 We're at South High School where tonight the Red Wings take on conference full Manitowoc. Hello everybody, alongside the coach Chris Wright. I'm Mike Martin. Chris, scoring is not gonna be a big thing tonight, I don't think. Manitowoc's high score is only averaging seven a game. South's high score is averaging a little under 10. What do you think's gonna happen tonight in terms of the pace of the game? Well this is one of those games, it's probably a, you know, where you are on, in the conference a little bit. You know, both teams trying to move to the upper level a little bit, but I think both teams are a little bit of a mystery. You've lost two of the leading scorers from Sheboygan South last year and five starters from Manitowoc. So these are all a bunch of new young kids. They haven't played a lot of games yet. So I still think they're, you know, the coaching staffs are trying to bear what they got. I had an inter, I had a chance to interview Mike Rank and one of the things I said was at least Tim Schulz left you put players with a lot of experience. I would think that would play into South Sands tonight because they do have more experience than Manitowoc. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's a good point. You got Connor Harrison and TJ Pitch and Jared Reckolites coming up, but Connor Harrison too, he's, we've been waiting for Connor Harrison for the last couple of years. He's supposed to have, you know, big, big years and stuff like that. So there are players out there and I looked on the right, you know, the scoring thing for Sheboygan South and every kid has scored some points this year or all that, like two points a game now. I don't know that's a good thing or a bad thing. You know, you, most teams just go with seven or eight guys in a rotation, but you look on there and they have 16 on the roster and I think all 16 have scored. I noticed that too when I was looking up the information. By the way, I got all my information together, printed it out and it's still sitting in the printer. Let's talk a little bit about Manitowoc. They come in, they lost all five starters last year and I looked down the roster at the heights. They don't have anybody very tall either. No, and they used to be kind of big and rugged inside and they've kind of lost that a little bit and not to diss Manitowoc Lincoln, but they might be the third best team in the whole city this year. You got Manitowoc Roncolly, which is rank number two. They just lost to Vincent the other night. Manitowoc Lutheran, yeah, they lost to two Rivers by seven. These guys lost to him by 10. So we might be looking at the third best team in Manitowoc and for Lincoln, that's a little bit of a disappointment. So Coach Gallagher's got a rebuilding thing going on there. Austin Mecca, who seems like he's been playing over there for about 10 years, he's gone and like I said, I think he's looking for what he's got too. Now, I lost my train of thought here for a second. Manitowoc does not have many high scores. I think their leading score is averaging only seven points a game. They need to find somebody that can score and I kind of think the same thing about South, even though they got a kid that's averaging 9.7, that's still not enough. That's kind of weird, Mike, because I was thinking the same thing this afternoon. Who's going to be the go-to guy for Sheboygan South? Is it going to be Zeitz? Is it going to be Harrison? Is it going to be Recoliasis? You know, I was looking at the different leading scores for every game. Every game is different. Is it going to be Pitch? Who are their guys? Or are they just going to be a bunch of bounce guys? But right now their balance isn't very high. So I was thinking like you did today, Marty, and wondering who's really going to take charge for the Sheboygan South team. It is early in the season. They do have a win under the belt. They did lose a tough one at a peer. Both teams already played at the peer already, which doesn't help anybody, but playing that good team. Well, I think you can draw some comparisons, because South lost to him by, I think, 21 points. It was 64 to 43. But Manitowoc only managed 25 points against those guys. They got beat by 50 some points, and it was, you know, I looked at the quarter by quarter score, and they're really tough. So interesting to see what Coach Rank brings to the table this year and in the future. He's brought the hometown guy back to his alma mater, and he gets a chance to coach his team. Sometimes that's a big dream for kids. I think Coach Rank wants to take advantage of it. And you said he's started some new things here. 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Joining me is Mike Rank, new head coach at Sheboygan South. Now, Mike, this isn't your first go around. You coached out at Random Lake. How did that experience help you with coaching here itself? Well, I tell you one thing. It definitely humbled me going against some really good coaches in that conference, from Kevin Brooking, to Todd Decker, to the Lake Crusader. Every coach in that conference, Coach Flipsy, Isaiah Ketterhagen. I mean, the list goes on. There's some really good coaching in that conference. So for me personally, how many years ago now, definitely humbled me. I thought I could come in here and turn things around real quick. And I think it really prepared me, because I really had to do a lot of things by myself. All right, great. Now, you're coming in here to South, and not a very good record last year, and the parents are not very happy with Tim Schultz. What do you need to do to get the program turned around? It's, you know, and I think it's no secret what was going on last year. It's kind of a real tough situation for Coach Schultz. And really, I think, since I've taken over in May, there's been a 180-degree turn on what we've done. I mean, just trying to spark excitement, new uniforms, new warm-ups, new ways of that. We're just doing things. I mean, everything that we're doing is new. Different. I mean, we enter the gym a different area. We practice differently. New system. So everything's just trying to be new, fresh, and I think it's really carrying on right now. Now, Tim did leave you with players with a lot of experience, because he played a lot of guys. What's your philosophy on playing a lot of guys? And I know you've got a lot of guys, like I said, that are experienced. Yeah, I think, you know, one thing that I mentioned to the boys, and even in my parent meetings, is that we've only had three winning seasons here in 10 years. So it's not like we're coming into a situation where I'm just