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Robert Douglas to take over as Beloit Memorial girls coach
BELOIT — Beloit Memorial athletic director Robert Douglas was dealt another major curveball just three weeks into his tenure. After dealing with the uncertainty surrounding football coach Brad Dement and the resignation of longtime soccer coach Brian Denu, the focus turned to the girls basketball program. Douglas has stepped into the role of head coach for the Purple Knights girls program as previous head coach Jack Klobucar is dealing with a health issue. Monday marked the first day of practice for the program, and Douglas was encouraged by what he saw. “The first thing is that we had 26 girls come for tryouts,” Douglas said. “That was really great to see, because it means we can field a varsity team and a JV team which we couldn’t do last year.” Now, there is the matter of staffing the program. Douglas will serve as the head coach, while Klobucar will remain on staff and Ty Earl will serve as a voluntary assistant. The Knights are still finalizing a hire for a JV coach and are on the search for a varsity assistant coach. Meanwhile, Douglas is wearing two hats. “The main thing is that I wanted to provide the certainty that
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Turner girls set to take on new look
BELOIT — Here’s a piece of free advice for those attending any early-season Beloit Turner girls basketball game: If available, make sure to take that roster sheet when purchasing a ticket. That’s because the Trojan girls have only a few key contributors from last year’s team that was 18-9 overall and 11-4 in Rock Valley Conference play. First and foremost is Kennedy Cash-Crall, who averaged 11.5 points per game, the second-most on the team. Turner coach Nick Faralli said that Cash-Crall’s ability as a sharpshooter will help other areas of her game. “The challenge for Kennedy this year is to be able to score at all three levels,” Faralli said. “In the past couple of years, we’ve known that we were going to get volume threes that we got because of inside-out with the presence we had inside the last couple of years. “She’s going to have to do some work inside, and she’s going to have to get to the free throw line, which will be the result of what she does inside. Quite honestly, it’s going to be up to us coaches to make sure we are creating quality shots on the outside for her, and then it’s
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WIAA Football preview: Lake Mills tussles with West Salem for spot in state championship game
LAKE MILLS — If the L-Cats’ defense continues to make plays, there will be plenty of reasons to continue flashing the double thumbs-down sign. That sign, taken from the film Gladiator, has been a rallying cry for Lake Mills’ football team, which faces West Salem in a WIAA Division 4 Level 4 game on Friday at 7 p.m. at Stoughton High School for the right to play at Camp Randall Stadium in the state finals. “We’ve been doing the thumbs down gesture since week three against Lakeside,” senior wide receiver and linebacker Blake Bohlman said. “Coach Tyler Huber pulls up a movie clip every week and it’s kind of a theme we roll with. We watched the scene where a thumbs up and he lets them live and thumbs down, he finishes them. It’s a reminder to not get complacent.” Defensive end and tight end JP Brzowski, another one of the team’s 14 seniors, said the thumbs-down sign is about showing no mercy. “It’s been our mentality,” Brzowski said. “We never want to let them have any hope.” To reach their first-ever Level 4 game in the modern era — and second state semifinal in school history (1987) — the
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Oregon School District joins social media lawsuit
At its Monday, Nov. 9 meeting, the Oregon School District Board of Education unanimously voted to join the class action lawsuit against social media companies because of the effects these platforms have on students’ mental health. There is a nationwide movement to have a class action against various social...
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Field of Dreams: Oregon groundskeeper Ron Novinska retiring after award-winning career
Ron Novinska wants Oregon High School to make a good first impression. Novinska is the groundskeeper at Oregon School District. He was hired in 2004 and has been in charge of the maintenance of the district's athletics fields ever since. Over the years, Novinska has earned a reputation for maintaining some of the most well-kept fields in the area.