Sturgeon Bay dominated the hit column in a 7-3 win over Luxemburg-Casco in a WIAA Division 2 baseball regional quarterfinal yesterday. Senior pitcher Troy Jorgensen struck out nine Spartan batters in an upset at the Luxemburg-Casco Sports Complex. It was the first time L-C had lost to Sturgeon Bay in regional play for five years. Sturgeon Bay Coach Matt Propsom said the Spartan curse had lifted from his program. It was a long run of domination for L-C in the series.
Sturgeon Bay was led by three hits from Simon Rabas and Jake Miller. Sean Glinske was the losing pitcher.
The Clippers were the only team from the Packerland Conference to have any success on the diamond yesterday. Mishicot crushed Sevastopol 12-6 at West Jacksonport. The four Vs. five matchup soured in the seventh inning for the Pioneers. They gave up six runs on four hits to Mishicot. The Pioneers' Owen Huebner hit a solo home run but was the losing pitcher.

Kewaunee also ended their season at home in Division 3 regional play. Manitowoc Roncalli was a 4-3 winner. A three run first inning was too much for Kewaunee to overcome. Alex Delebreau was the losing pitcher. He managed five strikeouts in the game.

In WIAA Division 2 regional final softball in Brussels yesterday, the Southern Door Eagles earned a 6-2 victory over Denmark in seven innings. Junior pitcher Courtney Wautier
 struck out ten batters. That put her exactly at the magic number for career strikeouts (500). The Eagle's pitcher struck out the number nine batter in the top of the seventh inning to put her at an even 500 in front of a standing ovation from the home crowd.
It was a 2-0 Southern Door lead before the hit parade began in the fifth inning. Denmark senior catcher Colette Ullmer belted a two RBI triple into the right field corner to tie the game.
In the bottom half of the inning, Southern Door plated three runs. Kate Klaubof hit an RBI single followed by a two RBI single by Liz Neuman to break the game open. The Eagles held their 5-2 lead until the bottom of the sixth when Southern Door senior Jackie Lardinois, on her 18th birthday, hit her first career home run over the fence in dead center field. The solo shot made it a 6-2 ball game and the Eagles would cruise to another regional championship after that.
The win sets up a matchup in Chilton on Thursday between two number one seeds. The Eagles will face Freedom at 1:30 p.m. The Irish defeated Little Chute 2-0 in their regional final game. Southern Door and Freedom will be heard on 104.1 FM WRLU, Thursday. Our pre-game coverage will begin at 1:00 p.m. It the Eagles make the sectional finals, we will broadcast that game beginning at 4:00 p.m. Winneconne of Oconto Falls awaits the winner of the Southern Door/Freedom sectional semi-final.

The defending state champion Sevastopol Pioneers upset Algoma at home 10-7 in seven innings. Sevastopol will play Iola-Scandinavia in Algoma for the sectional semi-final on Thursday. The game will begin at 3:00 p.m. Lyndsay Swoboda was the losing pitcher. Carissa Neinas earned the win.

In Two Rivers yesterday, the Southern Door boy's track team won sectionals.
Some area top qualifiers were: 100 - Noah Steffel 11.36 (Luxemburg-Casco) & Jeremy Christian 11.37 (Kewaunee). 3,200 - Josh Stodola 15.47 (Denmark). 300 hurdles - Derek Williams 40.15 (Luxemburg-Casco). 400 relay - Southern Door 44.18 (Englebert, Tassoul, Zunker, Baumann). 800 relay  - Southern Door 1:32.26 (Engelbert, Alex Tassoul, Brandon Zunker, Lucas Baumann). 1,600 relay - Luxemburg-Casco 3:28.47(Mike Corsten, Josh VandenBush, Justin Delwiche, Lance Davister). Long jump - Jeremy Christian 21 (Kewaunee). Triple jump - Zac Guilette 42-10 (Southern Door). High jump - , Brent Dahlke 4 (Kewaunee). Pole vault - Spencer Schleis 13-3 (Kewaunee), Dusty Englebert 13-0 (Southern Door) & Tyler Nellis 12-3 (Southern Door). Shot put - Jared Spude 53-1 (Southern Door) & Derek Waterstreet 51-10 (Southern Door). Discus - Jared Spude 150-10 (Southern Door)

The Sturgeon Bay girl's soccer team shut out Luxemburg-Casco 3-0 yesterday. Mary Kolterjahn scored 2 goals and Kayle Rivers added 1. Sturgeon Bay will play Green Bay Notre Dame on Saturday at 4:30PM.
NEW Lutheran defeated Sevastopol/Gibraltar 2-1.

