of the down roller coaster parts and you
just kind of highlight all the good ones. And my
son right now is in Puri, Illinois. He's still in

(42:39):
an old man basketball tournament. I went down two weekends
to go to watch him play, and they're back in
the semi finals of this tournament. And coach it. I
hope that you enjoy it, because it really is a
special time not only for you and your family, but
for this young man.

Speaker 8 (42:55):
Yeah, all of us who have coached their sons, and
you know, my dad was my coach, you know that
those are difficult things and they are hard things, and
your your son's going to have to prove it more
than anybody else on the court to you know, to
earn that playing time. And you know, and so my
wife reminds me constantly that, you know, just remember after
basketball has done, he's still going to be your son.
So yeah, sure, you don't you know ruin that relationship.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well, I hey, good luck today again, four o'clock tip
at Walkshaw South against West Allies Central. You know, coach
Melats is going to join us at ten twenty. You
want me to see if you'll give us what his
game plan is for today?

Speaker 8 (43:35):
Well, after playing him twice, I can. You know, when
you play teams three times and they're in your conference,
there's a lot of familiarity. So yeah, me me being
able to go out and chop up some wood today
and not have to watch them, you know, play for
how many of time this year? You know, sometimes you
watch that tape so much you've got to tell yourself

(43:56):
enough is enough? And walk away because you've seen him
so many times.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Go get go. You'll get that tree taken care of.
He is Ride Walls, head coach at scot Ryan Wisconsin
Luther High School. Four o'clock tip at Walkershaw South against
West Allis Central before we get to a break. Chuck Ruffin,
the head basketball coach at Brighton Stratton College. You can
hit a golf ball about seventeen miles. He also can coach.

(44:20):
I can tell you that Brion Stratton advancing, they're dancing,
and he's also I believe he was named the coach
of the year. Chuck Ruffing, how you doing today?

Speaker 5 (44:33):
I'm good, Mike Man. It's it's kind of an honor
following coach Waltz over there at Wisconsin Luther getting on
the line right after him. It's funny guys talking about
coaching your kids. And I was sitting there thinking, I'm like, well,
I don't have any yet, but someday when I do,
I hope he's still coaching.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Hey, I've got a couple of grandkids. If you need
you need some. They don't listen to me. I'm just
the old guy that tries to tell them to learn
how to drive. Both their hands, but they don't care
about about any of that. Hey, coach, talk talk to
me about this year's team. When is your next game?
Talk to me about you guys making the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
Yeah, so we uh we just won Region four tournaments.
This past weekend we beat uh we won a big
championship game, and now we're heading down to Danvillinois. That's
where they host a national tournament next week. Tuesday, we
played at six pm against Kalamazoo Valley, which is one
of the top scoring teams in the country. We're one

(45:30):
of the better defensive teams, so knock on wood. Hopefully
that prevails next Tuesday around six pm. But it's going
to be a conflict of styles, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Hey, to beat Rock Valley College seventy one sixty six,
do you guys get you if you don't win the
championship or Region four, they're at large bids And would
you guys have gotten one? Do you think?

Speaker 5 (45:52):
Yeah, so it's interesting you bring that up. You know
there is a large bids. It would have been really
really close. There's another team in our region this year,
Will bonds you who had the heck of the season
That was twenty eight and four, and you know they
did not get in that large bid this year. So
it's one of those things where you just don't really know.

(46:13):
Our region is one of the toughest regions in the country.
So you know, our job balance to go and represent
as best as we can to moving forward that we
can start to maybe earn some of that large bitch.
You know, last couple of years m ATC South Suburban
have been in the National Championship Game, and so we're
going to try to fall suit.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, you know, when you look at their schedule and
you talk with people that are involved in Brion Stratton
obviously you know they're big games throughout. But when they
play Madison College and they play m ATC. And a
year ago I went to the m ATC game and
m ATC beat Brion Stratton. I didn't get to go
to this year's game. Man ninety eight eighty eight. Brian

(46:56):
Stratton beat m ATC. A couple of days earlier, they
beat Madison College one oh four to eighty seven. So
you want to take care of business close to home,
and you.

Speaker 10 (47:06):
Got something about defense, Oh, you gotta do some more
shell drolls.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Man, you give it up eighty eight and eighty seven.
But after that they beat Wilbur Wright, they only gave
up fifty nine, and then in the tournament they've given
up sixty four and sixty six. So trust me, you
know what. Gousby d Jine, who's on his staff a
kid I coached at AU basketball. Maybe he's getting them
to do some shell DROs for sure, Coach Man, I

(47:35):
really am happy for you guys, Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
Who's who You're going to play in the eighteenth at
six pm? Good luck and hopefully maybe we're talking next
week because you're still playing.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Hey, I'll tell you what, Mike, I appreciate being on
as always, and Tyler for playing next week. That's a
really good thing.

Speaker 7 (47:55):
Man.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
Just need more time with these guys.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
We love this group.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
It's been really really fun.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
And less time for you to get to the driving range.
I man, I look, I still owe you four bucks
or six bucks or something. PAULI he he lost more
balls in eighteen holes and it's only because he hits
the ball so far he couldn't find it. I can
tell you that he is Chuck Ruffing. He is the

(48:20):
head back men's basketball coach at Brighton Stratton. Guys, it's
a big game December or I'm sorry, December March eighteenth
against Kalamazoo Valley Community College there in the playoffs. Man
represent our area well, Coach, and it's always great to
have you on our show.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Hey, I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
Mike.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
You guys have a good rest, Good luck.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Coach.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
You understand that. Ryan and I we want to rematch
with you and Gunsby will play eighteen someplace and I
got a feeling i'll get my six bucks back.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
Hey, you gotta give us about a couple of months
here so you can get the swing right.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
No, Hey, Ryan and I have been to the driving
range a lot. We want to do it like the
first dage. Some of these courses open place.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
I bet you guys doie. I appreciate the man.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
All right, Coach, thank you so much. Man. We're gonna
get to a break the other side of the break.
Our current electric Superhero of the week she's in studio,
Isabella Olsen. She is a man. She is a state
champion wrestler and there's so much more to her than that.
Looking forward to having her on the air at ten twenty.

