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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...
Mud Volleyball Tournament canceled as village leaders look to curb drinking at event
Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful is canceling its annual Mud Volleyball Tournament saying it was unable to reach an agreement with Roscoe officials after concerns were raised over over alcohol consumption at the event. Generations of family members have participated in the tournament, which has been going since 1981. It typically...
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 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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
Softball Recap: Macey Lineman can't quite lead South Beloit over Milledgeville
South Beloit and Milledgeville squared off in some playoff action on Wednesday, but South Beloit had to settle for second. They lost 16-4 to the Milledgeville Missiles. The result was an unpleasant reminder to South Beloit of the 10-0 defeat they experienced in the pair's previous head-to-head fixture back in April of 2015.
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. ...
Baseball Recap: Union Grove picks up sixth straight win at home
Union Grove waltzed into their contest on Tuesday with 14 straight wins... but they left with 15. Their pitcher stepped up to hand the Beloit Memorial Purple Knights a 10-0 shutout. Union Grove might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won 11 matches by six runs or more this season.
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Middleton wins Big Eight Conference boys golf tournament by two shots over Janesville Craig
Middleton claimed a Big Eight boys golf championship Friday at Evansville Golf Club on Thursday, outshooting runner-up Janesville Craig 308-310 to take the Big Eight Conference Tournament title. The Cougars won the dual meet championship in the Big Eight this year behind a consistent varsity lineup led by senior Easton Haworth. He finished in a tie for fourth Thursday with teammate Wyatt Marshall. Those two had a 4-over round of...
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