NEENAH — The Kaukauna boys basketball team knew it had a challenge in facing the state’s newly-crowned Division 1 basketball team and they weren’t quite up to that challenge, falling to the Neenah Rockets 81-63 at the Armstrong Fieldhouse.
For one half, Wrightstown Coach Cory Haese’s game plan worked.
But a basketball game is played for two halves and the Little Chute Mustangs figured out a solution to Wrightstown’s triangle-and-two defense to beat the Tigers 58-43 last Tuesday evening at the Tiger Dome.
The Kaukauna girls basketball team entered last week’s game with fifth-ranked Neenah on an eight-game winning streak in the final game of the first round of Fox Valley Association play and dominated the Rockets 84-68 at home.
Andrew Hanlon photo/Kimberly senior Jackson Paveletzke scored 35 points Friday night, getting him past Aaron Buckoski on the school’s all-time scoring list for boys players.
Senior guard Jackson Paveletzke put himself at the top of Kimberly’s all-time leading scorer list for boys basketball with 35 points on Friday when the Papermakers beat Hortonville 74-56.
Paveletzke hit a jumper just right of the free throw line to reach 1,211 points in the final minute of the game.
A corner three by Kade Van Asten in the closing seconds of the first half of last Monday night’s game between the Little Chute boys and Luxemburg-Casco gave the Mustangs a 22-19 halftime lead.
Coming off two wins and the team getting healthier, the Kaukauna boys basketball team was hoping for a good outcome returning to Fox Valley Association play when it hosted Oshkosh North on Tuesday but the result was much the same, with the Ghosts falling 87-76 to Oshkosh North, leaving the team with a 1-5 FVA record (4-6 overall).