(49:27):
We'll talk with Coach David Malachik from West Dallas Central
in studio with me my co host for the entire hour.
He is coach Paul Wallershein from Greendale, Martin Luther. This
is the Varsity Blitz High School Sports Show presented by
your local Pick and Save in Metro Sports nine twenty
and your iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to the Varsity Flitz
High School Sports Show presented by your local Pick and

(49:50):
Save in metro markets, coming live from the Donovan and
Jorganson Hitting and Cooling Studios. Coach Wallersheim from Greendale, Martin
Luther my co host. I love doing this. Every week
we bring in a senior and I think Scott Hollard
the aded O Creek and Candice Montan the Principal Edo
Creek because they called me and said, hey, man, we

(50:11):
have a current electric superhero the week and we would
love for you to be able to meet her, highlight
promote and celebrate the things that she's done. And there's
a lot to her, but she is man. She's a wrestler.
I can tell you that one a state championship a
couple of weeks ago, and I watched the match. Isabelle Olson.
How are you.

Speaker 11 (50:32):
I'm good you did.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Man, that was a fun match to watch. You were
not playing, you were not you were you were you
were them telling you. It kind of scared me a
little bit, but I understand that if we got on
the mat. I know we're different weight classes and I'm
much older, but you would whoop me. I talked a
bunch of smack before you got it. I can't even
do it. I can't talk smack. Give me wallers. I

(50:53):
was like, you are not getting on the mat with her?
Tell me about maybe two minutes before that match started
the nerves. How are you feeling? You knew this was
your last?

Speaker 9 (51:04):
This was it?

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Senior year? You took second? Last year?

Speaker 12 (51:08):
Yeah, oh no, last year. I didn't go to state,
but my freshman and sophomore year I was runner.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Und So you you you had to finish the job.

Speaker 11 (51:16):
Yeah, you finish. I can't get second again.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Had a girl talk about the journey to get there
and how much work. First of all, how long have
you been wrestling?

Speaker 11 (51:26):
I've been wrestling seven years now. I started in middle school.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Who got you involved?

Speaker 12 (51:32):
Basically? I wanted to wrestle since I was like an
elementary school. I've always done like combat sports. I was
in martial arts, but then my dad was like, hey,
there's a girl on the team.

Speaker 11 (51:44):
You should join. So I was like, okay, there it is.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Yeah, And did you was it instant? Did you fall
in love with it? Because wrestling, look, and you're part
of asking right, you do part of their club and
all that. This is a lifestyle, right.

Speaker 11 (51:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
And it's funny because I had a bunch of wrestlers
in a couple of years ago and they said, look,
we walked through the airport and you can sometimes you
can just kind of look at people and know that
they're they're involved, and it's a different breed. It's it's
kind of cultish a little bit. But wrestlers, man, it's
it's it. You have to you have to fully if

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you want to be really good, you have to fully
invest in the lifestyle of being a wrestler in the
weight room, you know, cutting weight, watching all that, and
then making sure that that that when you're at practice,
you're there to get better.

Speaker 12 (52:31):
Yeah, so you got to be committed one hundred percent
of the time. You know, I've been lifting about since
freshman year, but I really like stuck to it this
past year. Over the summer, I was consistent and no,
I definitely felt like a lot stronger. And then I also,
you know, aw A, they helped a lot going going

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there for club over the.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Badger Elite Girls, Black Mambas, and Midwest Assassins. So this
is all teams that you have worked out with or
competed with.

Speaker 11 (53:04):
Yes, so.

Speaker 12 (53:07):
I have competed with all of them. I did ask
her not like preseason nationals. And then Badger Elite Girls
I've wrestled with a few times. I wrestled in Indiana
with them in in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
So Paul, we could just spend the next hour talking wrestling.
We could. But when you look at her bio four
point one GPA, AP classes, dual credit college courses since
your freshman year, vice president of the German Club, member
of the National Honors Society, and student council. So part

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of the current Electric Superhero the Week is people that
have that servant leadership park right, that understand it's important
to give back and get involved. And when ms Monden
and Scott Holler reached out and nominated Isabella for this award,
they said, look, you can talk to her about wrestling,
talk to her buck getting involved in lacrosse. You know,

(54:02):
she's a multi sport athlete. What position do you play
in lacrosse? I'm a goalie, of course you are, because
you know what, I would never do that. You know,
you put on a lot of a lot of pads.
But that ball is hard.

Speaker 11 (54:15):
Oh yeah, it never hits. The pads never hit.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
And you're okay with that, right, How was the lacrosse team?
By the way, we have a.

Speaker 12 (54:23):
Very new lacrosse team for our girls that only started
three years ago.

Speaker 11 (54:28):
Yeah, so yeah, it just became a wa sport.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yeah. Excited.

