The Sports Page featured Wisconsin Badger offensive tackle Jake Bscherer. The Sturgeon Bay High School graduate announced last night that he will likely take advantage of a red shirt and save himself a year of eligibility. Bscherer will be a junior in school this season, but if he does not play in any of the games he will still have two years of eligibility remaining. The red shirt would still allow him to be on scholarship. He would practice, prepare and travel with the team. If one of the two starting offensive tackles were injured, the Sturgeon bay grad would likely be asked to fill in. That would be the only negative that could come from electing to take his red shirt this season.
Bscherer weighs approximately 295 pounds and his new offensive line coach would like to see him bulk up to 315 pounds. The junior said he couldn’t believe how difficult it is to gain weight. The added weight would allow the offensive lineman to be comparative in weight with some of the other successful tackles that have gone before him.
The Wisconsin Badgers will begin their off season weight training program on Monday. He will return to Madison on Sunday to prepare for the strenuous workout schedule.
The Sturgeon Bay native said it is great to be home and still loves to come back and visit with friends and family.

   Southern Door and Sevastopol will continue to march for a state championship Friday at Goodman Diamond in Madison. Southern Door will play New Berlin Eisenhower at 6:00 p.m. on 104.1 FM WRLU. Eagles head coach Pat Delcore will join us on the Renard's Cheese Pre-Game Show starting at 5:30 p.m.
   The Eagles have been tremendous on defense but a little dormant at the plate. Courtney Wautier notched 13 strikeouts in the sectional final against Oconto Falls and Southern door may need that kind of a performance again if they wish to play Saturday for a state title.
   the Eagles last won state championships in 1992 and 1994. Coach Pate Delcore would love to add 2008 to the list of title winners.  You will hear more from Delcore in our pre-game coverage on 104.1 FM WRLU starting at 5:30 p.m.

Division 3 state golf at University Ridge in Verona wrapped up yesterday in disappointing fashion for Sevastopol. After leading the field following a 74 on Monday, senior Cam Fuller fell to fourth place in the standings for the individual title. Fuller shot an 80 yesterday to finish with a 154. The D4 champion Jake Nelson of Ladysmith was just two strokes better than Fuller.
Sevastopol finished second as a team, six shots behind Eleva-Strum. Ben Ehlers finished with a 165, Rob Leist shot 178, Theo Campbell had a 174 and Brandon Borkovetz finished with a 202.

WIAA Division 3 sectional semi-final baseball marked the end of the season for Algoma yesterday. In Horicon, the Wolves cold only garner one hit against Fond du Lac Springs senior pitcher Jason Schmitz. The 5-0 final was the end of an amazing season for Algoma.
Algoma senior Ryan Bouche managed the only hit in the game in the sixth inning. Algoma received a solid pitching effort from the Packerland Conference player of the year Jake LeBotte. He allowed six hits, struck out 10 and allowed just one earned run. The Wolves committed five errors. Algoma finished the season with 17 wins.

In Burlington, Gibraltar met a similar fate in WIAA Division 4 sectional semi-final baseball. The Vikings had a 3-1 lead early, but couldn't hold on and lost 7-4 to Green Lake.
Marshall Larsen accounted for three of the teams RBI's with a bases clearing triple in the second inning. Sam Ausloos was charged with the loss for Gibraltar. He did help his own cause at the plate and finished with two of the team's four hits. Green Lake scored three runs in the seventh inning to move on to the sectional finals.

Sevastopol Pioneer baseball coach John Toppe was the guest on the Sports Page Monday night at the C & C Supper Club. Toppe, a coaching icon in Door County for the past 35 years, led a young and improving Pioneer team to a 6-11-1 overall record and a 5-9 Packerland Conference record. Sevastopol lost to Mishicot in the regionals 12-6 on Friday, May 23. Toppe looks forward to coaching again next year, as he will again coach the girls basketball team at Sevastopol. Sharing his biggest influences in coaching over the years, Toppe mentioned Rod Billerbeck of Gibraltar and Jerry Guth of Algoma.

