case @ burlington tomorrow night

Tremper @ Park not that big of a game but itll be a pretty good match I assume.

greenfield beat new berlin in 4...
first game we just came out screwing around and we were down 17-5 and lost 21-25
then after that we woke up and won like 25-10, 25-13 and 25-20

we play at greendale next monday at around 6:30

Great match between pius n homestead.

homestead wins in 4. 26-24, 21-25, 25-23, 25-17.

Danny had an AMAZING game. thought we actually had them.[/size]

Well thats cuz Dan is that man

Going along with that, we've played Homestead twice now and I don't understand how anybody could say Charlie's NOT an elite middle or that he's NOT athletic. He's pretty darn good.

we beat shorewood, nicolet, greenfield, fort atkinson (won that tourney by beating muk-town), kettle moraine, kimberly, split with tosa east at park tourney...thats about it for the significant wins

oh and moe...im sure youll really like our warm up mix tomorrow...courtesy of the little asian on our team

alright thanks for the info on the wins and such man

haha wow asian warm up cd....its either: techno, emo, scremo, or like some random ****** fricken music

its not asian music but the asian kid on our team made it...its like 90's club hits

Now THAT is pump up music!

tosa east over brookfield east in 4. 25-17, 25-16, 23-25, 25-18. It was an exciting match, much more competitive i think than the scores show. hopefully we'll see you guys again in sectionals.

yeah fasho that match was super intense. and yes, if we get the first seed, we'll see you again.

Sectional meetings are this week. The Homestead sectional meeting (Homestead, Nicolet, Arrowhead, Manitowoc, Neenah, and Fond Du lac) is Friday night.

Now might be a good time for people to start predicting seeds, and who will come out of each. Here are the sectional pairings

#1 - Appleton East, Appleon North, Appleton West, Green Bay Preble, Green Bay West, Kaukauna, Kimberly
#2 - Arrowhead, Fond Du Lac, Homestead, Manitowoc, Neenah, Nicolet
#3 - Catholic Memorial, Fort Atkinson, Kettle Moraine, Madison East, Madison LaFollette, Waukesha West
#4 - Beloit, Burlington, Madison Memorial, Madison West, Middleton, Mukwonago, Westosha
#5 - Franklin, Kenosha Bradford, Tremper, Muskego, New Berlin, South Milwaukee
#6 - Greendale, Greenfield, Heritage Christian, Case, Horlick, Park
#7 - Marquette, Pius, Waukesha South, Waukesha North, West Allis Central, West Allis Hale
#8 - Brookfield Central, Brookfield East, Shorewood, Tosa East, Tosa West, Bay

Please no comments about how wrong sectional 5 is, we all already know that. Try and keep it somewhat positive.

Top two seeds in each sectional
1. North - Kimberly (North Wins)
2. Homestead - Arrowhead (Homestead)
3. CMH - KM (CMH)
4. Burlington - ??? (Burlington)
5. No idea although there has to be a one and a two in the group
6. Park - Case
7 MArquette - Pius (Marquette)
8. WE -WW (East should win going with West)

#1 - App North and Kimberly
#2 - Arrowhead and Homestead
#3 - CMH and KM
#4 - Burlington and Mukwonago
#5 - Horse a Piece all over that sectional
#6 - Park and Greenfield/Case
#7 - Marquette and Pius
#8 - Tosa East and Tosa West

Saw Pius v. Homestead. Since no Journal
coverage, here's what I saw.

First game was sloppy by both, as Pius lost
a 6 point lead. Middle 2 games were intense,
some amazing efforts to keep the ball alive.
At one point Dan went into the stands
(3-4 rows up between people!) to put a shank
back in play, Pius eventually got the point.
The up ref was Dan Matthews' (ex- NS &
Shorewood, now Ohio State's setter)
dad...there is no way that should not
be out of play, but it was so amazing
he let it go.

For Homestead, Meyer obviously led in
kills; less setter dumps=more points
from underutilized middles.

After the first game, Homestead got its
blocking together and Pius got more
active on defense. No team had more
than a +4 lead in 2nd and 3rd game.

Pius lost its composure in game 4; why
didn't Brock call a timeout? A good rule
of thumb, if you are down 6 at 12 (ok,
some like 5 at 10, or 8 at 15) you gotta
burn one. I would be curious, Pius guys,
as to his post-game comments (reply
offline); based on the preceeding 3 games,
a TO to settle you down was in order...
should have gone to 5!!!



4. Middleton (Burlington)
5. Tremper-Muskego (Tremper)
6. Park-Horlick (Park)
(with Park v. Case and Horlick v. Greenfield in semi's)

Sectional # 1 looks the most competitive and then i would go with sectional #8. Too bad they dont decide on sectional pools during the season to make each pool nearly equal in talent because it would definetly make for a more exciting(and fair) playoff. I dont want to list any of my pics because all my picks would just be repeats of everybody elses, except my sectional #1 pick would be different.