Speaker 11 (54:32):
Yeah, I'm really excited.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
So here's the cool part. All of the things she's done.
You can go to the kurd Electric facebook page. So
look at this beautiful picture of her and and her
bio and and I'm telling you it, there's so much
more to this young lady than wrestling and lacrosse. And
I said to her, are you you know, are you
going to wrestle in college? And she said, I'm not
going to go to college. I said you're not. She goes, no,

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I know what I want to do. And I said
what do you want to do? And she said, I
want to an electrician. And I go get Oh the
Kernel Electric Ceronel Electrics. I'm so excited about this. During
her spring break, her and I are going to go
over and I'm gonna introduce you to everybody at Kernel
Electric so that she can kind of like Brodie Lee
from and Ryan from Green Deal, Martin Luthor. They knew

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what they wanted to do and they have been now
at both smart guys like her, both smart right, and
they they knew what they wanted and we got to
ride along and they got offers to to to be
part of the team. And they've been there for four
or five years. And why why why Electrician? Why? What
about that caught your attention?

Speaker 11 (55:38):
So you know, I'm not great at studying, which you
know you.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Got a four point one.

Speaker 11 (55:44):
I'm just a good test takers.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Okay, that's perfect. You know your your mom is smiling
right now because she may have said something like that
to me when her and I know she didn't. I'm
well we kidding you know. By the way, before we
get into why you want to be electrician, she is
so proud of you. We talked about twenty minutes behind
your back, and she is so proud of you. And
when she said it's weird to talk to you on

(56:06):
the phone because I listen to your home improvement show
every week. Shocking to me because she's the girl that
listens to my home improvement show anyway. So why why
do you want to be an electrician?

Speaker 12 (56:17):
I've always liked those shop classes that I take. I
like working with my hands, and you know, I'd be
able to do something different every day.

Speaker 11 (56:24):
It wouldn't be just the same reptive.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Do you know the two guys that we were talking
about from Greendale, Martin Luther are so well respected over
at Current Electric. They work hard, they're there every day,
they're studying, they're doing all this stuff, and they keep
coming to me saying, do you got anybody else like
these two? And now I'm like, I might, I might
have have somebody like that, And I love the fact

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that we're going to be able to do that. Wrestling
is done now for you? Or are you going to
wrestle this summer at all?

Speaker 11 (56:53):
So with Midwest Assassins, I have a tournament planned.

Speaker 12 (56:56):
With them April something down in Illinois.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
So are you still are you just gonna go down
there and participate or are you still you know, on
the mat right now? Or have you taken a little
break from the state tournament.

Speaker 12 (57:11):
I went to I'm gonna try to go back to
Askerns for like three months at least during that tournament,
and we'll see if I do anything else.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Okay, and then maybe it's over. Yeah, you're gonna miss it.

Speaker 11 (57:21):
I will. I will miss it so much. I already do.
Been off for two weeks and.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
You miss it. Who's the wrestling coach for you over
at oh Creek?

Speaker 11 (57:30):
We got Matt Somerville as our head coach this year.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Okay, he's got to feel pretty good about the job
that you did. How was the team this year?

Speaker 12 (57:37):
The team we were conference champs this year, so you know,
doing pretty good.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
They're really good. Yeah, a senior based team, or is
it some younger kids now coming back?

Speaker 12 (57:47):
We got a ton of freshmen. I think we had
like thirty some freshmen joined this year and we like
actually kept most of them.

Speaker 11 (57:53):
In the room the whole year. So, wow, we got
a young team coming up.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Well, they're going to miss you. They are definitely going
to miss you again. If you go on the Kernel
Electric facebook page, take a look at her bio And
when when I get called from from the principal and
the athletic tractor of a school saying, hey, look, we've
got somebody that is a true superhero and we would
like for you to highlight, promote and celebrate her academics,

(58:19):
talk about her sports outside of playing sports, and taking
care of her school work, even though she said she
didn't study a whole lot. She's a four point one student.
Tell me some other things you like doing. You're you're
a paint You like painting? I do.

Speaker 12 (58:35):
I love painting. I'm actually in a painting class. It's
my first art class. I've taken all of high school,
but not a lot.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Of studying in your painting class? Right?

Speaker 11 (58:46):
No, oh, I got an easy schedule right.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Now, perfect for you? Right? And you put in all
the time in sweat aftery and this is it one
semester now and you're done. Right, Yes, you're excited about that.

Speaker 12 (58:59):
I'm excited, but I'm also really nervous because I'm like,
what am I going to do after school's done?

Speaker 1 (59:04):
No, No, I'm going to take care of that. I'm
telling you. I'm gonna say, I'm going to walk you
into Current Electric and I think you're hopefully it's a
good fit for both of you, and if it's not,
I've got some other opportunities for you. But that's the
one that I'm such a fan. I was there yesterday
for a couple hours, and the people are excited to
meet you, and they said what date, And I think

(59:27):
I gave them Monday or Tuesday of the week that
you're going to be on spring break in the morning,
and we'll get that done. Isabella Olson, she is a
state champion. I've got you know. Your mom said that's
how I have to introduce you. By the way, state
champion Isabella Olson. She didn't say any of that. I'm
just playing with you. Three year captain of the wrestling team,
led the conference champion this year, and she's the goalie

(59:50):
in lacrosse.

Speaker 12 (59:51):
Any other sports, I've tried out a few sports, but
you know I've narrowed it down to just those. One
of the other sports you tried freshman year, I did
five sports, so I was in football.

Speaker 11 (01:00:04):
Powerlifting, wrestling, track, and lacrosse.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
What positions you're playing? Football?

Speaker 11 (01:00:09):
Running back?

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
You did?

Speaker 11 (01:00:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
You didn't like it.

Speaker 11 (01:00:13):
I just wasn't very good that time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Did you stick it out for the whole year?

Speaker 11 (01:00:18):
Yeah? I did it for two years.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Good for you. And then powerlifting, Yes, did you enjoy that?

