Threats Captures State Championship in 200 Meters

Senior Brandon Threats brought home the WIAA state title in the boys 200 meters over the weekend at the state track and field championships in LaCrosse.

Threats posted the fastest time in the preliminaries and then took the championship in 22.10 seconds. He also helped the 4 x 200 relay team to the second-best qualifying time in preliminaries, but did not run the final and the Blue Dukes finished sixth. Runners were Tommy Friesch, James Stecker, Darrein Walker and Rashadeem Gray.

Nate Gomoll finished eighth in the 1,600, earning a point for the Blue Dukes, who tied for 19^th with 14 points.

Rashadeem Gray didn’t qualify for the finals in the 110 hurdles and Rhashad Gray didn’t clear the initial height in the high jump.

On the girls side, Lily Hayes cleared 10 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault and finished eighth, the only female Blue Duke to reach the awards podium. Sofie Yang was 22^nd.

Emma-Lisa Murphy took 13^th in the 1,600 and 17^th in the 3,200.  Whitefish Bay’s foursome in the 4 x 800 relay finished 11^th. Helena Dziadowicz was 23^rd in the discus.

WIAA state tennis

Senior Ben Foran made an impressive run through the Division 1 singles bracket. He opened by beating Myles Iwen of DePere 6-1, 6-0. He then upset a seeded player, Christian Phelps of Eau Claire Memorial, 6-4, 6-0.

That put him into the round of 16 against the defending champion, Damon Niquet of Marquette High School. Foran proceeded to snatch the first set from Niquet in a tiebreaker, 7-6. Niquet then ended Foran’s season by taking the next two sets, 6-2, 6-2. He went on to win the state title again.

Also from Whitefish Bay, Wentong Zhang lost his first match to Jake Diesler of Mukwonago, 6-2, 6-3.

In doubles, Matt Kavanaugh and Graham Martens tore through their first two matches at state, losing only three games. Then they ran into the top seed, Ben Klein and Ben Stewart of Brookfield East. The Brookfield East duo triumphed, 6-3, 7-5.

The Blue Dukes’ other team, Andy Krugler and Charlie Bostwick, won their first match with tiebreaker victory after splitting the first two sets. They lost in the second round to Will Kivlin and Corey Bett of Greendale, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1.

WIAA girls soccer

Whitefish Bay defeated Oconomowoc 5-0 and then conference rival Germantown 2-1 in overtime to win the regional and advance to the sectional. The Blue Dukes face a tall task — top-ranked and unbeaten Cedarburg.

The Blue Dukes lost 2-0 to Cedarburg on April 17, according to WisSports.net, but have won 10 of their last 11 matches. The only blemish was a scoreless draw against Divine Savior Holy Angels; during the 11 matches Whitefish Bay has allowed just one goal.

The match is at 7 p.m. Thursday at Cedarburg.