 and welcome to tonight's inner conference, CLC conference basketball game here at Sheboygan County Christian High. Tonight, Crosstown rivals in the two area Christian schools face off against each other as Sheboygan County Christian High posts Sheboygan area Lutheran. Stay tuned for an exciting game tonight. It ought to be a good one as both schools are playing pretty well actually. Sheboygan area Lutheran has a record of one in three but has been hanging pretty tough with some of the better schools in CLC conference and Sheboygan Christian has been playing some pretty good ball. They stumbled against Howard Grove who played a good game the other night against them but we're looking forward to a good game tonight and stay tuned as we introduce the starting lineups for both teams. Now let's meet the starting lineups for tonight's game. For the Crusaders starting as a freshman, 6-2 Sam Decker. Number three is a junior 5-11 Dan Salzenbrenner. Number 12, or I'm sorry. Number 24, Ryan Johansson. Number 32, Zach Blindauer. And number 21, Parker Anderson, a senior 6-4 senior. And now for the Christian High Eagles. The Lutheran Crusaders are coached by Mr. Todd Decker. Starting at guard for the Eagles tonight is number 14, Andrew Stecker. His back coordinate tonight is number 21, Lee Velkamp. Starting at forward, number 23 is senior, Zach Jentsma. The other forward is number 22, Luke Weir and playing the center post position tonight for the Eagles is number 32, Joel Meriding. Enjoy, there ought to be a good one tonight as these cross tone rivals take to the court in a CLC battle. This is the first time these two are meeting this season. Players to watch tonight, I think for Lutheran are gonna be the freshman Sam Decker. That's Todd Decker's son. He has really grown in the last couple of years, hitting 6-2. And for the Eagles, well, there's a myriad of players that you can watch. Andrew Stecker, the point guard, he's been playing very well for them. Along with Lee Velkamp, Lee's not gonna score you a ton of points, although he has the possibility or potential, but he is, he's really a floor leader. Calm things down. I think the Eagles will be looking for a lot out of Joel Meriding tonight, and we'll have to see what happens. I don't know what the delay was, but they look like they got things straightened out now. Referees are Tom Huningk and Joel Ebers and Todd Vanessa tonight here at Christian High. Jumping center for the Lutheran Crusaders is number 21, Parker Anderson, and jumping for the Eagles is number 23, Zach Gensma. Ball got thrown up a little too high, even for these big guys, and we will redo it again. Taps tipped by Gensma over to Velkamp, chases it down, and Eagles turn it over. Dan Salzenbrenner into Decker over to Parker. Anderson, rebound by Sizemore out to the corner. Gensma lines it up and is a little long. On the shot, rebound by Zach Blindauer. Decker brings it up over half to Salzenbrenner and they set the offense down in the corner to Joel Hansen over to the middle, and it's taken away by Zach Gensma over to leave Velkamp, and Velkamp pushes it up the floor into the corner to Joel Meridingk, squares it up, lets it go, and he misfires Sizemore, just rips it, should have gone back up with it, dumped it over to Meridingk, and the ball went out of bounds off of Meridingk over to Lutheran High Crusaders. Dan Salzenbrenner, the junior, brings it up against Decker over to Blindauer, over to Joel Hansen. They run kind of a weave down into the corner to Decker for a three, and he buries the three to put Lutheran up, three to nothing, with 6.45 in this first quarter. Token press by Salzenbrenner and leave Velkamp, walks the ball up the floor. Backdoor cut by Stecker, and he is called for the traveling. Another turnover by the Eagles. They need to settle down a little bit. Dan Salzenbrenner brings it over the half line, guarded by Stecker down into the corner to Sam Decker, out to Blindauer, over to Salzenbrenner. Setting a screen for Decker, guarded by Lee Velkamp, shot by Blindauer misses. Seismore with a rebound, kick out to Joel Meridingk. Meridingk trying to get a handle of it and pulls it back, and almost as it's stolen, down to Stecker in the corner, who brings it in, backed over to Velkamp, who lays it in for an easy layup. Assist by Stecker. Salzenbrenner dribbling between the circles, switched over, guarded by Jensma. Jensma tips it out of bounds, over to Lutheran Crusaders. Ryan Johansson to inbound the ball. Looks inside, can't get it there. Sam Decker with a shot, long on three, rebounded by Jensma, gets it over to Lee Velkamp, Velkamp pushing up, looking for Seismore inside. Seismore had his guy sealed, and again, the Eagles turn it over. Ball goes out of bounds to the Crusaders. Eagles in a man-to-man defense. Down into the corner to Sam Decker. Decker over to Blindauer, back to Salzenbrenner, guarded by Meridingk up high. Decker on the given goal, nowhere to go, and the Crusaders turn it over to the Eagles. Checking in the lineup is number 22, Luke Weir from at Seismore. Decker brings the ball over Timeline, guarded by Salzenbrenner into Meridingk. Meridingk hard down the lane, kicks it out to Velkamp. Velkamp drives down and lays it in for an easy two. Sam Decker bringing it over Timeline, kicks back over to Salzenbrenner, over to Blindauer, and back to Johansson. Johansson skip pass over to Decker, back to Seismore. They dump it inside and are forced into the turnover. Parker Anderson probably would have been smart, and it was just barked at by his coach to shoot that ball, instead of try to get it into Johansson. Eagles bring the ball over. Looks like Lutheran's in a half-court press. Half-court trap, 1-3-1. Down in the corner to Luke Weir. Weir skips to Decker, back into the corner to Jensma, who's the shooting three man for the Christian High Eagles. Decker dribbles up, and now it's Lutheran's turn to turn the ball over. Bad pass by Sam Decker. Checking into the Crusader lineup is number 12, Zach Brost. Now it is number 32, Zach Blindauer. Score right now is Christian High Eagles 7, Lutheran 3. Decker dribbling between the circles, trying to get him in their offense over to Jensma, over to Velkamp for a 