Several local baseball teams posted impressive wins on Tuesday as games begin to pile up.
Several local baseball teams posted impressive wins on Tuesday as games begin to pile up.
Several local teams took advantage of beautiful weather on Tuesday to secure important wins in their respective conference races for softball supremacy in the area.
The Kewaunee softball team made its early runs stick in a 3-1 win over Sevastopol on Tuesday.
The Luxemburg-Casco soccer team responded to a Wrightstown equalizer goal with three more of their own en route to a 4-1 win Tuesday night.
The Spartans waited for just four minutes for Casidee Jacobson to bury a pass by Emi Kuhn into the back of the net to make it 1-0. The Tigers tied the game just over 10 minutes later on a Carlie Verbeten free kick. The Spartans would wait until nearly halfway through the first half to get back onto the scoreboard with Jacobson returning the favor to Kuhn to make 2-1 in the 58th minute. Kuhn added another assist in the 62nd minute, finding Aaliyah Wallace for the third goal. Wallace registered an assist of her three minutes later, feeding Maggie Pravechek for the fourth goal. Ashley Fameree made three saves in the Spartans win.
Another day, another win for the Sturgeon Bay golf team as they competed against the rest of the Packerland Conference at Northbrook Golf Course in Luxemburg.
The Clippers placed two golfers in the top five, and they won the meet with a score of 171, four strokes ahead of second-place Southern Door.
Packerland Tour Stop 5 Northbrook Golf Course
Team Scores:
1. Sturgeon Bay 171
2. Southern Door 175
3. Oconto 183
4. Kewaunee 184
5. Sevastopol 192
6. Gibraltar 206
7. Peshtigo 210
Individual Results:
1. Finley LaVine (Southern Door) 35
2. Tre Wienke (Sturgeon Bay) 39
3. Evan MacCaux (Kewaunee) 40
4. Porter Rabach (Sturgeon Bay) and Carter Koch (Oconto) 42
The first game on the radio for the NEW Radio Sports Network will highlight Tuesday's slate of baseball games.
On Monday, Kewaunee beat NEW Lutheran 19-0 while Luxemburg-Casco lost to Denmark 9-0. The Storm return to action against Sevastopol (5 p.m.) while the Spartans have a revenge date against Denmark (4:30 p.m.)
The Gibraltar/Washington Island baseball team will play up a couple of classes on Tuesday when they play at Green Bay Southwest. Tim Kowols will have the call on 105.1 The GOAT beginning at 5:45 p.m. with the pregame show, followed by the first pitch at 6 p.m.
Other Tuesday games include Sturgeon Bay hosting Algoma and Southern Door playing at Peshtigo at 4:30 p.m.
A more stout softball slate is on deck for Tuesday after just two games were played locally on Monday.
The Algoma softball team scored at least three runs in in three different innings to run away from Kewaunee 11-2 on Monday despite three errors. The Storm will try to rebound against Sevastopol at home (5 p.m.) while the Wolves travel to Sturgeon Bay (5 p.m.)
The Luxemburg-Casco softball team started and ended their game at Oconto Falls with three runs in a 6-0 win over the Panthers. The Spartans will be at home for a 6:15 p.m. first pitch against Marinette.
The other softball game scheduled for Tuesday is Southern Door visiting Peshtigo (5 p.m.).
The Sturgeon Bay soccer team saw its streak of positive results come to an end on Monday, losing to Pulaski 5-0 on the road.
Estella Vieaux registered a brace while Anya Hasser, Elizabeth Dornfeld, and Alina Harnowski also scored goals for the Raiders.
In Tuesday's action, Sevastopol/Gibraltar will host Little Chute at 5 p.m.
The area's golf teams were able to sneak in a round before evening storms on Monday.
The Sturgeon Bay golf team won another Packerland Conference meet on Monday at Idlewild Golf Course in Sturgeon Bay. The Clippers pulled out the win by beating Peshtigo by seven strokes. Owen Pichette (Sturgeon Bay) and Finley LaVine (Southern Door) tied with a score of 42. Tre Wienke (Sturgeon Bay), Carter Koch (Oconto), and Landon Haulotte (Peshtigo) tied for third place with a score of 44.
The Luxemburg-Casco golf team finished mid-pack at Monday's Peshtigo Bulldog Invite 6-6-6, but Josh Parins took in the view from the top of the podium. Parins tied Kadyn Riel of Oconto Falls with a score of 69 for first place, returning from two strokes down to force the tie. The Spartans scored 158, four strokes behind Oconto Falls in a meet that saw the top seven teams within five strokes of each other.
On Tuesday, Kewaunee will host the next Packerland Conference stop at Northbrook Country Club in Luxemburg at 4 p.m., while the Spartans will face their NEC foes at Waupaca Country Club.
The Luxemburg-Casco track team heads south for an NEC meet on Tuesday.
Clintonville, Fox Valley Lutheran, Freedom, and Waupaca will also participate in the meet taking place at Fox Valley Lutheran beginning at 4 p.m.
In their last meet, the Spartan boys posted four event wins at the Freedom meet, including Cameron Dorner (long jump), Wyatt Bailey (high jump), Mason Trimburger (110m hurdles), and Kyan Lynts (1600m), to go along with more than a dozen top 3 finishes. Claire DuChateau won two events (1600m and 3200) to join Maria Morozov (300m hurdles) on top of the podium for the Spartan girls.
Door County’s largest sporting event is nearly full. The Door County Half Marathon has fewer than 100 spots left with less than two weeks until race day on Saturday, May 3 in Peninsula State Park.
The race is capped at 1,800 participants, with another 750 in the Nicolet Bay 5K, which is also nearing capacity. To register for this year’s event before it sells out, visit doorcountyhalfmarathon.com.
All runners get a race shirt, a free beer or beverage from One Barrel Brewing Co., course support and live music at the race concourse at Nicolet Bay. All Half Marathon runners get a beautiful finisher’s medal featuring the outline of Peninsula State Park.
The 17th edition of the race starts at 10 am on Shore Road, which will be closed to visitor traffic 8 am – 2 pm on race day. Access to the Nicolet Bay Boat Launch will also be closed until after the race.
To accommodate the 2,500 participants and at least 3,000 more friends, family and volunteers who will be in the park, race organizers offer free shuttles with pickups at a dozen sponsor lodging facilities and two park-and-ride locations. The shuttles minimize congestion in the park and northern Door County roadways and are a popular amenity for participants.
To register for either race visit doorcountyhalfmarathon.com.
The area will see two baseball teams in action on Monday afternoon.
Those games include Kewaunee traveling to NEW Lutheran and Luxemburg-Casco visiting Denmark for 4:30 p.m. starts.
While Monday is calm, NEW Radio Sports Network will be busy with baseball broadcasts the rest of the week. You can find the schedule of those broadcasts below:
Tuesday: Gibraltar at Green Bay Southwest on 105.1 The GOAT at 6 p.m.
Thursday: Sturgeon Bay at Luxemburg-Casco on 104.1 WRLU at 4:30 p.m.
Friday: Sturgeon Bay at Southern Door on U-102.1 at 5 p.m., Gibraltar vs. Peshtigo on 105.1 The GOAT at 5 p.m.
The Sturgeon Bay soccer team will start their week with a non-conference matchup on Monday against Pulaski.
The Clippers extended their point streak to four with a 3-0 win over Milwaukee Reagan on Friday. Midfielder Malaya Martinez had a “hat trick” in scoring all 3 of Sturgeon Bay’s goals, and Isabella Jimenez Seyfer had her 4th clean sheet in the win while recording eight saves.
The Raiders enter the match 5-2-0, winning their last two matches. Four of their five matches have been clean sheets and they have scored at least two goals in all five matches, including a 7-0 victory over Menasha.
All three Kewaunee County softball programs will play on Monday, two of which will be against each other.
Algoma will host Kewaunee at 5:00 p.m., while Luxemburg-Casco will have a first pitch at Denmark at 4:30 p.m.
All of the area's golf teams will be in action on Monday as they prepare to enter the month of May.
Luxemburg-Casco will join Antigo, Clintonville, Denmark, Freedom, Hortonville, Little Chute, Mosinee, New London, Oconto Falls, Shawano Community, Wrightstown, and Xavier at Shamrock Heights Golf Course in New London for an 11 a.m. tee time.
The Packerland Conference heads to Idlewild Golf Course for its next round, which begins at 4 p.m.
Kaelen Culpepper homered and drove in five runs for the Cedar Rapids Kernels on Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. His performance led the Kernels to an 8-1 lead over the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the final game of the six-game series.
Danny DeAndrade gave the Kernels (12-8) the lead with a one-out, solo homer in the bottom of the second inning. That was the only run allowed by Wisconsin starting pitcher Manuel Rodriguez.
Wisconsin (8-13) tied the game in the fifth inning. Hebert Pérez drew a lead-off walk and stole second. Jheremy Vargas blooped a one-out single to center to put runners at the corners. Daniel Guilarte got Pérez home with a sacrifice fly to center.
Cedar Rapids started the bottom of the fifth with a walk from reliever Dikember Sanchez. It looked like it wouldn’t be a problem as Sanchez got Jamie Ferrer to ground into a 6-4-3 double play. Kevin Maitan was next, and he hit a rocket up the middle. Shortstop Jadher Areinamo made a dive for the ball and had it in his glove but couldn't hold on for what would have been a spectacular play. Sanchez would walk the Kyle Hess, the number nine batter in the Kernels order, to set the stage for Culpepper.
The #1 pick of the Minnesota Twins in the 2024 draft hit a long home run, his first of the season, to left to give the Kernels a 4-1 lead.
The Kernels added an insurance run in the seventh inning as they loaded the bases with one out against Zach Peek. Kyle DeBarge hit a grounder off Peek’s leg. Peek tracked down the ball and got the out at first for the second out as the run scored for Cedar Rapids.
A three-run eighth inning by Cedar Rapids put the game away for them. Jesús Broca, Wisconsin’s fourth pitcher of the game, gave up a single and a walk to the first two batters he faced. A double steal put both runners in scoring position. Khadim Diaw drove in the first run of the inning with a sacrifice fly. Broca gave up a single and a walk to the next two batters before getting a strikeout on his 34th pitch of the inning.
Aaron Rund was tasked with trying to get the final out of the inning in relief of Broca. However, Culpepper lined a single to right to plate two more runs for the Kernels.
Blake Burke went 2-for-4 for half of Wisconsin’s hits in the game. Wisconsin pitchers walked seven.
The Rattlers missed on the chance to win their first series of the season. They had won three in a row after dropping the first two games of the six-game set with Cedar Rapids. Wisconsin had to settle for their second series split of the year.
The Timber Rattlers are off on Monday. They return to action on Tuesday at Neuroscience Group Field with game one of a six-game series against the West Michigan Whitecaps. Ryan Birchard (0-2, 3.55) is the scheduled starting pitcher for Wisconsin. The Whitecaps have named Max Alba (0-1, 4.85) as their probable starter. Game time is 6:40pm.
The wait was worth it for the Green Bay Blizzard as they beat the Massachusetts Pirates 47-35 Sunday afternoon.
The Blizzard used a 16-6 advantage in the first quarter to hold on for the win. Max Meylor led the way, throwing for 155 yards and four touchdowns on 16 completions. He also rushed for 47 yards and two scores on the ground. Lowell Patron paced the Blizzard's wide receiving corps with six catches for 81 yards and two scores.
The Blizzard will pay a visit to Tulsa for their next game on May 3rd at 7:05 p.m.
For the second straight day, the Southern Door softball team picked up a pair of wins against one team, sweeping Chilton 5-2 and 10-7.
In the first game, the Tigers failed to take advantage of two Eagles errors, allowing their hosts to take a 1-0 lead. After the Tigers tied the game on a homer, the two teams traded runs, putting the Eagles into a 3-2 hole heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. The Eagles hit four straight singles and drew a bases loaded walk to take the lead for good. Lexi Tassoul led the way with two hits while Samantha Melville drove in a pair. Alanah Kaye earned the win in the circle, allowing three runs (2 ER) on seven hits and five strikeouts.
In game two, the two teams scored six runs apiece across the first three innings with a four-run fifth inning proving to be the decider for the Eagles. Reese Vogel and Samantha Melville doubled while Alanah Kaye smacked a three-run homer in the pivotal fifth inning. Kaye, Ashlyn Delfosse, Melville, and Audrey Plzack posted RBI.
Sturgeon Bay and Gibraltar/Washington Island both used Saturday to climb up the Packerland Conference standings.
The Green Bay Packers added depth pieces on both sides of the ball on Saturday, completing the 2025 NFL Draft with eight new players and more than 600,000 visiting Lambeau Field over the weekend.
The Packers addressed the defense for the first time with their first pick on Saturday, selecting Texas defensive lineman Barryn Sorrell in the fourth round at No. 124 overall. According to Packers.com, he started at defensive end the last three seasons for the Longhorns, totaling 15½ sacks and 29 QB hits over 43 games. He was one of the final players to walk out of the tunnel in front of the draft theater in the Lambeau Field parking lot after arriving at the draft on Wednesday.
The Packers stuck with the defensive line with its second pick of the day, selecting Oklahoma State's Collins Oliver in the fifth round at No. 159 overall. A former All-Big 12 selection, he is coming off a foot injury that kept to him to just two games last season.
The Packers stayed with the defensive line, but went inside with the with the selection of Georgia's Warren Brinson in the sixth round at No. 198 overall. He played on Georgia's last national championship team as a part-time starter.
The Packers switched to a different defensive position with its Tulane cornerback Micah Robinson with the first of two seventh-round picks at No. 237 overall. After a decorated career at Furman, Robinson recorded 33 tackles and intercepted two passes, returning one for a TD in his lone season with the Green Wave.
Finally, the Packers went back to the offensive line with their final pick of the weekend, taking Cincinnati lineman John Williams with their eighth and final pick at No. 250 overall. He allowed just three sacks in more than 800 offensive snaps for the Bearcats as one of its starters over the past two years.
Hedbert Pérez broke a 2-2 tie with a solo homer in the top of the eighth inning to push the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in front of the Cedar Rapids Kernels on Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin would go on to a 4-2 victory.
The Timber Rattlers (8-12) were gifted a run in the top of the second inning. Pérez singled with one out and was still at first with two outs. Jheremy Vargas hit a high popup to the left side of the infield that third baseman Billy Amick dropped for an error to allow the inning to continue with runners at the corners for Yhoswar Garcia. Kernels starting pitcher Tanner Hall got to a 2-2 count on Garcia when he tried to pick Vargas off first base. The throw was wild and that allowed Pérez to score.
The Kernels (11-8) had a runner at first after a lead-off, infield single by Nate Baez in the bottom of the third. Wisconsin starter Tyson Hardin struck out the next two batters but struggled to find the third. Kyle Hess, the number nine batter in the Cedar Rapids lineup, singled to right to get Baez to third. Kaelen Culpepper singled up the middle to score the tying run. Kyle DeBarge followed with a single to score Hess with the go-ahead run. Hardin gave up a walk to load the bases before getting a strikeout to end the frame.
Wisconsin evened the score in the sixth inning against reliever Spencer Bengard. Pérez, who homered against Bengard on Tuesday night in the series opener, drew a four-pitch walk with one out. Tayden Hall laced a double to left-center to score Pérez with the tying run.
