Two from Iola-Scandinavia, two from Hortonville
By Greg Seubert
Four area senior athletes will wrap up their high school basketball careers by suiting up for an all-star game.
Iola-Scandinavia’s Parker Prahl and Brock Wester and Hortonville’s Kamy Peppler and Lyric Johnson will head to the JustAgame Fieldhouse in Wisconsin Dells in June for the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association’s all-star games.
Prahl and Wester will join Cuba City’s Carter Olson and Ian Hinderman, Mineral Point’s Joah Filardo and Leyton Flowers, Sheboygan Lutheran’s Casey Verhagen, New Glarus’ Dain Walter, Wisconsin Heights’ Devin Brabender and Darlington’s Easton Evenstad on the boys’ Division 4 White team, which will face the Division 4 Red squad at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 30.
Cuba City’s Jerry Petitgoue, a member of the WBCA Hall of Fame, will coach the team.
Prahl and Wester helped lead Iola-Scandinavia to a Central Wisconsin Conference-East championship and a 27-1 record this season.
“It is an honor to be named a participant in the WBCA All-Star Games, as this event showcases seniors of each division who possess great talent and tremendous character,” Iola-Scandinavia boys’ basketball coach Sam Bertsch said. “The WBCA All-Star Games started back in 1978 and each year, the purpose of these games is to donate money to worthwhile charities.”
Meanwhile Peppler, Johnson and the girls’ Division 1 North team will meet the Division 1 South team at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 29.
Appleton East’s Joe LaChapell will coach the team that also includes D.C. Everest’s Kiara Hammond, Appleton East’s Emily LaChapell and Lily Hansford, De Pere’s Jordan Meulemans, Madison LaFollette’s Malia Green and Demetria Prewitt, D.C. Everest’s Kiara Hammond, Neenah’s Paige Werner, Sheboygan South’s Madeline Ognacevic, Wisconsin Rapids’ Megan Clary, and Eau Claire North’s Reanna Hutchinson.
Peppler helped lead Hortonville to a Fox Valley Association championship and a 24-2 record. She was also named Wisconsin’s Miss Basketball as the state’s top girls’ player.
Coaches from around Wisconsin nominate players to participate in the games. Proceeds from the games go to the MACC (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer) Fund.
Donations to the fund in players’ names can be made on the WBCA website, wisbca.org.