Speaker 12 (01:00:24):
I did, but I didn't really get to compete because
they all overlapped with wrestling, which is mainly why I
stopped doing powerlifting.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
I love the fact that you have done a lot
of things in your high school years, right, And coach
Walasheim and I coached together a long time, and we
both firmly believe that those four years get involved in everything.
Take care of your business of the classroom. Right. It's
not your right to be in the wrestling team. It's
a privilege that you earn because of what you do

(01:00:51):
in the classroom. And man, congratulations are curd Electric superhero
of the week. Take care of your business here the
last you know, six eight weeks whatever it is. Don't
like be skipping school because they'll be calling me and
I'll pull this award real quick. Scott Holler will be
calling me. You know she's skipped class today. I know

(01:01:12):
that that's not your style. Right, No, hey, good luck,
good luck in the future. I'm hoping that this whole
current elector thing works out. For if it doesn't, whatever
you do, whatever company gets you to come over and
and uh and join their company is going to win
in this deal. So Isabella Olson. It's good to meet you.
Congratulations on being this week's current Electric Superhero of the Week.

(01:01:35):
Thank you, cod He's the Deana students at Martin luther
She's not a girl you would have ever met. She's
not coming to you if Yeah, wouldn't message me doing that? Yeah,
look at me trying to just mess Trust me, I'm
too old for any of that. It's so good to
meet you. Other thanks for listening to my home improvement show.

Speaker 11 (01:01:56):
I absolutely happy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Yeah, I love that again an Electric Facebook page to
take a look at a beautiful picture of this young
lady and her bio and all the great things that
she has done and is doing at Oak Creek High School.
We're going to get to a break other side of
the break. David Malatchek, the head basketball coach at West
Dallis Central, got a big game today against Wisconsin Lutheran.

(01:02:18):
We're going to catch up with with David and see
what he's thinking about that game today. This is the
Varsity Blitz high school sports show presented by your local
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nine in your iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to the Varsity
Blitz high school sports show kind of our Saint Patrick's
Day special. I guys, I love this. I love this.

(01:02:40):
You don't. You don't hang out a lot on St.
Patrick Stay anymore, Dada. No, there was a time, Yeah,
there was a time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
I can remember there was a parade on North Avenue
they used to do.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Yeah, the one not that long ago.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Because my oldest daughter did Irish stand since she did
the she did the parade down Wisconsin Avenue and then
we'd go to the Irish Community Center there, like what
is that about fifteenth in Wisconsin or so.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Yeah, it's a nice building. Yeah, it's beautiful, no doubt. So.
I like games like the West Dallas Central Wisconsin Lutheran game.
And I've said this for years. West Allis Central, as
long as coach Plotsik has been coaching, they always seemed
similar to your teams, always playing their best basketball down
the stretch. And that tells me a lot about the

(01:03:26):
staff and about this coaching, about this team that you
know they have figured it out near the end of
the year, let's start to make sure we're playing our
best basketball. And I think they've done that. In fact,
the only in State loss at Wisconsin Lutheran has They
lost at West Tallis Central February eleventh, seventy eight to seventy.
Now there's a rematch. They've played twice. Something's got to give, right.

(01:03:49):
Wisconsin luther won the first one, West Tallis Central won
the second one. We talked to coach Walls a little
bit earlier. He was hoping coach Belochik would tell us
what his game plan is today. David, how you doing.
I'm good?

Speaker 6 (01:04:02):
How about you, Mike?

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Thanks for having me, man, yep, you bet. I don't
think you're gonna give us your whole game plan because
coach Wallace is listening in case you say, look, we're
gonna just play zone all day to day exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:04:15):
Yeah, no, two three, No.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
That is not not happening. Hey, coach, the team's been
playing pretty well down the stretch. Correct.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Yes, they have really coming together this year.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
When you know you go ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
No, Yeah, the guys just they're figuring out their roles,
playing together, understanding what everybody does. You know, It's been
fun to coach them. It's a great group of kids.
They you know, good basketball like you, and just good
work ethics. So well, it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 8 (01:04:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Since the first time they played Wisconsin Lutheran, which is
January tenth, they've had one loss since then, so they've
been rolling really, really well. They beat a good with
still So Central coach before we get to a sky
Saluthor was so so Central. It's a really good team
and you guys beat him ninety three seventy nine. Tell
me a little bit about that sexual semi final.

Speaker 6 (01:05:10):
Gun Well, no, I mean we knew going in with Elijah.
You know, they got a point guard and they got
a big you know, and then they got you know,
the role players on the wings, and they all just
play their role. And anytime you got an elite point
guard like that and a really good big you know
that matches up with ours, you know it's going to
be a battle and they're not going to give up.

(01:05:31):
Coach does a great job down there. But the thing
that I was impressed with us, you know, we got
off to a good start, got a lead on them,
made some areas, you know, end of the first half,
and then beginning of the second half. They came out
and with Soshia took the lead on us. But our guys,
you know, I kept telling them, you know throughout the game, like, hey,
that's a good team over there. They're gonna make a run,
you know, but now our turn, you know, our run

(01:05:53):
is coming. To stay with it, you know, continue to
run our stuff. And kids really you know, bought into
that and stuck with it, and Max and Yusuf made
some big plays you know during that run. But everybody else,
that's the kid that has been playing, you know, Isaiah
Fox has been just solid at the point guard. You know,
he's got like a four to one assist the turnover

