• Germantown Are Champions Again

    Germantown beat another team from the City Conference for the second time this year in a championship game. In March, the Warhawks beat Milwaukee King for the state title and they won the Whiz Kids summer league championship Thursday in a 71-51 win over Milwaukee Vincent at the MSOE Kern Center.

    There was no doubt that Germantown was in control of the contest from the opening tip. They were more disciplined than Vincent and it showed. The opportunity to avenge their only loss in their first meeting to the Warhawks got away from the Vikings.

    Sloppy play got in the way of Vincent's ability to keep pace with Germantown. The turnovers didn't help, and they weren't in an offensive rhythm throughout the game. That contributed to the Vikings trailing at the half 32-18.

    Inconsistency irked Vincent head coach Marquis Hines as his team clearly wasn't ready to play. Hines served notice that he will yank any of the starters that won't defend, and that's what happened to several starters who didn't defend in the game.

    The fouls, missed close shots, too much razzle-dazzle and individual play along with allowing Germantown to run fast breaks, and not to mention a lack of a scoring threat to compliment Deonte Burton, added up to a 20-point defeat.

    Germantown proved that they were champions in the winter and the summer. Head coach Steve Showalter, who didn't coach his team from the bench but watched, said to them after the team smiled and posed for a group picture that this is what a champion feels like.