kind of taking over the reins, where it's been a totally rebuilt. And anything that really happened from last year, we're not even bringing up in the years before. It's all about being new, fresh. And I think that gives the kids an opportunity, too, to kind of re-establish themselves as players and people. You mentioned that things are new. One of the things you're changing, obviously, is the style of play. Tell our fans, what are they going to see different tonight? Yeah, well, I think, you know, one thing I think Coach Schiltz had an incredible job was. No one will ever question his offense and his ability to get kids to push the ball. We're going to still try to push the ball. And I always tell people, hey, that's one thing I really don't have to worry about. But defensively, we're really kind of going back to some basics on how to win basketball games. And that's limiting our turnovers, sharing the sugar, sharing the ball. And playing tough half-court defense and rebounding. And I'd say about 80% of our practices have been on defense and rebounding. So if I remember you as a player, you like to shoot long ones. I mean, real long. Do you got any players this year that are going to shoot the long ones? And have you been coaching them on that? You know, one thing with us, too, it's, you know, we, the kids know for me, they, it's a green light. Everyone's got a green light. Don't play tight for me. But you play within your role. And I think you're going to see the guys that can shoot them. They will. The guys that won't, they know in practice pretty quick whether or not they can do that or not. But you never know. You may see a Recolytus or a McLaughlin or a Teshlog shooter three every now and then. I'm not going to limit them on that way. But if they, they miss one or two, it's, it's, it's done. All right. Thanks a lot, Coach. 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Freshman number 23, TJ Snyder. Senior number 42, Ben Coles. Head coach for the Manitowoc link-in ships. Brian Gallagher. And now your starting lineups for your Sheboygan South High Red Wigs. Five, ten, junior number three, two, Jay Pitch. Six, one, junior number 21, Connor. Harrison. Six, one, senior number 32, Carter. Amundsen. Five, nine, senior number 33, Eric Tetzlaug. And six, four, junior number 34, Jared Reklides. Head coach for the Red Wings, Michael Rank. There you see Coach Mike Rank behind him, his assistants. Peter Kautzer, Jake Schwartz. Referees for tonight's game are Todd Van S and Tom Huneck. They're a couple of real good ones, Chris. A lot of experience with those two officials. Why is that? Because we just seen them a lot or? Well, that too. Over the last how many years we've seen them a lot? Matt Horizen here doing a little scouting for the north side, running the camera. Van S is going to do the toss. South controls. You know, they changed the numbers on me here, Chris. What a shock, huh? Really, it's not the way it is on the program. Amundsen with a good save. Gets it over to Harrison. Kick out pass. Shot is off, no good. Rebound to Reklides. His shot is off. Manitouac comes away with the rebound. That was T.J. Schneider. T.J. Schneider, a freshman, and he is like a rail out there, number 23. South working the man-to-man defense. Manitouac trying to get an open look. They're finding it quite difficult to do that. Allman is one of the guys you got to be careful for. He's number three. Also Terp, one of the seniors on the team this year. Terp don't look no comfortable carrying the basketball, though. Reklides with a good job of moving the feet to cut off the baseline. Man and a half in, Marty. Yeah, only one shot. Where do we got two shots? Two misses for South, none for Mantwock. Little backdoor screen, and Allman puts it up and in. Wow. The shot is off, no good. Rebound for South goes to Eric Tetschlag. Manitouac playing the tough D also, Chris. Rolling down to the 5-30 mark of the first quarter. It's two-to-nothing, Manitouac. Pitch trying to hunt down the shot, but having a very difficult kickout pass. The three-point attempt is off, no good. Reklides with the tap is no good. Terp has it on the wing. Wide open jump shot from right in front of the basket is missed by Ben Coles. Ben Coles plays baseball and football. I remember him this fall. All-around athlete, sounds like to me. Yep. Well, Sam Selt kind of the same way. Connor Harrison. Whoa. Almost taking a shot to the head was, and then stealing it was Harrison. He was the one that almost got hit. Now we get a whistle and a foul. It's going to go on Ullman, number three. Three new red wings in. Parker Slimmer, Cody McEloughlin. He played some football. Sam Seltkin. Another big body inside that makes South pretty big out there. A push on the shot, no call. Manitouac gets the rebound. South has not scored yet and a bumping foul. No, they're going to get an offensive foul on Terp. Surprised me too, Chris. A couple of subs come in for Manitouac. Still two to nothing. Almost halfway through the first quarter. Parker Slimmer had it, but couldn't get the pass off that he wanted inside. Recolytus gets it down deep. Kick out, jump shot. Won't roll in. Good shot taken there by Selt, but he couldn't get it. Another shot missed, that one by Pitch. And South is still scoreless. Manitouac working the perimeter. Ullman with the long shot, can't get it. And we're going to get an offensive foul on South. TJ Pitch picks up the foul. Well, he was getting hounded pretty good, Chris. I'm surprised they didn't call it on Ullman. Yep. Kavanaugh being guarded tightly inside. Feed, reverse layup. Attempt is no good. Recolytus with the rebound. Selt gets it inside. Other work in the perimeter. Slimmer has it inside the McLaughlin, who makes a nice feed to his teammate. Selt, but he couldn't get the layup to go. 2-30 left. Still two to nothing. South with a tip away, but Manitouac comes up with it. Three point attempt is no good. And South with the rebound. South all for their first 7, Marty. Well, having trouble finding the bottom of the... Bowl teams are. Yeah, right. McLaughlin has it on top, looking for an open player. Pitch added on top. And he scores. TJ Pitch on the drive down the baseline, gets it up and in. And finally, Kavanaugh picks up the foul. That's the third team foul on Manitouac. Puts it in. South on top, 3-2. 