(01:06:14):
ratio and just playing really solid. And then Caden Davis
has been excellent knocking down some big three for us
and playing great defense. And then you know, of course
the other guys they are doing their role. So it's
been it was a good game of tight game, but
found a way to win. I always say sometimes, you know,
in playoff time, you're not always going to play the
prettiest basketball. It's finding a way to win and move on.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Hey, Paul use of great Junior is a kid that
that when you talk about West Allis Central and coach
coach Malachek has talked about Mac Jones and Kevin Pittman's
playing well. Isaiah Fox and Davis. There's a number of
players on that team, but use of Great Junior is
the kid that people ask me about. And I've got
to tell you this, when, when when David and some
of these players, including Yusef Gray, were in studio this

(01:06:59):
earlier in the year, he said thank you to me
probably four or five times, shook my hand. He was
our Pick and Safe student athlete of the week, and
he said on the air and I said, look, I
was a big fan of your dad. I thought he's
a really good high school basketball player. If you got
it on the court, who would win one on one?
He goes, Man, he's old and slow. I would whoop him.
And we all started laughing. So I meet his mom

(01:07:20):
and dad at our local Pick and Safe store and
his dad goes, get me a gym, sell some tickets.
You know, we started laughing. I pulled his mom aside
and I said, you know what, ma'am, you've done such
a nice job with this young man. He looked me
right in the I shook my hand and said thank
you a bunch of times. And she said he's a
work in progress. And I go, he's like a four

(01:07:40):
point zero student and she goes, his room's messy, and
I go what she goes, he is a work in progress.
We're not done with this boy yet. I completely fell
in love with his mom. She's got a smile, lights
up a room, and she's really proud of her kid.
But when she said he is a work in progress,
we're still we're still working with him, I thought, Man,

(01:08:00):
that's awesome, and I really enjoyed that. She said I'd
like to see those guys play one on one as well.
So you get that, Jim, We'll see how it goes. Coach,
He's a kid use of Gray Junior is a kid
that gets everybody involved offensively, very talented. What I've impressed
with him, Man, he's kind of a lockdown defensive player, right,
He's the guy that you put on their best player.

Speaker 6 (01:08:24):
No, he does it all. I mean defense, scores, rebounds,
he makes everything.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
Look really easy.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
The way he plays everything look comes so he makes
it look that way. It's not easy, but he makes
everything look so easy. The way he finishes at the rim,
the way he gets himself open and gets angles and
gets into gaps. He's just everything he does. He's a
basketball player. He's really good.

Speaker 6 (01:08:52):
No, and a great kid to coach. You know, you
can get on him, you can you know, teach them,
go through stuff, ask him questions. He shares what he's thinking.
And it's just like I said, what is mom and
dad have done with him? And it is a it's
a work in process with him because he knows that
he wants to get better. He knows he got some
weaknesses and that he has to get better at it.

(01:09:14):
But he gets in the gym. He's a kid that
doesn't spect. He's constantly in a gym, working, doing the
right things. And it's just a yeah, having a kid
like that is always nice to have. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
I tell you that, Hey, Paul, when he was in
studio sitting next to me, I took a picture of him,
sent it to the top assistant at Iowa State. Instead
of recommending he takes the offer from DePaul and j R.
Bos Come on, coach, don't do that to me. He
is the kid that I out of that area, of
that class that we're really hoping that we can get

(01:09:45):
to Iowa State. And I believe he's made that decision
right Coach.

Speaker 6 (01:09:49):
Yes, he has. Yep, he committed pretty much. I think
it is mid January.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Yeah, and he's a junior. This team, this team over
at West l Is Central, Jones, I think it's a sophomore, right, Yep,
there's a young team.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
We start two juniors and three sophomore so it's yeah,
it's exciting. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
I'm glad I'm in D two.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad I've retired. I want no part
of the Bulldogs.

Speaker 8 (01:10:15):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Hey, coach, when you look at that Wisconsin Lutheran team,
and again there's you know, when coach Wallas came on
a couple of minutes ago, he said, look, with what
the storm that came through, I've been out in the
yard for an hour cutting a tree down that kind
of fell. And I said, so you're not breaking film down?
He said that I've seen. I've seen Westallis Central enough.
I just want to get to the game. And he said,

(01:10:36):
you know, it gave me an hour not to have
to think about these guys. Tell me a little bit
about Wisconsin Lutheran and the problems they are going to
cause for you guys today.

Speaker 6 (01:10:45):
No, I mean they're a great team obviously, you know,
you know with Xavier, they you know, the Nipples, the
Ryan's son, you know, they just balanced. They they run
their offense set screen. It's just tough to guard defensively,
they're in their gaps. You know, you can't panic against

(01:11:06):
them because they're gonna make you take tough shots. You
gotta be patient and get what we want. So it's
the same thing. You know, both teams know each other.
There's not gonna be many surprises. You know, we're gonna
come out, kids are gonna compete. They got guys that compete.
We got guys that compete. To me, it's just going
to be a dog fight. It's gonna be you know,

(01:11:26):
who comes out and make shots and takes.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
Care of the ball.

Speaker 6 (01:11:29):
That's the way I look at it. You know, it
takes care of the offensive glass, the defensive glass, make
sure they're not getting extra possessions. And it's it's really
a simple game because today it's two teams that are
I think is very talented, and it's gonna go out
in the competition and you know it's gonna be a
tough one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Coach, how was that? How was that your first game
of the year against Milwaukee Academy of Science. First half,
you guys hung in second half, they they had their
way with you. A little bit, and then I've seen
you since and and your team looks different now than
it did then. And I think most teams do, but boy,
they I just think taking care of the ball and

(01:12:07):
getting on the glass is something that you guys have
really improved throughout the year. Would you agree with that?

Speaker 6 (01:12:15):
You know, guys just understanding their roles. That's the biggest thing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Paul.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
When when we talk and we've we've had this conversation before,
when when when a team continues, when a coach has
his team continue to get better the second half of
the year, what does that tell you about about a
program like West All Central?

