Arcadia ends regular season with split in boys basketball
Arcadia’s Kaiden Rotering released his free throw attempt as teammate Prestin Scow watched on from the backcourt in last Monday’s 72-47 win over Cochrane-Fountain City. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Midway through January, the Arcadia High School boys basketball team had been within reach of nearly every team they played but wins weren’t stacking together and the Raiders were winless in the Coulee Conference.
The Raiders responded by winning 12 of their final 15 games, a stretch that included a 5-2 run in conference play.
The late season turnaround granted seventh-seeded Arcadia (13-11 overall, 5-7 Coulee) a first round home playoff game against 10th-seeded Mauston (10-13 this season) this Tuesday. The winner will play second-seeded Elk Mound (18-5) on Friday.
Arcadia closed the regular season last week with two games, a win over Cochrane-Fountain City and a loss to West Salem.
Arcadia 72 C-FC 47
Four different players scored at least 10 points for the Raiders in a home clash with the Pirates (11-12, 7-7 Dairyland Large) last Monday.
Junior Maverick Drazkowski led all players with his 20-point night, and senior teammate Connor Weltzien had 16 for the Raiders.
Prestin Scow (11) and Kaiden Rotering (10) also hit double digits for the hosts in a game that saw Arcadia hold a 16-point advantage at halftime.
Cochrane-Fountain City was led by 10 points from Andrew Bissen.
Arcadia (field goals/attempts-free throws/attempts-rebounds-fouls-points)—Lockington 0/0-1/2-2-0-1; Rotering 4/10-1/2-6-0-10; Teske 2/3-4/5-9-1-8; Scow 3/7-2/2-3-2-11; Aspenson 0/3-0/0-1-0-0; Drazkowski 8/16-4/7-4-2-20; Baier 2/5-0/0-3-1-4; Weltzien 6/17-3/6-7-2-16; Blaschko 1/3-0/1-2-2-2.
West Salem 87 Arcadia 37
The Panthers (22-1, 12-0) hit 17 three-pointers and topped 50 points before halftime in Friday’s regular season finale at the Wanek Center.
Joe Sullivan paced the floor with 22 points for wissports.com’s top-ranked team in Division Three and the 2023 Coulee Conference champions.
Weltzien had 16 points for the Raiders, and Drazkowski scored nine.
Arcadia (field goals-free throws/attempts-fouls-points)—Rotering 0-2/2-0-0-2; Teske 1-0/0-1-2; Scow 0-3/4-0-3; Aspenson 1-0/0-1-3; Drazkowski 3-1/1-0-9; Baier 1-0/0-3-2; Weltzien 8-0/0-2-16; Blaschko 0-0/0-2-0.
