Girls Junior High Basketball Team Wins State Title

The Menomonee Falls 7th grade girls basketball team participated in the Wisconsin State Invitational Championship Tournament in D. C. Everest, Wausau East and Marathon, Wisconsin, in April.

They came back champions.

The tournament, which was organized by The Great Northwest Basketball League, brought together 82 of the top community-based seventh-grade girls basketball teams from all across Wisconsin.

The Menomonee Falls 7th grade girls team played in Division 1, finishing as state champions.  Menomonee Falls defeated Sun Prairie, 45-35, to win the championship. The results of Menomonee Falls’ five other games were as follows:

Pool Play

• Menomonee Falls 36, D. C. Everest 23
• Menomonee Falls 40, Appleton West 28

Round of 16:

• Menomonee Falls 38, Fond du Lac 23

Quarterfinals:

• Menomonee Falls 50, Bay Port 32

Semi-Finals:

• Menomonee Falls 48, Chippewa Falls 38

The Menomonee Falls team is coached by Mike Grzesiak and Greg Barczak.  Madison Grzesiak, Marissa Igunbor and Kylie Sprecher were named to the All Tournament team for Division 1.

The Wisconsin State Invitational Championship Tournament is an annual event, held in February, March or April of each year, pitting the top community-based teams in the State of Wisconsin against each other.  The tournament is organized by size of communities, much like the WIAA state high school tournaments, so that top teams can compete on a level playing field with other programs their size.

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