I would agree. The sectionals look a lot fairer than in years past.

Arrowhead over CMH in four - lost the first, won three straight. Looked pretty strong.

park over tremper in 3

Wait a second... are you trying to tell me that we're currently tied for the conference lead?!?!

burlington over case in 4...pretty good match something like 25-17, 27-29, 25-18?, 25-23


burlington @horlick on monday

waukesha south over pius in 6
that jack burnett kid had like 87 kills. but 2 were tips.

What he meant to say was... Pius over Waukesha South in 3. Slow match. Not a lot of fun. Got through it, though.

Is Esser still hurt? if not, what happend to CHM...?

DAN YOU ARE WELCOME?
Esser and Braun played well but it looked like they're team had a tough time getting it going.

And there is no way im attributing this win to a "CMH off night" because they slaughtered us in the first game.
We FINALLY have our lineup set and we are starting to peak at just the right time. i think they will agree that our middles played like they were all conference caliber.

I'm not gunna add any input on the coaches poll because we really havent done anything until now. All im going to say is that hale is getting votes.

And I'm excited to know that our team is finally playing to its potential and we are looking to do some massive damage in this "state tournament" everyone keeps talking about.

wow what a match i didnt expect that props to arrowhead for winning that match that really makes that classic eight conference look like something special...is arrowhead the real deal now or are they a one hit wonder...any thoughts???

We'll see... they're a dangerous team when they can run those two middles. If you can neutralize those two, Arrowhead becomes a bit easier to stop. When we played them, their middles MURDERED us in game 1, but we served tough enough in games 2-4 to keep their middles off balance and out of system. If they can nail enough passes to run middle consistently, they can hang with almost anyone in the state.

Yeah congrats to Arrowhead but I still wouldn't give them much. We've beaten them easily all 3 times we've played them this season. Something bad goes down, it ruins the whole team. They let a bad play hang with them for too long.




Again, I'm not impressed with them really at all. It was a great win for them I will admit, but they haven't shown me much at all, especially when we've played them.


Also, why is CMH 4th in state? No offense to them but they've dropped two matches to us, and i know this just happened tonight, but now a match to Arrowhead. Move aside CMH and welcome Arrowhead

I was at the Arrowhead CMH match last night. CMH took the first game rather easily. Jumping out to a 9 to 1 lead and coasting from there. Arowhead jumped out to an 8 to 3 lead in game 2, but CMH had tied it at 10. From there the rest of this game and games 3 and 4 played pretty much the same. Arrowhead would be up 18-16, or 20-18 and controll the rest of the game. Don't remember the scores, but all in the 25-20 range. CMH gets stuck in a bad rotation with Braun, Esser, and Nuens in the backrow. That front row does not hit very well or block very well and Arrowhead took advantage of that. It seemed like that rotation came up late in games 2,3, and 4. Arrowhead blocked amazingly and CMH did not block very well I would like to see how many blocks Arrowhead recorded for the night. To me, that was the difference in the match. Esser was hitting jump serves, so I assume he is at or near 100%. Final note, the Arrowhead setter did a nice job getting what seemed like a lot of 1 on 1 match-ups for his outside hitters, maybe because CMH was concentrating on the middles, but great job to recognize that.

Before TE starts counting other teams loses, they should count their own. How can CMH be ranked #4 with 4 loses. How can TE be ranked 3rd with what, 5 loses?

No offense to TE but I have seemed to notice how in the beginning of the year they started off very well winning the racine invite but now late in the season they are lacking the game play they had... Both the times that we have played them, yes we have lost, but it wasnt on their good game play it was because of the mistakes our team had made at points where you cant make mistakes.. I think both times we beat them by atleast 8 points or more in the first game and then we couldnt keep things together.. so they better get things back together or else their team is getting a lil too ******y and times around sectionals is not a time to get ******y.

Arrowhead is blessed with a lot of depth that so far hasn't been used very much; their reserves played for a consolation round third place in their tournament and won pretty handily. Going deep into the bench doesn't seem to be something that many VB coaches do, however.

I don't think anyone is offending TE when they say these things. They should be well aware of the problems and if they want to do well, need to fix them pronto

4 of the 5 losses have been to who? (2) Marquette and (2) Homestead. I would not just look at the records and make comments like they are big losers.

I picked CMH as a pre season contender. Hopefully they can work on getting their support players to raise their game now that they are back at full strength.

Arrowhead does deserve a bit of respect.

with every team making the post season, are you happy with how you are playing? if not you better step it up.