3 at the top of the key, and he buries it from Zach Jensma. Beautiful play that the Eagles just ran. Lutheran almost turned the ball over again in the corner over to number 12, Brost out to Sam Decker, over to Sol's Brenner. Sol's Brenner resets it, and Decker calls out a play from the bench. And Lutheran's into it, into Johansson over to Decker. Decker tries to penetrate, and they turn the ball over again. Eagle defense is doing a good job of pressuring Lutheran into mistakes. Ball goes to Weir over to Jensma, Jensma eyes it up, decides to shoot the three, rims off, and Mirrening comes down with a rebound over to Stecker. Stecker drives the lane, and he's going to lay it in for an easy two. And Todd Decker and the Lutheran High Crusaders call timeout, 32nd timeout for the Crusaders. With 307 left in the first quarter, the Eagles lead the Crusaders 12 to 3. Coach Decker is really imploring his team to take care of the ball, play some better defense. He's trying to make sure that they understand their roles and their duties out on the floor. As we come out of that timeout, Zach Roest will be inbounding to Dan Salz and Brenner, along with, out there with him is Parker Anderson, and Ryan Johansson, and Sam Decker. Eagle's now imploring a 1-3-1 trap defense. It's skipped over way out to Salz, Brenner. The Eagles change it up. Sam Decker unloads a three and hits it. Sam Decker has two 3s for the Lutheran High Crusaders, and it is 12 to 6 Eagles. Luke Weir with the ball. Over to Joe Meirding. Meirding lines it up and travels with it. Checking into the Lutheran line up is number 22. Josh Walrich, he replaces Ryan Johansson. Salz, Brenner dribbling the ball up against the zone, drives to the basket, and misses the lay-in. Rebounded by Meirding out to Stecker. Stecker pushing up the floor, stops and pops. Comes up short. Weir pounding for the rebound. Lee Velkamp saves it, and Luke Weir is called for traveling as he got his feet tied up and couldn't get rid of the ball in time as he fell to the floor. Eagles go back into their man-to-man defense. Salz, Brenner guarded by Stecker. Velkamp guarding Sam Decker. They get it in down low, and number 21, Parker Anderson, is fouled. Number 22 of the Eagles, Luke Weir. At the line is Parker Anderson, who's shooting two. Parker, long on the first one. Checking into the eagle lineup is Jeremy Jensma. Checking in for his brother, Zach. And Anderson has another free throw to shoot. He lines it up long again. Lee Velkamp with a rebound, looks to push it up right away. Gets it over on the wing to Joel Meirding. Meirding dribbling looking. Kicks it out to Weir. And Lutheran is in a zone defense against the, no. They're in their man. Jensma at the top of the key, Stecker goes back door. Weir down the lane, and in for a nice little layup. Luke Weir with his first two points. For the minute and a half left in the first quarter, the Eagles lead the Crusaders 14 to five. And Salisburyner getting the Crusaders into the offense over to number 12, Zach Roest. And Lutheran throws the ball away again. Checking into the Crusader lineup is number 24, Ryan Johansson. And number 11, Carl Nimmer, a 6-1 sophomore. Lee Velkamp to bring it up over to Stecker, guarded by Decker. Over to Meirding. Lot of picking and screening going on by the Eagles. Velkamp down the lane, throws a misguided shot off. And Sam Decker comes off with a rebound, pushes it up to Johansson. Johansson looking inside to Parker Anderson. And I'm sorry, to Josh Walrich. And he is fouled by number 24, Jeremy Jensma. Sam Decker to inbound underneath the basket. He gets it into Josh Walrich. And they're going to run around the circle and look for Sam Decker for a shot. But he isn't able to get one. He's pressured by Luke Weir. And he just throws the ball away, telling his Lutheran teammate that he needed a cut to the basket. They were not on the same page with that one. With 35 seconds left in the quarter. See if the Eagles play for one last shot. Stecker eyeing it up on the wing. Joe Meirding's hoping for a 3 and lets it go. And buries the 3 with 24 seconds. Stecker pushing it up to Johansson. And it looks like Lutheran's running a secondary break. And the Eagles got caught napping on that one. And Luke Weir picks up his second foul. Checking into the lineup for the Crusaders, is Dan Salzenbrenner for Sam Decker. And number 23, Josh Meck for Ryan Johansson. Inbounding it for the Crusaders is Carl Nimmer. Goes out to number 12, Zach Rose, who turns on Seismore. And it comes up short. Stecker with a rebound with 12 seconds left, pushes it up the left-hand side, stops his dribble, gets caught up in the air. And he is called for traveling. Seven seconds remaining in the first quarter. The Eagles leading 17-5. Zach Jensma checked into the lineup for Andrew Stecker. Put a little bit of height at the top so that they can't get an easy look at the basket. Salzenbrenner down the lane, puts one up off the back bracket. And this is rebounded by Joel Meerdink. And the buzzer Salzen's bringing an end to this first quarter. With the Eagles of Sheboygan County Christian High leading Sheboygan area Lutheran Crusaders by a score of 17 to five, or to six, I'm sorry. I believe Sam Decker has got both baskets for the Crusaders, who seem to be struggling a little bit finding their offense. There was probably one downside to the Eagles play. It was too many turnovers, a little sloppy on their part. And we'll see if they come out and tighten some things up as we start the second quarter. And as we come out in the second quarters, coming out for the Lutheran High Crusaders is number one Sam Decker, number 11, Carl Nimmer, number three Dan Salzenbrenner, number 21, Parker Anderson, and number 22, Josh Wallrich. For the Eagles, it's Jeremy Gensma, 24, Joel Meerdink, number 32, number 23, Zach Gensma, number 21, Lee Velkamp, and Sizemore, number 31, starting for the Eagles. The Crusaders try to run a set play, a backdoor play, and it probably would have worked if the pass would have been a little better, but they turned it over and the Eagles have the ball. Velkamp being pressured by Salzenbrenner, easily breaks the pressure, goes all the way to the basket, tries to lay it up