141 left. Tristan Schmidt in the ballgame. Little pressure. Very good idea. I think Manitouac could struggle with this. Leap and leaner is no good. That shot by Slimmer. Ball tipped around. Manitouac comes away with it. Almond going hard to the hoop. Puts it up. No good, but he's fouled. Cody McLaughlin picks up the foul. Almond shooting 2. Puts in the first one. A lot of substitutes coming in for Manitouac. Almond has all the points for Manitouac. All three. Yeah. He's their high score. Manitouac 22. Left in the first. It's been a slow mover in terms of making baskets. They're saying it didn't count. Really? I don't know. Yes, they did make it. The scoreboard did put it up right away. Sorry. Oh, a foul. Latour picks up the foul. And Selk will be at the line shooting. Nothing but the bottom of the net for Sam. We're all tied at 4. You've been able to keep up with the scoring here, Chris. Yep. And a crawler wouldn't go in. Oh, boy. And then the Manitouac player in an attempt to save the ball traveled. So Selk will get it back. All tied up, 4-4. Inside feed to McLaughlin. Good fake. He puts it up and couldn't get it. They're going to say he was fouled on the floor. So it wouldn't have countered anyway. When Kowski picks up the foul. 15 foul already on Manitouac. Schmidt had it for a second. Then the pass is Aaron trying to get it in on the cutting Saltai player. But it was intercepted by the ships. 40 seconds left in the first. Tied up at 4. Turnaround jumper is up and in. Nice looking shot by Rohrer. And a turnover. And they're going to get an offensive foul on Terp. That's going to be his second. 25.9 seconds left. Manitouac on top 6-4. Coach Gallagher complaining about the call. Extended conversation on that play. Under 20 seconds. Drive to the middle. And we're going to get an offensive foul on South Highs. Connor Harrison. Fifth turnover on South. That's a lot Chris. Especially when you think about the pace of the game. 14.2 seconds left. Manitouac with plenty of time. Good double team. Ollman can't see behind him. He had a guy wide open. A long three pointer. No good. And the three pointer bounces off. Good attempt by Sam Selt. But he couldn't get it to go. And we're at the end of one quarter of play. Manitouac on top 6-4. The face of a veteran. A senior on a fixed income. Now I want you to imagine them without a home. 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And then we get a foul on South High's Eric Tetchlag. And the shooting walls continue for South. The good thing is they're playing Manitouac who is just as poor. South still in the man to man defense. Manitouac having trouble getting good looks and now we get a whistle. There is Zeetz. Paul is going to go on Zeetz. First time I've seen him. Yeah I don't think he played in the first quarter Chris. Makes you wonder if there was a reason for that. Allman open from three point land. His shot goes short but he's able to get the loose ball. Inside feed layup is up and good by Manitouac's Derek Rohrer. And that's his second basket. Eight to four Manitouac on top. His second bat basket matches the baskets for South. Tetchlag looking spins to the outside. And no shot travel first. Tetchlag look to have pretty good position inside but shuffle the feed. Turp back in Chris with his three fouls. Three fouls? Wow. Who do they got? What three? Wait, wait, wait on the board. I can't do it. Two fouls. Backdoor cut. Backdoor travel. And we're going to get a foul on South High's Tyler Zeetz. Well the fouls match the total points. Six each. Turp shooting a pair. Slimmer back in the game for the Red Wings. One for two trip makes it nine to four. Tetchlag had his back turned to the basket. He had a teammate Slimmer cutting backdoor but never saw him. Pitch on a good cut through the lane. They missed him. If you caught our interview with Mike Rank, he said they wanted to try and run but Manitouac's done a good job of getting back on defense and even a better job on their half court defense inside feed to Recolytus. Step through his shot is blocked but then we get a whistle. Foul is going to go on Roar. Well the Ships did a nice job on Recolytus there. Diving three guys in there. Recolytus did a nice drop step. Actually that foul Chris is going on Schneider. Recolytus is shooting a pair. Well South played 10 guys. Manitouac's played 10 guys. Only played 10 minutes of action. Yeah this is amazing. Recolytus pours in a pair. Manitouac has it. Ullman being guarded closely by Pitch. Freshman spin move. Shot is up and in but no basket called for the travel. It's nine to six. Manitouac over South. Five and a half minutes left. Second quarter. Almost a steal. South looking to score some points. They only have six. Shot is no good. Another pretty good look at the basket Chris but they can't get anything to go in. Oh there's a foul. Yep getting a foul on that is going to be Tristan Schmidt. Going to the line for Manitouac is going to be their freshman TJ Schneider. He'll be shooting three. Free throw attempt is up and that one rolls in. They only gave him two Chris. Must have been inside or his foot on the line. Slimmer looking for an opening couldn't find it. Schmidt has it on top. Amundsen on a backdoor cut. Has the ball down deep but kicks it out. Looks like he might have had a shot. Nice spin move by Tristan Schmidt and again a shot right around the basket doesn't go down. Manitouac has it and they have the lead. Ten to six. Ullman trying to get to the hoop but Pitch playing the tough defense but gets called for the foul. Bonus time. Yep that's what I have. Two on Pitch now. Pitch the second leading score. Preston Ullman will be shooting a free throw for sure. Maybe two. Looks awfully young. He's a senior. Kerry Coutts are our director tonight. Richard Bartson and Eric Weisman on camera. And we have some South High students helping out. Reklitis with a great feed from Schmidt puts it up and in and he's fouled. Well a very simple situation there. Schmidt broke down the coverage. Got into the lane other players had to step up. Providing an easy bounce pass to Reklitis. Chance to get a three point play the old fashioned way. Yep and draw to a one point deficit and he does. Free throw crawls in. Hopefully that's a good Ullman Chris that some of the shots will start dropping. Throwing it out of bounds for Manitowak was Tyler Thiers. Look like they had a good shot at an easy layup. Chris tell me threw that pass out of bounds. They have seven turnovers all by different people. So that's got a good balance. Spreading the wealth. You're right. Under four minutes left in the half. South down 10 to 9. Reklitis hands it off the sell. His shot is no good. Tristan Schmidt comes away with the loose ball he wants. We get a timeout by south a full timeout. So with south trailing by one we'll take a break. The environment is my passion. Every day I live for the outdoors and all of its