Hanson, Pirates escape New Berlin with victory
Tyler Hanson didn't make the free throw Friday, so he atoned by making a whole bunch of them Tuesday.
The Pewaukee senior guard hit a crucial transition jumper and five of six freebies in the fourth quarter, helping the Pirates escape New Berlin West with a 58-55 win and a foothold for a Woodland Conference Blue Division title.
Pewaukee lost a 15-point lead in the second half, but when Chad Mathwig's 3-point attempt bounced out at the buzzer, none of it mattered.
"Coming off the Eisenhower game, I missed the front end of the bonus," Hanson said, referring to a miss with 23 seconds left that left the door open for the Lions to cash in on a subsequent 3-point play in a 47-46 loss against unbeaten Ike on Friday. "I knew the next game I was going get the chance, I was going to put them in. I was just focusing on finishing out."
Hanson made two with 17.5 seconds left and one of two with 7.3 seconds to play. Perhaps just as important was his basket at the 4:15 mark - the only Pewaukee field goal of the fourth quarter - which gave his team a 48-45 lead shortly after the Lions used a 16-2 run to knot the score at 45.
"We were a little bit frazzled, but we have some senior leadership that stepped up, and we were able to compose ourselves and finish it out at the end," Hanson said. "That means a lot. Since being on the varsity as a sophomore, we've won the last two (league titles). We wanted to come into this season winning a conference championship, and if we win out, it looks like we'll do that."
The two teams both had 10-2 records entering the matchup, with one of West's losses coming in Pewaukee earlier this year.
Five games still remain on the PHS schedule, but none of those opponents have winning records in league play.
"I didn't want to be one game behind, because who else is going to beat that team?" Pewaukee coach Tim Reuter said of West. "He (Hanson) did a real nice job for us. I called him over midway through the fourth quarter and kind of got on him a little bit about being the man to finish the game for us.
He came down, made a nice pass, hit a shot and finished from the line."
Reuter was pleased with his triumvirate of unheralded big men - Brad Kaatz, Jordan Edgerson and Cameron Hehn - who rotated into the game to hold down Mathwig. The Vikings leading scorer finished with 15 hard-earned points.
The game took a turn for the bizarre when West coach Jeff Lewiston, who had been unhappy with a series of no-calls in the first half, engaged in a stare-down with one of the officials after the halftime buzzer, leading to a technical foul.
When Mike Olewinski hit both free throws before the second half began, the Pirates had their biggest lead of the game, 38-23.
"We had the nice lead and then we just dropped everything and didn't respond very well," Reuter said. "Usually we're the team applying the traps, and tonight they applied the traps to us and took us out of our game in the second half."
But Pewaukee never allowed the Vikings to take the lead.
"I'm very happy we did rebound and got the win at the end, because it could have gone the other way," Reuter said.
Box score
Pewaukee 58, New Berlin West 55
| Pewaukee | FG | FT | TP |
| Kaatz | 1 | 2-2 | 4 |
| Bacon | 2 | 2-4 | 6 |
| Olewinski | 1 | 6-6 | 9 |
| Trahan | 1 | 0-0 | 3 |
| Hehn | 1 | 2-2 | 4 |
| Reese | 1 | 0-4 | 2 |
| Hanson | 5 | 5-6 | 16 |
| Dabney | 3 | 4-6 | 14 |
| Edgerson | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Totals | 15 | 21-30 | 58 |
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