and in and does so, with very little resistance. Crusaders push the ball up the floor very quickly, and Zach Gensma gets around and fronts the high post, comes over to Lee Velkamp, who finds Sizemore down the middle and Sizemore overlays the little bunny shot, as the Eagles look like they're trying to push temple. Dan Salzenbrenner, the point guard for the Crusaders, brings it up against Joel Meerdink. Over to Carl Nimmer, guarded by Jeremy Gensma. Over to Zach, Sam Decker gets loose, lets it fly and hits another three. Sam Decker's been all the scoring for Lutheran so far, but I think Lutheran's gonna need a whole lot more than just that tonight. Sizemore at the top of the key, backdoor caught, over to Gensma, Jeremy Gensma, who lays it in for a nice layup. What a beautiful play, a great pass by Sizemore, nice lay in by Gensma. Salzenbrenner dribbling against Meerdink, trying to get it into number 21 and does so, Parker Anderson with a nice little lay in. Good penetration by Salzenbrenner and quick dump over to Parker Anderson for two points. Eagles setting up their offense, it's a zone, two, three zone by Lutheran. Meerdink at the top, Eagles spreading the floor, gonna get it trapped down inside. Gensma, ill-advised going baseline, turned the ball over. Salzenbrenner brings it up, top of the key. Boy, they're really looking to get it inside and do so. Parker Anderson with a overlay and rebounded by Gensma, who is just pummeled and turns the ball over as he falls out of bounds. Lutheran substituting three new guys in at this time. Number 12, Zach Bros. Number 24, Ryan Johansson. Number 32, Zach Lindar. Sam Decker at the top of the key, guarded by Velkamp, lets it fly and hits another three. That's the fourth three for Sam Decker. He's a nice young player. He's got a nice shot, works hard. Lee Velkamp, let's go with a three. He's short, Johansson with a rebound over to Decker. Decker squares up for three and lets it go way long. Gensma with a rebound, Zach over to Velkamp, pushing up the left-hand side of the floor, back to the middle. All the big guys looking to seal, dump into Jeremy Gensma, who turns around and lays it in. Jeremy got way too deep on that on Lutheran. Temple picking up here, looking to get it inside. Salisbury turns it over, over to Jeremy Gensma for another lay in, and play has just gotten pretty hectic. Pretty hectic, Lutheran just turned the ball over, Lee Velkamp diving on the floor, makes a steal, gets it over to Miradink, and Coach Brett Phlipsy calls a timeout. With 4.52 left in the second quarter in this first half, the Eagles lead Lutheran Crusaders by a score of 25 to 14. It's probably a good timeout by Coach Phlipsy, as things seem to be getting a little bit hectic. I know the Eagles want to play an up-temple kind of basketball game, but I think Coach Phlipsy wanted to maintain the possession there, and it's been going up and down, rather hecticly. Quick flurry of baskets, and the Eagles will inbound. Lee Velkamp came out during that timeout, and Andrew Stekers back into the game to run the offense, right into the middle to Jeremy Jensma, who passes down to Miradink, out to Zach Jensma for three, and he buries the three. Lutheran pushing it up again, Decker into Johansson, Johansson kicking out to number 32, Zach Blindauer, who goes to the basket and is followed. Follows on number 24, Jeremy Jensma, that's his second team follow, or second personal follow, it's the team fourth follow. Lutheran at this point does not have any fouls, but it's been a fairly clean game so far, as far as fouls are concerned. Zach Blindauer misses the first free throw, long on the second, and Joe Miradink brings down the rebound, over to Weir, Weir over to Stekker, and Stekker settles things down. Lutheran's in like a half court trapping two, three zone. The top of the key is wide open for Jeremy, who's got the ball now over to Stekker, Stekker being patient, over to Zach Jensma, who lets go of three and hits it way out by the A, and the eagle at Christian Eye here. He was probably a good four feet behind, three feet behind the line. Number 12, Zach Roest, let's go a shot, and the eagles could not corral the rebound, and it goes off to Sheboygan County Christian High School player and over to the Lutheran High Crusaders. Sam Decker inbounding the ball in the corner, almost as it's stolen by Andrew Stekker, goes off his foot, and the Crusaders retain possession. Checking into the lineup for the Crusaders, is Parker Anderson and going out to Zach Blindauer. Josh Walrich to inbound, guarded by Joe Miradink. Salzbrenner looking to get the ball does down the baseline, dumps it off to Zach Roest, and he scores for the Crusaders. Joe Miradink with the ball into Jeremy Jensma, one dribble down, puts it up off the glass, no good, and it's saved by the Crusaders. Salzbrenner brings it up. Zach Roest up and not no good. Miradink with the rebound. Baseball pass over to Jeremy Jensma. Jensma holds up and looks for Stekker to get the ball and get the Eagles into their offense. Luke Weir with the ball in the wing, looking for his cutters, nobody there. Jeremy Jensma steps out, backdoor cut by Zach Jensma. Stekker to Miradink, Miradink to Jensma in the corner, lets it go again, rims off. Salzbrenner with the rebound, pushes the ball up the court, chased by Weir, guarded by Stekker down the middle. Zach Roest lets it fly and Miradink pulls down another rebound. Andrew Stekker crosses the timeline, guarded by Salzbrenner and the man-to-man. And another turnover by the Eagles. Sam Decker comes out with it, pushes the ball up the floor over to Salzbrenner down into the corner. So Walrich back out to Salzbrenner, Salzbrenner attacking the middle. Over to Zach Roest who hits the little mid-range jumper for two. The two minutes left here in the half, it's the Eagles leading the Crusaders 31 to 18. Stekker running the offense from the wing, dumps in, loads are out to the corner, to Miradink back to Stekker and Stekker missed the layup. Salzbrenner comes away with it and brings Luther up over to Decker, guarded by Weir. They kick over to Zach Roest, back to Salzbrenner, Salzbrenner stuck at the elbow. Over to Walrich. Parker Anderson just went