The bottom of the seventh had some nervous moments for the Rattlers and reliever Patricio Aquino. Brandon Winokur started the inning with a deep drive to the wall in left that Jheremy Vargas caught. Then, Aquino hit three of the next four Cedar Rapids batters to load the bases with two outs. Aquino escaped the inning on a force play at second base.
Pérez came back to the plate with one out in the top of the eighth and unloaded on the first pitch of this at bat against Bengard to hit a no-doubt home run to right. The homer was the third of the season for Pérez.
In the bottom of the eighth, Aquino gave up a lead-off single to Hess, who went 4-for-4 on the afternoon. Aquino was not rattled as he got Culpepper to ground into a 6-4-3 double play and DeBarge to flyout to left.
The Rattlers added an insurance run in the top of the ninth inning on a few more Cedar Rapids miscues. Garcia reached on a grounder behind third that was ruled an error to start the frame against Logan Whitaker. Garcia took off early with Daniel Guilarte at the plate and Whitaker still in his set. Whitaker stepped off the rubber and ran at Garcia, who had frozen halfway between first and second. Garcia broke for second again after a moment and Whitaker’s throw sailed into center to allow Garcia to eventually wind up at third base. Then, Whitaker threw a wild pitch to let Garcia score for a 4-2 lead.
Yerlin Rodriguez, who gave up a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning in game one of the series on Tuesday night to be charged with a blown save and the loss against the Kernels, entered the game for the bottom of the ninth. Rodriguez made the most of his second opportunity with a perfect ninth by striking out the first two batters on six pitches and getting the final out on a grounder to short.
Pérez was 2-for-3 and scored three runs while Blake Burke went 3-for-4 in the game for the Rattlers.
Wisconsin is on their first three-game winning streak of the season.
The series finale is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The starting pitching match-up is a rematch of game one of the series with Manuel Rodriguez (0-1, 1.71) for the Timber Rattlers facing Joe Olivares (0-0, 0.00) for the Kernels. Game time is 1:05pm CDT.
With the rain wiping out Friday's action, several teams will try to get games in on Saturday.
Southern Door and Gibraltar/Washington Island will try to play their doubleheader again on Saturday morning after getting rained out Friday evening. The Eagles and the Vikings were prepared to play two games even as the rain fell, hoping it would stop by 6 p.m. However, removing the tarp uncovered puddles around home plate and on the mound, forcing the decision to postpone the game. The doubleheader will take place at 11 a.m. in Brussels. The games will not air on U-102.1.
Other games scheduled for Saturday include Sturgeon Bay hosting Peshtigo at 10 a.m. and Algoma playing a tournament in Waterloo against the host school, Johnson Creek, and Mineral Point beginning at 9 a.m.
Only two local teams were able to dodge raindrops long enough to squeeze a game in Friday night ahead of a limited schedule on Saturday.
The Eagles will go back to work on Saturday when they welcome Chilton for a doubleheader in Brussels at 1 p.m.
Sturgeon Bay track athletes finished two days of tough competion with a date at the St. Norbert Elite Meet Friday night.
Ella Tarkowski posted finished in second place in the 100m and third place in the 200m while her teammate Cady Carlson won the 400m race. Delaney Skiba also found herself in the top three with a second-place finish in the 3200m. Braden Evers (shotput), Merlin Walker (long jump), and Cedar Tomberlin (long jump) also finished in the top six overall.
At Thursday's Packerland Conference Relays, Southern Door swept the top spots with the girls holding off Kewaunee 154-146 while the boys had a more comfortable margin over second-place Algoma 141-112. You can click on the links below for school-by-school recaps from NEW Radio Sports Network.
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Three choices in, and the Green Bay Packers have invested it all on the offensive side of the ball.
The Green Bay Packers invested a second-round pick in protecting Jordan Love on Friday night, selecting North Carolina State OT Anthony Belton. A third-team All-ACC selection in 2023, Belton brings size to the line at 6'6" and more than 330 pounds. According to the Packers, Belton never gave up more than four sacks a season in his collegiate career, despite averaging more than 400 pass blocking downs a season. Barring a trade, the Packers will make their next selection in the third round where they hold the 23rd pick (87th overall).
The Green Bay Packers continued to address the offense on Friday night, drafting WR Savion Williams from TCU. Williams is a two-time All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection from 2023 and 2024. Last season, he started 12 games and scored six touchdowns through the air and ran another six on the ground, according to NFL.com. He is the second wide receiver selected by the Packers in this draft, joining first round draft choice Matthew Golden of Texas.
Four Wisconsin Timber Rattlers pitchers – Bishop Letson, Bayden Root, Dikember Sanchez, and Aaron Rund – held the Cedar Rapids Kernels to four hits in a shutout for a 1-0 win at Veterans Memorial Stadium on Friday night. Letson tossed 5-1/3 scoreless innings and earned his first Midwest League victory as the Rattlers held on to the late lead.
The starting pitchers dueled through five innings. Alejandro Hidalgo pitched five scoreless innings, walked four, and struck out seven while allowing one hit. Letson matched Hidalgo with five scoreless innings.
Wisconsin (7-12) had the breakthrough in the top of the sixth against reliever Jacob Wosinski. Jadher Areinamo singled, Blake Burke walked, and Matt Wood singled to load the bases. Juan Baez grounded a ball up the middle that was turned into a 4-3 double play but allowed Areinamo to score for the 1-0 lead.
Letson went back out for the bottom of the sixth and allowed a one-out, infield single to Brandon Winokur before exiting the game. Letson allowed four hits, walked none, and struck out four over his 5-1/3 innings.
Bayden Root relieved Letson and Winokur promptly stole second base. Root got the second out of the inning when Baez made a tough pick on a hard one-hopper off the bat of Billy Amick for the out at first. The final out was on a routine grounder to second. Root would give up a deep fly to Danny DeAndrade in the seventh but would pitch a perfect inning.
Dikember Sanchez was next up out of the Wisconsin bullpen. He set down the first two batters he faced in the eighth, but a walk to Misael Urbina extended the inning to Winokur, who grounded into an inning-ending force play.
In the bottom of the ninth, Sanchez retired the first two batters he faced again but walked DeAndrade on a 3-2 pitch. The call went to the Wisconsin bullpen one more time.
Aaron Rund answered the call and got Nate Baez to ground a ball to third that was misplayed by Baez for an error to put the tying and winning runs on base with veteran Kevin Maitan to the plate.
Cedar Rapids (11-7) had rallied in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 4-2 victory on Tuesday night against the Rattlers. Maitan started the game-winning rally on Tuesday with a one-out double. On Friday, he had a chance to win the game for the Kernels.
The degree of difficulty increased for Rund and the Rattlers as DeAndrade and pinch-runner Kyle Hess pulled a double steal to get both runners into scoring position. Rund was unfazed, even after a close 1-2 pitch to Maitan was called a ball. The right-handed reliever got Maitan to chase the next pitch for strike three to end the game with his first save of the season.
Areinamo and Wood each had two singles to account for all four of Wisconsin’s hits in the game.
The Rattlers have won two straight games to even up the series with the Kernels through four games.
Game five of the series is Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Tyson Hardin (2-0, 0.00) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Rattlers. Cedar Rapids has named Tanner Hall (1-0, 6.23) as their starter. Game time is 1:05pm CDT.
The first NEW Radio Sports Network broadcasts of the season highlight Friday's slate of baseball games, weather permitting.
North meets south in a Packerland Conference twinbill Friday afternoon when Southern Door welcomes Gibraltar/Washington Island. Tim Kowols and Jacob Nate will have both ends of the doubleheader on U-102.1 beginning at 3:45 p.m. with the pregame show followed by the first pitch at 4 p.m.
Other baseball games scheduled for Friday include Kewaunee visiting Manitowoc (4:30 p.m.) and Sevastopol hosting Sturgeon Bay (4:30 p.m.).
Local teams went 3-1 on Thursday night ahead of another busy night on the softball schedule for Friday.
In Thursday's action, Luxemburg-Casco shut out Seymour 2-0, Kewaunee lost to Wrightstown 7-0 after beating NEW Lutheran 4-1 on Wednesday, Sevastopol beat Valders 10-2, and Algoma sunk Marinette 3-1.
Weather permitting, Southern Door will welcome Gibraltar for a doubleheader (4 p.m.), Sturgeon Bay will visit Sevastopol (4:30 p.m.), and Algoma will travel to Wrightstown (4:30 p.m.) .
Another brace for Emi Kuhn help the Luxemburg-Casco soccer team earn a win on the road 3-1 against Ripon Thursday night.
Aaliyah Wallace kept her scoring streak going as she took a Kuhn feed to open the scoring in the 10th minute. Kuhn registered her own goal one minute later thanks to a pass from Diem Bonness to make 2-0. The Tigers got one back six minutes later, but Kuhn extended the lead back out to two goals in the 24th minute, burying a pass from Reese Bandow into the back of the net.
Teagan Gunderson had a light night of work in the goalmouth for the Spartans, registering one save on two shots on target. Meanwhile, Dani Brewer made 11 saves for the Tigers.
In Friday soccer action, Sturgeon Bay heads to the Cream City to face Milwaukee Reagan for a 7 p.m. kick at Milwaukee Pulaski Stadium.
Picture courtesy of Ron LeCloux
A capacity crowd got to see the Green Bay Packers make history Thursday night in the NFL Draft as they selected Texas WR Matthew Golden with the 23rd overall pick.
According to the Packers, Golden (5-11, 191) caught 58 passes for 987 yards and nine TDs last season at Texas after transferring from Houston. Golden is expected to add a dose of speed to the wide receivers room after Christian Watson went down with a season-ending injury last season. He ran the fastest 40-yard dash among wide receivers at last month's scouting combine at 4.29 seconds.
Packers fans were jubilant when Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy, who made sure to note that Golden was the first wide receiver picked in the first round by the organization since Javon Walker was selected 23 years ago. Golden played into the excitement of the fans, waving his hands in the air as he walked onto the stage and later walking to an auxiliary stage in the middle of the crowd to shake hands with the thousands of Packers fans in attendance. During his media availability afterwards, Golden described the type of player fans can expect him to be and the joy they brought to him when he was selected.
An estimated 205,000 took in the first day of the NFL Draft, which is just under twice the population of Green Bay. The draft footprint had to stop admitting general admission attendees about 30 minutes before the first selection because of capacity limits. Many fans were directed into the seating bowl to watch the draft on the videoboards inside Lambeau FIeld.
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The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers offense came to life on Thursday night to defeat the Cedar Rapids Kernels 13-5 at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin broke a 4-4 tie with two runs in the eighth and tacked on seven in the ninth to earn their first win of the series against the Kernels.
The Kernels (11-6) loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the second inning. Nate Baez drove in two runs with a single for the early lead. Chandler Welch, the Wisconsin starter got the next batter to ground into a 5-3 double play. However, an infield single by Caden Kendle extended the inning. Kaelen Culpepper followed with an RBI single for a 3-0 lead.
Wisconsin (6-12) stormed back with a rally on four straight hits with one out in the third. Eduardo Garcia, Jadher Areinamo, and Blake Burke had consecutive singles to load the bases. Matt Wood unloaded the bases with a line drive homer to right for a grand slam and a 4-3 lead. The slam was the second of the season by a Timber Rattler.
Cedar Rapids tied the game in the bottom of the third as Danny De Andrade singled home Billy Amick. The Kernels had two on with one out after that game-tying hit by De Andrade. However, Welch retired the next two batters to deny the Kernels the lead.
Welch also worked a perfect fourth and pitched around a lead-off single in the fifth to keep the score tied.
The Rattlers had a chance to go in front in the top of the seventh against Kernels reliever Sam Perez, who walked Garcia and Areinamo on eight straight pitches with one out in the seventh. Perez got the second out with a strikeout and Wood was robbed of a run-scoring hit on a fine, back-handed pick by Nate Baez at first base.
Zach Peek, the first Rattler out of the bullpen, kept the game tied with three strikeouts over two perfect innings to send the game to the eighth inning still tied 4-4.
Juan Baez opened the Wisconsin eighth with a single against Gabriel Yanez. He was still at first with two outs. Daniel Guilarte coaxed a walk from Yanez to keep the inning alive. Then, Yhoswar Garcia singled to left to drive in Baez with the go-ahead run. Eduardo Garcia followed with a single to score Guilarte for a 6-4 lead.
The Kernels made Rattlers reliever Jeferson Figueroa work to keep that two-run cushion. Figueroa retired the first two batters of the eighth before DeAndrade doubled. Then, Nate Baez worked a deep count by fouling off five straight 2-2 pitches. Figueroa missed with the next pitch to run the count full. Baez fouled off two more pitches before flying out to right on the thirteenth pitch of the at bat.
Wisconsin blew the game open in the ninth inning as they sent thirteen batters to the plate and scored seven runs. Burke started the frame with a long, loud double to deep center. Juan Baez was hit by a pitch with one out. Hedbert Perez cashed in both pinch-runner Jheremy Vargas and Baez with a triple. Perez would score moments later on a balk by Juan Mendez to make it 9-4.
The next three batters reached to reload the bases and knock Mendez out of the game. Juan Mercedes entered from the Kernels bullpen and got the second out with a strikeout. Then, he walked Areinamo to force in a run. Vargas, batting in Burke’s spot in the order, drove in two runs with a single. A walk to Wood reloaded the bases and another walk to Baez forced in the final run of the frame for a 13-4 lead
Jesus Broca made his Timber Rattlers debut as he came on to pitch the bottom of the ninth to close out the game. Broca got the first out, but an error, a single, and a walk loaded the bases for Cedar Rapids. Broca walked Amick to force in a run. However, he did not let the inning get out of hand. Broca got Gabriel Gonzalez to ground into the game-ending 6-4-3 double play.
Wisconsin had scored thirteen runs in their last five games before their outburst on Thursday night.
Both Garcias, Burke, Areinamo, and Perez had two hits in the game as the Rattlers set a single-game high for hits in a game this season with fourteen.
Game four of the series is Friday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Bishop Letson (0-0, 2.45) is set to start for the Timber Rattlers. Cedar Rapids has named Alejandro Hidalgo (0-0, 6.55) as their starting pitcher. Game time is 6:35pm.
It is a quick turnaround for the Sturgeon Bay track team as they head to De Pere Friday night for an invitational hosted by Notre Dame Academy on the campus of St. Norbert College.
The Clippers will face the likes of Wausau West, Kimberly, Seymour, Athens, Gillett, Lomira, Peshtigo, Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan South, Notre Dame Academy, New London, St. Mary's Springs Academy, Iola-Scandinavia, Reedsville, Denmark, and St Ignatius Chesterton when the meet begins at 3 p.m.
The Clippers competed with the rest of the Packerland Conference Thursday night in Oconto at the annual relays meet. As of now, results from the meet have not been posted.
The area's Packerland Conference teams travel to Oconto on Thursday to participate in their annual relays meet.
Algoma, Gibraltar, Kewaunee, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, Peshtigo, Sevastopol, Southern Door, Oconto and Sturgeon Bay will all participate after competing in two separate conference meets earlier this week.
The Southern Door track teams dominated Tuesday's Packerland Conference meet hosted by Algoma. The girls won more than a dozen events in the meet including Kailey Guilette (triple jump), Frankie Nellis (100m and long jump), Maiya Olson (high jump), Elise Jackson (110m and 300m hurdles), Emma Bousley (800m), Nikaya Trusova (400m), Portia Hah (200m) and all four relays. Lucas Conard (400m), Ben Grota (3200m), Damontrae Meeks (110m and 300m hurdles), Cruz Calvillo (shot put and discus), Braeden VanRemortel (high jump), Grant Pieschek(pole vault), Brayden Vogel (long jump), Lauden Berg (triple jump), and three relays reached the top of the podium for the Eagles boys.