To help bolster a thin group of tightends, the Green Bay Packers announced yesterday that they have signed rookie free agent Evan Moore. General Manager Ted Thompson made the move after the first week of OTA's.
A 6-foot-6, 237-pound player, Moore was a four-year letterman at wide receiver while at Stanford. He finished his collegiate career in 2007 with 103 receptions for 1,555 yards and 12 touchdowns. Moore will wear No. 8 with the Packers.

The Sports Page was held last night at the Ladder House in downtown Sturgeon Bay. The show was completely devoted to the Packers, Brewers and Bucks. Owner of Witt Ford Joe Witt joined me to discuss hot topics in the Wisconsin sports scene.
Organized Team Activities or OTA's began for the Green Bay Packers yesterday at the Don Hudson Center. The practice was originally scheduled to be conducted at the outdoor facility called Ray Nitchke Field, but Head Coach Mike McCarthy decided to move things indoors. For the first time in recent memory, the general public was allowed to watch the practice from the sidelines at the Hudson Center.
Joe Witt and I talked about a few players that fans should watch this offseason.
Fans wanted to catch a glimpse of their new quarterback. Aaron Rodgers looked great after his first day leading the reigning NFC North Champs. He gained ten pounds of muscle in the offseason and was throwing with a little more zip than ever before. Two throws in particular stood out. The first was a 60-yard bomb down the sideline to Greg Jennings. The ball was a perfectly thrown spiral that hit the third year receiver in stride.
The second lights out throw Rodgers made was a simple seven-yard crossing route to the sure handed Donald Lee. Rodgers reared back and threw a Brett Favre fastball that went through Lee's hands, hit his chest and bounced to the ground. That ball had some smoke on it!
Joe Witt pinpointed second year running back Brandon Jackson as a player to watch. He had an extra burst on the practice field yesterday and made some sharp cuts at the line of scrimmage, which is a necessity when running in the zone-blocking scheme.
The final player talked about last night as a player to watch was free agent linebacker Brandon Chillar. He will be competing with Brady Poppinga for the starting strong side linebacker. He brings much needed speed to the position and will be a better cover man when the SAM linebacker needs to cover a tight end or a running back in a passing situation.

WIAA Division 2 Regional Final softball between Southern Door and Denmark will be on the air this afternoon on 104.1 FM WLRU. Our pre-game show featuring Southern Door head coach Pat Delcore and Denmark's coach Roberts will begin shortly after 4:00 p.m. The first pitch will be thrown at 4:30 p.m.
  The game is expected to be a stellar pitchers dual between Eagle junior Courtney Wautier and Viking senior Lauren Roberts. The game will be held in Brussels. Join us on 104.1 Fm WRLU for all of the action.

Congratulations to the Gardner trap shooting team consisting of Todd Claflin, Todd Hawkee, Darren DeClark, Dick Wilke and Paul Dewitt. The team shot in a state competition and tied for first place with a 493/500 performance. Claflin was a perfect 100/100, Hawkee shot a 99 and DeClark, DeWitt and Wilke all finished with 98.
In second trap the team combined for a perfect 125/125 score. This is an extremely rare performance. Congratulations to the trap shooting team from Gardner.

Algoma, Sevastopol & Southern Door Advance to Regional Finals

Southern Door pitcher Courtney Wautier retired the first 19 batter of the regional semi-final with Sturgeon Bay. It wasn’t until the seventh inning when Megan Reubens drove a shot into centerfield that Wautier's perfect game disappeared. Yesterday on 104.1 FM WRLU, the Eagles topped Sturgeon Bay 3-1 in WIAA Division 2 playoff softball.
Southern Door plated a first inning run when Liz Neuman singled in Karlee Vandertie. Neuman would have another RBI in the fifth inning to make it a 2-0 ball game.
Sturgeon bay pitcher Amy Zigelbauer left the bases loaded twice in the first five innings and kept her team in the ball game late. She struck out two in seven innings of work.
Courtney Wautier struck out eight and moved to 490 career strikeouts. The Eagles had a number of key offensive performers in the game. Natalie LaCrosse was 3 for 3, Kristi Villers was 2 for 4 and Kate Klaubauf had the other RBI.