down the lane and scored on a nice little layup, bringing the Crusaders closer to the score of 31 to 20. Eagles are leading by 11, Flipsy calls timeout and we have some substitution at least for the Eagles. I believe Matt Sizemore is coming back into the game along with Lee Velkamp. Well, with a minute 21, Eagles have let the Crusaders climb back into this game. And the Crusaders have made a nice little run here. They've become a lot more aggressive, tacking the basket, looking for shots. And the Eagles have turned the ball over quite a bit. Lee Velkamp in bone on the side here. He looks down to Zach Jentsma behind the three, bobbles the ball into Sizemore. Sizemore muscles the ball up, lays it off the backboard, puts it in and is followed. Sizemore was followed by number 21 Parker Anderson, his first, the team first. And Sizemore goes to the line to see if he can finish the three point play. Sizemore rattles the rim, but Lee, Luke Weir climbed the ladder, put the ball back up and missed the layup. Sam Decker pushes it down, shoots it up, off glass and in. And the Crusaders are back in this. With by a score of 35 to 22, they're down by 13. Lee Velkamp just turned the ball over. They were gonna go back door. Eagles are not doing a good job of taking care of the ball. There's 58 seconds, Ryan Johansson checking back in for Parker Anderson. Sam Decker to in bone. In front of the Christian High students. He gets it in to Dan Salisbrenner. Salisbrenner dribbles up over half, goes in the nimmer. Nimmer looking to get it to Josh Walrich. Down into Salisbrenner, let's go with three and is long on the iron. Luke Weir with a rebound. And he settles things down and gets it over to Velkamp, Velkamp. Down into Stekker, Stekker off glass and lays it in. Lutheran quickly pushing the ball up. Decker back over to Nimmer, back over to Decker. Over to Salisbrenner and off of Salisbrenner as Stekker got into the passing lane, tipped it off of Dan Salisbrenner and the Crusaders turn the ball over. 24 seconds left, scores 35 for the Eagles, 22 for Lutheran. Christian runs the inbound play again with Jensman in the corner who shoots the three is long. Decker comes away with it. And in the corner for Lutheran, number 11, Nimmer puts it up, he's long. We're over to Velkamp, Velkamp looking with five seconds. Lays it in, barely easily. And Decker let's go with a long shot and off the backboard bringing an end to this hectic first half in which the Eagles lead Shaboygan area Lutheran by a score of 37 to 22. It was an interesting half, a lot of action, a lot of up and down action. Lutheran did not give up, they scrapped into it. Sam Decker I think has four three-pointers. Leading Lutheran with 12 points. The Eagles again, I think their downfall was turning the ball over too much. And so we'll have to see what the second half brings us. Stay tuned. And we ought to have an exciting second half to this cross-time rival game between Shaboygan County Christian High and the Shaboygan area Lutheran Crusaders. We welcome you back to the second half of this CLC cross-time rival game between Shaboygan County Christian High Eagles and Shaboygan area Lutheran Crusaders. Scoring for the first half went as follows for the visiting Crusaders. Zach Brost had four, Parker Anderson had four, and Sam Decker is leading Shaboygan area Lutheran with 14. He has three or four threes and a two. For the Eagles, you have Matt Sizemore with two, Luke Weir with two, Joel Miradink with three, Jeremy Gensma, I'm sorry, Andrew Stekker with four, Jeremy Gensma with six, Zach Gensma with three threes as nine and Lee Velkamp leads the Shaboygan County Christian High Eagles with 11 points. The Eagles lead at halftime here as we begin with a score of 37 to 22. Coming up for the Crusaders is Sam Decker and Dan Salzbrenner along with Zach Blindauer, Ryan Joel Hansen and Parker Anderson. They're starting five. The Eagles counter with Andrew Stekker, Lee Velkamp, Matt Sizemore, Joel Miradink and Luke Weir. Eagles to inbound the ball to start the second half. Stekker dribbles over the timeline, looking to run the offense over to Miradink and over to Velkamp and over to Sizemore for ball rotation and he again threads the needle on a backdoor cut by Luke Weir who lays it in from Matt Sizemore. This is the beautiful play that the Eagles run. Sam Decker with a ball being harassed by Luke Weir. He's being pressured and trying to figure out where to go. Gets it over to Dan Salzbrenner who's running the offense for the Crusaders and now he's guarded by Weir. Miradink trying to guard Decker. Decker gets the ball, turns, passes over to number 32, Zach Blindauer and he counters with a nice little lay in and putting the Crusaders on the board for the second half. Eagles turn the ball over again. Salzbrenner with a run out, being chased by four Eagles. It ends up getting blocked. Couldn't tell if it was Lea Velkamp or Luke Weir but it goes off the Eagles and over to the Crusaders, Sam Decker to inbound it. Who gets it into Blindauer who goes past Sizemore but Lea Velkamp was sitting there waiting and took the charge. Zach Blindauer picks up his first foul. Lea Velkamp dribbles up over half, gets it into Joel Miradink. Miradink just turns, goes down left side of the lane, overlays, runs past the ball as it goes by his head and it was chased down by Lea Velkamp, goes back into the corner to Velkamp into Miradink and Miradink over passes to Sizemore. Sizemore thought he was gonna shoot and Miradink was getting ready to rebound and Sizemore just threw it out of bounds turning the ball over to the Crusaders. Salzbrenner brings the ball up the court, guarded by Stecker but Luke Weir just followed Sam Decker. That's Luke Weir's third personal foul. The team's first for the half and Weir checks out and Jeremy Jensma checks in. Guarding Blindauer goes way out to Parker Anderson. Anderson Carels over half brings it back over on the Lutheran side, gives it to Salzbrenner, guarded by Sizemore and the ball's on the floor again and Salzbrenner comes away with it, dribbles it off his foot, Velkamp picks it up, spins it around, over to Stecker and Stecker lays it in. What a hustle play, unbelievable hustle play by Lea Velkamp. He