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Gresham boys turn up defense in win over Tigerton

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The Gresham Community High School boys basketball team handily beat Tigerton 61-37 Thursday in Tigerton, a prequel to their WIAA Division 5 regional game Tuesday night in Gresham.

Gresham (16-6, 13-5 Central Wisconsin Conference-10) jumped out to a 19-10 lead, led 28-16 by halftime and finished off the game by outscoring the Tigers (4-18, 3-15 CWC-10) 17-8 in the fourth quarter.

Scott Cerveny, a senior guard, led the Wildcats with 22 points, six rebounds and four assists.

“He really drove the ball well,” Gresham coach Jeff Zobeck said. “Lately — I think he would say the same thing — he’s maybe been settling a little bit for 3s. Actually, over the last few games he’s been the bright spot of perimeter shooting for us. Tonight he looked for opportunities to get into the basket and crashed the boards hard.”

Christian Haffner, a junior guard, added 17 points and four assists. James Kazik scored six points and led the team with seven rebounds.

Woodrow Nelson led Tigerton with 12 points. Tyler Marquardt added 10.

Gresham has been working on its defense of late, and Zobeck said he started to see it come together Thursday.

“We haven’t really been digging in recently on the defensive end the way we wanted to,” Zobeck said. “We made that a point of emphasis tonight. We really wanted to get out and defend. For the most part we showed some improvement.”

The Wildcats beat Tigerton 75-47 earlier in the season.

Gresham is the No. 2 seed in the regional; Tigerton is No. 7. The winner will play either No. 3 Wisconsin Valley Lutheran (10-11) or No. 6 Bowler (5-16, 3-14 CWC-10).

Gresham swept Bowler in both conference games this season but lost 54-52 to Wisconsin Valley Lutheran in a nonconference game on the road Feb. 4.

The tourney matchup didn’t play into Thursday’s strategy, Zobeck said.

“What we did the first time is what we tried tonight,” he said. “Going into tournament play, there’s some things I have in my mind that we might spring on them, but for the most part, what we did tonight is what we have to do again on Tuesday.”

Gresham (61)

S. Cerveny 22, Haffner 17, Eggert 8, N. Cerveny 2, Nietzer 6, Kazik 6

Tigerton (37)

Marquardt 10, Witter 2, Minniecheske 3, Wedemayer 3, Cookle 7, Nelson 12

Gresham 19 9 16 17 — 61

Tigerton 10 6 13 8 — 37

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