In Denmark, the Vikings handed Luxemburg-Casco a season ending loss 7-0. Lauren Roberts pitched the shutout for Denmark who will travel to Brussels to play Southern Door in the regional finals tomorrow. The radio stations of DoorCountyDailyNews.com will have the game starting at 4:20 p.m. Our pre-game coverage will begin shortly after 4:00 p.m.

In Division 3, Sevastopol crushed Mishicot 14-0. Carissa Neinas allowed just four hits and struck out five in a five-inning game. "Hop and Pop" also went 3 for 4 at the plate. Crystal Burke, Cathy Kaye, Brittany Jilot and Allison Junion each had two hits for the Pioneers.

Algoma played a solid game against Manitowoc Lutheran 10-2, setting up a Packerland Conference regional final tomorrow. Algoma will host Sevastopol at 4:30 p.m. Sam Zastrow, Lyndsay Swoboda and Shana Vandertie had three hits a piece to lead Algoma. Swoboda struck out eight on the mound and earned the win in the pitchers circle.

Gibraltar lost to Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah 6-4 in Division 4 regional softball.
                        
        

Luxemburg-Casco and Sturgeon Bay tied with a 332 in the regional golf meet yesterday. Both teams advanced to sectionals. John Parent shot an 81 and Nathan Anschutz scored 79 to lead the Clippers. Sectionals will be at Autumn Ridge in Valders on Tuesday.

In non-conference boy's baseball, Southern Door was trounced by Seymour 17-7. John Heimbecker was the losing pitcher but did lead the club with two hits. Southern Door gave up ten first inning runs including seven walks. They will play Algoma in a non-conference game tomorrow.

In conference play, Gibraltar shutout Kewaunee 5-0. Will Henrikson pitched the complete game shutout and allowed the only two hits of the game in the seventh inning.

Southern Door and Sturgeon Bay will match up in a WIAA Division 2 playoff game in Brussels this afternoon. The game will be broadcast on 102.1 FM WRKU. Pre-game coverage will begin at 4:00 PM with the first pitch scheduled for 4:30 PM.
  Courtney Wautier will be on the mound for the Eagles. She is 18 strikeouts shy of 500 in her career. Sturgeon Bay will send senior Amy Zieglebauer to the mound. The cross-county rivals will square off for the third and final time this afternoon on 102.1 FM. The winner will play either Denmark or Luxemburg-Casco on Thursday.

Allison Vroman, girls soccer coach of Gibraltar-Sevastopol was the guest on the Sports Page at the C & C Supper Club in Fish Creek Monday night.   Coach Vroman is in her first year as head coach and lead the Vikioneers to a 5-9 conference record.  She played college soccer at Minnesota State where she set two career records in goalkeeping.  After taking the boy’s soccer head coaching position last fall, she accepted the girl’s position after helping with the program last year under Dan Clark.  Gibraltar-Sevastopol travels to Green Bay NEW Lutheran in the first round of the Division III WIAA Soccer tournament Thursday.  If they win, they will face number one seed Wrightstown on Saturday.

Packers Family Night Announced

The Green Bay Packers today announced that ‘Packers Family Night will take place Sunday evening, Aug. 3.
‘Family Night,’ now in its eighth year, will feature an intra-squad scrimmage between the Packers’ offense and defense. Evening activities get underway in the stadium at 5:30 p.m., followed by on-field football drills at 6:30 and the scrimmage at approximately 7:30.
This year’s edition lands on a Sunday night for the first time. With the team opening the preseason on a Monday night (Aug. 11), the entire training camp schedule had to be adjusted, beginning with the first practice, Monday, July 28.
“We’re very excited to be preparing for ‘Packers Family Night, ’ ” said Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy. “It’s another one of the great training camp traditions of the Green Bay Packers. Even with the change, it promises to be another memorable night for our fans, and I’m looking forward to seeing it for the first time. I’ve already heard a lot of great things about the event, both from our staff and our fans.”
Included in the evening’s activities, per custom, will be the popular “Shirts Off Our Backs,” with approximately 20 jerseys – all of which will have been worn by Packers players in the just-completed scrimmage – to be given away in a random drawing, other entertainment and a spectacular fireworks show to conclude the night.
The NFL’s most popular scrimmage, the event has drawn more than 60,000 fans the past four seasons as the Packers sold every available seat.
Tickets, priced again at $8, will go on sale Saturday, June 14, at 10 a.m., through Ticketmaster and may be purchased either in person, over the phone or via the Internet. A limit of eight tickets per purchase will be in place for an initial sales period to allow more fans to have the chance to make a transaction.
Parking for the event will be $5, with net proceeds to be donated to ‘Packers Family Night’ partner Wendy’s Wonderful Kids foster care adoption program, a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Volunteers for the group also will be in the parking lot and at the gates to share information about the program with fans and accept monetary donations.
The entire training camp schedule is expected to be announced by the end of the month.