wasn't gonna be denied that ball and Stecker finished with a nice lift. Johansson looking inside, being thwarted by Miradink and we have a timeout by Coach Stecker. Didn't like the looks of that offensive set and called the timeout. Settle his Crusaders down. Timeout comes with 5.59 left in this third quarter and the score is Sheboygan County Christian High 41 and the Sheboygan area Lutheran Crusaders 24. Lutheran's gonna have to really, I think, claw a lot to get back into this game and you really need to do that on the defensive end. Coach Todd Decker has tried several different defenses to thwart the offense of Sheboygan County Christian High and really nothing seems to be working that well for him and for the Crusaders. He's tried zone, he's tried man to man, he's tried a half court trapping zone. The Eagles have all struggled with some turnovers but at this point in the game, they lead 41 to 24 and with the Crusaders having called timeout, they will inbound on the side. Zach Blindauer to inbound, guarded by Jeremy Jensma and the Eagles come out in man to man. Sol's been running off on two screens, gets the ball, guarded closely by Stecker. Sam Decker running baseline out to the wing looking to do something against Velkamp. Joe Hanson down the lane, he gets bumped and knocked off of a balance and ends up getting called for the travel and turns the ball over to the Eagles. Checking into the lineup for the Crusaders is number 22, Josh Walrich, believe number 12, Zach Brost. Stecker being closely guarded by Sol's banner, gets it over to Velkamp, Velkamp to Mirding. Mirding back over to Velkamp and Lee yelling out instructions, dribbles, gives up his dribble over to Mirding, down in the corner to Stecker. Jensma cut down the lane but wasn't giving the ball. Stecker down the middle, tries the backdoor, cut to Velkamp and the ball, almost stolen by number 12, Zach Brost but went off his leg and over to the Eagles. Lee Velkamp to inbound. Velkamp looking to get it in, does so to Mirding, Mirding eyes up a shot but six things, twice about it, back into the corner to Jensma, back to Stecker. Jeremy Jensma rebounds, misses the bunny. Velkamp a left-hander blocked by Sam Decker and Decker comes away with it, pushing up to Sol's Brenner. Sol's Brenner back over to Decker, guarded by Velkamp into Joe Hanson. Joe Hanson looking for it and Stecker makes a wonderful, beautiful steal, goes in up against Sam Decker and lays it in for two. Eagles leading 43 to 24. Sol's Brenner brings it up over half, guarded again by Stecker, goes down the lane, kicks it over to Joe Hanson, Joe Hanson skips over to number 12, Zach Brost, who puts it up, rattles off the rim, mirrored ink with a rebound and gets it over to Velkamp, Velkamp pushing it up, gets it in the corner to Stecker on the right-hand side, gives it back to Velkamp for three, long off the bracket, Jensma with a shot and is fouled by Ryan Joe Hanson as he went up for a shot. Nice weak side rebound by Jeremy Jensma and he got hammered as he went up for the shot and will shoot two. Several substitutions coming in, two for the Crusaders and one for the Eagles. Coming into the lineup for the Crusaders is number 11, Carl Nimmer and number 21, Parker Anderson. And into the Eagle lineup is Zach Jensma, number 23 comes in for Matt Sizemore. Jeremy Jensma shoots a second, misses that one and the Eagles lead with 420 left in the quarter by a score of 43 to 25. Sam Decker with a ball guarded by Velkamp and Velkamp does a little hard hand checking as Sam Decker crossed over to his left side and Velkamp tried to recover and he ends up following him. That's Velkamp's first, the Eagles' second team fall. Zach bros to inbound. Looks like Sam Decker's gonna have to run the show. It goes over to Carl Nimmer. Sam Decker with a ball guarded by Stekker. Looks like they're running a pick and roll. Jensma jumps it and now he's guarding Decker. Decker tries to either look for a shot or a pass and ends up traveling. And that doesn't take long for Todd Decker to send in Dan Sul, Sulzbrenner for Sam Decker. Try to settle Crusader's down. Mirding to inbound to Stekker. Stekker guarded by Sulzbrenner. He eyes it up, dribbles up over half, hits it over to Jensma. Jensma in the corner to Velkamp. Skips out to Mirding and they try to go inside, Stekker to Jensma and it's stolen by Carl Nimmer into Parker Anderson in the middle and he pulls it up short. Mirding pulling down another rebound. Mirding's just pulling on rebounds tonight. They kick over to Zach Jensma and Stekker calls the offense over to Zach Jensma and the wing. Mirding steps out, skips it over to Stekker. Stekker dumps it inside to Jeremy Jensma who spins, turns and scores. And Parker Anderson is called for the foul. That's his second. He checks out of the game. Josh Meck checks in along with Sam Decker and Jeremy Jensma is at the line to shoot one. Jeremy Long on that free throw. Two Lutheran guys collide, but number 22, Josh Walridge comes away with it. Sam Decker from way out, launches an air ball, rebounded by Velkamp who pushes up the floor over to Zach Jensma. Jensma drives to the middle and pulls it back out at the top. Nobody guarding him. He doesn't even realize it and runs, gets the offense set up. Coach Flippsy barking orders and getting his team set in their offense. Jensma pops out over to Stekker. Stekker inside the mirror dink and mirror dink is hammered. Eagles keep running this play to their big men. They just keep dumping down inside on Lutheran Crusaders. That foul is on Dan Salsenbrenner, his first. It's the team's fourth in this half. With two minutes and 40 seconds, Joe mirror dink lines up his first free throw and hits it and the Eagles are leading currently by a score of 47 to 24. Mirror dink hits his second and Salsenbrenner dribbles up over half and the Eagles are in a zone. With Jensma at the top, applying pressure back inside, kicks it out for Decker, Decker lets it go off rim and the Crusaders come down with a rebound and number 22, Josh Walrich did a nice job of just catching that rebound and putting it back in for a score. Stekker dribbling over half, guarded by Sam Decker over to Lee Velkamp. Velkamp kicks over to Jeremy