challenges. That's why I am listed in the Coast Guard. I start to protect the environment and defend my country. It's like I was born for this. Were you born ready for a greater challenge? Find out at GoCoastGuard.com. Back at South High School there you see the South Huddle. Coach Mike Rank talking to the two troops. One of the things that Mike had mentioned in that opening interview was he wanted to try and run the ball and there hasn't been any running at all. I mean is Manitowak playing that good a defense? Well and I don't know about that either. It's difficult to figure out who's running the show even for South because they got guys running in and out and this is about the longest set this group of five here that's been in. They've been making a run so keep them in. 335 left in the half. Recklitis wide open inside makes a nice move can't get it to go. Forces another shot up that's no good. Look like Schmidt tipped it out. Boy, Recklitis is having some nice shots inside but he's not putting them in. Yeah he's one for five Marty. That's nothing outside of 10 feet either. That's about what the team's shooting 20 percent. Good help defense underneath for Manitowak to keep Jared from getting the pass inside. Schmidt looking to go to the middle kicks it out. Long three-pointer is up and good by Parker Slimmer. And a lead. 12 to 10 and a travel. The pressure is getting to Manitowak. It's a second turnover that the Red Wings have caused with their press. Easily the right way to attack Manitowak is to press all over. They can't handle this pressure. And they had that same trouble last year Chris with that senior group. Yep they had a lot of size last year but no one helped the big boys out and it hasn't improved over the year. See we're Mecca's playing D2 basketball. Schultz had his shot blocked and then South can't save it. Manitowak's going to get it. Schultz the 11th player into the game for South. A good job of breaking the press there and a feed inside. The basket by Kohlz is up and in and he's fouled. Schultz officially in the score book with that foul. We're all tied up with a 2-16 left in the half. Schultz couldn't get it. Pardon me. Kohlz couldn't get it in. Tristan Schmidt, jumper outside the line. Bangal. Tristan Schmidt. TJ Schneider off the glass and in. We have pace Marty we have pace. Really I can't keep up. Schmidt with a good job of not forcing the shot. South keeps a possession 140 left in the in the first half. Salk looked like he was wide open but no pass inside. South shooting 17% in the game and a lead. Tristan Schmidt with a drive to the hoop and a basket. Almost stolen away. And it is and then we get a whistle. Tristan Schmidt big nighter here. Ron Krawski picks up the foul for Manitowoc. Tristan Schmidt will be shooting the one and one. South up 17 to 14 as soon as the pace quickened. Chris Manitowoc couldn't keep up. Schmidt leading all scores with six points. Nine turnovers now on Manitowoc. That free throw makes it a 19 to 14 score south up by five. Schmidt putting a lot of pressure on the Manitowoc ball handler and then Slimmer loses the ball out of bounds. Surprised there was no foul called. I don't know why Salton come out with the press right away. They tip it away again. Schmidt has it kicks it over to his teammate Sal. But there was a whistle beforehand. Allman picks up the foul. Schmidt will be on the line again for the Red Wings. Gaming into the game averaging four points. He's going to double it right here. The average with eight right. He's got eight points on the night. For an average. I don't think he was up to eight points. Was he Chris? No, four. Four points again. He's doubled his. He's got all the points in a quarter two. Marty, correct? Yep. No. Slimmer had a three. Schmidt missed a free throw and then he gets the rebound and puts it up and in. 22 to 14. Shot is off. Schmidt with the rebound. He's a one man band here in the second quarter. Under 40 seconds left in the half. South up eight. Another timeout by South. Second timeout for South. It's a 30 second timeout. So we better keep it here, Kerry. Well, once the pace picked up, Marty, like you asked. I didn't ask. I told you. It's all been good for the team. Actually, we were both up here hoping it would get a little more pace to the game because it was pretty slow. That wasn't even Dick Bennett defense. It was just bad offense. South had a lot of shots in near the basket. Chris, if they could have just got a small portion of those to go, they'd have a double-digit lead. Yeah, they're shooting 24% now led by Schmidt. He's three of four on the night. 10 points all in a quarter. Almost loses his balance. And Coach, pardon me, Coach. I'll get it right yet. Referee Todd Van S caught him with a travel. 25 seconds left in the half. See if Manitowak can hang on to it. No, they can't. Schmidt puts the head down off the glass. Rims out. Tough break. Oh, boy. Ullman, 10 footer. No good. Rebound by McLaughlin. High pass goes off a slimmer out of bounds. And Manitowak player is down. Maggie Bauer, the trainer for tonight's game, comes out to take a look at him. And Brian Gallagher, there you can see, is coming out to see what's up. Manitowak shooting 25%, Marty, but they've only got six shot attempts here in a quarter. They keep turning it over. Yeah, that's amazing. Seven turnovers in the quarter for the ships. Hey, Kerry, is there any chance of maybe taking a look at replay, see what happened to that young man? Like he tipped an ankle. And he's not putting any weight on it. Trevor Terp is the young man. That's not Coach Gallagher either. I think that's Nathan Ketterbeck. 0.3 seconds left. Hey, they're saying the ball was tipped. Tetchla got it. No shot attempt. And we're finally at halftime with South making a nice run here in the second quarter. They lead it by eight, 22 to 14. And Chris is just bubbling all over. He's waiting for that interview. My team depends on me. And my team is 50,000 strong. That's what it feels like to be part of a team. A winning team. The action team. Only action at actionteam.org. 