There was no shortage of offense on the Door County League's opening day on Sunday.

On 105.1 The GOAT, the Sister Bay Bays opened the 2024 Door County League at home with a resounding 17-3 win over the Washington Island Islanders in eight innings.

Other Door County Baseball league action on Sunday saw Kolberg double up Egg Harbor 20-10, West Jacksonport beat Institute 9-6, and Maplewood topple Baileys Harbor 17-6.

The best track athletes in the Packerland Conference will be crowned on Monday at the conference track meet hosted by Algoma.

The Wolves will welcome Gibraltar, Kewaunee, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, Oconto, Peshtigo, Sevastopol, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay for the meet that will settle the All-Packerland Conference teams and give athletes a tune-up before next Monday's WIAA Regional meets.

The first events are scheduled for 3:30 p.m.

The field is set for softball while area baseball teams will find out later this week where they will go for the WIAA Tournament.

Baseball seeding meetings began on Sunday and are expected to be wrapped up by May 15th, according to the WIAA. Monday's action includes Sturgeon Bay hosting Sevastopol on U-102.1 for a doubleheader (4:30 p.m.) and Kewaunee welcoming NEW Lutheran for a twin bill (4:30 p.m.).

Softball teams will wrap up some conference matchups this week before some teams begin the WIAA Tournament on Thursday. Monday's slate includes Luxemburg-Casco traveling to Pulaski to face New London (4:30 p.m.), Algoma playing a doubleheader at NEW Lutheran (3:30 p.m.), Gibraltar/Washington Island hosting Oconto for a doubleheader (4 p.m.), and Kewaunee visiting Sevastopol for a doubleheader (4:30 p.m.). Below are the playoff matchups for the area softball teams:

#1 Algoma: 5/21 vs. the winner of Gibraltar/Washington Island and Roncalli 

#1 Luxemburg-Casco: 5/21 vs. the winner of Two Rivers/Marinette

#5 Kewaunee: 5/21 vs. Chilton

#6 Southern Door: 5/21 @ Valders

#10 Sturgeon Bay: 5/16 @ Kiel

#9 Gibraltar/Washington Island: 5/16 at Roncalli

#3 Sevastopol: 5/21 vs. NEW Lutheran

Sundance Wicks is going home, leaving the Green Bay men's basketball team with a vacancy for the third time since 2020.

Wicks signed a five-year deal with Wyoming over the weekend to become their head basketball coach after one year with the Phoenix. The wheels were set in motion when the Cowboys' previous head coach, Jeff Lindner, left the program to become the top assistant coach at Texas Tech reportedly. Wicks became a candidate almost immediately because of his Gilette, Wy. roots and his previous stint with the Cowboys as an assistant coach. Scott Venci of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported on Saturday that Wicks had asked Green Bay for permission to talk to the Cowboys, and Pete Thamel of ESPN reported the hire on Sunday.

Wicks had recently signed a contract extension to stay as the Phoenix head coach, which included a $705,000 buyout if he chose to leave. Athletic Director Josh Moon told Venci that the search is already underway and he hopes to have the position filled by next week. 

The Sevastopol/Gibraltar soccer team will play at home to start their week when they welcome Kaukauna to the Institute on Monday.

No results were reported from their scheduled tournament over the weekend, but the United squad had a two-match winning streak snapped when they were doubled up by NEW Lutheran 6-3 last week. 

The Ghosts are 3-6-4 on the season and are on a four-match non-winning streak (0-3-1). They were shut out by Kimberly 6-0 last Thursday.

The first touch is scheduled for 6 p.m.

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers got six scoreless innings from Edwin Jimenez and two homers from Ramon Rodríguez to beat the Quad Cities River Bandits 6-3 on Sunday afternoon at Modern Woodmen Park.  The win allows the Timber Rattlers to come home from their six-game trip to Iowa in first place in the West Division of the Midwest League.

Quad Cities (19-14) had the first scoring opportunity in the game.  Dustin Dickerson reached on an error by shortstop Jadher Areinamo with one out in the bottom of the second.  The error was the first for Wisconsin since May 1 and snapped a streak of nine consecutive errorless games.  Justin Johnson followed with a single and a wild pitch by Jiminez to put runners at second and third.

Areinamo redeemed himself by making a tough pick with the infield on a grounder to him off the bat of Omar Hernandez.  Dickerson held at third, but Johnson committed too far to third base.  The out was eventually recorded as Dickerson was retired after a brief rundown between third and home.  Jimenez got the final out of the inning with a strikeout to keep the game scoreless.

