CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Torin Montgomery singled with one out in the ninth and gave the Beloit Sky Carp a chance to rally for the second-straight night against the Cedar Rapids Kernels. But for the second consecutive evening, it fell short after Brett Roberts grounded into a force out at second and Josh Zamora grounded out to short as the Sky Carp fell 3-1. The Kernels lead 2-0 in the...

WHITEWATER, Wis. — Jarod Wichser has been hired as the next head men’s basketball coach at UW-Whitewater, the college announced Wednesday. Wichser had served as interim head coach last season. A press conference is scheduled for April 29. “I would like to thank Chancellor King, Athletic Director Ryan Callahan, and the search committee for trusting me to lead the men’s basketball program,” said Wichser in a press release. “It is...

APPLETON, Wis. — When Lawrence came to Beloit a week ago, Dave DeGeorge said the 2024 Vikings looked a lot like his 2024 bunch who won the Midwest Conference. Nothing the Vikings did on Wednesday changed his mind. First Lawrence completed a game suspended by rain in Beloit on April 16, 9-4, and they followed it up with a 6-4 come-from-behind victory. ...

BELOIT — The Beloit College softball team seems to finally be finding its bats as it followed up a doubleheader sweep at Alverno College on Tuesday by splitting a twinbill with Carroll University at the Strong Stadium Complex on Wednesday. The Buccaneers have scored 68 total runs while winning five of its past eight games and have improved to 8-24 overall with this week’s strong non-conference play. Beloit is 2-8 in the Midwest Conference. ...

FREEPORT, Ill.—It was just last season that the Hononegah baseball team was forced to share the conference title with Freeport after the two NIC-10 squads split their season series. And while the Pretzels have taken a bit of a step back and sit in the middle of the pack this season, the Indians sure aren’t taking any chances. Hononegah beat Freeport 8-3 on Wednesday to earn a series sweep after...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—The Beloit Sky Carp nearly erased a five-run deficit with a big seventh inning before the Cedar Rapids Kernels’ bullpen took charge. Gabriel Yanez and Ricardo Velez allowed just two hits and no runs over the final 1 1-3 innings to help the Kernels hang on for the 5-4 win over the Sky Carp in Tuesday night’s series opener. A bullpen day for Beloit, Josh White threw two...

ROCKTON — Senior Drake Broege did what he does best Tuesday, crushing a long drive over the center field fence for a three-run homer on his way to a four-RBI day in a 12-2 non-conference victory over visiting Beloit Memorial at Weber Field. The Indians improved to 12-4 overall. Broege gave Hononegah a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single, but Beloit tied it in the second...

BRODHEAD — Teams and athletes don’t reach No. 1 status by accident, and that is certainly the case for Brodhead’s softball team, which is ranked first in the state in Division 3 by the state softball coaches association. The Cardinals, also the reigning Division 3 state champions, put all their credentials on display Tuesday night, beating rival Evansville 10-0 in five innings. Junior pitcher Ava Risum dominated from the first...

ROCKTON — Senior Drake Broege did what he does best Tuesday, crushing a long drive over the center field fence for a three-run homer on his way to a four-RBI day in a 12-2 non-conference victory over visiting Beloit Memorial at Weber Field. The Indians improved to 12-4 overall. Broege gave Hononegah a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single, but Beloit tied it in the second...

BELOIT—The Elkhorn softball team had slowly been chipping away at Beloit Memorial’s lead and was feeling quite confident it could complete the comeback on Tuesday. Just one problem: the Elks underestimated left fielder Brooklynne Hereford-Foster’s arm. Marlee Wester singled to left field with the bases loaded and allowed two runners to score, cutting the Purple Knights’ lead to 8-7. But Olivia Kettergaen got thrown out trying to make it to...

BELOIT—The Beloit Turner baseball team’s dominating performance on Tuesday evening just proved what head coach Jeff Clowes already knew: his ball players can hit it, pitch it and field it. The Trojans did all three practically perfectly at a breezy YMCA Youth Sports Complex as it blew past Rock Valley Rock foe Big Foot 14-0 in five innings. “It was nice to put a whole game together,” Clowes said. “There's...

EVANSVILLE, Wis.—Clinton’s Ashley Theisen pitched a gem on the mound and brought home three runners from the plate to help take down Evansville 6-1 in a stellar return to the field after the junior missed two games due to a knee injury. Theisen struck out a whopping 19 Blue Devils and allowed just three hits, three walks and one run, off Grace Nienhaus’ single in the seventh, in the complete-game effort. She helped make it 5-0 in the fourth when her single to center scored...

ROSCOE — Aislynn Palmer figures her future in softball won’t be in the pitcher’s circle. When it comes to college ball, she expects her bat will eventually be her calling card. For the time being, though, the sophomore showed again why it’s so important to the front-running Hononegah Indians that she also excels with her bat when she isn’t tormenting the opposition with fastballs. ...

ROCKTON—Early on in the season, Hononegah head coach Matt Simpson complimented first baseman Nicholas Santis for the exceptional amount of maturity the ballplayer showed despite being just a first-year starter. The sophomore backed up his coach’s statement and then some on Monday evening. Santis delivered the walk-off single in the eighth inning with a soft hit that fell in center field and scored Logan Edward for the 8-7 win against...

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — Beloit Memorial’s Jaedyn Coleman continued to throw his weight around as he took first place in the discus at the Southern Lakes Conference Relays on Monday with a toss of 139-feet, 2-inches. Teammate Tucker Sherrod also got in the act, finishing third with a personal record of 129-3. He was 14th in the shot put (38-11.75). Ethan Lulinski had a PR of 38-4.75. The surprising finish...

Former Hononegah High School slugger Brooke Wintlend hammered three home runs as Purdue Fort Wayne swept a double-header against Detroit Mercy, 3-2 and 13-5. In the first game, Wintlend provided all the offense with a three-run homer in the sixth inning. The blast put the Mastodons up 3-1. The nightcap was a slugfest with seven homers between the two teams. PFW (11-29, 6-11 Horizon League) belted five. Wintlend hit her...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Beloit College’s Candis Damste just continues to tear up the competition, no matter how tough it is or how big of a meet she attends. The senior won the 400-meter dash at the Augustana Meet of Champions with a time of 59.67 seconds and was eighth in the 200, finishing in 25.70, to help the Bucs’ women score 18.50 points and place 13th out of 24 teams at Augustana University. ...

ROSCOE — Nearly everyone, Hononegah head coach Denny McKinney included, expected a tight, hotly-contested game between his Indians and their perennial rivals from Harlem on Friday afternoon. For four innings, it was. Then McKinney’s Indians put up eight runs in the fifth inning and ended the game abruptly at breezy Swanson Park by the 10-run rule, 12-2. ...

GRINNELL, Iowa — Beloit College’s Buccaneers shook themselves out of a slump to win a pair of games at Grinnell on Saturday, but the host Pioneers took the finale on Sunday. The Buccaneers won 7-4 and 16-1 in seven innings on Saturday before Grinnell won game three 8-1. The Pioneers scored twice in the third inning off Beloit starter Kaiya Nishino (3-1) and that was more than enough to knock...

BRODHEAD, Wis.—Brodhead senior Addison Yates admitted that she would have preferred some warmer temperatures for the final home meet of her high school career. Other than the blustery breeze that made a sunny sky deceiving with the wind chill sinking well into the lower 40s, the 2024 Jim Church Invite couldn’t have gone much better for Yates and the Cardinals’ girls track and field team. Hosting Brodhead/Juda won the girls’...