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TJ Schneider, the good-looking freshman, had three. Derek Rohr had four. And Ben Coles had two points. No scoring from the substitutes on Manitowoc's side. For South, Pitch had three. Slimmer had three. Selk had one. Tristan Schmidt came in. Had just a fantastic second quarter. Picking up loose balls. Making some steals. Doing it all really had 10 points. Jared Reklitis had five. He could have probably had an easy 10 if he'd have made some easy shots. Scoring by quarters. Both teams in the first quarter had 10 points. In the second quarter, South managed 18 points to Manitowoc's eighth. So that totals out to 26. A little more reasonable in the second quarter, Chris. Manitowoc's shooting 31 percent. South 20 and they're down by eight. The problem was turnovers and second opportunities for South two. They're getting a bunch of offensive rebounds. I unofficially have them for five offensive rebounds which provides extra shots. On the other side, Manitowoc only gets one offensive rebound so South is keeping them off the glass. South has it coming out of the break. And a little surprise, Chris, that Schmidt isn't starting. But... Well, these five guys didn't play very much. I'll say that. I know they're the starters, but they're not the ones that won that second quarter, yeah. Tapped out of bounds. Actually, they're saying Conor Harrison lost it out of bounds. Manitowoc will have it. It's in with no shot attempts. Amundsen playing the tight D on Ullman and a five-second count. Let's start over. South coming out. South working the double post there for just a second. Pass to Amundsen. His layup attempt is no good. Coles with the rebound for the ships. Little pick and roll action to Coles. He's looking inside. Reklitis won't give him any room. So yeah, to pass it out. Schneider spin move. Jump shot in the lane is no good. Kick out down to Pitch. Pitch trying to go around Ullman. And Ullman gets called for the foul. That's going to be his third. They only got it for his second, Chris. Rub that off. Pitch from three, nails it. Nothing but the bottom of the net on that shot. He was one of four in the first quarter, I believe. Almost lost out of bounds. Good save that time by Manitowoc's Austin Braun. Oh, three in the first quarter, I'm sorry. Pitch trying for the steal. Couldn't quite get it. Kick out. Long shot attempt is no good. Reklitis with the strong rebound. Pitch open from three-point land. Couldn't get it to go. Tipped away from Schneider. McLaughlin inside, no good. Harrison was over the back. No call. Good deal for South. Manitowoc has it back. 5.30 left in the third. South up 11. McLaughlin got away with a good push and a turnover by Schneider. McLaughlin loads it up from three-point land. Couldn't get it to go. Manitowoc comes away with it. Andy Kavanaugh. All men, oh, there's something wrong with that basket, Chris. Manitowoc's gonna have the same trouble. The ball was halfway down and popped out. Pitch from the other side, no good. Reklitis, spin move, half hook is no good. Braun with the rebound for Manitowoc. And we get a timeout. That one's gonna go to Manitowoc. 30-second timeout, Kerry, so we better keep it here. Full timeout. Full timeout. They changed it on us. Kerry, if you want to go to a break, go ahead. Otherwise, Chris can't wait to talk some more. There you see Mike rank. Jamie Burlin trying to block off our camera view and he's doing a heck of a job of it too. He's a big guy. You know, Chris, I think we ought to get a level and see if the floor is level because I think everything on that basket to our right, the ball doesn't want to go in. Well, South's one of seven in this quarter on this end, so maybe it's both ends. Maybe it has nothing to do with the level of the floor. Helping out up here on camera was SouthEye student Jonathan Miller. Good job by him. You couldn't even tell when we made the change. Jonathan did such a bang-up job. Scott Mailoff, one of our directors, is Jonathan's media teacher. Is that right, John? It's gonna say 18% shooting for South and they're up by 11. That's not even a good batting average. Manitowoc has it. Tristan Schmidt back in the game. He had one nice second quarter there, Chris. South trying to 1-3-1 here, Marty. Cole's had it tipped away. That ball was tipped by South. Manitowoc will keep it. It's not a bad idea trying to use some of the speed of the South players. Or Manitowoc is slow with the ball on a rotation, so the 1-3-1 should work. Yeah, they really struggle with their ball handling, which of course would include the passing aspect. Schmidt, Selk, Amundsen, Recklitis, and Pitch on the floor for the Red Wings. How can that not be over and back? Well, it was knocked by South. I thought it was a good no-call, actually. Cavanaugh gets it over to the shooting Ullman, who can't get it in. And then we get an over-the-back foul on Austin Braun. Tyler Zeitz in for Amundsen. Matt walked down to 20% shooting. Jeez. 13 turnovers. Tyler Thiers comes in for the ships. And one more quick substitution. Schneider back in. 350 left in the third quarter. Tyler Zeitz in the game. He's played about a minute and a half. Yeah, he hasn't seen a lot of minutes so far. Sam Selk trying to clear space, gets a layup attempt blocked. Tell you, Sam's not afraid to shoot. He's old for five on the night. I got to like those kind of guys. Not afraid to shoot. What you really wish, though, is they wouldn't be afraid to make. Hit a lot of shooters. We need some makers. Zeitz hard down the lane. Actually, pretty good defense at time by Cavanaugh. But he's going to get called for the foul. Pitchell tossed it in. Look for him to get the pass back for a shot. Not a good feed that time. Wreck light has hit it out. Not enough space, Chris. All of a sudden, the scoring has slowed down. Again. Yeah, really. We're only going to score in even quarters. A man's walk. I don't remember the last time. They got a point. They scored. They are stuck on 14 for the cool quarter and they are stuck on 14 towards the end of the last quarter. It's probably been about eight minutes. Schmidt all over that South Hype or Manitouac player. Freshman mistake there. Hold the ball, hold the ball, hold the ball. While you're holding the ball, the defense is rotating and Sal's did a nice job there. I can draw a parallel, Chris. It's like the Barrow offense last night against a really poor defense in the Cowboys. And Sal's defense maybe looks a little better than it is because Manitouac has very little offense of weapons and another turnover by the Ships. Bet the over on something, not that I have whatever Packard Dallas game because those teams Look for Eddie Lacy to have a big game. All those teams defense struggles. Look at this. Oh boy. It's parting of the Red Sea. Zee dribbles it right in for an easy two. Oh, you got to like that. South finally on the board again. Kavanaugh's three point attempt is off, but Schneider with the rebound. Pretty good defense by South. Recolitis got faked out, but he still gets the block. Good hustle, Jared. Yeah, but where's that young man going? Schneider with a two pointer. First basket in about 10 