Wisconsin (21-12) jumped to the lead with three runs in the top of the third.  Terence Doston beat out an infield single with one out.  Rodríguez followed with a long home run to left and the Rattlers were up 2-0.  The homer was the first of the season for Rodríguez.

Luis Lara and Dylan O’Rae followed with singles to put runners on the corners.  A passed ball allowed Lara to score for the 3-0 lead.

The Timber Rattlers added to their lead in the sixth inning with the longball.  Eduarqui Fernández homered to start the inning.  Rodríguez followed one out later with his second homer of the game for a 5-0 lead.  Rodríguez is the first Rattler to hit two homers in a game this season.

Jimenez worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the sixth inning to close his ledger for the day.  The right-hander allowed three hits, walked none, and struck out seven over six scoreless innings.  He put himself in line to move his record to 5-0 as the bullpen needed to cover the final nine outs.

Aaron Rund pitched a scoreless seventh for the Rattlers.  Tyler Wehrle retired the first two batters he faced in the eighth before giving up a solo home run to Carson Roccaforte for the first run of the game for the River Bandits.
 

There were two outs in the top of the ninth and Jeremy Vargas extended the inning with a single.  The inning appeared to be over when Fernández send a routine grounder to short.  However, the ball went under the glove of Dickerson into left field.  Vargas, who was running on the pitch, never stopped running and scored a run to put the Rattlers up 6-1.

Yerlin Rodriguez was called in to finish the game in a non-save situation.  Things would turn tense after he walked two of the first three batters he faced and gave up a single to load the bases.

Rodriguez got the second out on a strikeout and was 2-2 to Jack Pineda, who hit a grand slam on Friday night against the Rattlers.  Pineda smacked a single to center to score two runs and bring Roccaforte to the plate as the potential tying run.

Roccaforte made things very interesting with a deep fly ball to left-center field on a 2-1 pitch.  Fortunately for Wisconsin, Lara raced over from center and made the catch on the warning track to end the game.

The Timber Rattlers took four of the six games from the River Bandits to win the series.  Wisconsin’s win on Sunday gives them the best record in the Midwest League after 33 games this season.  Sunday’s game also marked the halfway point of the first half of the season.

The Timber Rattlers are off on Monday.  They return to action on Tuesday with a game against the Beloit Sky Carp at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium.  Patricio Aquino (1-2, 6.53) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers.  The Sky Carp have announced Jacob Miller (1-2, 2.01) as their starter.  Game time is 6:40pm.

The Green Bay Glory will play at a familiar ground on Sunday when its men's team hosts a third-round match in the Amateur Cup.

The Glory will play at Vlora FC on Sunday at 6 p.m. at Santaga Stadium on the campus of UW-Green Bay. The first game in Green Bay Glory men's soccer history went down as a win on Sunday, beating Bateaux FC 3-0 in the second round of the Amateur Cup at Regis High School in Eau Claire. Edgar Heredia Victoria scored the first goal in team history in the 13th minute, giving the Glory a 1-0 lead at the break. The Glory would add two more tallies in the second half, with Keven Sosa scoring in the 50th minute and Osvaldo Ramírez adding insurance in the 64th minute.

Weeks after their season concluded after advancing in the Clark Cup Playoffs for the first time in a decade, the Green Bay Gamblers are filling out their roster through the draft.

The Gamblers selected Egor Shilov as their first pick for the 2024 Phase I draft. Egor tallied 9 goals and 19 assists in 20 games between Yunost Yekaterinburg U16 & U17 teams. You can see their picks below:

Softball teams in Door and Kewaunee counties were met with mixed results on Saturday.

The Southern Door Eagles softball team served as a buzz kill for a NEW Lutheran squad fresh off a doubleheader sweep of Gibraltar on Friday as they beat them 13-1 and 13-0 in five innings each.

The Kewaunee Storm softball team lost a pair of games on Saturday, falling 10-0 to Oconto Falls and 4-2 to Denmark.

It was a busy Saturday across the peninsula with several local teams playing in doubleheaders.

On U-102.1, the Southern Door Eagles took both games of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon against NEW Lutheran, winning 12-0 in Game 1 and 17-0 in Game 2.  Both games ended after five innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

Over on 105.1 The GOAT, Aaron Brey helped Gibraltar/Washington Island sweep the Oconto Blue Devils 7-0 and 5-4 in two different ways on Saturday.

Playing on 104.1 WRLU, the Luxemburg-Casco Spartans dropped a pair of games to the Fox Valley Lutheran Foxes on Saturday, 1-0 and 12-0, in a North Eastern Conference baseball doubleheader.