The Algoma Wolves track team found themselves on top of the podium three times at the Packerland Conference meet they hosted on Thursday. Chance Rader's personal record in the 1600m was good enough to win the event to go with his second place finish in the 800m. For the girls, Eva Liu (3200m) and Estella Marrero (pole vault) also posted personal records to win their respective events.
No gold was won, but Gibraltar track athletes posted several top-3 performances in Tuesday's Packerland Conference meet hosted by Algoma. Junior Sean Neal came the closest to winning several events, taking third in the 100m, third in the 200m, and was a part of a second-place 4x100m relay team. Luke McCormack (800m) and Graham Devoe (1600m) also took third place. For the girls, Josie Martin took second place in the discus while the 4x100m relay and 4x200m relay finished in the top three.
The Kewaunee girls track team more than doubled up host Peshtigo to win Tuesday's Packerland Conference meet. The girls scored 120.5 points on the evening, compared to 52 for the Bulldogs. Hannah Miller(400m), Milli Paul (800m), Braelyn Witcpalek(110m and 300m hurdles), Chyanne Robinson (discus), Anna Barnica (high jump), Natalie Miller (pole vault), Lily Hudson (long jump), Carolina Gaviglio (triple jump), and all four relays won their respective events. The Storm boys had the 4x100m relay, the 4x200m relay, and Mitchell Boeder (shot put) on top of the podium.
The Sturgeon Bay track team had three athletes stand on top of the podium at Tuesday's Packerland Conference track meet hosted by Peshtigo. For the boys, Braden Evers (shot put) led the way with his victory as the team posted seven other top-three performances. On the girls side, Ella Tarkowski (100m) and Delaney Skiba (3200m) led the girls with their event wins.
Aaron Tomaszewski nearly swept the distance events at Tuesday's Packerland Conference meet hosted by Peshtigo to lead the Sevastopol Pioneers track teams. Tomaszewski won the 800m and 1600m while coming in second place in the 3200m with a season best. Jairus Dadam (pole vault) and Cash Kuehn (triple jump) also won their respective events for the Pioneers boys. The 4x200m relay posted the best finish for the girls as they came in second place.
A lot of uncommon opponents dot the area's softball schedule on Thursday.
The slate includes Luxemburg-Casco traveling to Seymour (4:30 p.m.), Kewaunee visiting Wrightstown (4:30 p.m.), Sevastopol hosting Valders (4:30 p.m.), and Algoma welcoming Marinette (4:30 p.m.).
Luxemburg-Casco and Door County United will head back to the pitch on Thursday after hard-fought matches on Tuesday.
Door County United's offensive struggles continued on Tuesday, falling to NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy 3-0. The United are back in action on Thursday when they play Peshtigo at 5 p.m. at Sevastopol.
Emi Kuhn's brace paced the Luxemburg-Casco soccer team to a 3-0 win against Denmark on Tuesday. The Spartans hit the road Thursday for a 4:30 p.m. match at Ripon.
Monday's postponement means two rounds of golf for Packerland Conference teams.
Gibraltar, Kewaunee, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, Peshtigo, Sevastopol, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay will play 18 holes at Vernon Hills Golf Course in Oconto. This will make up for the round missed at Little River Golf Course.
Teams have still been able to get out to swing the clubs this week. The Sturgeon Bay Golf Team took on one of the most prestigious courses in the state at Tuesday's Whistling Straits Coleman Invite. The Clippers took fourth out of eight teams with a score of 358, 12 strokes behind first-place Lena. The Clippers had three golfers break 90 on the course, led by Tre Wienke's 81.
Luxemburg-Casco was slated to play Whistling Straits on Wednesday against its NEC foes.
All eyes will be on Lambeau Field on Thursday night when the 2025 NFL Draft begins.
Whether you plan on heading to Green Bay or staying on your couch at home, here are some of the details from the NFL you need to keep track of the festivities. NEW Radio Sports Network will have coverage of the draft from from the Titletown footprint Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
SCHEDULE
7 p.m. CT (8 p.m. ET), Thursday, April 24 (Round 1).
6 p.m. CT (7 p.m. ET), Friday, April 25 (Rounds 2-3).
11 a.m. CT (noon ET), Saturday, April 26 (Rounds 4-7).
The first round will conclude on Thursday by approximately 10:30 p.m. CT (11:30 p.m. ET). In 2024, the first round consumed three hours and 36 minutes. The second and third rounds will conclude on Friday by approximately 10 p.m. CT (11 p.m. ET). The second and third rounds took a combined four hours and nine minutes in 2024. The draft will conclude by approximately 6 p.m. CT (7 p.m. ET) on Saturday with the final four rounds. Rounds four through seven took seven hours and six minutes in 2024.
ROUNDS:
Seven Rounds – Round 1 on Thursday, April 24; Rounds 2 and 3 on Friday, April 25; and Rounds 4 through 7 on Saturday, April 26.
There will be 257 selections, including 35 compensatory choices that have been awarded to 16 teams.
TIME LIMITS:
Round 1: 10 minutes per selection. Round 2: Seven minutes per selection. Rounds 3 through 6, including compensatory picks: Five minutes per selection. Round 7, including compensatory picks: Four minutes per selection.
TELEVISION & RADIO:
The 2025 NFL Draft will be televised nationally by NFL Network, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes, and can be heard nationwide on Westwood One Radio, SiriusXM NFL Radio and ESPN Radio.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers trailed 3-0 before they got their offense going on Wednesday night against the Cedar Rapids Kernels at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The visitors scraped single runs across the plate in the seventh and ninth innings, but it wasn’t enough as they fell 3-2 to Cedar Rapids.
Wisconsin (5-12) had the first hit of the game on a one-out single by Juan Baez in the second inning, but he was erased on a double play to end the inning. Cedar Rapids pitchers Ty Langenberg and Logan Whitaker combined to face the minimum through six innings as they kept the Rattlers off the scoreboard.
The Kernels (11-5) broke through in the bottom of the fifth inning. Khadim Diaw drew a walk and stole second to start the inning. A one-out wild pitch by Ryan Birchard allowed Diaw to take third. A wild throw by catcher David Garcia on the play let Diaw score for the 1-0 lead.
Birchard went five innings, allowed three hits, walked one and struck out five as the Rattlers starting pitcher.
Cedar Rapids added to their lead in the bottom of the sixth against reliever Anthony Flores. The Kernels loaded the bases on a leadoff single with another single and a walk coming after one out. Flores got the second out on a strikeout. Then, Danny De Andrade doubled to right to score two runs for a 3-0 lead.
A rain delay halted play for 88 minutes after the bottom of the sixth inning.
The Timber Rattlers (5-12) were ready on the restart as Eduardo Garcia walked and Jadher Areinamo doubled to open the seventh against reliever Wilker Reyes. Matt Wood drove in Garcia with a grounder to second.
In the top of the ninth, Garcia reached on an infield single, stole second, and moved to third on a wild pitch by Jacob Wosinski. Areinamo cut the deficit to one run with a grounder to second. Unfortunately, that was also the second out of the inning. Wosinski ended the ninth and the game with a strikeout.
Wednesday’s game was the eighth time in seventeen games this season in which Wisconsin has scored two or fewer runs this season. They are 1-7 when that happens.
Game three of the series is set for Thursday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Chandler Welch (0-1, 4.50) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Chase Cheney will make his 2025 Midwest League debut as the starter for the Kernels. Game time is 6:35pm.
The peninsula's lone undefeated team kept it that way in convincing fashion as a part of Tuesday's slate.
The Sturgeon Bay baseball team saw a lead slip away late on Tuesday, falling to Oconto 3-2.
Other recaps can be found at NEWRadioSportsNetwork.com
There were plenty of home runs hit across the area during Tuesday's softball slate.
Other results can be found at NEWRadioSportsNetwork.com
Sturgeon Bay and Luxemburg-Casco stayed out of the loss column in their soccer matches on Tuesday.
Emi Kuhn's brace paced the Luxemburg-Casco soccer team to a 3-0 win against Denmark on Tuesday.
Picture courtesy of Ron LeCloux
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers were one out away from a win in game one of their series against the Cedar Rapids Kernels on Tuesday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. However, Kyle DeBarge spoiled the night for the Rattlers with a three-run, walkoff homer to erase a 2-1 lead for the Rattlers and sent the Kernels to the 4-2 victory.
The Kernels (10-5) took the lead in the bottom of the first inning. DeBarge tripled with one out against Wisconsin starting pitcher Manuel Rodriguez. The Rattler right-hander got the second out of the inning on a strikeout. However, Billy Amick had a sharp single to center to knock in DeBarge from third for the 1-0 lead.
Cedar Rapids had a Khadim Diaw at second with one out in the bottom of the third when Kevin Maitan hit a ball to the hole at short. Jadher Areinamo made a diving attempt to keep the ball from getting into left and got just enough of it to keep Diaw from scoring. Rodriguez got out of the jam with runners at the corners and one out with a strikeout and a force play at second.
Wisconsin (5-11) took the lead in the fifth inning. Matt Wood had a lead-off single. Perez hit a high fly to left that just cleared the yellow line for a two-run homer. The homer was the second of the season for Perez.
Rodriguez gave up five hits in the first two innings, but only one after that. The 19-year-old righty walked one, struck out three, and pitched a scoreless fifth to turn the 2-1 lead over to the bullpen.
Aaron Rund was up first as the Wisconsin reliever. He hit two of the first three Kernels he faced in the sixth but escaped unscathed with the lead intact thanks to an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play.
Patricio Aquino pitched the seventh and eighth for the Rattlers. He allowed a two-out single in the seventh and a lead-off single in the eighth while maintaining the lead.
Yerlin Rodriguez got the ninth inning against the bottom third of the Cedar Rapids order and opened the inning with a strikeout. Kevin Maitan was next, and he lined a double to left. Rodriguez got the second out on another strikeout.
That brought Kaelen Culpepper to the plate. Rodriguez got Culpepper to swing and miss at a 2-1 pitch to leave Wisconsin one strike away. However, Culpepper did not offer at to close pitches that missed away to draw the walk and bring DeBarge to the plate.
DeBarge was 2-for-4 going into this at bat in the ninth with a fifth inning double to go along with his first inning triple. Rodriguez missed with the first two pitches. Then, DeBarge missed the next offering. He did not miss the 2-1 pitch as he lined a no-doubt home run to left to touch off the celebration at home plate after the walkoff, three-run homer to beat Wisconsin.
Game two of the series is Wednesday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Timber Rattlers have announced Ryan Birchard (0-1, 4.70) as their starting pitcher. He will be opposed by Ty Langenberg (0-1, 7.50) for the Kernels. Game time is 6:35pm.
One softball game did take place last night, and it was a good one.
Softball games this afternoon include Luxemburg-Casco playing at home against Freedom (4:30 p.m.), Sevastopol hosting Coleman (4:30 p.m.), Kewaunee welcoming Howards Grove (4:30 p.m.), Gibraltar battling Sheboygan Area Lutheran in Fish Creek (4:30 p.m.), and Algoma and Peshtigo meeting along the lakeshore 4:30 p.m.)
A three-goal second half turned a close 1-0 match at the break into a 4-0 loss for Door County United against St. Mary Catholic.
The Zephyrs struck first in the 12th minute when Brecken Britzke scored off the rebound to make it 1-0. Maddy Mittelstaedt registered a brace for the Zephyrs with two goals in the first 10 minutes of the second half before Bitzy McCauley capped off the scoring in the 79th minute.
The United will look for their first win of the season on Tuesday when they play at home against NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy at 5 p.m. while the Zephyrs will face Door County's other soccer team, Sturgeon Bay, at home at 6 p.m.
In other soccer action on Tuesday, Luxemburg-Casco hosts Denmark for a 6:30 p.m. kickoff.
After Sunday and Monday rains postponed and canceled games to start the week, area baseball teams hope they will be able to battle on the diamond on Tuesday.
Baseball action today will see Luxemburg-Casco play a twinbill at home against Waupaca (4 p.m.), Gibraltar host Sheboygan Area Lutheran (4:30 p.m.), Sevastopol travel to Manitowoc Lutheran (4:30 p.m.), and Sturgeon Bay welcome Oconto (4:30 p.m.).
The rotation of conference foes continues for the area's track teams when they meet on Tuesday.
In the Packerland Conference, Algoma hosts Gibraltar, Oconto, NEW Lutheran, and Southern Door, while Kewaunee, Sevastopol, and Sturgeon Bay visit Peshtigo.
NEC action will see Luxemburg-Casco heading to Freedom to face the host school, Marinette, Oconto Falls, and Wrightstown.
All three meets begin with the first event at 4 p.m.
The Luxemburg-Casco golf team returns to the course on Tuesday for more Northeastern Conference action.
At last week's meet at Hilly Haven Golf Course in De Pere, they finished on top of the leaderboard with the low score of 342. Senior Josh Parins paced the Spartans with his performance, shooting the team's lowest score of the meet at 76 strokes.
Clintonville, Denmark, Fox Valley Lutheran, Freedom, Little Chute, Marinette, Oconto Falls, Waupaca, and Wrightstown at Riverside Golf Course in Clintonville. The tee time is set for 10 a.m.
Games are scheduled for Monday, but whether Mother Nature will allow them to occur may be a different conversation.
Rain Sunday afternoon into Monday morning will likely force school officials to use drying agents to allow baseball and softball diamonds to be playable. If they are successful, here's the schedule:
BASEBALL
Luxemburg-Casco at Waupaca 4:30 p.m.
Algoma vs. Peshtigo 4:30 p.m.
Kewaunee at Valders 4:30 p.m.
Sevastopol vs. Laona/Wabeno 4:30 p.m.
Southern Door at Reedsville 4:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL
Luxemburg-Casco at Waupaca 4:30 p.m.
Southern Door vs. Kewaunee 5:00 p.m.
Sturgeon Bay at Green Bay West (at Colburn Park) 4:30 p.m.
Algoma vs. Peshtigo 4:30 p.m.
The Door County United girls soccer team will take to the pitch on Monday to battle St. Mary Catholic.
The United has opened its season 0-2-0, last falling to New Holstein 5-0. In that match, Zarahya Villalobos scored a hat trick, while two other Huskies players tallied goals. The team has been outscored 7-0 in its two matches, including a 2-0 loss to local rival Sturgeon Bay.
The Zephyrs are battling similar demons in their season, opening the campaign with a 0-3-1 mark. They have been outscored 13-2 in their four matches, including an 8-2 loss to St. Mary's Springs.
Kickoff is set for 6 p.m.
The Packerland Conference golf teams will try to squeeze in a round this afternoon in Marinette when the teams congregate for their second meet of the season.
Gibraltar, Kewaunee, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, Oconto, Sevastopol, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay will meet at Little River Country Club for a 4 p.m.tee time.
The wait was worth it for the Sturgeon Bay golf team as they won the first Packerland Conference Golf Meet of the year earlier this month at Cherry Hills Golf Course in Sturgeon Bay. Tre Wienke, Luke Selle, and Owen Pichette of Sturgeon Bay came in fourth, fifth, and sixth place overall to secure the win by 17 strokes over second-place Oconto and 28 strokes over third-place Kewaunee. Oconto's Carter Kock won the meet with a score of 39.