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
I think, coach, I mean, you've been doing this a while,
so you you understand that what happens in November and
December and even January isn't necessarily you know, if if
things aren't going well, or are their opportunities to learn
and get better and get it on film and show
your guys, because this time of year is what it's about,

(01:12:57):
you know, And.

Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
No, and we look at the beginning year is kind
of a you know, it's a trial run. You know,
the regular season is a trial run to get ready
for the playoffs. And you know, we're going to learn
about ourselves. We focus a lot on ourselves beginning of
the year, you know, before even breaking down other teams
and doing all that, and it's kind of getting who

(01:13:18):
we are, identifying who we are, so now we can
start looking at other teams how we want to game
plan against them. So to me that November December, you know,
beginning of January. You know, hopefully by mid January, we
know who we are, what our strengths are, took care
of some of the weaknesses, and to start building up.
So we're playing our best basketball coach.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
When you know, we talk about scheduling, right, and we
talk about look is WI and the computers that care,
how tough a schedule you have. Well, you know what
Melochich at West south Central here's who some of his
non conference games starts with Milwaukee Academy Science plays that,
Dominican plays, Carbon Northwest plays Oshkoch North plays Nickel, goes

(01:14:02):
down to Chicago and plays a team. And that's all
you know by the beginning of January. So you when
when he tells you that, like he's not playing Milwaukee,
you know some school that that that has one win
at the end of the year, he's figuring out who
are the teams who's going to get us a chance
to find out what we're all about by beginning to

(01:14:23):
mid January, and then we can kind of tweak this
team to get him to to where we're at. And uh,
in their conference, that conference is tough. Man. When you're
playing Milwaukee and you're playing against Wisconsin Lutheran twice in
New Berlin West, that's a really.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Good coaches in that conference too.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Yeah, yeah, really good coaches one hundred percent. Hey, coach,
did you sleep well last night?

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
By the way, I actually did. I've been sick all week,
so last night I took some medicine and I was out.
I let the probably the best I have all week.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Hey, how big?

Speaker 6 (01:14:57):
Which is crazy? Right?

Speaker 8 (01:15:00):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Is there going to be a big group of malaticks
at the game today?

Speaker 9 (01:15:05):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:15:05):
You know there is?

Speaker 8 (01:15:05):
Yea.

Speaker 6 (01:15:06):
We had a bunch there last time and again there'll
be a bunch there today.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
You guys were right there last year, right, I mean
it was in the sectional final game was breaked down
to the.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
White I'm telling you they're always this time of year.
This year, I got him in early because this time
of year many if you look at at Malotics teams
the last five years west Allist Central, look at the
first half and then look at winning streaks in the
second half. It's it's I'm always talking to him this

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time of year. I tell people when when I talk
about the Malogic family, I go, man, you're either with
him or against him, right, because they're they're so competitive
and I love their family. I do. They're always very
nice to me. I want to come over Thanksgiving watch
like Turkey Bowl because there's got to be three different fights.
I can remember.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Playing softball against those guys five years ago. I tell
you up, they'd be beating you like eighteen to three
and like cussing you out on.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
It was no nominal.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
I'm in right field. We know you got no arm man.
And I used to go watch them play Immunion League football.
They'd be up forty one nothing throwing like a double
reverse bomb for a touchdown Brot and I would just left.
The reason I love this family is they are competitive.
They they make no bones about it. They want to

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win every game they and they will get their team
and if they're playing or their team getting ready. I
had a guy and it was a team you coached.
By the way, at Dominican, I had a guy from
man now I can't remember the college called me and said, hey,
we wanted to look at this kid from Dominican and
do you want to go to the game. And so

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we came over and they were playing Saint John's and
the guy said, yeah, I like the kid from Damenican.
Who's the kid playing at Saint John's. I swung them
in logs. Next he goes, I love him, and he goes,
do you know them? I go, yeah, the whole family
sitting right next to me. So this coach went over
the whole second half just talk to the logic family.
He's like, I love that kid, and yeah, it was Uh,

(01:17:11):
it was awesome. Hey David, good luck today. It's going
to be a heck of a battle. It is. Uh, man,
I'm telling you four o'clock, I gotta get I wasn't
gonna go to a game, but now I'm thinking I
want to go. I know, hey, coach, can you put
me on a list? I don't know if I can
get into that game today, maybe you can put me
on it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:30):
Like, man, I'll get you if you want.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
You know what, if I'm not kidding. Put me down.
I was not going to go to a game, but
now I'm going to that game. I gotta see.

Speaker 6 (01:17:38):
It, Mike, any game, That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
But you know what, if I got you on the
phone and you can get me in that, maybe I'll
try to get a hold of it the ad at
walks South and see if you'd put a media table down,
cause I don't like sitting up in the crowd, bat,
I want to be down. Hey is your staff. I
was a little impressed with your staff by the way.
You you got cagey veterans on that staff.

Speaker 6 (01:18:02):
Yes, I did, Yes, I need. I talked to me
and Tom or Goffing a couple of years ago and
has like any interest in coming back, and he's like, yeah,
I can do a little bit, you know. And it's just.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
Awesome having him on the bench, just you know, with
his knowledge and uh just that you know, just game
experience and everything, and it's just he gives me so
much information, you know, before games, during games, and it's
just little subtle hints of things that we talked about before,
just a reminder and it's awesome having it. But then
you know, the other coaching staff you know guys that

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I have, you know, players and just knowledge and everybody
again coaching, all the coaches doing their roles.