The Kewaunee Storm put up crooked numbers in three innings to spring past Reedsville 9-4 in Saturday baseball action.

A single tally in the sixth inning by Green Bay Preble spoiled a second trip to Titletown for the Sturgeon Bay baseball team as they lost 5-4.

The area's three soccer teams all competed in tournaments on Saturday, including two of them in Kiel.

A short-handed Sturgeon Bay team took 4th place (1-2-0) at the Kiel Tournament on Saturday, May 11th. Sevastopol/Gibraltar did not share their results.

The Luxemburg-Casco soccer team split their two matches at Saturday's Oostburg Tournament without the benefit of scoring in regulation.

Alexander Cornielle’s last time on the mound for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers was May 4 at home against the Great Lakes Loons and he tossed six scoreless innings with six strikeouts.  Cornielle returned to the mound at Modern Woodmen Park against the Quad Cities River Bandits one week later and went seven scoreless frames with seven strikeouts to lead the Rattlers to a 2-0 victory.

Scoring was at a premium on Saturday night, and it would be the Rattlers (20-12) who struck first.  Dylan O’Rae tripled to center to start the Wisconsin fourth inning.  Gregory Barrios drove in O’Rae with a sacrifice fly to put the Rattlers in front on the scoreboard.

The River Bandits (19-13) had runners on first and second with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning against Cornielle.  The right-hander got the second out on a routine fly to Luis Lara in centerfield.  The final out was a bit more difficult as Lara raced back to the warning track to make a leaping catch on a line drive off the bat of Justin Johnson.

Henry Williams, the River Bandits starter, was almost as good as Cornielle.  Williams allowed one run on two hits with three walks and seven strikeouts.

Wisconsin got an insurance run in the top of the seventh after Williams left the game. Jheremy Vargas doubled to start the inning against Cooper McKeehan.  Eduarqui Fernández followed with a double to left to send Vargas across the plate for a 2-0 lead.  That would turn out to be more than enough for the Rattlers.  However, the added cushion left a little wiggle room.

Cornielle got the first out of the seventh inning on his seventh strikeout.  However, an infield single by Jared Dickey brought the tying run to the plate.  Cornielle didn’t buckle.  He got Dustin Dickerson to ground into an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play.
 

Craig Yoho was called into the game for the bottom of the eighth to protect the lead for the Rattlers.  He gave up a lead-off single to bring the tying run to the plate.  Yoho, who pitched three scoreless innings with seven strikeouts to earn the save in game one of the series on Tuesday, stayed calm and got the next batter to ground into a 4-6-3 double play.  Yoho ended the inning with a strikeout to send the game to the ninth with the Rattlers still up 2-0.

In the bottom of the ninth, Yoho retired the side in order, including the last two via the strikeout to close out his fifth save of the season.

Cornielle is 2-0 in his last two starts as he has tossed thirteen scoreless innings with thirteen strikeouts.  In the game against the Bandits, he allowed two hits and walked three to earn his third win of the season.  No River Bandit base runner past second base in the game.

Additionally, the Timber Rattlers defense was flawless again.  Wisconsin has not committed an error in nine consecutive games.  The Rattlers have only been charged with two errors in the last fifteen games.

The series finale is Sunday afternoon at Modern Woodmen Park.  Edwin Jimenez (4-0, 5.74) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers.  Quad Cities will send Shane Panzini (1-0, 4.34) to the mound as their starter.  Game time is 1:00pm.  

A number of teams squeezed in at least one more game on Friday before the rains came pouring down.

On 105.1 the GOAT, the NEW Lutheran Blazers' bats caught fire late in game one and carried it through game two as Gibraltar/Washington Island was swept by scores of 13-5 and 16-2 (five innings).

Two runs and three hits proved to be enough as the Luxemburg-Casco Spartans softball team were outhit but not outscored by Oconto Falls in a 2-1 victory.

Southern Door captured Door County softball supremacy on Friday with 7-2 and 6-5 wins on Friday over Sevastopol.

The Algoma Wolves scored at least two runs in four of the five innings they played on Friday in their 12-2 win over Wrightstown.

Three doubleheaders will be featured on the NEW Radio Sports Network on Saturday after some teams played games on Friday.

Gibraltar and Oconto will make up their rainout on Tuesday with a doubleheader in Fish Creek beginning at 10 a.m. Tim Kowols will have the call on 105.1 The GOAT beginning at 9:45 a.m. with the pregame show. The Vikings lost to Crivitz on Friday 7-2.

In the other Friday game, the Random Lake Rams scored 18 runs in two innings as they beat Sevastopol Friday 23-0.