The NFL Draft will have a very Wisconsin feel for those in attendance at Lambeau Field beginning on Tuesday.
The NFL announced some of its presenters during the three-day event. On Thursday night, Green Bay Packers Legends Mason Crosby, Ahman Green, James Jones, Clay Matthews and Jordy Nelson will be on-site to help Commissioner Roger Goodell to officially open the 2025 NFL Draft.
Among the NFL Legends scheduled to be on-site, four have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Jerry Kramer (Green Bay Packers, Class of 2018), Dave Robinson (Green Bay Packers, Class of 2013), and Wisconsin alum Joe Thomas (Cleveland Browns, Class of 2023).
Thirteen day-two announcers attended the University of Wisconsin, including the school’s all-time leader in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, Lee Evans (representing the Buffalo Bills), as well as four of the school’s top six all-time leading rushers – Taylor (Indianapolis Colts), Montee Ball (Denver Broncos), Melvin Gordon (Los Angeles Chargers) and James White (New England Patriots).
Seven of the presenters were born in the state of Wisconsin, including Travis Frederick (Sharon), Melvin Gordon (Kenosha), Alec Ingold (Green Bay), Tim Krumrie (Menomonie), Ryan Ramczyk (Stevens Point), Thomas (Brookfield) and Stu Voigt (Madison).
The first glimpse of this year's top NFL Draft will take place this Wednesday at the NFL Draft Experience in the Titletown District of Green Bay.
The NFL will host its annual Prospect Clinic on the Play Football Field within NFL Draft Experience in Green Bay, connecting local youth football players and Special Olympics athletes with NFL Draft prospects. During the clinic, USA Football coaches and Draft prospects will guide participants through a series of basic football skills and drills stations.
Since 2017, the NFL and Special Olympics have partnered together across the country to provide opportunities for athletes of all ages and abilities to ‘PLAY 60’. This partnership allows individuals with and without intellectual disabilities to play on the same team through Unified Flag Football.
The prospects participating are:
Tyler Booker, G, Alabama
Will Johnson, DB, Michigan
Jihaad Cambell, LB, Alabama
Tetairoa McMillan, WR, Arizona
Will Campbell, T, LSU
Jalen Milroe, QB, Alabama
Abdul Carter, DE, Penn State
Josh Simmons, T, Ohio State
Jaxson Dart, QB, Mississippi
Malaki Starks, DB, Georgia
Matthew Golden, WR, Texas
Shemar Stewart, DE, Texas A&M
Mason Graham, DT, Michigan
Cameron Ward, QB, Miami (Fla.)
Travis Hunter, DB/WR, Colorado
Mykel Williams, DE, Georgia
Saturday was a mixed bag for two Door County baseball teams that took advantage of a beautiful day to get games in.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers needed something Saturday afternoon to salvage the final game of a six-game series with the Lansing Lugnuts.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers fell just short in their comeback against the Lansing Lugnuts for the conclusion of Friday night’s suspended game. The Rattlers had a run in and the tying and winning runs on base in the bottom of the seventh on Saturday afternoon, but the red hot Lugnuts escaped for a 4-3 victory.
The action on Friday night started when Wisconsin (4-10) scored twice in the bottom of the second inning. Jheremy Vargas doubled, tagged on a fly to the corner in left to take third base, and scored on a wild pitch. Tayden Hall kept the inning going with a two-out walk and a steal of second. Then, Blake Burke ripped a single to right to score Hall for the 2-0 lead.
The rain started to come down harder in the top of the fourth inning with Rattlers starting pitcher Chandler Welch on the mound. He walked Nate Nankil on four straight pitches to open the inning for Lansing (9-5). Then, Darlyn Montero hit a two-run homer to the Rattlers bullpen to tie the game.
Jonny Butler followed with a high fly down the line in left that Vargas had trouble picking up in the conditions. The ball dropped just fair, and Butler made it all the way to third. He would score the go-ahead run on Casey Yamauchi’s sacrifice fly.
The Timber Rattlers went down in order in the bottom of the fourth. Wisconsin’s grounds crew did a lot of work between innings to try to keep the field playable and Welch went back out in the top of the fifth inning and got the first out. Then, the umpires called for the tarp to halt play until Saturday afternoon.
Bishop Letson came on in relief for Wisconsin to restart the game and got the final two outs in the fifth and worked a scoreless sixth. Lansing reliever Blaze Pontes also worked two scoreless innings to keep the score at 3-2 heading to the seventh inning.
Letson got the first out of top of the seventh. Then, Sahid Valenzuela singled to center and advanced to second on a bobble by Eduardo Garcia. Letson got the second out and worked the count to 2-2 against Tommy White. Then, White singled to score the insurance run for Lansing.
Mark Adamiak entered the game for the Lugnuts to pitch the bottom of the seventh and promptly walked Vargas and David Garcia. Matt Wood was called on to pinch-hit for the Rattlers and he drove a single to left to score Vargas. Adamiak bounced back to strikeout Hall for the first out. Then, Burke grounded into a 4-6-3 double play to end the game.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers needed something Saturday afternoon to salvage the final game of a six-game series with the Lansing Lugnuts. That something was 5-2/3 innings of shutout pitching from Tyson Hardin that propelled the Rattlers to a 2-0 victory. Hardin struck out seven to earn his second win of the season and to help the Rattlers end a five-game losing streak.
Hardin did need a little help from his defense to shutout the Lugnuts. Lansing (9-6) nearly took the lead in the top of the third. Tommy White doubled with two outs. Then, TJ Schofield-Sam singled to left. White tried to score, but Jheremy Vargas’s throw to the plate was in time to keep the game scoreless.
Blake Burke started the rally for the Rattlers in the bottom of the fourth with a double. Jadher Areinamo extended his hitting streak to ten games with a single to put runners on the corners. Eduardo Garcia drove in Burke with a sacrifice fly for the 1-0 lead.
Wisconsin (5-10) added to their lead in the bottom of the fifth. Hedbert Pérez doubled and advanced to third on a wild pickoff throw to second. Yhoswar Garcia delivered the run with a double to center for the 2-0 advantage.
Hardin was in control after the single by Schofield-Sam in the third inning. He retired eight batters in a row – five of them via the strikeout – until he walked Schofield-Sam with two out in the top of the sixth. Hardin set new professional single-game highs for innings pitched and strikeouts. The only walk he allowed was on his last hitter of the game after his only full count of the game.
Zach Peek was called in to close out the game for the Rattlers and he got the final four outs for his first save as a Rattler.
The Rattlers are 3-0 in Hardin’s three starts this season. He has not allowed a run while striking out sixteen over 14-2/3 innings.
The Timber Rattlers are off on Sunday and Monday. They return to action on Tuesday with the first game of a six-game series against the Cedar Rapids Kernels at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Game time is 6:35pm.
Members of the two-legged and four-legged variety have been added in recent weeks to the Green Bay Rockers roster.
To kickoff last week, the Rockers added four pitchers to the team with the signings RHP Maddox Long (Harding University), LHP Heitaro Hayashi (Wagner College), LHP Jayden Martin (Wallace-Hanceville CC), and LHP Simon Aluko (Shorter University).
On Friday, the Rockers added two more pitchers and an infielder, signing Columbia University's Tomas Lopez (RHP), Eric Jeon (IF), and Barry University product Aiden Ewe (RHP).
In between, the Rockers announced they would have three different bat dogs dotting the schedule to assist in their bat retrieval efforts. The organization announced that Cooper (Misfit Hills Pet Services) will share bat dog duties with Scout and Wally (Practical Obedience LLC) to cover 20 of the team’s 36 home games this summer.
The portal has been fruitful for the Green Bay Phoenix women's basketball team as they work to replace its seven seniors.
The program announced on Friday its signing of Maddy Skorupski after an All-Horizon League season at Oakland University. In Horizon League games, the 5'8" guard averaged 16.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 2.8 steals per game.
Head coach Kayla Karius expressed her joy to signing the high-scoring guard, telling GreenBayPhoenix.com that "we've known her as an opponent, we believe she's a great fit for the Green Bay culture and our program."
A light holiday weekend schedule continues on Saturday with games outside the Door Peninsula.
Sturgeon Bay is scheduled to play a doubleheader against Green Bay Preble at Joannes Park beginning at 11 a.m., while Southern Door is slated to play at Bonduel at 10 a.m.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers didn't quite make it through both of their games on Friday.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers tried but could not dig out of an 8-1 hole as they fell 8-4 to the Lansing Lugnuts Friday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field in the day game of the split doubleheader between the teams.
Lansing (8-5) sent six batters to the plate and scored twice in the top of the first inning against Brandon Woodruff. Rodney Green Jr started the game with a double and Tommy White walked. Nate Nankil singled with one out to drive in Green with the first run of the game.
A walk by Woodruff loaded the bases for TJ Schofield-Sam, who hit a line drive at shortstop Eduardo Garcia. Garcia dropped the liner and got a force play at second. However, Nankil, the runner at second, stayed in a rundown between second and third long enough for White to score before the final out was recorded.
The Lugnuts added to their lead in the third inning. White doubled to start the inning. He would score on a sacrifice fly by Schofield-Sam.
Woodruff would work four innings in the game. He walked three, struck out three, and allowed three runs on six hits over 68 pitches with 44 strikes.
The Timber Rattlers (4-9) got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth. Eduardo Garcia doubled to start the inning, moved to third on a single by Blake Burke, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Juan Baez.
That was it for the Rattlers against Lansing starting pitcher Gage Jump, who allowed three hits, walked two, and struck out six over 5-1/3 innings.
Jump was able to leave the game with a bigger lead as his hitters scored a run on a two-out single by Jarred Dickey in the top of the fifth, and two more runs in the sixth on an RBI single by White and an RBI double by Cole Conn.
In the top of the seventh, Lansing tacked on two more two-out runs with a two-out double by Sahid Valenzuela to make the score 8-1.
Wisconsin rallied in their last at bat of the seven-inning game thanks to a pair of walks and an RBI single by Yhoswar Garcia scored a run and drove reliever Tom Reisinger from the game.
Jadher Areinamo greeted reliever Jake Christianson to the game with a double to left to score another run for the Rattlers. Eduardo Garcia knocked in the final run of the inning with a grounder to short and that was as close as the Rattlers would get.
Areinamo’s double in his last at bat moved his hitting streak to eight games. Yhoswar Garcia had two hits for the only multi-hit game by a Rattler.
Lansing clinched the series win in the six-game set with their victory in the day game of the split doubleheader. It was also their fifth win in a row.
The nightcap of Friday’s split doubleheader between the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and Lansing Lugnuts was suspended with one out in the top of the fifth inning at Neuroscience Group Field. Lansing scored three runs in the top of the fourth inning to erase a 2-0 Wisconsin advantage.
Friday’s game will restart Saturday afternoon at 1:10pm. The regularly scheduled game on Saturday will be a seven-inning contest and start approximately thirty minutes after the conclusion of the suspended game.
Wisconsin (4-9) scored twice in the bottom of the second inning. Jheremy Vargas doubled, tagged on a fly to the corner in left to take third base, and scored on a wild pitch. Tayden Hall kept the inning going with a two-out walk and a steal of second. Then, Blake Burke ripped a single to right to score Hall for the 2-0 lead.
The rain started to come down harder in the top of the fourth inning with Rattlers starting pitcher Chandler Welch on the mound. He walked Nate Nankil on four straight pitches to open the inning for Lansing (8-5). Then, Darlyn Montero hit a two-run homer to the Rattlers bullpen to tie the game.
Jonny Butler followed with a high fly down the line in left that Vargas had trouble picking up in the conditions. The ball dropped just fair, and Butler made it all the way to third. He would score the go-ahead run on Casey Yamauchi’s sacrifice fly.
The Timber Rattlers went down in order in the bottom of the fourth. Wisconsin’s grounds crew did a lot of work between innings to try to keep the field playable and Welch went back out in the top of the fifth inning and got the first out. Then, the umpires called for the tarp,
There was a delay of over 45 minutes, during which the rain stopped, and the tarp was taken off the field to allow the grounds crew to get back to work on the field. Then, confusion set in at the ballpark. The game was announced as an official game despite not getting through five innings with the home team trailing.
Shortly after this announcement was made, the word came down that the game would be suspended and would be continued on Saturday. This prevented Lansing – for now – from their sixth consecutive win.
The series finale is Saturday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field after the conclusion of the suspended game. Bishop Letson (0-0, 2.16) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattler. Lansing has named Grant Judkins (0-0, 5.63) as their starter.
The odds were in the Algoma softball team's favor on Friday as they put up crooked numbers in the first, third, and fifth innings to beat Coleman 12-0 in five innings.
With two players on and one out, a Nora Krause single, a Natalie Ray double, and a passed ball gave the Wolves an early 4-0 lead. They would nearly double that lead two innings later when Ray hit a two-run homer and Jaydn Nellis followed it up a few batters later with a two-out triple to make it 7-0. The Wolves put the game on ice in the fifth inning thanks to a two-RBI double from Madison Schneider, RBI singles from Brooke Mattson and Sierra Slaby, and a RBI ground out from Macie Zimmerman to make it a 12-0 lead.
Ray ended her day 3-4 with four RBI while Schneider also had a two-RBI day. Five Wolves players recorded multi-hit games. Zimmerman didn't need much for run support, facing only five more than the minimum over five innings, allowing no runs on two hits while striking out eight.
One more game is on the schedule before the Easter Bunny comes after several games were held on Thursday.
The Algoma softball team made quick work of the Crivitz Wolverines on Thursday, beating their visitors 13-0 in five innings. Algoma returns to action Friday morning with an 11 a.m. first pitch at Coleman.
Other scores included Sevastopol slugging past Reedsville 11-1, Kewaunee blowing out Sturgeon Bay 19-0, Gibraltar falling to Hilbert 6-4, Southern Door beating Weyawega-Fremont 12-3.
Two teams will try to squeeze in games on Friday afternoon before Easter, after several games took place on Thursday.
Luxemburg-Casco and Southern Door will try for the second time this season to play each other at 4:30 p.m. in Brussels.
In yesterday's action, Algoma throttled Crivitz 10-0, Gibraltar toppled Hilbert 10-1, Sevastopol lost to Reedsville 8-2, and Luxemburg-Casco won their game 8-2 over Wrightstown.
Two of the area's local soccer could not record victories on Thursday night.
It wasn't for a relay, but Mason Trimburger posted the best afternoon for the Luxemburg-Casco track team at the Green Bay Preble Relays meet on Thursday.
Trimburger set a personal record in the 300m hurdles to win the event that featured athletes across all three division. He also took third in the 110m hurdles. Bryce Dhuey also posted a top-5 performance in the discus. For the girls, McKenna Rank (high jump) and the SMR 1600m relay both finished in the top five. Both teams finished in sixth place overall.
