Girls BB going to State!

Port Wing has had some extra excitement lately!  Our high school girls basketball team won their way through most of the WIAA Division 5 tournament.  Division 5 includes the smallest schools in the state, and their 24-2 season stats predicted that they would probably do pretty well at season's end.  And if you check the South Shore scores for the Regionals and Sectionals, you'll see they were pretty lopsided in South Shore's favor.  And now they will head to Green Bay for the Semifinals game on Thursday afternoon this week.  And the whole town might be traveling to Green Bay to watch!

South Shore Cardinals - Photo from Art Roebken

While there are several great players on the team, there is one player that really stands out in so many ways, but especially in scoring points.  Her name is Megan Gustafson and I'll let you guess which player is Megan!   Last month she broke Wisconsin's all-time scoring record for girls high school basketball with 2882 season points, and ending with 2917 points in that game.   And she's scored many more points since then! Megan has signed to play with the University of Iowa Hawkeyes next year.  Go Megan!

And the player whose point record Megan broke this year?  That was Jolene Anderson, also a South Shore player, whose record was 2881 points.  Winning girls basketball teams have been a tradition here in Port Wing.  They have reached semifinals several times in the past, but I'm not sure if they have won the championship.   If so, it was before I lived here.  This could be the year!

A couple years ago the girls team won one of the preliminary games but then had to pull themselves out of the competition.  Why?  Many of the players were also band members and the band had been fundraising for months to go on a band trip at the same time as the tournament.  When the school is so small, the same students get to have several roles.  The band is going on a trip to New Orleans--after lots of fundraising--this spring, too,  but NOT during tournament season!!

Thanks to ALL of the players on the team and their coaches for giving us even more reasons to enjoy living in Port Wing!