The smallmouth bass in Sturgeon Bay and throughout Door County are bigger than ever. A record weight was registered for the Sturgeon Bay Open Bass Tournament that concluded yesterday. Bill Godin (Develin, Ontario) and Mike Salvador (Sioux Naiirows, Ontario) registered a two-day total of 56.77 pounds of bass caught on Saturday and Sunday. This was the first time Salvador has ever won a bass tournament. Godin has won tournaments before. He talked about the winning combination.
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Salvador said the first place prize would make the drive back to Ontario a little better.
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Godin owns a fishing and hunting resort in Canada and fishes ten major tournaments a year. The biggest fish caught by the winning team was around five pounds. They said everything they kept was at leas a decent four-pound fish.
The biggest bass was caught on Saturday and weighed 6.49 pounds. (Also a record)
The top ten was filled with out-of towners. Sturgeon Bay's Troy Hartl finished in the top 15 in his second year fishing the tourney. He said a lot of pre-fishing needs to take place and a little luck too.
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Owner of Gary's Guide Service in Sturgeon Bay, Gary Nault, described why local anglers rarely win the tournament.
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To view the results of this year's Open Bass Tournament click here!!!


1 189 BILL GODIN & MIKE SALVADOR     56.77
2 54 TAD HEPLER & DAVE EGGERS           54.35
3 129 CHRIS PLZAK & DAVE LINTON       53.67
4 24 MIKE ELKINS & ERIC CULLER           53.6
5 88 DAVE LINDSAY & NORM LINDSAY 52.7
6 98 GARY ADKINS & MATT OLSON        52.34
7 30 BRADY FARRELL & KEVIN FASSBIND 52.13
8 138 JEFF GUSTAFSON & DAVE BENNETT 52.01
9 115 DEAN CAPRA & BRAD LEUTHNER   51.85
10 105 MIKE CRISP & RODGER CRISP        51.8
   

In non-conference baseball action yesterday Algoma defeated Manitowoc Lutheran 6-5 in a close game. It was a back and forth battle. Manitowoc scored 3 in the fourth inning, Algoma then scored 4. Manitowoc answered back and brought 2 more runs home to take
the lead. The Wolves scored two runs on a single by Matt Swoboda in the seventh to win the game. Eric Aackerman was the winning pitcher. On offense for Algoma, Kirk Rodrian and Matt Swoboda were 2x4, Alex Aackerman was 3x4 and Ryan Bouche was 2x3.
Sevastopol won one and tied one in a double header against Marinette St. Thomas yesterday. While Marinette scored runs consistently throughout game 1, so did the Pioneers. A two run homer from Sevastopl's Joe Sawyer earned them the win. In game 1, Kyle Volkman pitched and had 6 K's. He was also 2x4 on offense. Game 2 was called after 5 innings due to darkness. The final at that point was 5-5.
The bats were hot for Kewaunee yesterday, they beat Mishicot 16-5. Top hitters for Kewaunee were Steve Zimmerman and Alex Delebreau who were both 3x3 and Tanner Ledvina 2x4. Jerry Charles pitched for Kewaunee.
Sturgeon Bay defeated Green Bay Southwest 8-5. Shaun Zak was the winning pitcher.
Denmark beat Manitowoc 3-2. Viking Ryan Winnekens went 2x3. He and Matt Miller each had homeruns. Denmark pitcher Craig Hansen struck out 8 batters.
Oconto defeated Bonduel 6-3. A huge fifth inning brought in 5 runs for Oconto to win them the game. Paul Retzlaff was the winning pitcher. He struck out 5 batters.