Mens Results
1600 Meters Varsity - Finals
11.12Kyan Lynts4:47.82aSRLuxemburg-Casco
18.9Ezra Treml4:58.21aLuxemburg-Casco
23.9Zach Tassoul5:09.57aPRLuxemburg-Casco
24.11Derek Christoph5:10.37aLuxemburg-Casco
110m Hurdles - 39" Varsity - Finals
3.11Mason Trimburger16.64aLuxemburg-Casco
9.11Kory Jansen18.15aLuxemburg-Casco
18.12Matthew Brand18.97aLuxemburg-Casco
30.9Ethan Ropson21.00aLuxemburg-Casco
300m Hurdles - 36" Varsity - Finals
1.11Mason Trimburger41.67aPRLuxemburg-Casco
15.12Matthew Brand45.34aPRLuxemburg-Casco
22.11Kory Jansen48.57aLuxemburg-Casco
4x100 Relay Varsity - Finals
7.10
Aaron Demeny
10
Brenden Deering
11
Mason Burmeister
12
Andrew Klass
47.55a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x200 Relay Varsity - Finals
9.11
Mason Burmeister
12
Andrew Klass
10
Aaron Demeny
10
Brenden Deering
1:40.94a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x400 Relay Varsity - Finals
6.11
Brady Kinnard
11
Cameron Dorner
10
Brenden Deering
11
Mason Trimburger
3:54.58a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x800 Relay Varsity - Finals
8.11
Johnathan Salentine
12
Kyan Lynts
11
Derek Christoph
9
Ezra Treml
9:27.06a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
SMR 1600m - [200-200-400-800] Varsity - Finals
7.11
Brady Kinnard
12
Andrew Klass
11
Cameron Dorner
12
Kyan Lynts
3:59.38a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
DMR 4000m - [800-400-1200-1600] Varsity - Finals
9.11
Lawdon Tanck
9
Zach Tassoul
10
Marshall Engelking
11
Johnathan Salentine
13:29.02a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
Shot Put - 12lb Varsity - Finals
24.12Matthew Koss34' 8"Luxemburg-Casco
27.12Bryce Dhuey33' 9"Luxemburg-Casco
34.11Quentin Massart30' 8"Luxemburg-Casco
36.10Jacob Walton29' 10"Luxemburg-Casco
Discus - 1.6kg Varsity - Finals
4.12Bryce Dhuey119' 2"Luxemburg-Casco
15.10Jacob Walton105' 1"Luxemburg-Casco
22.12Matthew Koss99' 3"Luxemburg-Casco
28.10Cullen Birchmeier90' 9"PRLuxemburg-Casco
High Jump Varsity - Finals
15.10Lane Ledvina5' 4"Luxemburg-Casco
22.10Brenden Deering5' 2"PRLuxemburg-Casco
24.10Julian Bailey5' 0"Luxemburg-Casco
24.11Cameron Dorner5' 0"Luxemburg-Casco
Pole Vault Varsity - Finals
14.11Kory Jansen8' 6"Luxemburg-Casco
20.11Lawdon Tanck6' 0"Luxemburg-Casco
11Johnathan SalentineNHLuxemburg-Casco
Long Jump Varsity - Finals
11.11Brady Kinnard18' 7"PRLuxemburg-Casco
23.11Cameron Dorner16' 6.75"Luxemburg-Casco
28.9Dylan Rank15' 7.5"Luxemburg-Casco
30.9Grant Seering14' 11"Luxemburg-Casco
Triple Jump Varsity - Finals
9.11Mason Trimburger38' 5.5"Luxemburg-Casco
15.10Julian Bailey36' 10.75"PRLuxemburg-Casco
20.12Andrew Klass36' 0"Luxemburg-Casco
23.10Lane Ledvina35' 5.5"Luxemburg-Casco
Womens Results
1600 Meters Varsity - Finals
23.9Gretta Annoye6:43.31aLuxemburg-Casco
26.10Jakayla Steinhorst7:04.26aPRLuxemburg-Casco
27.9Aubrey Steffen7:53.52aPRLuxemburg-Casco
28.9Macie DeJardin8:11.07aLuxemburg-Casco
100m Hurdles - 33" Varsity - Finals
16.10Maria Morozov19.48aLuxemburg-Casco
19.10Ellison Bosman20.33aLuxemburg-Casco
22.9Aubree Wypiszenski21.24aLuxemburg-Casco
25.9Kiana Van Ess21.94aPRLuxemburg-Casco
300m Hurdles - 30" Varsity - Finals
8.10Maria Morozov53.95aLuxemburg-Casco
11.10Ellison Bosman55.18aLuxemburg-Casco
14.9Aubree Wypiszenski56.63aPRLuxemburg-Casco
4x100 Relay Varsity - Finals
9.9
Kiana Van Ess
11
Ella Marach
10
Cecelia Peot
10
Lauren Van Ess
58.38a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x200 Relay Varsity - Finals
6.10
Sienna Blohowiak
10
Rachel Gregorich
10
Maria Morozov
12
McKenna Rank
1:54.18a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x400 Relay Varsity - Finals
7.12
McKenna Rank
10
Sienna Blohowiak
12
Madyson VanArk
10
Ellison Bosman
4:30.67a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x800 Relay Varsity - Finals
8.11
Emily Tassoul
11
Alexa Ramel
9
Gretta Annoye
10
Claire DuChateau
11:27.59a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
SMR 1600m - [200-200-400-800] Varsity - Finals
5.11
Alexa Ramel
12
McKenna Rank
10
Sienna Blohowiak
10
Claire DuChateau
4:41.18a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
DMR 4000m - [800-400-1200-1600] Varsity - Finals
7.11
Emily Tassoul
11
Alexa Ramel
9
Gretta Annoye
10
Claire DuChateau
14:36.09a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
Shot Put - 4kg Varsity - Finals
16.9Andrea Stimers28' 3"PRLuxemburg-Casco
27.9Jaidyn Petermann23' 3"Luxemburg-Casco
31.11Morgan Rank21' 8"PRLuxemburg-Casco
32.10Sienna Blohowiak21' 4.5"PRLuxemburg-Casco
Discus - 1kg Varsity - Finals
13.9Jaidyn Petermann81' 4"PRLuxemburg-Casco
21.9Andrea Stimers67' 0.5"Luxemburg-Casco
22.11Emily Tassoul66' 11"SRLuxemburg-Casco
33.11Morgan Rank44' 10"PRLuxemburg-Casco
High Jump Varsity - Finals
5.12McKenna Rank4' 8"Luxemburg-Casco
8.12Madyson VanArk4' 6"Luxemburg-Casco
19.11Emily Tassoul4' 2"Luxemburg-Casco
26.10Lauren Van Ess3' 10"Luxemburg-Casco
Pole Vault Varsity - Finals
14.11Ella Marach7' 6"SRLuxemburg-Casco
18.11Alexa Ramel7' 0"PRLuxemburg-Casco
18.10Rachel Gregorich7' 0"Luxemburg-Casco
Long Jump Varsity - Finals
20.12Madyson VanArk13' 7"Luxemburg-Casco
22.11Morgan Rank13' 3"Luxemburg-Casco
24.10Josie Monfils13' 1.5"PRLuxemburg-Casco
25.10Rachel Gregorich13' 1"Luxemburg-Casco
Triple Jump Varsity - Finals
18.10Rachel Gregorich29' 7.25"PRLuxemburg-Casco
21.9Aubree Wypiszenski27' 2.75"PRLuxemburg-Casco
22.9Kaylee Patza25' 2.25"PRLuxemburg-Casco
10Ellison BosmanNDLuxemburg-Casco
Third Base Ventures, led by Craig Dickman, Rob Zerjav and Brad Raaths, announced today that it has agreed to sell the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers to Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH), an organization that owns and operates select Minor League Baseball (MiLB) clubs affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB). The Timber Rattlers will remain in the Fox Cities as the High-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. The existing front office staff will continue to operate the club under the leadership of Zerjav, who is the team’s President and CEO. As part of the transaction, DBH is also purchasing Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium, the team’s home ballpark since it opened in 1995.
“It has always been our goal to ensure baseball remains a part of the fabric of Northeastern Wisconsin and we are excited to be joining DBH, who shares our passion for baseball and community,” said Zerjav, who is in his 23rd season leading the club. “Their commitment to preserving what makes the Timber Rattlers special, while helping us grow into the future, made this the right move for the organization and the Fox Cities.
The Timber Rattlers have been a Brewers affiliate since 2009 and have played in the Midwest League since 1962. The team went 77-54 last season and clinched the league’s First-Half Western Division title before advancing to the Midwest League Championship Series.
Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium is a fan-favorite destination in Appleton. The venue was named Ballpark Digest’s 2023 Ballpark of the Year after an imaginative renovation project greatly enhanced the stadium experience and drew rave reviews from both fans and players. Last season, the Timber Rattlers marked their fourth consecutive year of rising attendance. Additionally, with strong branding and creative alternate identities, the Timber Rattlers consistently rank among the top performers in merchandise sales across High-A.
“On behalf of the Brewers, we’d like to extend our sincere thanks to Craig, Rob and Brad, whose dedication to the Timber Rattlers and Fox Cities community has been invaluable,” said Brewers Senior Vice President and General Manager Matt Arnold. “We are thrilled to start a new partnership with DBH, who has an impressive track record for elevating the player and fan experience at the ballpark. The Timber Rattlers have long been a vital part of our player-development system, and we look forward to seeing our future stars continue to grow in such a first-class environment.”
Through its roster of affiliated clubs across the country, DBH is on a mission to make lifelong memories for its fans. The organization works to support local passions and priorities with national reach and scale, integrating cutting-edge digital technologies into club operations as well as providing new value-generating opportunities in partnership with MiLB.
"As their rising attendance suggests, the Timber Rattlers are a cornerstone of the Fox Cities community and we’re honored to welcome them to our roster,” said Pat Battle and Peter Freund, Executive Chairman and CEO of DBH, respectively. “This is a club with a storied history, strong community roots and a bright future in Appleton under Rob Zerjav’s continued leadership. We’re excited to support him and the team as we kick off our new partnership with the Brewers.”
Subject to obtaining the consent of the league and satisfying other standard closing conditions, the transaction is expected to be completed promptly.
With rain in the forecast Thursday evening and all day on Friday, the area's baseball and softball teams are looking forward to trips to the diamond.
Baseball games include Luxemburg-Casco hosting Wrightstown (4:30 p.m.), Gibraltar welcoming Hilbert (4 p.m.), Kewaunee traveling to Random Lake (5 p.m.), and Sevastopol playing at home against Reedsville ( 5 p.m.).
Softball games include Southern Door hosting Weyauwega-Fremont (5 p.m.), Sevastopol welcoming Reedsville (5 p.m.), Kewaunee traveling to Sturgeon Bay (4:30 p.m.), Algoma playing at home against Crivitz (4:30 p.m.), and Gibraltar battling Hilber (4 p.m.).
The Luxemburg-Casco track team hits the track again on Thursday for a more unique format at Green Bay Preble High School on the city's east side.
The Spartans will compete against Appleton East, Appleton North, Bay Port, Campbellsport, Green Bay Preble, Kohler, Ripon, Sheboygan North, and West De Pere in the relays meet. The first events begin at 4 p.m.
The teams are coming off a third-place finish for the girls and a second-place finish for the boys in their first NEC meet of the season on Tuesday. For the boys, Kyan Lynts (3200m), Mason Trimburger (300m hurdles), and the 4x800m relay won their respective events. The girls saw Claire DuChateau also win the 3200m along with several other top three performances.
