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Brodhead pitcher Ava Risum earns national award
Brodhead junior pitcher Ava Risum has been named a MaxPreps/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Player of the Week for games played April 22-28. Risum posted a 3-0 record, tossed a no-hitter and two one-hit shutouts. She struck out 34, walked two and surrendered two hits over 17 innings of work. Risum no-hit Edgerton with 12 strikeouts and one walk in a five-inning win. She held Evansville (five innings) and Beloit Turner...
Janesville Craig survives roller-coaster game at Madison Memorial, gets extra-inning win
Twice Madison Memorial overtook Janesville Craig in the late innings of Thursday's Big Eight Conference softball game in Madison. Both times, the Cougars fought back, including with a game-tying run in the seventh to force an extra inning, and eventually beat the Spartans 11-9 in the eighth. Craig led 4-0 through four, but Memorial took the lead with a five-spot in the fifth. The Cougars retook the lead in the...
WIAA boys golf: Thursday's conference championship previews
■ When: Thursday at 9 a.m. ■ Where: Evansville GC-Evansville. ■ Defending champions: Team — Madison Memorial (315). Individual — Charlie Erlandson, Madison Memorial (70). ■ What to watch: There aren’t many boys golf teams in the state as consistent from Nos. 1 through 5 as Middleton and...
Softball Game Preview: Waunakee Hits the Road
The Waunakee Warriors are on the road again on Thursday to play the Janesville Craig Cougars at 4:30 p.m. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual. On Tuesday, Waunakee came up short...
Campbell's first-minute goal sets tone for Janesville Craig vs. Madison La Follette
Lily Campbell set the tone right from the kickoff for Janesville Craig's girls soccer team. The Cougars kicked off to start the game, and Campbell took a pass out wide, dribble past a Madison La Follette defender and buried a left-footed shot for a first-minute goal. Craig went on to beat the Lancers 6-0. "Scoring...
Softball roundup: Walworth Big Foot deals Brodhead its first conference defeat of season
A pair of duels from the circle resulted in a doubleheader split between Brodhead and Walworth Big Foot in Rock Valley Rock Division action Tuesday. In game one, it was all tied at two when Sophia Leitzen hit a two-out, one-run single in the top of the sixth to help the Cardinals get the win. Ava Risum pitched seven innings and allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits with 11 strikeouts. ...
Middleton sweeps Big Eight softball doubleheader from Janesville Parker
A two-run error proved costly for Janesville Parker in the first game of a Big Eight softball doubleheader against Middleton at the Janesville Youth Sports Complex on Tuesday. The Cardinals had tied the game at 2-2 on a Jafferis RBI single, then Megan Button loaded the bases with no one out with a single of her own. Lilly Keller struck out the next hitter for Parker, and the Vikings made...
Edgerton cruises to Rock Valley Conference boys golf championship at Riverside Golf Course in Janesville
Tyler Short of Walworth Big Foot made a pair of birdies over his final four holes to tie Edgerton’s Owen Wagie for top medalist honors at the Rock Valley Conference Championship at Riverside Golf Course in Janesville. Both Short and Wagie finished at 3-under 69. Crimson Tide players occupied the rest of the top five spots on the leaderboard, and Edgerton, ranked No. 2 in the state in Division 2 by the Golf Coaches Association of Wisconsin, comfortably won the team title with a score...
Dillon's work on the mound helps Janesville Craig finish season sweep of Madison Memorial
JANESVILLE — It has been a wonderful week for the Janesville Craig High baseball team. Faced with playing five games in six days, the Cougars are 60% done and have three victories to show for it. The third — and second in two days — came against Madison Memorial at Riverside Park on Wednesday afternoon. ...
Brodhead/Juda clinches share of RVC Rock baseball title with 7-6 win over Beloit Turner
BRODHEAD, Wis. — It hasn’t been the best season for Brodhead/Juda third baseman Brooks Malkow, who had been pulled from the lineup for the past two weeks due to a lack of production from the plate. But in the biggest moment of the season, Cardinals’ head coach Aaron Guilbault put his full trust in the junior to come through. Malkow didn’t disappoint. ...
Lincoln Academy students want to keep perfect record at Road America
BELOIT — Three cars built by 15 Lincoln Academy students will be on the Road America track today in Elkhart Lake competing in the ChallengeUSA Energy Efficient Motorsports series, the final event of their first year in the competition. The goal of ChallengeUSA is to give students hands-on experience in designing, developing, building and driving their own cars in competition. The winner of the electrathon competition is the car that travels the farthest distance in an hour on an electric battery. ChallengeUSA also has a...
Hononegah clinches third straight NIC-10 softball title, carrying momentum toward playoffs
Hononegah's girls softball crew, one of the youngest in the NIC-10 and in the Rockford area, had plenty of motivation going into Wednesday night's showdown at Belvidere North. Win to complete the season sweep of the Blue Thunder and another conference title was theirs. It would also set up a...
Janesville Craig keeps its cool after going behind early, rallies for 2-1 win at East Troy
There was no panic in Janesville Craig’s girls soccer team when it fell behind East Troy in the second minute of Tuesday’s nonconference road game. The Cougars maintained their composure, kept the pressure on the Trojans and eventually were rewarded in the second half with a pair of goals and a come-from-behind 2-1 win. ”Conceding that early is not what we want to do, but it didn’t change anything about...
Hononegah grads Joscelyn Bennett, Briella Sendele help JC teams reach World Series
Joscelyn Bennett and Briella Sendele were teammates for eight summers on a Stateline Fury travel team and played four years together on the Hononegah Indians. Last weekend, the college freshmen were wearing different uniforms as they competed in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II Region 4 tournament at Black Hawk College in Moline, Ill. It could have been a little more awkward. At least their teams didn’t square...
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