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Back to back Rock Valley Conference Softball Champions
The Brodhead Cardinals captured their second consecutive Rock Valley Conference softball championship. The Brodhead Cardinals captured their second consecutive Rock Valley Conference softball championship with a blowout victory over the Evansville Blue Devils, last week. The conference championship run began all the way back at the start of the season,...
Softball: Lakeside's Rank no-hits Belleville
BELLEVILLE — Kieghtan Rank pitched a no-hitter with 15 strikeouts as Lakeside Lutheran’s softball team beat host Belleville 7-0 in nonconference play on Friday. “Kieghtan was in control most of the night,” Lakeside softball coach Matt Doering said. “The only threat came in the sixth inning when a batter reached on a one-out walk and then the next batter reached on an error. They moved to second and third, respectively, but Kieghtan struck out the next two batters to end the threat.” ...
Track and field: Lake Mills boys tie for 4th at Raider Invite, Vesperman leads girls
BELLEVILLE — Lake Mills’ boys track and field team tied for fourth place at Friday’s Raider Invitational held at Belleville High School. The L-Cats scored 65 points. The 3,200-meter relay team of senior Jack Phillips, sophomore Max Springer, junior Braxton Walter and junior Saul Lopez won by 15 seconds in 8:39.09. Walter was also third in the 3,200 in 11:08.43. ...
Pirates run at Raider Invite
With the postseason rapidly approaching, the Waterloo track & field program got some last-minute work in. The Pirates made the trip down to Belleville High School on Friday, May 10 for conference rival Sugar River’s Raider Invite. Waterloo’s boys scored 42 points to finish eighth of the nine teams in the field. As for the girls, they put up 25.33 team points to finish 10th of the 11 teams competing. Conference rival Lodi won the event on both sides, the girls scoring 136.5 and the...
Mitchell, Sheridan combine for four conference championships at Badger Large track and field meet in Oregon
Ethan Mitchell and Kai Sheridan of Milton picked up conference championships at the Badger Large Conference track and field meet in Oregon on Tuesday night. Mitchell was a three-time winner in familiar events, the 110 high hurdles, the long jump and the triple jump. His winning time in the hurdles was 15.33 seconds, while he leapt 21 feet, 9 inches in the long jump pit and 43 feet, 10.25 inches on the triple jump runway. ...
Softball: Verona’s Mallorie Kreuser racks up 16 strikeouts against Tomah
Junior Mallorie Kreuser pitched two gems and had a game-winning hit in two games on Saturday, May 11, at LeGrange Elementary School in Tomah. Kreuser had an RBI single to propel Verona by Holmen 3-2 on Saturday. She also tossed 11 ⅓ innings and struck out 16 in a nail-biting 4-3 loss to Tomah in 12 innings.
Mount Horeb softball beats Stoughton at home
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Mount Horeb softball beat Stoughton 8-7 at home. Mount Horeb’s Maddie Swiggum had a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth inning to take the 3-2 lead. Mount Horeb improve to 16-3 on the season, while Stoughton falls to 8-14. Stoughton will play...
Duffy's goal puts Verona over Madison Memorial
VERONA, Wis. (WMTV) - Verona girls soccer beat Madison Memorial 1-0 on Monday night. Elly Duffy’s scored in the 64th minute off a free kick from Ella McGinnis. Duffy’s right-footed shot into the right side paneling of the goal had no chance of being stopped by Memorial’s goalie.
The One and Only: Delaney Nyenhuis
Number 15 races down the court. She's having another amazing game with 12 points and 6 rebounds. But tonight's game isn't like any others, this time Oregon has been down most of the game and they're running out of chances to get back in it. Where is their star player? Their senior forward who is having a season to remember.
PREP BASEBALL: South Beloit tallies 10 runs in 7th in regional opener
Richard Carlson helped visiting South Beloit build a 5-0 lead on Orangeville/Aquin through 2 1-2 innings of Monday’s IHSA 1A regional opener at Orangeville. The question became, was it enough for the SoBos to save some wear-and-tear on their young ace? The good news is that South Beloit (6-14) advanced with a 17-6 victory that featured two home runs by Carlson, including a grand slam in a 10-run seventh inning....
Tellurian’s annual Celebrity Golf Tournament raises awareness on mental health
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - One organization is working towards raising awareness for mental illness, addiction and homelessness with its annual celebrity golf tournament. WMTV 15 News sat down with CEO of Tellurian Kevin Florek to discuss how the annual event aims to support those in need. According to Florek, raising...
Boys track: Pole vaulters help Oregon to fourth at Tom Mueller Invitational
The Oregon boys track and field team had three top-five finishers in the pole vault to finish fourth at the Tom Mueller Invitational on Friday, May 10, at Oregon High School. Oregon junior Jacob Yoerger finished first in the pole vault with a height of 14 feet, 6 inches. Senior Leo Jacobs finished fourth in the event with a height of 11 feet and Oregon teammate and junior Simon Niemcek tied for fifth with a 10-6.
Janesville Craig hammers Verona's ace for big win heading into seeding meeting
Mallorie Kreuser fooled ’em once, but Janesville Craig’s softball team wasn’t about to get fooled again by the Verona ace on Tuesday. The teams first finished a suspended game the Wildcats led 9-0 before play was stopped in the fourth inning on a rainy afternoon in Janesville last month. The final score on that one was 11-0 in five innings in Verona’s favor, and Kreuser’s performance went into the record book as a complete-game one-hitter. ...
Boys track: Verona takes second at Big Eight Conference meet
Senior Noah Kundert wanted to have the same feeling previous Wildcat runners have experienced in winning a conference championship in a long distance event. Kundert ran a lifetime-best time of 1 minute, 56.19 seconds in the 800-meter run to win a conference title in the event on Friday, May 10, at the Big Eight Conference meet at Verona Area High School.
Softball roundup: Wiedmer delivers with go-ahead hit in seventh for Orfordville Parkview
Jazmyn Wiedmer hit a tie-breaking two-run single in the top of the seventh inning and Kylie Stark retired Rio in order in the bottom of the seventh to help Orfordville Parkview beat Rio 6-4 on Monday in Parkview’s regular-season finale. Parkview only had four hits but worked 13 walks, including four in the seventh, one of which brought a run home before Wiedmer’s go-ahead hit. Stark pitched a complete game,...
Soccer Game Recap: Madison La Follette Takes a Loss
Madison La Follette has been struggling as of late, and they have yet to win a game this season. They lost 9-0 to the Verona Wildcats on Thursday. While losing is never fun, Madison La Follette can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Wisconsin soccer rankings (they are ranked 203rd, while Verona is ranked 39th).
Evansville falls to Jefferson, giving Eagles a share of Rock Valley Conference Valley Division title
EVANSVILLE — Tyler Fredrick had three hits and drove in two runs as Jefferson’s baseball team beat host Evansville 5-1 on Monday to clinch a share of the Rock Valley Conference’s Valley Division title. The top five hitters in the Eagles order combined for 11 of the team’s 13 hits. Aidan Kammer, winning pitcher Tyler Schroedl, Drew Peterson and Payton Heard contributed two hits each. Kammer led off the game...
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