Mens Results
100 Meters Varsity - Finals
4.11Cameron Dorner11.85aPRLuxemburg-Casco
14.11Mason Burmeister12.34aPRLuxemburg-Casco
19.10Aaron Demeny12.73aSRLuxemburg-Casco
21.9Grant Seering12.89aPRLuxemburg-Casco
28.9Taylor Dart13.32aPRLuxemburg-Casco
29.10Grant Schmoll13.34aPRLuxemburg-Casco
30.11Carlos Alvarez13.40aPRLuxemburg-Casco
200 Meters Varsity - Finals
5.12Andrew Klass24.54aLuxemburg-Casco
12.10Aaron Demeny26.46aLuxemburg-Casco
17.10Julian Bailey26.88aPRLuxemburg-Casco
21.9Grant Seering27.25aPRLuxemburg-Casco
23.9Logan Ellwanger27.43aPRLuxemburg-Casco
24.9Taylor Dart27.46aLuxemburg-Casco
26.9Aiden Dachelet27.72aLuxemburg-Casco
27.10Grant Schmoll28.41aPRLuxemburg-Casco
31.11Carlos Alvarez29.71aLuxemburg-Casco
33.9Johnny Debroux32.39aLuxemburg-Casco
10Lane LedvinaSCRLuxemburg-Casco
11Brady KinnardSCRLuxemburg-Casco
400 Meters Varsity - Finals
9.9Levi Kinnard59.76aLuxemburg-Casco
11.9Dylan Rank1:00.89aPRLuxemburg-Casco
13.11Lawdon Tanck1:02.20aLuxemburg-Casco
11Brady KinnardSCRLuxemburg-Casco
800 Meters Varsity - Finals
6.9Ezra Treml2:19.29aLuxemburg-Casco
10.9Zach Tassoul2:27.22aPRLuxemburg-Casco
17.10Wyatt Bailey2:36.40aLuxemburg-Casco
20.10Marshall Engelking2:46.28aLuxemburg-Casco
1600 Meters Varsity - Finals
2.9Zach Tassoul5:18.07aPRLuxemburg-Casco
13.10Marshall Engelking6:19.25aLuxemburg-Casco
18.9Johnny Debroux7:12.61aLuxemburg-Casco
9Ezra TremlSCRLuxemburg-Casco
11Johnathan SalentineSCRLuxemburg-Casco
3200 Meters Varsity - Finals
1.12Kyan Lynts10:55.53aSRLuxemburg-Casco
2.11Derek Christoph11:06.28aLuxemburg-Casco
110m Hurdles - 39" Varsity - Finals
2.11Mason Trimburger16.02aPRLuxemburg-Casco
5.11Kory Jansen17.99aPRLuxemburg-Casco
6.12Matthew Brand18.41aPRLuxemburg-Casco
8.9Ethan Ropson19.95aPRLuxemburg-Casco
10.9Drake Wolf21.00aPRLuxemburg-Casco
300m Hurdles - 36" Varsity - Finals
1.11Mason Trimburger43.15aLuxemburg-Casco
3.12Matthew Brand46.41aLuxemburg-Casco
5.11Kory Jansen46.82aPRLuxemburg-Casco
7.9Ethan Ropson50.01aPRLuxemburg-Casco
10.9Drake Wolf50.76aLuxemburg-Casco
4x100 Relay Varsity - Finals
3.10
Aaron Demeny
9
Grant Seering
9
Aiden Dachelet
9
Logan Ellwanger
51.04a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
6.12
Matthew Koss
12
Bryce Dhuey
11
Carlos Alvarez
10
Jacob Walton
58.44a
Luxemburg-Casco - B
4x200 Relay Varsity - Finals
2.10
Lane Ledvina
12
Andrew Klass
11
Mason Burmeister
11
Cameron Dorner
1:39.42a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x400 Relay Varsity - Finals
3.9
Levi Kinnard
9
Dylan Rank
9
Aiden Dachelet
9
Drake Wolf
4:04.79a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x800 Relay Varsity - Finals
1.12
Kyan Lynts
11
Derek Christoph
9
Ezra Treml
10
Wyatt Bailey
9:32.63a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
Shot Put - 12lb Varsity - Finals
14.11Quentin Massart34-04.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
15.12Matthew Koss34-02.00Luxemburg-Casco
17.12Bryce Dhuey32-10.00Luxemburg-Casco
22.10Cullen Birchmeier31-03.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
24.10Jacob Walton30-08.50Luxemburg-Casco
9Charlie BoucheSCRLuxemburg-Casco
Discus - 1.6kg Varsity - Finals
4.10Jacob Walton123-05PRLuxemburg-Casco
5.12Bryce Dhuey121-03PRLuxemburg-Casco
7.12Matthew Koss120-03SRLuxemburg-Casco
23.10Cullen Birchmeier90-06PRLuxemburg-Casco
36.11Quentin Massart68-11PRLuxemburg-Casco
9Charlie BoucheSCRLuxemburg-Casco
High Jump Varsity - Finals
5.10Lane Ledvina5-02.00Luxemburg-Casco
5.10Wyatt Bailey5-02.00Luxemburg-Casco
7.10Julian Bailey5-00.00Luxemburg-Casco
8.11Cameron Dorner5-00.00SRLuxemburg-Casco
Long Jump Varsity - Finals
10.11Cameron Dorner16-11.00Luxemburg-Casco
12.9Dylan Rank16-09.50PRLuxemburg-Casco
14.9Grant Seering15-11.50PRLuxemburg-Casco
19.9Logan Ellwanger14-08.50PRLuxemburg-Casco
20.11Carlos Alvarez14-06.25PRLuxemburg-Casco
23.10Grant Schmoll11-03.50Luxemburg-Casco
9Aiden DacheletSCRLuxemburg-Casco
11Brady KinnardSCRLuxemburg-Casco
Triple Jump Varsity - Finals
3.11Mason Trimburger38-08.00Luxemburg-Casco
4.12Andrew Klass38-01.00SRLuxemburg-Casco
6.10Julian Bailey35-06.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
7.10Lane Ledvina34-11.00Luxemburg-Casco
9.9Dylan Rank34-03.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
Womens Results
100 Meters Varsity - Finals
3.10Sienna Blohowiak13.17aSRLuxemburg-Casco
21.9Kiana Van Ess14.70aPRLuxemburg-Casco
27.9Elise Gerl15.37aPRLuxemburg-Casco
30.9Emma Zastrow15.59aPRLuxemburg-Casco
36.9Elena Dechamps15.99aPRLuxemburg-Casco
38.10Ella Oshefsky16.21aSRLuxemburg-Casco
40.12Claire DePeau16.40aSRLuxemburg-Casco
42.10Taitum Vlies16.52aPRLuxemburg-Casco
45.9Julianna Derocher16.80aPRLuxemburg-Casco
48.10Aleksandra Reuber17.15aPRLuxemburg-Casco
200 Meters Varsity - Finals
2.10Sienna Blohowiak27.82aSRLuxemburg-Casco
7.12McKenna Rank28.58aSRLuxemburg-Casco
15.10Josie Monfils31.03aPRLuxemburg-Casco
24.9Emma Zastrow33.01aPRLuxemburg-Casco
26.9Elise Gerl33.37aLuxemburg-Casco
29.10Ella Oshefsky33.71aPRLuxemburg-Casco
34.9Elena Dechamps35.01aPRLuxemburg-Casco
43.10Aleksandra Reuber38.96aPRLuxemburg-Casco
9Julianna DerocherSCRLuxemburg-Casco
12Claire DePeauSCRLuxemburg-Casco
400 Meters Varsity - Finals
3.12McKenna Rank1:06.37aLuxemburg-Casco
7.11Alexa Ramel1:09.49aLuxemburg-Casco
9.11Morgan Rank1:13.11aLuxemburg-Casco
16.9Aubrey Steffen1:20.69aLuxemburg-Casco
800 Meters Varsity - Finals
4.11Alexa Ramel2:51.55aLuxemburg-Casco
7.9Gretta Annoye3:06.42aPRLuxemburg-Casco
8.10Jakayla Steinhorst3:08.02aLuxemburg-Casco
9.9Katelyn Piesler3:12.26aPRLuxemburg-Casco
12.9Aubrey Steffen3:30.83aPRLuxemburg-Casco
14.9Macie DeJardin3:52.15aLuxemburg-Casco
11Emily TassoulSCRLuxemburg-Casco
1600 Meters Varsity - Finals
5.9Gretta Annoye6:45.52aLuxemburg-Casco
9.9Macie DeJardin8:15.89aLuxemburg-Casco
3200 Meters Varsity - Finals
1.10Claire DuChateau12:06.68aSRLuxemburg-Casco
100m Hurdles - 33" Varsity - Finals
2.10Maria Morozov19.02aSRLuxemburg-Casco
3.9Aubree Wypiszenski19.42aPRLuxemburg-Casco
4.10Ellison Bosman20.29aSRLuxemburg-Casco
300m Hurdles - 30" Varsity - Finals
3.10Ellison Bosman55.80aLuxemburg-Casco
4.10Maria Morozov56.48aLuxemburg-Casco
6.9Aubree Wypiszenski59.19aLuxemburg-Casco
9.10Taitum Vlies1:10.47aLuxemburg-Casco
4x100 Relay Varsity - Finals
4.10
Lauren Van Ess
10
Josie Monfils
10
Cecelia Peot
9
Kaylee Patza
59.80a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
5.9
Kiana Van Ess
9
Elise Gerl
9
Emma Zastrow
9
Elena Dechamps
1:01.51a
Luxemburg-Casco - B
8.12
Claire DePeau
9
Julianna Derocher
10
Ella Oshefsky
10
Aleksandra Reuber
1:07.13a
Luxemburg-Casco - C
4x200 Relay Varsity - Finals
2.9
Kiana Van Ess
10
Lauren Van Ess
10
Cecelia Peot
9
Kaylee Patza
2:08.71a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
4x400 Relay Varsity - Finals
3.11
Morgan Rank
10
Rachel Gregorich
10
Ellison Bosman
10
Maria Morozov
4:42.98a
Luxemburg-Casco - A
Shot Put - 4kg Varsity - Finals
4.9Andrea Stimers27-07.50PRLuxemburg-Casco
11.9Jaidyn Petermann24-05.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
17.11Hayleigh Ramirez20-05.00SRLuxemburg-Casco
20.11Morgan Rank17-10.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
Discus - 1kg Varsity - Finals
3.9Jaidyn Petermann80-06PRLuxemburg-Casco
4.9Andrea Stimers73-08PRLuxemburg-Casco
10.11Emily Tassoul64-11SRLuxemburg-Casco
15.11Hayleigh Ramirez39-08Luxemburg-Casco
High Jump Varsity - Finals
3.12McKenna Rank4-04.00Luxemburg-Casco
3.12Madyson VanArk4-04.00Luxemburg-Casco
8.11Emily Tassoul4-04.00Luxemburg-Casco
Long Jump Varsity - Finals
3.12Madyson VanArk14-06.50SRLuxemburg-Casco
7.11Morgan Rank13-09.25PRLuxemburg-Casco
9.10Rachel Gregorich12-08.25Luxemburg-Casco
11.10Lauren Van Ess12-00.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
12.10Josie Monfils11-08.00Luxemburg-Casco
12.10Cecelia Peot11-08.00Luxemburg-Casco
Triple Jump Varsity - Finals
7.9Aubree Wypiszenski26-08.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
10.9Kaylee Patza24-06.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
12.9Elise Gerl24-02.00PRLuxemburg-Casco
All three soccer teams are back in action on Thursday after Sturgeon Bay and Luxemburg-Casco posted wins on Tuesday.
The Clippers will keep things in the conference but head to a neutral site when they play NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy at Capital Credit Union Park at 4 p.m. Luxemburg-Casco will return to conference action when they visit Freedom at 4:30 p.m.
Door County United hits the road for a non-conference game at New Holstein with a 6 p.m. kickoff.
Manuel Rodriguez pitched six scoreless innings and turned a 1-0 lead over to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers bullpen on Wednesday afternoon against the Lansing Lugnuts at Neuroscience Group Field. However, Rodriguez could only watch as the Lugnuts scored three times in the top of the eighth inning and go on to a 3-1 victory.
Wisconsin (4-7) started quickly as Tayden Hall and Blake Burked walked in the bottom of the first. Jadher Areinamo, the number three batter in the order, singled to drive in Hall for the 1-0 lead.
Rodriguez looked like he would make that advantage hold for the rest of the afternoon. He allowed three hits, walked one, and struck out four over six scoreless innings.
Lansing starter Yunior Tur matched Rodriguez after the first inning. He walked four and struck out eight to keep the score at 1-0 before he left with two outs in the fifth inning.
The Lugnuts (6-5) threatened in the seventh inning against reliever Zach Peek, who gave up a double and single to the first two batters he faced. Peek escaped the frame with a popup and a double play. He was not as fortunate in the top of the eighth.
Rodney Green Jr walked on a 3-2 pitch with one out. Tommy White followed with a single, his third hit of the game. Then, Peek hit Cole Conn on a 2-2 pitch to load the bases.
Yerlin Rodriguez took over for Peek to try to maintain the lead. He got Nate Nankil to a full count, and Nankil hit a slow roller up the third baseline for an infield single to drive in Green with the tying run. T.J. Schofield-Sam was hit by a 3-1 pitch from Rodriguez to force in the go-ahead run. Jared Dickey added an RBI single on an 0-2 pitch to plate the final run of the frame for the Lugnuts.
Wisconsin tried to rally late. Areinamo doubled with two outs in the eighth but was left stranded. In the ninth, Hedbert Pérez singled with one out. He was still at first with two outs when Jheremy Vargas lifted a hooking fly ball to the left field corner for what looked like extra bases. It was not to be. Nankil made a spectacular diving catch on the warning track in fair territory and all Vargas could do was stand between first and second looking on in disbelief.
Areinamo extended his current hitting streak to six games with his two hits on Wednesday afternoon.
Game three of the series is scheduled for Thursday evening. Anthony Flores (0-1, 4.50) has been named as the starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Lansing plans to send Kyle Robinson (1-1, 1.29) to the mound. Game time is 6:40pm.
The Green Bay Gamblers' season ended in the state's capital city on Tuesday, falling 5-3 to the Madison Capitols.
The Gamblers found themselves in a 3-0 hole after the first period and they were behind 4-0 before Will Zellers found the back in the net in the closing minutes of the second half. Anthony Cardilli and Egor Shilov scored goals for the Gamblers to get the game to within one with less than seven minutes in the game. The Capitols would put the game and the season away with an empty net goal by Gavin Uhlenkamp. The Gamblers were flustered by goaltender Caleb Heil, who stopped 31 of the 34 shots he faced.
Two of the area's three teams posted wins on Tuesday night, one of which came against a county rival.
There was plenty of action to enjoy on baseball and softball diamonds across northeast Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Other results can be found at NEWRadioSportsNetwork.com.
Two teams laid strong claims to the Packerland Conference after the first two sub-meets took place at Kewaunee and Gibraltar on Tuesday.
Both Southern Door and Peshtigo won their respective meets convincingly. In Kewaunee, the host Storm took second place behind the Eagles in both the boys' and girls' competitions, while things were a little more mixed up behind the Bulldogs in Fish Creek. You can click the red text for the complete results
Mens Varsity
1.Peshtigo137
2.Sevastopol39
3.Oconto36
4.Gibraltar19
Womens Varsity
1.Peshtigo72.5
2.Gibraltar47
3.Sevastopol43.5
4.Oconto32
Womens Varsity
1.Southern Door147.5
2.Kewaunee130
3.Sturgeon Bay36.5
4.Green Bay NEW Lutheran32
5.Algoma11
Mens Varsity
1.Southern Door185
2.Kewaunee67
3.Algoma52
4.Sturgeon Bay35
5.Green Bay NEW Lutheran24
The Lansing Lugnuts scored four times with two outs in the top of the first inning to build an early 4-0 lead against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Tuesday night at Neuroscience Group Field. Wisconsin got close with two runs, but the Lugnuts added a couple of insurance runs in the seventh for an eventual 6-2 victory in the first game of the series between the teams.
Wisconsin starting pitcher Ryan Birchard had runners on first and second with two outs when he walked Jared Dickey on four pitches to load the bases. Then, a walk to Clark Elliott forced in the first run of the game and the Lugnuts (5-5) were in front.
Birchard got ahead of Casey Yamauchi with two quick strikeouts. However, Yamauchi drove in a pair of runs with a single up the middle. The final run of the inning crossed the plate when Birchard balked home a run from third for the four-run cushion.
The Lugnuts only put one runner on base against Birchard after the first inning. He walked CJ Rodriguez with two outs in the fourth before getting his fifth strikeout of the game to end the inning. Birchard walked three and struck out five in his four innings.
Wisconsin (4-6) got their first base runner, first hit and their first run in the space of three hitters in the bottom of the fourth after Lansing starter Jake Garland had worked three perfect innings. Tayden Hall started the fourth with a walk. Jadher Areinamo got Hall to third with a single. Then, Blake Burke drove in Hall with a sacrifice fly.
Hall and Areinamo combined to get the Rattlers to within two runs in the bottom of the sixth. Hall tripled to right-center on the first pitch from Garland. Areinamo drove in Hall with a sacrifice fly.
Lansing went back up by four runs in the top of the seventh. Rattlers reliever Dikember Sanchez loaded the bases with two walks and a single to the first three batters he faced. Sanchez almost got out of the inning with a force play at the plate and a strikeout. It was not to be. Nate Nankil was able to fight off a 2-2 pitch off the inside corner and the right-hander dropped a soft liner to left for a two-run single to cash in the opportunity for the Lugnuts.
Garland went back out for the seventh inning. He allowed a lead-off single to Juan Baez and retired the next two batters to end his night. Garland allowed two runs on three hits with six strikeouts over 6-2/3 innings. Blake Pontes closed out the game by keeping the Rattlers off the scoreboard over the final 2-1/3 innings.
Game two of the series is Wednesday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field. Manuel Rodriguez (0-1, 2.70) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Lansing has named Yunior Tur (0-0, 2.25) as their starter. Game time is 12:10pm.
The DCY SWIM team made a powerful splash at the 2025 YMCA National Championship meet in Greensboro, NC, marking our largest Nationals group since before the pandemic! With five incredible athletes representing DCY on the national stage — and six qualifiers overall — our team showed up stronger than ever.
Although one of our swimmers was sidelined due to injury just before the trip, Daylia Sund, Julia Michalski, Sue Mann, and Megan Quaderer competed in both individual and relay events, proudly qualifying for the 200 Free and Medley Relays. Both relays came thrillingly close to breaking team records, clocking in as the second-fastest relay times in DCY history!
Individual Highlights Include:
· Julia Michalski: 100 Backstroke, 100 Breaststroke
· Daylia Sund: 100 & 200 Breaststroke
· Sue Mann: 50 Freestyle
· Thomas Kratcha: 100 Breaststroke
· Megan Quaderer: Relay team powerhouse
Daylia Sund led the charge with a 28th-place finish in the 100 Breaststroke, just shy of the finals — a phenomenal national showing!
The team also took advantage of time trial opportunities, where we saw several personal bests:
· Megan Quaderer: 50 Free & 100 Breast
· Sue Mann: 100 Free
· Thomas Kratcha: 100 Free
We’re thrilled to announce two new team records set this season:
· Julia Michalski: 200 Free – 1:58.58
· Daylia Sund: 100 Breaststroke – 1:05.45
As we celebrate this incredible season, we want to give special recognition to Sue Mann and Julia Michalski, who have wrapped up their careers with DCY SWIM in true champion style. These outstanding athletes now head off to college, leaving behind a legacy of dedication, sportsmanship, and excellence.
Congratulations to all of our swimmers — you’ve made DCY proud!
For more information on the Door County YMCA Swim Team and upcoming events, visit www.DoorCountyYMCA.org or contact Mike McHugh.