Also yesterday at the C & C Supper Club in Fish Creek, Carol Ballje of Egg Harbor and five of her friends purchased the 400,000 taco. The winners claimed over $400 in certificates for food and gas. Ballje (second from the right in photo) has been to the C & C many times, but Monday night will go down as the most memorable.
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C & C Supper Club owner Al Ashley announced to the packed house at 7:32pm that the 400,000 taco had been sold. Seconds later Ashley presented the surprised party of six with their prizes. The C & C is the home of the Monday Taco night and "Sports Page" which can be heard every Monday from 5:30 to 7pm on 105.1FM WSBW.

Rustom Engineer hit a home run this weekend in Sturgeon Bay Cal Ripken Baseball. He was one hit away from the cycle. He helped his team, Bayship, edge Rotary 7-5. Engineer also had a single and a double. Teamates Trevor Hawkey and Mitchell Overbeck had two hit performances. Rotary was led by Lance Klaubauf, Keegan Kroening, and Joey Maier with two hits a piece.

Hunter Pawelski had three hits and Cal McCarty finished with two in a 4-2 win for the Kiwanis. Michael Baker belted a double for the visitors.

The WIAA state track and field competition is being held in LaCrosse this weekend. A number of athletes earned a trip to the state competition from the Packerland Conference. Field events took center stage yesterday and a few of the relays. Sevastopol's 3,200-meter girls relay team stole the show Friday by winning the Division 3 championship. The relay team consisting of Annie Bley, Hanna Stauber, Amanda Karnopp and Haley Moeller were major underdogs heading into the race. The Pioneers set a school record in the 3,200 relay and trimmed nine seconds off their sectional time to achieve gold.
In the high jump, Liz Butler of Southern Door finished seventh with a jump of 5-2 in Division 2. Butler also fared well in the long jump with a leap of 16-9¾. The performance was good enough for ninth place.
The preliminaries for most track events took place yesterday. The top nine finishers qualified for today's finals. In the 200, Southern Door's Danielle Londo finished 12th. Luxemburg-Casco sprinter Erin Kline finished second in the 100 hurdles. Southern Door's 400 relay team finished just out of the finals with a tenth place finish. Nicole Schmidt, Kailyn Thayse, Liz Butler and Danielle Londo were the team members. The 800 relay team fared better and will compete in the finals today. Nicole Schmidt, Thayse, Butler and Londo made up that team.
Gibraltar's relay teams performed extremely well in Division 3 preliminaries. In the 400 relay, Rychia Bosman, Marcelle Savard, Andrea Bosman and Betsy Meyer finished 13th. Andrea Bosman, Ava Neddersen, Rychia Bosman and Betsy Meyer did qualify for the finals in the 800 relay with an eighth place finish.


For the boys, Division 3 Gibraltar finished in second place in the 400 relay. Peter Gray, Clayton Buske, Cody Pawlak and Devin Thomas made up the relay team. Other area athletes finishing outside the top ten were Southern Door's Zac Guilette in the triple jump, Southern Door's Jared Spude in the discus, Dusty Englebert and Tyler Nelis in the pole vault, Derek Williems of Luxemburg-Casco in the 300 hurdles and Sevastopol's Cole Vanderleest in the 1,600.
Spencer Schleis, from Kewaunee finished sixth in the pole vault. Luxemburg-Casco's Noah Steffel finished fourth in the 100. In the 400 relay, Southern Door finished fifth. Dusty Englebert, Alex Tassoul, Brandon Zunker and Lucas Baumann ran a great race. The Eagles also fared well in the 800 relay. Baumann, Zunker, Englebert and Alex Tassoul finished in tenth place.
Algoma pole vaulter Jacob Farley tied for fifth place. Gibraltar triple jumper Arthur Weborg finished on the podium with a third place finish. Weborg also qualified for today's finals in the 300 hurdles.