Jensma, Jensma in the corner to Stekker and back inside again to mirror dink and mirror dink lays it in on a nice little dump in by Stekker. Again, they ran that same play getting the ball to mirror dink and the other couple of times they ran it to Jensma. Eagles in their zone, get it high to the number 23, Josh Meck, back to Salsbrenner eyeing the situation feeling a little frustrated, Decker back to Salsbrenner. Salsbrenner to the middle, over to Decker, down in the corner to Carl Nimmer back out to Decker. Decker looking to see where he can attack, skips it over to Salsbrenner, Salsbrenner into the middle over to Decker who lets a long three go off rim, Lee Velkamp with a rebound, dribbles out of there and kicks it over to Stekker. Stekker skips to mirror dink, mirror dink looking inside, dribbles goes to this hole and is called with a charge. Carl Nimmer stood his ground and took the brunt of that hit by Joel Mirding. Lutheran substituting rather heavily right now, number 12 checking in is Zach Brost and number 21 is Parker Anderson and number 32 is Zach Blindauer. Christian still in their zone, trying to, nice little dump in the middle to number 12, Zach Brost, but he's short on the rim and Velkamp comes away with it again, over to mirror dink, mirror dink dribbles up, the left-hand side skips it over to Stekker and Stekker eyes the situation and the play is called. He's penetrating over to Jensma in the right-hand wing, over to mirror dink, over to Velkamp, down into mirror dink again, who had a great feel on his guy. I don't think that basket's going to count. Number 22, Josh Walrich, committed his first foul, Lutheran highs 15th. I think the Eagles made a concerted effort right here to really pound the ball inside and get it to their big men and execute their offense. They definitely are taking advantage of what, or taking advantage of Lutheran. Lutheran can't stop the play. Checking into the Christian Eye lineup is a senior, number 34, Eric Katron. Mirror dink just hit a nice little mid-range jumper and the Eagles lead with 30 seconds left, 52 to 26. Josh Meck tried to go baseline and then dump it inside in the middle and it came off of an eagle foot and goes back over to Lutheran. Matt Sizemore checks back in the lineup and Zach Jensma checks out Lutheran to inbound the ball and Parker Anderson had a great seal and then lost control of the ball and the Lutheran high crusaders turned the ball over with an over and back. 24 seconds left to play in the third quarter and the Eagles lead 52 to 26. Joe Meerkling throws it into the back court for Stekker. Stekker calls out the play, dribbles up over timeline, over to Meerkling, down in the corner to Velkamp, Velkamp over to Sizemore. Sizemore dribbles over and they run a weave with mirror dink. Mirror dink looking for Stekker and mirror dink threw the ball away. Joe Meerkling just needs to settle down and let the game come to him, trying so hard. Number 12 with a long, long shot. Zach Gross stopped and popped right before the buzzer and hit a three, bringing it into the third quarter with the Eagles leading the Crusaders 52 to 29. As we begin the fourth quarter here, we're again with the Eagles leading the Crusaders, their crosstown rivals, 52 to 29. Coming in for the Crusaders is Zach Lindauer, Sam Dekker, Dan Salzbrenner and 21 Parker Anderson and Ryan Johansson for the Eagles, Sizemore guarding the ball. Sam Dekker making a cut and was tripped by Lee Velkamp. It's Lee Velkamp's second foul. The Eagles fourth, nobody's close to the bonus. Dekker trying to inbound, almost travels with the ball and the Eagle got his hand on it and it goes over to the Crusaders over on the side. Eric Patron is still out there for the Eagles along with Andrew Stekker, Joe Myrding, Lee Velkamp, Sam Dekker with the ball, sizes it up, Velkamp gets help from Myrding and Myrding ties up Dekker who falls to the floor, helped up by Myrding and Patron and the ball goes over to the Eagles. Lee Velkamp over back to Myrding. Myrding brings the ball over the timeline. Doesn't look like he wants it, wants to give it back to Stekker. Stekker's running the offense and the Eagles go into it. Lee in the post, looks to go up and was fouled on the pass by a Crusader by Ryan Johansson. The 6-1 senior from Luther in his second. Luther in sixth, Eagles will be shooting the bonus. Little dump into Joe Myrding, Myrding kisses it off the glass for two on a nice little inbound play. Johansson in the corner over to Blindauer, Blindauer skipping over to Dekker, Dekker over to the elbow. Johansson up at the top guarded by Myrding and Luther settles down and tries to run their offense. Number 32, Zach Windauer puts it up. Joe Myrding with another rebound, kicks it out to Velkamp. Velkamp pushes it up over to Stekker, Stekker who skips it over to Patron and Patron overlays a nice little bunny shot and is not happy with himself. It was a nice look by Andrew Stekker to get the ball over to Eric Patron. Checking into the Eagle lineup for the first time tonight is number 10, Taylor Dekker, 5'10 Junior and he has got the responsibility of guarding Salzenbrenner. Dekker guarded by Myrding, Salzenbrenner guarded by Dekker. They switch over with Velkamp and Dekker makes a nice little tap out and Velkamp collects the steal. Velkamp pushing it up, skips it over to Patron. Patron, too much of in a hurry and didn't put the ball down before he lifted his pivot foot and his call for the travel and coach Brett Flippsi is calling a timeout, taking a full timeout and with six minutes and 17 seconds left in this game, the Eagles lead by a score of 54 to 29. Looks like the Eagles will be in the bonus on the next Lutheran fall and we'll see what kind of play we get as we come out of this timeout and head towards the end of this game. The Eagles definitely have dominated in this game. Lutheran's been pretty overmatched by the height and play of the Eagles. Coming out for Lutheran is Blindauer, Wallrich, Brost, Dekker, Salzenbrenner. And for the Eagles is Taylor Dekker, Matt Sizemore, Eric Patron, Joe Meerdink and Lee Velkamp. And we have a foul called, that was a foul on, who that foul, oh, that was on Eric Patron. Sam Dekker inbounds to