Luxemburg-Casco's doubleheader against Fox Valley Lutheran will include special festivities starting at 11 a.m. Paul Schmitt will have the call on 104.1 WRLU beginning at 10:45 a.m.

Southern Door will play a doubleheader against NEW Lutheran beginning at 11 a.m. Jacob Nate will have the call on U-102.1 beginning at 10:45 a.m.

Other games scheduled for Saturday include Algoma hosting North Fond du Lac (noon) and Sturgeon Bay playing Green Bay Preble at Green Bay Southwest (11 a.m.).

In a rematch of last season’s playoff championship game, the defending champs Sister Bay Bays will play host to the Washington Island Islanders this Sunday from Sister Bay Village Park.

The Bays defeated the Islanders 5-2 in the championship game last year behind the pitching of Sam Forkert who gave up just two runs on five hits.  Sister Bay captured both the regular season and playoff traveling trophies.

Sister Bay will hopefully count on Forkert and Matt Hecht to carry the pitching load again this year to bring home back-to-back championships.  Ryan Jorgenson and Matt Foss pitched last year for the Islanders and will look again to shut down a potent Bay's attack.

Sunday’s game will start at 1:30 p.m. with the pregame show scheduled for 1:15 p.m. on 105.1 The Goat and streamed on the New Radio Sports Network.  Paul Schmitt and Henry Annen will have the call from Sister Bay.

The full slate of games on Mother's Day for Door County League Baseball is below.

Institute @ W. Jacksonport 

Egg Harbor @ Kolberg 

Washington Island @ Sister Bay LIVE on 105.1 The GOAT

Maplewood @ Baileys Harbor 

The area's soccer teams will face the field in a pair of tournaments on Saturday.

Luxemburg-Casco heads to Oostburg for a tournament featuring Lomira, Oostburg, and Sheboygan South beginning at 9 a.m.

Sturgeon Bay and Sevastopol/Gibraltar will head to Kiel to face the likes of Manitowoc Lincoln, Martin Luther, New Holstein, Roncalli, and St. Mary's Springs Academy. Games begin at 9 a.m.

The Luxemburg-Casco track teams finished fourth and fifth place in the North Eastern Conference Championships on Friday on their home track.

Little Chute and Freedom battled each other for the top spots in both the girls and the boys, with the former actually sharing the team crown.

On the girls' side, the team's 4x400m relay was the lone event champion for the Spartans. Grace Seering took second place in the 300m hurdles and Lydia Morozov matched her in the 200m.

For the boys, Trace Schoenbeck finished in third place in the 100m, matching Lane Ledvina's success in the high jump. Trevor Beaupre was the top finisher for the Spartans with a second place finish in the triple jump. 

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Women 

1) Freedom 161.50

1) Little Chute 161.50

3) Fox Valley Lutheran 113

4) Luxemburg-Casco 75

5) Wrightstown 60

6) Oconto Falls 52

7) Denmark 40

8) Marinette 19

9) Waupaca 14

10) Clintonville

Men

1) Little Chute 157

2) Freedom 142.50

3) Waupaca 70.50

4) Fox Valley Lutheran 65.50

5) Luxemburg-Casco 64.50

6) Oconto Falls 60

7) Denmark 56

8) Marinette 47

9) Clintonville 31

10) Wrightstown 8

Another busy Friday is in store for the area's softball teams after local teams posted wins on Thursday.

Luxemburg-Casco shut out Little Chute 13-0 and Algoma beat Marinette 5-1 in Thursday's action.

On Friday, the Gibraltar/Washington Island softball team hopes to secure its first multi-win season since 2021 when they play NEW Lutheran on Friday in a doubleheader. Tim Kowols will have the call from NEW Lutheran on 105.1 The GOAT beginning at 3:45 p.m. with the pregame show followed by the first pitch at 4 p.m.

Other matchups on Friday include the Wolves back in action against Wrightstown (4:30 p.m.), Sturgeon Bay traveling to Kewaunee for a twin bill (4:30 p.m.), Sevastopol hosting Southern Door for a doubleheader (4:30 p.m.), and the Spartans hosting Oconto Falls (4:30 p.m.).

After being rained out on Tuesday, the area's baseball teams are heading into the weekend in a dead sprint, with teams playing two, if not three, days in a row.

Thursday's action included Luxemburg-Casco beating Ripon 5-0 and Sturgeon Bay falling to Green Bay Southwest 12-7.

Friday's slate includes Gibraltar visiting Crivitz (4 p.m.) and Sevastopol hosting Random Lake (5 p.m.).