minutes. Tristan Schmidt gets called for an offensive foul. Tough break there for Tristan. Like he had a pretty nice drive to the hoop. Cole's coming back in. Derek Rohr out for Manitouac. Pretty nice two man game to break the press at time. Kavanaugh being hounded by Selk. Good defense. Schneider with a three. Get a man on him. He has eight points. Seats to Slimmer. Good help by Schneider underneath to keep the lob pass indirect lightest. Slimmer couldn't get it to go, but he is fouled by Ullman, and that's going to be his third. Slimmer will be shooting three free throws, Chris. You know my comment, Marty. I've said it a hundred million times we've been together. Never follow a jump shooter. How can you follow a guy way out there? Slimmer had a three point basket back in the first half. It happened in the second quarter, and that was point number four for him. His drought in scoring was almost as long as Manitouac's. But we're talking a whole team of players versus one guy who's also been on the bench for a while. There's a good shot of Parker. Four new red wings coming into the game. Harrison, one of them. Amundsen. Tetch log back in there. Slimmer couldn't get the last one in. Pitch couldn't get in the game. So you think he missed it on purpose? I'm not exactly saying that. Good help defense by Harrison. Kavanaugh not doing much. Being guarded by Slimmer. Schneider forces the action, and he gets fouled. Foul goes on Zietz. His third foul. Schneider has all the points in the quarter, Marty. Yeah, he's been a, I wouldn't exactly say he's been a scoring machine, but as far as Manitouac, he has been. He's got nine points also. Pitch back in the game. Schneider looks like a keeper, Chris. Well, we're going to be announcing his name for a few years. A few years. 29-21. South on top. Rolling down to the 22nd mark of the end of the third. Slimmer with a good spin move, and then he didn't continue to the basket. Harrison. Pull up in the lane. His shot is up and in. And that's the end of the quarter. Nice shot by Connor Harrison. And at the end of three, South up 31-21. Best compliment I ever get is when someone says to me, you had breast cancer. They look at your chest. Did you have operations? I said, yeah, I fell out of mastectomy and reconstruction. That's the best compliment. Women who are told about their breast reconstruction options report feeling in control and experiencing a higher quality of life after cancer. Before you undergo surgery for breast cancer, get the facts. Make sure you know your breast reconstruction options. For more information, visit bradayusa.org. There you see Coach Mike Rank talking to the troops. I was just going through some of the scoring here in the second quarter. South had eight points. Manitowoc only seven. And Chris had mentioned it earlier, but Schneider, their good-looking freshman had all the points. He had seven and he's sitting with 10. And he and Tristan Schmidt of South lead to have game honors for the scoring at 10 each. Manitowoc will toss it in to start the quarter. I wonder if Julie and Tetchlog that won the gift card is any relation to Eric Tetchlog. And we're off and running in fourth quarter action. Manitowoc down 10. But the way points have been scored in this ball game, 10 seems like a good 15 or 16 points. Kavanaugh from outside the line on a catch and shoot couldn't get it in. Harrison with the rebound. Amundsen on a feed-inside direct lightest, but he gets fouled. Both teams shooting 23%. Oh, it's picked up. Difference in the game is the free throws and the three pointers. Manitowoc only has one, they're one of seven. South on the other hand has three of them and the free throw line. Both teams have made the same amount of baskets. It's just basically, but South with eight baskets and Manitowoc was seven. Rec lightest has made four out of five free throws, Chris. He's been pretty good at that tonight. It's 32 to 21. South back up to their largest lead at 11. Little backdoor cut, but the pass goes out of bounds. David Latour was the intended receiver, but he couldn't come up with it. Manitowoc pulling out the press and then we get a hard foul on Schneider. What was that all about? Holy cow. And Mike Rank's going to call a timeout right away to set up his press breaker. Boy, oh boy. That just made me, did you see that? He just came over and hacked them right over the top. It's like he was mad at Amundsen. He said, I'm going to get you back. I was counting turnovers, that's 15 turnovers for Manitowoc. Yeah, that's way too many. You know, and I can see that's going to be an ongoing problem. For them. Well, South has 10. They got to clean things up too. Yeah. Well, if they sit at the end of the game with only 10, I would say that's a pretty good night, or even now 12 is getting up there, I guess, but you're right. They've gotten better though. They had a pretty bad first quarter. Five, five, okay. So half of them in one quarter, and then they played a half of basketball, the second and third and only had five total. We're still wondering what's going on here. Yeah, we know it was on Schneider. Yeah, Schneider knows it was on Schneider too, because he hacked them pretty good. I just don't think Manitowoc has the quickness to stay with Sheboygan South here, and he walked. Pitch on a nice pass to the recolitis whose shot was blocked by Schneider. That freshman is getting involved in the action, that's for sure. Recolitis one of seven now, Marty. Latour coming off the double screen, but McLaughlin fought through, not allowing the shot. Another backdoor cut. Kavanaugh, that time makes the connection and makes an easy layup. Amundsen, and he got it over to Recolitis who tried to feed McLaughlin cutting to the basket and threw it out of bounds. Tristan Schmidt, Parker Slimmer, both coming back in. Somehow that doesn't seem fair. Manitowoc down nine. Towoc hasn't even put nine points in a quarter yet. Have they, what was their first quarter, eight? Yeah. And now they're supposed to come back and get nine that they trail by. I think it's going to be tough for them. Good pump fake, and then they try to get a pass into Braun who couldn't come up with it. Kavanaugh with a three. Get on that, boy. Recolitis. Shot is not even close. Tries to muscle it up, and then we get a whistle. Fears is going to get called for the foul. Well, Jared's just one of eight, but like you said, he's four or five from the free throw line, and he does have eight rebounds. He's done a good job inside of getting some loose balls and picking up some offensive rebounds, but his field goal shooting has been lacking He has seven