Salzenbrenner, who leaves it for Brost, who comes up short and the ball goes off of Sam Dekker and out of bounds to the Eagles. Lee Velkamp brings it over the timeline, brings it, gives it to Patron, Patron in the corner to Gensma. Velkamp makes his cut down the lane, nothing there. Sizemore dribbling over to the right hand side, crosses over, gives it to Velkamp. Velkamp calls out to play again. There was a Dekker and Dekker collision. Oh, and again, nice backdoor cut. And Sizemore delivers the goods to Zach Gensma for a lay in. Lutheran comes over to timeline, over to Sam Dekker guarded by Velkamp, almost turns the ball over since Dan Salzenbrenner, dumps it in low, back out to Salzenbrenner, over to Dekker for a long three, off the rim, Patron with a rebound. And he almost turns the ball over. Dekker corrals it, still correlling it. And Taylor Dekker throws the ball out of bounds. And it goes over to Sheboygan area, Lutheran. Checking into the eagle lineup is number 24, Jeremy Gensma for his brother, Zach Gensma. Inbounding the ball is Zach Brost for Lutheran High Crusaders. They get it in Salzenbrenner, yeah, Salzenbrenner, dribbles between the circles down the lane, tries to dump it in, thought his postman was going to release and throws it out of bounds. Checking into the Lutheran lineup is number 21, Parker Anderson. Checking out is Dan Salzenbrenner. Lutheran's showing a full court pressure here. Patron inbounds to Taylor Dekker. Dekker dribbles towards the middle, gets it over to Patron, Patron down the middle, and the Eagles put some pressure on. Dekker gets it guarded by Dekker. If you're wondering about those two, their dads are cousins. Sam being Todd Dekker's son, and Taylor being Ralph Dekker's, this announcer's son. Sam being a freshman at Lutheran, and Taylor Jr. at Christian High. So there's a lot of Dekker connection here tonight. Lead Velkamp to inbound for the Eagles. He kicks it into the corner to Taylor Dekker, who lines up a three, shoots it long, and Velkamp comes with a rebound, kicks it back out to Dekker. Dekker tries to dump it inside to Sizemore, and it's tapped out of bounds by number 11, Carl Nimmer. Checking into the Lutheran lineup is Ryan Johansson, and checking in for the Eagles is Luke Weir and Andrew Stekker. Patron inbounds to Stekker. Lutheran in their zone over to Taylor Dekker. Luke Weir trapped in the corner looking where to go over to Dekker, back to Weir. They're trapping in that corner, and a follow is called on number 12, Zach Brost on Luke Weir. That's his first, that's the team's seventh. Putting the Eagles in the bonus, and Luke Weir at the line. Weir eyes up the first one and lets it go and hits it. Luke Weir is a pretty good free throw shooter for the Eagles. With 4-14 left in the quarter, the score is 57 for the Eagles, 29 for Lutheran. Lutheran pushes it up down in the corner to Johansson guarded by Patron. Inside to number 11, Nimmer. Dekker at the elbow tries to look for a shot, kicks it long over to number 12. Zach Brost puts it up, he's off. Lutheran fights for the rebound and an easy little put back, and it overlay by Zach Brost, but the Eagles couldn't corral the rebound, and it goes off of Patron's hand over to the Crusaders. Sam Dekker in bones over to Johansson, and they run the swing, and Luke Weir tried to go crashing through a pick that was set against him, so Sam Dekker could get a shot, and Luke Weir is called for the foul. I believe that's his fourth, the team's sixth, and Lutheran will in bone underneath its basket. Nathan Hendricks checking in for the first time for the Eagles, and Luke Weir checking out, and Lutheran ready to run its in bone offense. Dekker way out to Nimmer. Nimmer down the baseline puts a shot up, and Patron comes out with it, and he is fouled by Carl Nimmer, and that'll put Patron at the line to shoot a bonus. That's Carl Nimmer's first foul. Team eighth, and Eric Patron goes to the line to shoot the bonus. Patron long on it. Jeremy Jensman with a one hand rebound, tried to rip it down, but Johansson took it away from him, and Sam Dekker comes up the floor with a ball, guarded by Stekker. Dekker lets it fly. Taylor Dekker with a rebound, comes out of there with it over to Stekker, and Stekker brings it up over, gets it in over to Nathan Hendricks. Hendricks back over to Jeremy Jensman, Jensman over to Stekker, they run a weave over in the corner to Patron, down into Jensman for an easy little lay in. Nice little ball movement by the Eagles, by the Eagles substitutes, they did a nice job with that. Dekker over to Johansson, they look into the post he wants to go there, he's gonna get it there, and he turns it over with Nathan Hendricks coming away with a steal. Stekker dribbles, walks the ball over half, the Eagles all motion and looking to run the play. He just dumps it inside, and Jeremy Jensman needed to go stronger to the board, and he had it blocked, and it went off to Crusaders. Three substitutes coming in for the Crusaders. Sal's Brenner, Walrich, and Blindauer. Stekker kicks it out and gets it to Taylor Dekker, inside to Jeremy Jensman who goes right down the lane, misses the layup, and Lutheran comes out with Sal's Brenner, fast-breaking, Blindauer hard to the floor. Sal's Brenner goes up with a shot but is fouled, and Nathan Hendricks comes away with a foul on that one. That's his first. Eagles seven, the two and a half minutes left in the game. The Eagles lead by 30, 59 to 29, and Zach Blindauer at the line shooting one. Jeremy Jensman with a rebound over to Stekker. Stekker again calling out instructions. Dekker trying to overplay him to his left. It's gonna be a little feudal with Stekker, his great ball handler for the Eagles. Patron tried to dump it into Dekker low, but Aaron Pass turned it over to Blindauer, and Sal's Brenner came away with a ball. Jensman had it knocked away over to the number 22, Josh Walrich, and Brose drives down the lane. It's getting a little sloppy here. Nathan Hendricks picks up a second foul in about 30 seconds, and Zach Brose to shoot. Shoots the first, rims out, Patron with a rebound, and gets it over to Andrew Stekker. Sam Dekker guarding Andrew. Sam is the brother of, oh, we have a walking call on