Photo: Top - Thomas Kratcha, Bottom - Sue Mann, Megan Quaderer, Daylia Sund and Julia Michalski
The baseball and softball schedules have officially hit full throttle this week after a more than half dozen games took place on Monday and several more are on the docket for Tuesday pending field conditions.
Softball scores from Monday include Algoma edging Southern Door 4-3, Luxemburg-Casco blowing past Marinette 17-1, and Kewaunee outlasting Two Rivers 10-9. The schedule for Tuesday includes Luxemburg-Casco hosting Wrightstown (4:30 p.m.), Kewaunee welcoming Oconto (5 p.m.), Algoma traveling to Gibraltar (5 p.m.), Sturgeon Bay playing at home against NEW Lutheran (4:30 p.m.), and Sevastopol battling at Peshtigo (4 p.m.).
Baseball scores from last night include Luxemburg-Casco topping Algoma 8-6, Sturgeon Bay losing to Kiel 14-2, and Southern Door beating Marinette 9-6. Games scheduled for Tuesday include Sevastopol playing at Peshtigo (4 p.m.), Sturgeon Bay hosting NEW Lutheran (4:30 p.m.), Gibraltar welcoming Algoma (5 p.m.), Kewaunee battling Oconto at home (5 p.m.), and Luxemburg-Casco and Wrightstown meeting in Luxemburg (4:30 p.m.)
The Luxemburg-Casco golf team will play its second Northeastern Conference meet on Tuesday morning, this time taking place at De Pere's Hilly Haven Golf Course.
Last week, the Spartans boasted a strong performance in their conference opener at Mid-Vallee Golf Course in De Pere. The Spartans took third in the meet, scoring 343, 14 strokes behind first-place Marinette. Senior Josh Parins was the top-performing Spartan, scoring an 18-hole score of 76, two strokes behind Oconto Falls Kadyn Riel to come in third place. The Spartans placed three golfers in the top 20.
Clintonville, Denmark, Fox Valley Lutheran, Freedom, Little Chute, Marinette, Oconto Falls, Waupaca, and Wrightstown will also compete at the meet that begins at 10 a.m.
In other golf news, no scores were shared from Monday's dual between Sturgeon Bay and Mishicot at Cherry Hills Golf Course.
Door County's two girls' soccer teams will take the pitch against each other in girls' soccer action on Tuesday.
Door County United will welcome Sturgeon Bay for a 5 p.m. match at Sevastopol High School. In the other local matchup, Luxemburg-Casco plays at home against Green Bay Southwest under the lights at 6:30 p.m.
The area's track teams will battle among themselves on Tuesday with the Packerland and Northeastern conferences hosting meets on Tuesday.
Luxemburg-Casco will compete at a Northeastern Conference meet against Denmark, Freedom, Oconto Falls, and Wrightstown at Wrightstown High School beginning at 4 p.m.
Kewaunee and Gibraltar drew hosting duties for a pair of Packerland Conference meets. The Storm welcome Algoma, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay while the Vikings host Oconto, Peshtigo, and Sevastopol. Both meets begin at 4:30 p.m.
The Green Bay Gamblers could see their season end Tuesday night if they can't muster a win after falling to the Madison Capitols 3-2 on Monday in their best-of-three Clark Cup Playoffs Series.
The Gamblers set the tone early, with Niles Benson and Aidan Park registering two goals in six minutes before the Capitols got one back before the end of the first period. Park's second goal of the game broke a 2-2 tie, but Madison's Mason Moe scored once in the second and once in the third to give the Capitols the win and the Gamblers on notice.
Game two is set for 7:05 p.m., with a win extending the series to Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. and a loss ending the Gamblers' season.
A local non-conference matchup highlights Monday's slate of high school baseball games.
The schedule for Monday includes Luxemburg-Casco hosting Algoma (5:15 p.m.), Southern Door welcoming Marinette (4 p.m.), and Sturgeon Bay visiting Capitol Credit Union Park to play Kiel (4:30 p.m.).
Four area teams will waste no time getting onto the softball diamond for games on Monday.
The matchups include Luxemburg-Casco traveling to Marinette (4:30 p.m.), Kewaunee hosting Two Rivers (4:30 p.m.), and Algoma visiting Southern Door (5 p.m.).
The Sevastopol golf team will host a rare dual meet on Monday when Mishicot comes to the area.
The Pioneers took sixth place in last week's Packerland Conference opener at Cherry Hills Golf Course with a score of 215 strokes, 41 strokes behind Sturgeon Bay's winning tally. No Pioneers golfers were listed in the top six provided by the conference.
The Pioneers will return to Cherry Hills Golf Course to face the Indians at 3 p.m.
The Green Bay Gamblers' new season begins Monday night when they open the Clark Cup Playoffs against the Madison Capitols.
The Capitols have had the Gamblers' number this season, winning five of the eight matchups. The Capitols scored at least six goals against the Gamblers in their last three games, including eight goals each game over Valentine's Day weekend. The Gamblers lost their final game against the Capitols on Saturday 6-5.
The best-of-three series begins Monday at 7:05 p.m. in Madison. It will stay in Madison for the entire series, playing Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. and at the same time on Wednesday if necessary.
Jadher Areinamo’s two-run double in the eighth inning snapped a 1-1 tie and propelled the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers to a 5-1 victory over the Quad Cities River Bandits Sunday afternoon at Modern Woodmen Park. The win gave the Rattlers a split in their six-game series with their West Division rivals.
Wisconsin (4-5) broke in front in the top of the sixth inning. David Garcia started the top of the sixth with a single against Quad Cities starting pitcher Logan Martin. Then, Tayden Hall walked, and the River Bandits (6-3) went to the bullpen.
Tommy Molsky got Areinamo to ground into a 6-4-3 double play with Garcia taking third base. However, Molsky walked Blake Burke to extend the inning. Juan Baez made him pay with a single to right to score Garcia.
The Bandits came back in the bottom of the seventh inning. A one-out triple to center by Trevor Werner got the tying run to third against Zach Peek. Callan Moss followed with a double to drive in the tying run. Peek got the final two outs to keep the game tied.
Sunday marked the third consecutive game with the score tied 1-1 heading into the eighth inning. Quad Cities won the previous two games with a run in the bottom of the eighth for a 2-1 on Friday and four runs in the bottom of the eleventh for a 5-4 win on Saturday. The third time would be a charm for the Rattlers.
Garcia and Hall started the rally in the top of the eighth with a walk by Garcia and a single off the base umpire by Hall against Shane Panzini. Areinamo was next. He grounded a hit inside the bag at first. Garcia and Hall scored easily as the ball rolled to the corner for a two-run double. Burke followed with a single to center to drive in Areinamo. Eduardo Garcia capped the inning with an RBI double for a 5-1 lead.
Five Wisconsin pitchers scattered eight hits, struck out eleven, and walked none on Sunday. Tyson Hardin, who started game one of the series last Tuesday, worked four scoreless innings with four hits and five strikeouts. Jeferson Figueroa pitched around a two-out double in the sixth for two scoreless innings. Peek gave up the run but kept the go-ahead run in scoring position in the seventh. Yerlin Rodriguez struck out three while allowing a two-out single in the eighth. Aidan Maldonado closed out the game with a scoreless ninth inning.
In three appearances on the mound this season, Yerlin Rodriguez has pitched five innings with no walks and ten strikeouts.
Eduardo Garcia’s double in the eighth extended his team-high hitting and on-base streaks. Garcia is on a seven-game on-base streak and a five-game hitting streak through Sunday.
The Rattlers welcome the Lansing Lugnuts to Neuroscience Group Field on Tuesday night to begin a six-game series. Ryan Birchard (0-0, 0.00) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Wisconsin. Lansing has named Jake Garland (0-1, 4.15) as their starter. Game time is 6:40pm CDT.
Kewaunee and Luxemburg-Casco wrapped up their weekend residencies in Mauston on Saturday.
Saturday was a fruitful one in the win column for the area's softball teams.
In Thursday's action, Sturgeon Bay fell to Oconto 11-0.
The Green Bay Gamblers enter the playoffs on a three-game losing streak after losing to Cedar Rapids 6-0 on Friday and 6-5 to Madison on Saturday.
In Friday's game, Gavin Moffatt was chased from the game in the second period after giving up four goals in less than 30 minutes of game action as the Gamblers were outshot 38-18.
In Saturday's game, Cody Sokol, Lukas Peterson, and Mykhailo Danylov scored in the second period to give the Gamblers a 4-3 lead entering the third period, only to see the lead disappear early in the frame. Geno Carcone started and ended the scoring for the Gamblers in the loss.
A tense, pitchers’ duel at Modern Woodmen Park between the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and Quad Cities River Bandits turned into a nerve-wracking, highwire act in the late stages, before the offensive explosion in the eleventh inning for both teams. The Rattlers broke the 1-1 tie with three runs in the top of the eleventh only to see the Bandits score four in the bottom of the eleventh for a 5-4, walkoff victory.
Wisconsin (3-5) scored first. Eduardo Garcia singled with one out in the fourth. Tayden Hall drove a double to the wall in right with two outs and Garcia scored all the way from first for a 1-0 lead. That was the only run Wisconsin managed against River Bandit starting pitcher Hunter Patteson over his six innings.
Rattlers starting pitcher Chandler Welch was perfect through four innings. However, the Bandits (6-2) got to him in the fifth. Bryan Gonzalez started the inning with a fly ball to center. Kay-Lan Nicasia raced back to the wall to make a play, but he misjudged the wind as the breeze held up the ball and pushed it back to the infield. Nicasia tried to correct his course, but the ball dropped just in front of him in the grass, and Gonzalez had a lead-off double for the first base runner.
Trevor Werner was next, and he bunted for a single to move Gonzalez to third base. Welch threw a wild pitch to the backstop with Gonzalez trying to score. Fortunately, a good bounce got the ball to catcher Matt Wood in a hurry, and Wood tossed a strike to Welch covering the plate for the out on Gonzalez.
However, Austin Charles doubled to put runners at second and third for the Bandits. Callan Moss drove in Werner from third with a grounder to second to tie the game.
Welch struck out seven over his six innings, allowed three hits, and walked none. He would leave with the score still tied.
Both teams had chances to take the lead in regulation.
Garcia doubled with one out in the sixth inning against Quad Cities starter Hunter Patteson, who struck out the next two batters. In the eighth, Jadher Areinamo singled and Wood walked with one out against Caden Monke. A wild pitch on a strikeout by reliever Zachary Cawyer moved both runners into scoring position before he ended the inning with a flyout to right.
The Bandits had a two-out double against Dikember Sanchez in the seventh and stranded that runner.
Reliever Patricio Aquino would have made Houdini proud with his escape acts in the eighth, ninth, and tenth innings.
Quad Cities loaded the bases with one out in the eighth, before Aquino got out of the jam with a strikeout and a force play at third. In the ninth, Gonzalez tripled to start the inning. Aquino got a strikeout. Then, Gonzalez tried to score on a grounder to short off the bat of Austin Charles with the infield in on the grass. He was cut down for the second out. Charles broke for second with Callan Moss at the plate, but Moss was called out for interference when he swung and missed the ball, but mad contact with Wood. That call led to the ejection of Quad Cities manager Jesus Azuaje.
The Rattlers did nothing in the top of the tenth with Quad Cities electing to walk Areinamo intentionally with a runner at second and two outs.
Aquino saved his best for last as he worked a scoreless tenth to keep the game tied 1-1. Moss, the placed runner at second to start the inning, tried to go to third on a grounder to short and was the first out of the inning. Back-to-back singles by Omar Hernandez and Erick Torres loaded the bases again. And – again – Aquino slipped out of the trap with a slow chopper back to the mound that turned into a force play at the plate for the second out and a strikeout to end the frame and send the game to the eleventh.
The Rattlers broke through in the eleventh to take the lead. Garcia beat out an infield single to the left side of the infield for his third hit of the game. Wood, the runner placed at second to start the eleventh, had to hold on the play. Hall stepped to the plate with one out and cracked a double to right-center to score Wood and get Garcia to third base. Daniel Guilarte drew a four-pitch walk to load the bases. Then, Luis Castillo ripped a double to right to score two runs for a 4-1 lead.
Wisconsin had runners at second and third with one out after that double by Castillo but could not add to the lead and it would cost them.
Aaron Rund took over for Aquino for the bottom of the eleventh. Gonzalez singled to left to send the place runner to third. Trevor Werner followed with a single to right on a 3-2 pitch to drive in a run for the Bandits. Rund got the first out on a popup, but Moss tripled to the corner in right to knock in the tying runs.
The second out came when Rund struck out Carter Frederick looking at strike three in a three-pitch at bat. Then, Hernandez, who broke an 0-for-12 slump with singles in the eighth and tenth, hit a sinking line drive to right that dropped in to score the winning run to cap Quad Cities four-run rally.
The River Bandits take a 3-2 lead in the series with the series finale on Sunday afternoon at Modern Woodmen Park. The pitching matchup is a rematch of game one of the series last Tuesday with Tyson Hardin (1-0, 0.00) as Wisconsin’s scheduled starter and Logan Martin (0-1, 4.15) set to go for the Bandits. Game time is 1:00pm CDT.
Defense was optional but the Green Bay Blizzard came back from a slim halftime deficit to beat the Tulsa Oilers 74-68.
Each team turned the ball over on downs just once during the course of the game with the Blizzard doing so just before halftime to allow the Oilers to have the upper hand with a 40-38 lead at the break. The Oilers' miscue came late in the game when they had the ball with a chance to win the game late but could not convert on fourth down to send the game into overtime. The Oilers kicked a field goal in the extra frame, but it was Max Meylor's third rushing touchdown of the game that sent the near capacity crowd into a tizzy.
Meylor had seven total touchdowns on the game, complementing his rushing totals with 183 yards and four passing touchdowns. Kymani Clarke also had three rushing touchdowns for the Blizzard while four different receivers caught a touchdown pass from Meylor.
Area teams experience plenty of success during Friday's slate of games.
Kewaunee and Luxemburg-Casco return to action in Mauston on Saturday
Two Kewaunee County teams split their softball matchups on Friday.
The Luxemburg-Casco softball team avenged Thursday's loss to Denmark by beating them 3-1 on Friday.
In Saturday's action, Sevastopol will play St. Mary's Springs at noon and St. Mary's Catholic at 2 p.m. for the lone softball games of note.
Gibraltar and Sturgeon Bay's track team spent their night at the Denmark Cold Invite track meet on Friday.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers got a great start from Bishop Letson and had a 1-0 lead over the Quad Cities River Bandits after five innings. However, the Bandits tied the game in the sixth and score a two-out run in the eighth to defeat the Rattlers 2-1 on Saturday night at Modern Woodmen Park.
Jadher Areinamo started the Wisconsin fourth inning with a double to left. A wild pitch by Quad Cities starting pitcher Drew Beam allowed Areinamo to take third base. Juan Baez, who drove in the go-ahead run in the tenth inning on Thursday night, took advantage of the River Bandits bringing their infield in and pulled a single through the left side to drive in Areinamo to give the Rattlers (3-4) the lead.
Letson only allowed three hits in his start, and didn’t allow anything after a two-out single in the second inning. He retired the final ten Bandits he faced and struck out seven of those last ten batters. Letson walked none over his five scoreless innings and set a new single-game high as a professional for strikeouts.