I'm not gonna go quoting people and trash talking people because thats not why im here. Major props to arrowhead. I thought someone would beat me to it but i guess im the first to say it: yeah, their blocking and their middles helped the win that match, but the huge difference in the game was their ability to come back after game 1. They came out swinging, they weren't afraid of losing, didn't resort to tipping, they just kept swining, even when they were down 24-18 in the first game, and that shows a true team deserving of respect. Just to add to Tosa East's post, our 4 losses have been 2 to you, 1 the marquette, and now 1 to arrowhead. We also beat homestead in the racine tourney and uve dropped 2 to them, so unless you don't consider ur team one of the elite in the state, then i believe all 4 of our losses have come to quality teams.

Looking forward to the C8 tourney, and for the playoffs to start.

1 - Appleton North over Kaukauna (The loss to Kimberly gave them a wake up call, A North will not loose a game in the tournament series) (Kaukauna Kimberly will be a good semi)
2 - Homestead over Arrowhead (Homestead if they are focused, they might be only focusing on Marquette) (Nicolet vs Arrowhead could be a match, but probably wont be)
3 - Catholic Memorial over Kettle Moraine (Catholic Memorial should roll, but Kettle Moraine has come on strong as of late)
4 - Burlington over Middleton (Brigson probably too much down the stretch, middleton may take a game)
5 - New Berlin over Tremper (When in doubt of who to take, take best player. Best player is freshman from New Berlin, 1st year program, 1 trip to state)
6 - Park over Greenfield (Park should win it since they have experience from playing in the final of the sectional the year before) (Greenfield should handle Horlick I would think, but you never know)
7 - Marquette over Pius (Might not be as easy as some people think, but I think they pull through, would not be suprised to see an upset here) (Hale vs Pius could be a suprisingly good match in semi's)
8 - Tosa West over Tosa East (West has East's number as of late) (Senior led team of Ciriacks and Kirchner should come through over Juniors of Coyle, Speller and sophomore Liska)

I agree. Which is why I still have CMH as one of my favorites to win state. Now go get them MUWarriorz10.


In regard to sectionals, how many top seeded teams have not played other teams in their sectional this year? If they have it would be interesting to see that data and how matchups look now.(injuries/line up changes/players attitudes)

Sorry Truth, East got #1 seed

I believe TRuths picks are top two seeds and who will win to get to state.

Did everyone have sectional seeding meetings? Or just a select few?

The meetings aren't all on the same day. I believe the Journal is running the results on monday.

It really doesnt matter if you got the number one seed in your sectional... we got #1 seed last year and we managed not to go to state.... Its the one who wants it the most and im sure kevin and all the rest of TW want to make another run for the title after how close they got last year.

Congratulations; however you also had the number 1 seed in 2005 (lost to tosa west), 2004 (lost to tosa west), and 2003 (lost to Marquette).

I was predicting winners, not seeds

Ouch...



Truth, will you be at Homestead-Marquette on Tuesday?

This is coach Simon, not Danny, because he was already logged in. Well truth, you are not speaking the truth.............Last year we were the #1 seed; the year before, Tosa West was the #1 seed, and to suggest that my team choked those two years along with the Marquette sectional final in 2003 as some have suggested is a profound injustice to the very talented teams that beat us; namely Ciriaks, Pickering, Kirchner, and all the other players at Tosa West, and the totally stacked MUHS team that we somehow managed to beat three times in 2003, only to lose in the sectional final. They had Mulcahy, Nowak (sp), Hutz, etc.
Check your facts truth...........and yes; I do know who you are!!!!!!!!!

truth u just got owned...if your gonna sit there and tell people who they lost to make sure youve got the facts...oh and it looks like im not the only one that thinks that TE is slightly overrated...its all over this forum

libero110 who u play for...TE im guessing...what club

woah greg might wanna re-think bashin on the truth. he knows alot. but wow you are right though truth did finally slip.

okay since you obviously don't understand, let's look at these losses...
cmh--tosa east 2x, marquette, arrowhead. two teams ahead of them in the rankings
tosa east--homestead 3x (ranked #2), marquette (ranked #1), and shorewood (w/ miller ranked #7)
it doesn't matter about the number of losses it's who they were to

i play for waukesha west and play club for north shore. that was my dad coach of TE

I'm pretty sure all you guys need to chill out. No one is getting "owned" by anyone else. The Truth just didn't have his facts straight, but that doesn't make his point invalid. As much as people like to disagree with me on this one... every year is a new year, and until Tosa East "chokes" (note the quotes), they're the favorite to get out of that sectional. There's plenty of people counting Tosa East out simply because of recent history. That's not quite fair. The same people are the ones that naturally assume Marquette will win the state championship every year.

We'll see how that all turns out...