Stekker. Stekker saw something, wanted to go one way, and turned the ball over. Sam's brother of John Dekker, who played at Lutheran also, and Sam starting out his varsity career playing pretty well for a freshman. Dekker guarding Dekker. Sam crosses over, goes to the middle, puts up a leaning one-hander, Patron with a rebound, and tumbles to the floor after being tripped and travels, turning the ball back over to Lutheran. Sam Dekker to inbound, gets it into Sam Dekker, Sam Dekker. Whoa! Sam Dekker is tripped. Taylor Dekker comes over and jumps over. Sam, and what a foul was called. That foul was on Jeremy Jensman, number 24 of the Eagles. That's his third, the Eagles ninth, and it puts Sam Dekker at the line. Sam, let's go to the free throw, and rebound is pulled down by Eric Patron. Andrew Stekker drilling up against Sam. Oh, and Andrew lost the ball and went to go get it, and got followed by Sam. There's a tired bunch of Lutheran high kids out there, and a little dejected, I think, but still got to play out this last minute, 16 seconds in this fourth quarter. Score's still 59-29. Stekker lines up the first and hits it. Finally, somebody hit a free throw here down the stretch. That hasn't happened too much lately. Stekker with a bonus, sinks that one, making it 61-29. It's all Brenner coming up over half, guarded by Taylor Dekker. Over to Sam. Back to Salzbrenner. Salzbrenner over to Sam. Sam jukein' around, lookin' to go in the middle, double team. Gets it out to Blindauer. Blindauer over to Salzbrenner. Salzbrenner resets, looks for a screen from Walrich. Walrich gets it inside against Taylor Dekker, puts up a nice little left-handed shot and scores for the Crusaders. Crusaders putting on a press here. Stekker looking to get it in and gets it in over to Dekker. Dekker over half. Dekker not paying attention and has the ball stolen from him. And Zach Blindauer goes all the way to the hole, scoring two more points. And it's getting a little hectic and Stekker is trapped over on the sideline. Gets it over to Nathan. Nathan Bones passes it to Taylor and Taylor Dekker comes up short with a lay in but is fouled. By number 22, Josh Walrich and Taylor Dekker will go to line to shoot two with 21 seconds left in the game. Taylor eyes up the first one and hits it. Oh, he's shooting double bonus. Hits the second one. Dan Salzbrenner to bring it over with 15 seconds left. Sam Dekker dribbling between the circles, goes down the lane. Stop, Salzbrenner steps up, shoot a two. Dekker shoots another three. Rebounded by Lutheran. And number 12, Zach Rolls, ends up putting it in. And that ends the game. Here tonight with the Shboygan County Christian High Eagles defeating Shboygan area Lutheran Crusaders by a score of 63 to 35. Again, it was a good game by the Eagles. They played well. They pretty much dominated and executed very well. This is a team that's on a mission for Coach Todd Dekker and Lutheran High Crusaders. It's kind of a rebuilding time for him. He tries to figure some things out with his team. His son Sam is doing a real nice job though. Came out and scored some points early for them. But the Eagle defense was pretty strong in the second half and pretty much made sure he didn't get too many more points. And again, tonight Shboygan County Christian High Eagles defeat Shboygan area Lutheran here at Shboygan County Christian High by a score of 63 to 35. Well, we're back here with two of the stars of tonight's game against Shboygan area Lutheran. We have with us over here on my left, Lee Velkamp and on my right, Joel Meriding. Both of these guys scored 11 points along with the Jensma brothers who had 11 each. It was a nice balance scoring night for the Eagles. Joel Meriding did a nice job on the boards tonight and ended up with nine rebounds. What do you think the key was again tonight for your victory? How do you assess your play tonight, Joel? I would say in practice we worked really hard on rebounding and just trying to play as a team. I know we didn't do that very well in the past, but we were really working on our team chemistry and just trying to spread the ball around. Lee, I notice you've taken on a greater role as far as controlling the ball in the tempo and the team overall. Is that a role you pretty much relish for the Eagles? Oh, yeah, I love having that role. It allows me to push the ball, and we push the ball and just play basketball. That's when we score, and we're just having fun. Did you look tonight to score more? I know in the last couple of games you hadn't done a tremendous amount of scoring, but tonight you ended up with 11 with everybody else. Was it a conscious effort on your part to look to score more? I was just letting the game come to me. When I tried to force stuff, it never happened. When I let it come, it just opened up, and I just took the opportunities that I got. Joe, I also noticed that Coach made a pretty concerted effort, I think, in the second half. Both of you maybe can concur. To get the ball into your big guys, it looked like you would swing it out the stacker on the wing, and then you guys were posting up and just quite honestly dominating pretty much inside. Was that the plan of attack in the second half for you guys? And I know you ended up having a few more points than you've been getting in the last couple of games. So was that the plan of attack for you guys in the second half? Well, we just are beginning to realize that we got versatility, and we're trying to work it in and out. They knew we were coming out shooting, so work it inside, and then we can always kick it back out if we don't have it inside. Well, you definitely talk about getting more versatility and more guys involved in your game plan. Because when you're looking at four guys that are scoring 11 points, I mean, I don't think you can really ask for more. You guys did a nice job tonight, really taking care of business. I know you had a little hiccup against Howard's Grove and are feeling a little frustrated about that loss. But tonight, I thought you guys did a nice job. And again, the balance scoring, I think, can only be a plus for you guys. Thanks for stopping by and talking to us, and have a good season, you guys. Thanks.