points. Zeed's back in the game for the Red Wings. Making a three throw zone. Yeah, he looks pretty smooth. One three one. I think a good choice. Shot is up and in by Schneider. A two-pointer had a foot on the line. Mant walk three of four shooting in the quarter, but they still trail by six. Crawling, they're getting a little closer. Oh wow, what was that call? They're going to get slimmer on a block. Yep, Parker slimmer, blocking foul. For Parker, that's only his first foul. And the fourth team foul on South. Kavanaugh, shuffle the feet, could see it. No shot attempt, South will get it back. It's 34-28, South on top. 5-14 left in the ball game. Mant to walk, trying to make it more interesting, but they are having trouble scoring baskets. Like they have all year. Slimmer being guarded by Kavanaugh. South is in the bonus, so she should try to attack the basket. Schmidt has it. Being guarded by Braun. Amundsen takes a shot, can't get it in. Reklitis, offensive rebound, puts it back up and in. Big hoop, puts it back up to eight. Good swing. Schneider's shot is no good. Zietz got it and kicked it out to Parker slimmer. Zietz hard to the basket inside. Direklitis who lays it up and in. Good teamwork that time. And all of a sudden, it's a 10-point red wing lead. Timeout by the ships. 30-second timeout carry, so we better keep it here. Good teamwork, Chris. Chris isn't talking to me, but that's okay. I'll talk to you guys out there in TV land. Just thinking. We should check the quarter's scoring. Mant to walk, this quarter has seven points. Reklitis has all the points for South. They've got seven also. So we're standing or sitting right where we were at the beginning of the quarter, just a few more points ahead on the scoreboard. Still a seven, 10-point advantage. Well, Mant to walk got it down to six and had a possession, but weren't able to draw any closer. Looked like South is in a 1-2-2 zone. Kick. Well, I'm just wondering what Ulman's trying to do. He's dribbling off to his left. Then he's going to throw the ball back to the right. It goes down to his feet, and that big guy's supposed to just all of a sudden pick it up and do something. Exactly what you said. Good analysis, Chris. Well, you're exactly right. What's he going to do with it? Just a poor, poor choice on his part. And a lot of that all goes down to ball handling. Ulman with a good fake and got the shot off, but not even close. He's one of eight. That's been a tough night. Tough night for the Ships. He was their leading scorer. Good back cut by Slimmer. His layup comes up short. Schneider with another rebound, Chris. Four, the freshman from Mant to walk. Skip pass to Kavanaugh who shifts it over to Schneider, and then he tries to force it in to Kohl's and we get a whistle. Tristan Schmidt picks up the foul. That's his third. Unhaz it. South continuing to play a good defense, not allowing Mant to walk many shots. Schneider on a backdoor cut, got a nice feed from Kohl's for an easy two. Zietz not forcing the action, did a good job of kicking it back out. Schmidt driving hard to the basket scores. Another two points for him. His first of the second half, Marty, with two and a half in the fourth. His first shot attempt, mind you. I would say that he definitely sparked the Red Wing rally in that key second quarter. Ullman from outside the line can't get it to go. And then a good tap by Sam Selk. Slimmer gets called for the walk. That was a good call. But Sam Selk doing a good job of keeping the ball alive. Pitch and Amundsen coming back in for the Red Wings. Rolling down to the two-minute mark. Mant had to walk down 10 and they're not getting enough shots off. Kavanaugh got hacked on the shot. He made it, no call. That young man has had a nice second half. Nice fourth quarter actually with eight points. Two, three pointers among those eight. And Schmidt commits a foul. That's a silly one, Chris. Well, I think he felt that he was fouled on this end. So he's going to participate and reach in and get back. And the officials did not see it that way. Do you ever hear that saying they always catch the second guy? That's a six foul on South. On the next foul, Manitoualk will be shooting. But there's only 141 left in the ballgame. Only a seven-point game. A three-pointer here would really make it interesting. Somebody get on Kavanaugh. That job right now is for TJ Pitch. He's got that wide arm span there. That should help. Kavanaugh left-handed hook shot is no good. Rec light is with the strong rebound. South on the break. Jared with a double-double, Marty. 12 points, 10 rebounds. Good for him. And Schneider comes out and falls Amundsen. Got to stop the clock. 110 left. Boy, they got him for four. Carter's first free throw is dead on. That for Carter is his first point of the night, Chris. Seen quite a bit of playing action. I don't think they count on Carter for a lot of points. He's basically the smart guy on the floor, does the little things, plays defense. We talked about that last year, I can remember. Couldn't get that second one to go. And a steal. No, almost. One minute left. Don't foul. All the goals. Schneider looking for some opening, couldn't find it. Three-point attempt is no good. By Manitowoc's Latour. And then Manitowoc steals it back and we're going to get a foul on Schultz. Joel's. Almond at the line to shoot some free throws. Go downstairs, Marty, but this isn't in the bank yet. Nope, missed a free throw too on the one and one. And a quick foul. That's going to be on Schneider, I think. That's going to be his fifth. Now they got him for four. Interesting. Harrison looking for his first points of the night and get it. Hey, just heard from the Wagner house. They're watching the game. Greg and Kelly. Almond's shot is blocked out of bounds. Manitowoc will keep it with 32 seconds left. Chris is going to go down and get an interview for us inside feed. Cole's shot is no good. Amundsen gets the loose ball. And a quick foul by Kavanaugh. We'll put Pitch at the line. Pitch will be at the line shooting a pair. Nothing but the bottom of the net. That's point number seven for Pitch tonight. TJ looking for number eight. Rims out. Been one of those nights for both teams. South especially. Schneider from way downtown. Nails a three and a quick timeout by Manitowoc. 15 points for Schneider. He has looked really good tonight. 