Speaker 6 (01:18:39):
Yes, And that's the one biggest thing I think we
figured out, you know about early January. You know, guys
understanding what you know where they can contribute.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
At well being at At that first game, Wakee Cabins
science before the game, it was like guys coming over
to diner kissing the ring man. There was a lot
of about four or five guys in line, and I
kind of made my way over talk to him for
a minute, and then it was this line of guys
that just wanted to come over, shake his hand, give

(01:19:08):
him a hug. And I said, man, you're at halftime.
I said, you're a lot calmer than you worry goes. Yeah,
this is you know what. I could just enjoy this thing.
And and and David and I Chad a little bit.
By the way, when you guys played, when you guys
played around the.

Speaker 6 (01:19:23):
Golf, who won, well, we were We just did a scramble,
so it wasn't any competition.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Yet I didn't realize you play, are you as competitive
on the golf course as you are on the baseball
softball diamond, the basketball car.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
No, not at all, because I'm not very good so perfect.
I enjoy the weather and have a few cocktails and
just enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
Man, that's awesome. If you get a chance play play
around with the head basketball coach at Brighton Stratton, Chuck
ruffin here. I've never seen you, but I've never played
anybody hits the ball that far. And I'm telling you
he lost twelve balls because he hit him so far
he couldn't find him. And I hit it like one fifty.
I can see the ball, it's right there. Yeah, Hey, David,

(01:20:09):
I may text you. I'm going to try to get
to see if I can get to make sure I
can get to that game four o'clock tip at Walkershaw,
South Wisconsin Lutheran against West Dallis Central. It's going to
be a rock fight, guys. I can tell you that.
Coach thanks a lot for a few minutes of your time.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Good luck, coach.

Speaker 6 (01:20:25):
I than I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
Man, you got it, David, thank you. I'm not kidding.
I do. I enjoy their family a lot, and they
look they are very competitive all the way through. You
know that the Scott Cook's part of that family. He's
really competitive. And when you look at the losses West
Dallis Central had, one of them was to New Berlear
West and I'm sure Cooks is still talking about that

(01:20:50):
game to my lotcheck. And I was wet a game
where they played against each other and I talked to
them watching family, said who you guys rooting for? They said,
we want to we want to tie. And then the
one guy goes, well, he's just a brother in law.
That's my brother over there for Central. It's such a
fun dynamic and they're such a really competitive and understand

(01:21:13):
the game and a fun family to watch and be
and certainly root four. And you know when when Duwayne passed,
we lost guy that just was was such a good
part of high school athletics and a basketball coach, and
I missed talking to him. Yeah, yeah, he was good.
We're gonna get to a break the other side of
the break, Coach Wallersheim, I got a bunch of questions.

(01:21:34):
We're gonna highlight this TV show that we're doing. It's
gonna be an hour before tip off of the state championship.
So on Thursday, from twelve thirty to one thirty, we'll
break down Division three and four on the boys side,
and then Friday at eight am will break down divisions five, two,
and one and we'll talk about that on the other
side of the break. This is the Varsity Blitz High

(01:21:55):
School Sports Show as I was presented by your local
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Sports side twenty in your iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to
the Varsity Blitz High School Sports Show. Saint Patrick's State
coming around the corner. One thank Spencer, a producer for
playing the music kind of gets your ready off. Saint
Patrick's Day Parade going on downtown today and if you're there,

(01:22:19):
the Creative Construction Wisconsin will be there and they've got
their miniature horse that's kind of the draw of this thing.
And they'll be handed out cookies and say hi to them.
And it's a little bit windy, but it should be.
It should be a good day. Coach Waller Shine from
a Greendale Martin Lutheran studio with me, coach with you know,
a bunch of games going on today. If you had

(01:22:40):
to pick one that that you know you were going
to go see, what games would probably the Wisconsin Lutheran.
Do you think the Wisconsin Lutheran game, the Waterford game.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
What do you think it I have that that Wisco
West Ellis Central is going to be a great game.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
I mean two really good programs, two teams that are
it's I mean it's not quite North Carolina Duke, but
I mean the familiarity between the teams being from the
same conference playing to go to state full house. I mean,
good players on both sides, kind of a little bit

(01:23:18):
of contrasting styles and coaching styles. It just that whole
thing intrigues me.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
Hey, the biggest surprise for me it has been Cedarburg
Peterburg beating Nick Lay and then Slinger.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
Then beating Slinger. I mean, yeah, yeah, you know every surprise.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Hey, this time of year, and uh and Nick Miller,
I didn't reach out to you. I didn't look. This
is on me, right, it's on me. There are always
teams sometimes that this time of year that slipped through
the cracks, and I didn't look. We had coach Walls
on throughout the year, we had Malogic on, We had
a number of these guys that teams are still playing.

(01:24:00):
But the team at Cedarburgh I dropped the ball on
man and for them to beat Slinger and beat Nicola
and now get one game away from getting the state.
A big surprise for me. I think they got a
chance to you know, they got to play a Notre
Dame team, and they got to travel up to a
mantuac Lincoln. They got a one o'clock tip against Notre Dame.