Two local soccer teams picked up wins on Thursday night with tournaments on the docket for this weekend.

Sturgeon Bay's girls' soccer team won its second consecutive match against Sevastopol/Gibraltar at host Sevastopol, 2-0.

Luxemburg-Casco secured a home win against Ripon 2-0.

The high school golf season is heading into its twilight after local teams played in one of their final tournaments ahead of regionals later this month.

Kewaunee sophomore Evan Maccaux took first place as the Packerland Conference Player of the Year for the 2024 season, leading the Storm to a fifth-place finish at the conference's final meet.

The Luxemburg-Casco golf team placed none of its members in the top 10 at Thursday's Stu Anderson Invitational at River Island GC in Oconto Falls. The Spartans finished last in the nine-team meet with a score of 403. They finished 17 strokes behind eighth-place Oconto Falls 2 and nearly 90 strokes behind first-place De Pere. Sophomore Stanley Peot led the way with a score of 88, which was good for 19th place overall.

Luxemburg-Casco, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay are back in action in Sturgeon Bay against Coleman and Denmark beginning at 9 a.m.

Picture courtesy of Kewaunee PR Commitee

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers followed a familiar pattern early in Thursday’s game against the Quad Cities River Bandits at Modern Woodmen Park.  The Rattlers grabbed an early lead, got some good defense, and decent pitching.  However, Quad Cities broke that pattern with a big fifth inning that featured a grand slam from Jared Dickey and the River Bandits went on to an 8-1 win.

Luke Adams hit a lead-off home run in the second inning to put Wisconsin (19-11) ahead.  Adams lined a 2-0 pitch from Steven Zobac over the wall in left for his third home run of the season.  The Timber Rattlers have scored first in 21 of their thirty games played this season.

The Rattlers got a pair of one-out singles in the top of the third but couldn’t add to their lead.  Wisconsin’s offense had only one more hit after the third inning.

The River Bandits (18-12) took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning.  Trevor Werner started the frame with a double, just the second hit of the game for Quad Cities.  Brett Squires singled to right to drive in Werner with the tying run.  Dickey doubled to left with one out and Squires scored from first for a 2-1 lead.

Quad Cities took control of the game in the bottom of the fifth.  Carter Jensen and Werner singled with one out to chase Wisconsin starter Will Rudy.  Joe Hernandez took over and walked Squires to load the bases.  Kale Emshoff lined an 0-2 pitch from Hernandez to center for an RBI single.  Dickey capped the inning with a line drive homer to right for a grand slam and a 7-1 lead.  The slam gave Dickey five RBI on Thursday night.

Squires, who hit two home runs on Wednesday night, hit a lead-off home run in the bottom of the seventh off Jake Polancic to account for the final run of the game.

Wisconsin pitchers have given up at least one homer in six straight games.

Rattlers outfielder Luis Lara was 1-for-3 in the game and extended his hitting streak to a season-high seven games.

The Timber Rattlers defense played a clean game defensively for their sixth consecutive errorless game.

Game four of the series is Friday night at Modern Woodmen Park.  Yujanyer Herrera (0-0, 0.00) is set to make his first start for the Timber Rattlers.  Frankie Mozzicato (1-1, 0.95) has been named the starter for the River Bandits.  Game time is 6:30pm.

A Packerland Conference doubleheader highlights Thursday's baseball and softball schedules.

The baseball and softball teams at Kewaunee will travel around the bay to Peshtigo for a doubleheader that begins at 4 p.m.

Other baseball games include Sturgeon Bay visiting Green Bay Southwest (4:30 p.m.) and Luxemburg-Casco heading to Ripon (4:45 p.m.).

The softball schedule includes Luxemburg-Casco playing Little Chute (4:30 p.m.) and Algoma battling at Marinette (4:30 p.m.).

Door County's two soccer sides will renew their rivalry Thursday evening as all three area teams are in action.

Sturgeon Bay travels north to face Sevastopol/Gibraltar for a 5 p.m. first kick.

Luxemburg-Casco will stay at home to welcome Ripon for a 6:30 p.m. match.

After dodging raindrops earlier in the week, the area's golf teams will hit the course on Thursday.

Luxemburg-Casco will meet De Pere, Little Chute, Marinette, Notre Dame Academy, Oconto Falls, Pulaski, and Seymour at River Island Golf Course in Oconto Falls at 10 a.m.

The Packerland Conference will make its next tour stop at Wander Springs Golf Course in Greenleaf, where Gibraltar, Kewaunee, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, Oconto, Peshtigo, Sevastopol, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay will compete beginning at 11 a.m.