42-36. South on top with 13.7 seconds left. All South has to do is catch the ball and make a free throw or two. And they've got this one in the bank right now. There's still a bit of doubt. Jared Rekulaitis has 12 points for the South side. We mentioned Schneider with 15. Tristan Schmidt has 12 points also. So pretty good balance scoring. TJ Pitch has seven. So South also with some good balance. Pitch has it and then he gets fouled. Who are they going to get? We're going to call it on Ullman. And that's his fifth. Pitch will be at the line shooting a pair. Kavanaugh and Latour coming in. They're going to make Latour wait until Pitch shoots the second free throw. Pitch has one more coming. And I think we got everybody set up the way we want. Tempt that second free throw. And Pitch nails a pair. Kavanaugh taking it hard to the basket. Rams right into the South player and he's going to pick up the foul. Should have pulled up for the short jumper. 6.1 seconds left. Full timeout by South. It's the game that won't end. Back at South High School, Mike Rank talking to the troops. Trying to get away with a victory. They should do it. They're up eight. There's only 6.1 seconds left. And South will have the possession. The prettiest basketball tonight. But effective enough for South to come away with a win. We always like it when the home team wins. Our next basketball game is going to be a week from Saturday when we have the North-South game. And that will be at North. Another foul on Manitowoc. Fiers picks up the foul. Slimmer will be at the line shooting a pair. Parker's got five points tonight. Looking to add to that total. See if he can make a two in a roll. Oop. That should have been a violation. Manitowoc will get it. 2.9 seconds. Kavanaugh. And Manitowoc can't get the shot off in time. South comes away with a win. 45-36. Hi, I'm Lieutenant Colonel Nicole Malakowski, a U.S. Air Force Fighter Squadron Commander and the first woman pilot with the United States Air Force Aerial Demonstration Team. My fellow airmen and I know that each of us plays a huge part in our victories, whether in the air or on the ground. 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Not just yourself with the big rebounds, but one of the things I noticed, you really kept them off the offensive glass. I think they're on the head like two or three offensive rebounds. I don't know if that's what your coaching staff is trying to do, but great job on the glass by the big boys. Yeah, we had an emphasis on rebounding this week and we really wanted to keep them off the boards and just limit them as many offensive rebounds as possible as little and just dominate the boards. Who works with you with the big guys and stuff like that? Do you have any particular coach? Maybe that Coach Schwartz or something who did a little bit of rebounding at Lakeland in here? Coach Schwartz, he's been helping out a lot. He's been doing great. I like him a lot. He's really helped our team. I see you guys play a lot of guys and a lot of guys get in, a lot of flow and things with different people and get a lot of contributors to help on this team. Yeah, we've got a deep team and it's good to have a lot of guards in there that can handle the ball and really pressure the defense and it helps a lot down the road. It's nice to get a win to at home. Yeah, that's for sure. A little crowd here and things like that. It's cold outside, but it's nice to see a big victory. Yeah, definitely. It's good to get our first conference victory right away, first home game of the season. It feels good. Well, congratulations. You can stay here. Carter, change of coaching, change of stuff here. A little try on some different things like that. How's the guys been going with that? You know, it's been really good. We got a really tight-knit group here. We're all really good friends. We work together well. We like playing together. So I think our team chemistry really helps us out on the floor as well as all. And the coaching staff changing some of the things that's been going on, that's been going okay? Yeah, the transition has definitely been smooth. Everything's been good. Yeah, I saw that you guys are coming in from the other side and you guys got new uniforms and things like that. It's kind of like just to turn the page and things. Coach Schultz did a nice job, but just trying to basically start a new chapter here? Yeah, definitely. We're trying to get some tradition started here at South and hopefully pass those transitions down. Well, one thing I think Coach Rank is definitely stressing is defense. I mean, you guys just smothered to the ball and that's, you know, baskets weren't going in, but defense is going to win some games. Yeah, I mean, we work a lot on defense in practice. And on a night like tonight, when we weren't necessarily finishing hitting all our shots, it really helped out. We were able to play good D and grind out W. And you guys are pretty quick too. Yeah, I mean, that's another attribute to our depth. We got a lot of guys, a lot of fresh legs, it helps we can go in and get everything we got and then get a rest and repeat. Jared too, quick. Oh, definitely, definitely. You think he'll steal a base this spring? We'll see about that one. Well, congratulations to both of you guys. We'll see you in about 10 days with the Big North South game. With that, we're going to send it back to Marty. Let's go through some of the scoring for tonight's ball game. T.J. Schneider, the good-looking freshman for Manitowoc, led all scores with 15 points. Andy Kavanaugh had a real nice fourth quarter, chipped in with eight. For us south, we're going to go right down the line. Pitch had nine. Tyler Zietz two. Parker Slimmer, a nice game off the bench with six. Connor Harrison two. Sam Selk one. Tristan Schmidt had 10 points and a key second quarter went south, made a run, passed up. Manitowoc got a lead that they never relinquished in the second half. He had 12. Carter Omonson one. Jared Recolitis 12. And that rounds out the 45 points for south. Our next ball game is going to be on Saturday, December 21st when south travels to the north side, going over to the dark side to play Manitowoc. They're going to have to cross that 8th Street bridge. We look forward to bringing you that ball game. The first game will start at 6 with the girls and then the boys will follow that. So we look forward to bringing that to you. One more time, south the winner 45 to 6. For the crew and my partner Chris Wright, I'm Mike Martin saying thanks for watching everybody and we'll see you down the road. The environment is my passion. Every day I live for the outdoors and all of its challenges. That's why I enlisted in the Coast Guard. Now I start to protect the environment and defend my country. It's like I was born for this. Were you born ready for a greater challenge? Find out at gocoastguard.com.