Today the clock officially says go on the area’s baseball and girls soccer teams to get their first official practices underway, even though snow still covers most of the area.
Southern Door will look to repeat as Packerland Conference champions after their undefeated regular season in baseball, and Sturgeon Bay girls soccer will look to improve on their record from last year as things get underway. Below are the local All-Packerland Conference selections from last season that may be returning to action this season.
PITCHERS
Cal Ihlenfeldt, Kewaunee (1st, SR)
Tyler Neinas, Southern Door (1st, SO)
Drew Daoust, Southern Door (HM, SO)
CATCHERS
Mitchell Thompson, Kewaunee (1st, SR)
Braden Kita, Gibraltar-Washington Island (2nd, SO)
Curt Meyer, Sturgeon Bay (2nd, JR)
INFIELDERS
Payton Kohnle, Kewaunee (1st, SR)
Jack Peterson, Southern Door (1st, SR)
Emmett Braschnewitz, Sturgeon Bay (2nd, SR)
Chase Romdenne, Algoma (2nd, SO)
Collin Spranger, Kewaunee (HM, JR)
OUTFIELDERS
Christian Counard, Southern Door (1st, SR)
Thomas Stangel, Kewaunee (1st, JR)
Rylan Caldecott, Gibraltar-Washington Island (2nd, SR)
Jaden Diller, Southern Door (2nd, SR)
Grant Vandervest, Algoma (2nd, JR)
UTILITY-DH PLAYER
Caleb Schaller, Kewaunee (1st, SR)
Carson Leist, Algoma (HM, SO)
For Luxemburg-Casco, here are some potential returning players that made the NEC All-Conference teams.
UTILITY-DH PLAYER
Chris VanderWielen (1st, JR)
OUTFIELDERS
Ryan Routhieaux (2nd, SR)
INFIELDERS
Garrett Simonar (HM, SR)
For Soccer, Luxemburg Casco could be returning three All-NEC players to their team that went 7-10 last season.
MIDFIELDERS
Heather Iverson (1st, SR)
KEEPERS
Tabi Lemens (1st, JR)
FORWARDS
Haley Paye (2nd, SR)