(01:24:21):
Don't know a ton about Notre Dame, but playing a
really good conference, and they've had an awfully good year
twenty one and six, and the winner of that's getting
the state.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
Notre Dame is really good.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
I got a chance to watch them at the Christmas
tournament or the you know, the holiday tournament over at
at Concordia.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
But the way Cedarburg's playing right now when you come
off wins against Nicola and then you beat Slinger, the
momentum and the energy and the buy in from your
everybody on your team and your program, and they the
excitement because you kind of don't expect to be there,
right and you don't do that with all good enough

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players to beat a Notre Dame and so you know
you can get it done.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
How much fun is that? I mean, that's got to
be so exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
You know, they lost to Slinger January thirty first, seventy
to fifty seven. And I think they played them twice.
They lost to them both times. And you know that
hole cliche, and I don't believe in it, you know,
I don't. It's hard to beat a team three times,
But when you've lost to a team twice, the advantage

(01:25:33):
that you have is the team you're playing. Look, you
can as a coach, you can say, look, don't those
two regular season games don't matter when it comes to playoffs.
But those players feel like, well, when you win seventy
to fifty, when you win by double digits both games,
you know, beating a team three times. I can remember
playing Saint Catherine's bob Letch's team and we won two

(01:25:56):
games during the regular season that literally could have gone
either way. You know, a ball bounced our way, we
made a big shot, they missed the big shot, and
we won by two points. We won by three points.
I think in that case that your kids don't remember
all that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
Oh we beat them twice, right, and that and seeing
Catherine's or the team that lost those two game goes
if we had the ball bounce one way, you know,
so they're like they're you know, every possession offense and
defense because they know we can win this game if
we just if we take care of what we have
to take care of. It's not like they blew us out.

(01:26:33):
So it's I think it's it's just all depends how
the first two games went. If they're two blowouts, I
don't beating a team three times yet, no problem.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Well, the last time they played Cedarburg was Ceedarburgh goes
down thirty twenty six and then they out slinger out
Scorting in thirty eight thirty one. They beat him by thirteen,
and so they were up at half Slinger was and
took care of business beat him by thirteen. I just
find it, Yeah, the fact that Ceedarbergh had had enough

(01:27:04):
in them and Slingers a young team. Their best players
are a young team.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
You have a young team, and I don't know much
about Ceedarburgh. I don't know if they're you know, but
if they have a lot of seniors and they're playing
really well right now, sometimes with the younger team as coaches,
because you know that Slingers coaching staff didn't take that
game for granted, correct, and so they can say all
they want to their kids, Hey, got to take these

(01:27:27):
guys serious. I know we beat them twice and the
kids may nod their head, but I'm always I'm always
curious as to whether that until you experience it, do
you really understand what coach is trying to tell you here,
that these guys are capable of beating us.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Yeah, I agree with that, and I don't know a
lot about Notre Dame and and I would love to
see I would love to see Cedarburgh get the state
and what a great story that would be. And look,
you know their their coach can can go, man, you
missed us, and I go I know I missed it, and
that'll be the first to admit it. But I would
love to see them get this win one o'clock tip

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at my Manitou manitoauc Lincoln against a Notre Dame team
and and look they're they're playing a little bit with
house money right now. To just go out and play,
they should be pretty tough.

Speaker 3 (01:28:16):
A little pressure off it does.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
It really doesn't. And that that I know, the the
atmosphere it's against Slinger at Whitefish Bay. I had a
couple of people that were at that game and they said, man,
this place is packed. It's it's packed. So that Ceedarburgh team,
you know what they They were able to to do
really well in that atmosphere, and I'm sure that they're there.

(01:28:38):
There's gonna be a lot of Ceedarburgh people up at
Manitauqua linking for this game. Hey, when when you were
in these these games and I was with you on
a number of them, like you talked about early in
the show, you think in the state tournament, I agree
with you, this is the best weekend. I love the
getting up to the cold Center and all the things

(01:28:58):
that that provided, and that team bonding and all of that.
My wife and kids still talk about that weekend, the
last week with Green Dell, Martin Luther when we want
it and how fun that was. Is a family, my
family right being there supporting us. We're in the shirts
for you as a coach. And remember we we uh
we sat in a hotel room at four am before

(01:29:20):
we played Wa Pond. We were still were watching film
and reading articles about some of the quotes from somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Yeah you're trying to find anything. You're going to the
local newspaper from where they're from. Did he say anything here?
Did he give anything away?

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
Anything? You can put on the bulletin board and you're dead.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
For he gave us a little something Coach Stillmas gave us.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
But if you if you go back though, to me,
the game that really had some of the fondest memories
was the game at Prairie against for Seeing Saint Catherine.
You know, sold out, they had to bring in extra
bleachers on the baseline and it was just.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
Lost.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
We had split with them only conference law us and
it was just such a great atmosphere.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
And you know, yesterday I watched one of the guards
that we beaten in that game, McGee, who's over at
Wisconsin Therese Hunter.

Speaker 10 (01:30:11):
They were sophomores, Ygee and then and then Hunt, Yeah, Hunt,
Terise Hunter, Tyrese Hunter, and Hunter just.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
His mom just said hello to me the other day,
the big white center.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
Oh he was good. Yeah, Oh I forgot his name.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
Yeah, he was like studying to be a doctor right now.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
That surprised me. Good for him. But in that game,
and again, we we had seniors on the team that
weren't afraid of that atmosphere, weren't afraid to. In fact,
the ride home from there, our guards came up to
me and said, Hey, are you on social media. I
go a little bit. Look at what the guards from
Bloy Turner, that's who we played in the sectional finals.

(01:30:51):
They were out there saying Martin Luther who Turner fans,
go get your tickets for the for State. We're going
to state. And our guards were not happy and we
got up eighteen to nothing. Then never looked back.

Speaker 3 (01:31:01):
At that running clock Sectional final.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
It was Hey, we you and I are going to
be doing two TV shows coming up on my twenty
four again Thursday at twelve thirty and Friday at eight
a m. As we break down this state tournament. Coach
is good to see you. Thanks for coming in studio.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Hey, my pleasure. Looking forward to doing that TV show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
Hey, I was going to talk to you about the future,
but we're running out of time. We'll do that at
another time. Thanks for listening. This is the Varsity Blitz
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