The Bandits (5-2) would tie the game in the bottom of the sixth. Carson Roccaforte walked on a 3-2 pitch from reliever Anthony Flores. Roccaforte stole second as Flores struck out the next batter for the first out. Wisconsin thought they had the second out on a close play at third on another stolen base attempt by Roccaforte. However, the call was safe. Wisconsin brough the infield in only to see Sam Kulasingam single to left to score the tying run.
Flores worked around a two-out double in the seventh and retired the first two batters in the eighth. However, Kulasingam reached on a slow roller up the third base line to extend the frame. Then, Bryan Gonzalez ripped a double to the corner in right. Kulasingam scored easily all the way from first for a 2-1 lead.
AJ Causey, the third Quad Cities pitcher of the night, had worked around a lead-off single by Daniel Guilarte in the eighth to keep the game tied. He went back out for the ninth and walked Baez with one out. Baez would be out trying to steal second for the second out. Then, Causey got a strikeout to end the game.
The series is even through four games with both teams picking up two wins.
Game five of the series is Saturday night. Chandler Welch (0-0, 12.00) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Quad Cities will counter with Hunter Patteson (0-0, 0.00) as their starter. Game time is 5:30pm.
Packerland Conference teams traveled together for their games on Thursday, and no local schools got to celebrate its triumphs together.
Last night's baseball games saw Gibraltar/Washington Island beat Sevastopol 7-0, Sturgeon Bay lose to Oconto 6-1, and Southern Door top Algoma 5-2.
On the flip side, softball action saw Algoma beat Southern Door 9-4 and Sevastopol win 14-2 over Gibraltar/Washington Island.
Luxemburg-Casco divided and came up empty in their games with the softball team losing to Denmark 3-0 and the baseball squad falling to Marinette 6-2 .
FRIDAY GAMES
Baseball action includes Kewaunee and Luxemburg-Casco in tournament action in Mauston (noon), Algoma hosting Reedsville (4 p.m.), and Sturgeon Bay visiting Wrightstown (4:30 p.m.).
Softball action includes Luxemburg-Casco making the return trip to Denmark (4:30 p.m.), and Kewaunee visiting Valders.
It was a night to forget for the area's soccer teams with at least two of them suffering multiple goal losses.
No score was reported or located from Thursday's matchup between Door County United and Marinette.
Three area track teams made the most of their opportunity to compete on Thursday.
It was a successful trip to Marinette for the Kewaunee track teams as both teams finished in the top two overall. The Storm girls held off Green Bay West for the title by a score of 157-141. Hannah Miller (400m, 800m), Kaylyn Martin (3200m), Chyanne Robinson (discus), and the 4x400m relay captured wins while several others finished in the top three. The Storm boys finished just shy of overtaking their hosts for their own championship, losing to Marinette 157-139. Mitchell Boederthrew a season best to win the shot put while the 4x800m relay also brought home a win.
The winning was so good for Ben Grota, Cruz Calvillo, and Frankie Nellis, they had to do it twice at Thursday's Last in/First Out hosted by Green Bay Preble. Grota (800m, 1600m), Calvillo (shot put, discus), and Nellis (long jump, triple jump) took home multiple victories for the Eagles. Braeden VanRemortel(pole vault) and Lauden Berg (high jump) also posted win for the boys while Elise Jackson (300m hurdles) and the 4x200m relay finished on top of the podium for the girls.
The Luxemburg-Casco track team posted several podium finishes at Thursday's Last In/First Out Meet hosted by Green Bay Preble. For the boys, Mason Trimburger(300m hurdles) and Cameron Dorner (long jump) posted season bests to win their respective events. Kyan Lynts narrowly missed winning two events, finishing as the runner-up in the 800m and 1600m. with season best times. On the girls side, McKenna Rank (400m), Claire Duchateau (1600m and 3200m), Emily Tassoul (800m), and the 4x400m relay finished at the top of the leaderboard in their events.
On Friday, Gibraltar and Sturgeon Bay will join Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran, Howards Grove, Menasha, Omro, Pulaski, and Wrightstown for a meet at Denmark. The first events begin at 4 p.m.
The wait was worth it for the Sturgeon Bay golf team as they won the first Packerland Conference Golf Meet of the year at Cherry Hills Golf Course in Sturgeon Bay.
Tre Wienke, Luke Selle, and Owen Pichette of Sturgeon Bay came in fourth, fifth, and sixth place overall to secure the win by 17 strokes over second-place Oconto and 28 strokes over third-place Kewaunee. Oconto's Carter Kock won the meet with a score of 39.
Results from Cherry Hills on Thursday night.
Team Scores:
Sturgeon Bay 174
Oconto 191
Kewaunee 202
Peshtigo 204
Southern Door 214
Sevastopol 215
Gibraltar 240
Individual:
Carter Koch Oconto 39
Finley Lavine Southern Door 40
Evan Maccaux Kewaunee 41
Tre Wienke Sturgeon Bay 42
Luke Selle Sturgeon Bay 42
Owen Pichette Sturgeon Bay 42
Picture by SB Clippers Athletics
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers defeated the Quad Cities River Bandits 9-4 in ten innings on Thursday night at Modern Woodmen Park. A familiar face in Jadher Areinamo made a huge defensive play and Kay-Lan Nicasia, the newest member of the Rattlers, hit a pair of homers, including a game-sealing grand slam in the tenth inning.
Nicasia gave Wisconsin (3-3) the lead with a lead-off home run in the top of the third inning. He went 0-for-3 with three strikeouts in his Rattlers debut on Wednesday night, but he went with this 1-1 pitch from Bandits starter Frank Mozzicato out to right-center for the homer.
Quad Cities (4-2) used the longball to go in front in the bottom of the fourth. Trevor Werner hit a two-run homer to right for a 2-1 lead.
The Rattlers scraped for a run in the top of the fifth to even the score. Tayden Hall started the inning with a single and Luis Castillo walked with one out. Juan Baez lined a single to left with two outs to drive in Hall with the tying run.
The Bandits went back in front with another homer. Bryan Gonzalez, who had singled just before Werner’s homer in the fourth, hit a lead-off homer to right and Quad Cities had a 3-2 lead.
Manuel Rodriguez, the Wisconsin starting pitcher, would pitch 5-2/3 innings in the game. He allowed six hits, including the two homers, walked two and struck out four. Bayden Root relieved Rodriguez with a runner on and two outs in the sixth and got a strikeout to end the inning. Root would also strike out the side in the seventh to keep Wisconsin within a run.
Areinamo saved the game late twice for the Timber Rattlers. The first time was with his bat. Areinamo led off the Wisconsin eighth inning with a triple off the wall in left. Blake Burke followed with a sacrifice fly to tie the game 3-3.
In the bottom of the ninth, Quad Cities had a runner at second with two outs. Omar Hernandez hit soft line drive that appeared headed for a game-winning single in shallow right-center. Areinamo, who was playing second, timed his leap perfectly and snagged the ball in the webbing of his glove for the final out of the frame to send the game to extra innings.
That defensive play gave a left to the Wisconsin offense. Baez started the inning with a single to left to score Yhoswar Garcia from second base for a 4-3 lead. Nate Ackenhausen got the first out but walked Burke on four pitches. Eduardo Garcia was next, and he ripped a double down the third base line. Baez scored, but pinch runner Daniel Guilarte was out at the plate for the second out.
Ackenhausen couldn’t find the strike zone to the next two batters as he hit Matt Wood with his next offering and walked Hall on four pitches to load the bases.
Nicasia unloaded the bases with one swing at the first pitch of his at bat for a long, grand slam to left-center for a 9-3 advantage.
Aidan Maldonado took over for the bottom of the tenth. He gave up an RBI double to Carson Roccaforte to start the inning but retired the next three Bandits to close out the game.
Yerlin Rodriguez, the beneficiary of Areinamo’s web gem, picked up the win with two scoreless innings. He struck out four.
Game four of the series is Friday night at Modern Woodmen Park. Bishop Letson (0-0, 5.40) is the scheduled starting pitcher for Wisconsin. Drew Beam (0-0, 13.50) is set to start for the Bandits. Game time is 6:30pm.
The Green Bay Blizzard look to avoid a third straight loss on Friday night when they host the Tulsa Oilers at the Resch Center.
The Blizzard saw a first-half lead disappear for the second week in a row, falling 51-47 to the Arizona Rattlers last Sunday. The Blizzard stuck around the game despite a large disparity between total yards (350-166) and passing yards (269-98). Trailing 13-8 at the end of the first quarter, Max Meylor engineered three touchdown drives in the second quarter to help the Blizzard take a 30-26 lead in the locker room. The Blizzard were able to extend that lead in the third quarter only to see the Rattlers outscore them 22-10 in the final stanza to steal the game away. The Rattlers scored three straight touchdowns to put the game out of reach for the Bllizard's second straight home loss.
Kickoff is set for 6:05 p.m.
The Green Bay Gamblers will hit the road this weekend for the final time this regular season for a two-city tour.
With their spot in the Clark Cup Playoffs secured, the Gamblers split their matchups with Western Conference foe Sioux Falls, winning 4-2 last Friday and falling 9-2 the next night. Will Zellers (44 G) and Aidan Park (33 G) remain the top goal-scorers in the USHL? Zellers are one point behind Sioux City's Giacomo Martino for the race to be the top scorer overall.
The Gamblers will play at Cedar Rapids on Friday night before concluding the regular season in Madison on Saturday. The puck drops at 7:05 p.m.
After some teams were rained out and some weren't on Tuesday, many will back on the diamond on Thursday.
In baseball action, Luxemburg-Casco heads to Marinette (4:30 p.m.), Sevastopol welcomes Gibraltar (4 p.m.), Southern Door visits Algoma (4:30 p.m.), and Sturgeon Bay visits Oconto (5:00 p.m.)
In softball action, Luxemburg-Casco welcomes Denmark (4:30 p.m.), Gibraltar travels to Sevastopol (5 p.m.), Sturgeon Bay visits Oconto (5 p.m.), and Southern Door plays at Algoma (4:30 p.m.).
After the weather canceled meets earlier in the week, the area's track teams will try again on Thursday afternoon.
Southern Door and Luxemburg-Casco will compete against Chesterton Academy of St. John Paul II Classical, Green Bay Preble, and Sheboygan North at Green Bay Preble. The first events will begin at 4 p.m.
Kewaunee travels north to face Denmark, Gladstone, Green Bay West, Laona-Wabeno, Niagara, Oneida Nation, and Suring. The first events will begin at 4 p.m.
All three soccer teams will hit the pitch on Thursday as the season struggles to get going due to weather.
The matchups include Luxemburg-Casco hosting Xavier at 6:30 p.m., Sevastopol/Gibraltar traveling to Marinette (5 p.m.), and Sturgeon Bay at Sheboygan Lutheran (4:30 p.m.).
Weather permitting, the Packerland Conference will kick off its golf season on Thursday afternoon.
Gibraltar, Kewaunee, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, Oconto, Peshtigo, Sevastopol, Sturgeon Bay, and Southern Door will all tee off at 4 p.m.
Last year, the Clippers won the Packerland Conference crown with 56 points, followed by Gibraltar and Southern Door. All six All-Packerland Conference selections from a year ago could return for an encore performance, including Player of the Year Evan Maccaux of Kewaunee.
A two-out rally in the bottom of the seventh inning led to the only run of Wednesday’s game at Modern Woodmen Park between the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and the Quad Cities River Bandits. Carson Roccaforte cracked a two-out, RBI double on a 2-2 pitch for put the Bandits up 1-0. That 1-0 score would be the final as the home team held off a last-ditch rally by Wisconsin.
Quad Cities (4-1) took the lead in the bottom of the seventh inning. Wisconsin pitchers Ryan Birchard, Zach Peek, and Daniel Corniel held the River Bandits to one hit over the first 6-/23 innings. Corniel had retired the side in order in the bottom of the sixth for his Rattlers debut. He went back out for the bottom of the seventh and quickly retired the first two Bandits of that inning.
However, Chris Brito, who had the first Quad Cities hit of the game with a double in the third inning, doubled to extend the seventh inning. Roccaforte was next, and he doubled on one hop off the wall in right-center to drive in Brito for a 1-0 lead.
Wisconsin (2-3) had missed on their chance to take the lead in the top of the sixth inning. Blake Burke and Matt Wood started the inning with consecutive singles. Burke tried to steal third on a 2-2 pitch with Eduardo Garcia at the plate. However, the throw to third was just in time to nip Burke for the first out. Garcia would walk on the next offering from Quad Cities reliever Tyler Davis. Then, Davis got Daniel Guilarte to ground into an inning ending 6-4-3 double play.
In the ninth, the Rattlers threatened again. Wood walked to start the frame against Zachary Cawyer. Garcia followed with a single. Guilarte grounded back to the mound and Cawyer went to third for the force out on Wood for the first out. Cawyer got the second out with a strikeout but walked Kay-Lan Nicasia to load the bases. The threat ended moments later when Yhoswar Garcia popped out to Brito to end the game.
Both teams had four hits and stranded eight runners in the contest.
Birchard, in his 2025 debut with Wisconsin, allowed one hit, walked four, and struck out four over 3-2/3 innings. The Bandits nearly took the lead against Birchard in the bottom of the third. Brito reached leadoff double. Birchard got the next two outs on a strikeout and a foul popout. Then, Sam Kulasingam hit a hard grounder to the right side of the infield. Burke ranged far from first base and made a dive for the ball, but it got past him. However, Jadher Areinamo ranged far to his left from his second base position and fired a strike to Birchard covering the bag for the final out.
In the fourth, Birchard got the first two batters, but walked the final two batters he faced. Zach Peek came on to get the final out.
The teams have split the first two games of the series with the winning team recording a shutout in each victory. Game three of the series is Thursday night at Modern Woodmen Park. Manuel Rodriguez (0-1, 0.00) is the scheduled starting pitcher for Wisconsin. The River Bandits have named Frank Mozzicato (1-0, 1.80) as their starter.
Southern Door's baseball and softball teams had mixed results on the opening day of their seasons.
In other action, the Sevastopol Pioneers softball team jumped out to a 6-0 lead and held off a late rally to beat Bonduel 6-4.
The Luxemburg-Casco Spartans soccer team left the Green Bay area for the second straight match with a loss as it fell to Ashwaubenon 3-1 Tuesday night.
Casidee Jacobson tallied the lone goal for the Spartans in the loss after being down 3-0 after the first 24 minutes. Addyson Coady registered a brace to lead the Jaguars. The Spartans' goalkeepers were peppered all night long with Ashley Fameree posting six saves (1st half) and Teagan Gunderson collecting eight saves (2nd half).
The Spartans are back in action on Thursday at home against Xavier.
The draft is still weeks away, but the players currently on the Green Bay Packers roster know when they are returning to work.
The NFL released the workout dates for all 32 teams earlier this week. According to the league, each club’s official, voluntary nine-week offseason program is conducted in three phases:
The Packers' dates are below:
First Day: April 21
OTA Offseason Workouts: May 27-28, May 30, June 2-3, June 5
Mandatory Minicamp: June 10-12
Tyson Hardin had an impressive debut for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Tuesday night against the Quad Cities River Bandits at Modern Woodmen Park. The Rattlers starting pitcher faced the minimum over five scoreless, hitless innings with four strikeouts to earn the victory in the Rattlers 4-0 win over the Bandits.
Wisconsin (2-2) got the breakthrough in the top of the third inning. Jadher Areinamo doubled with two outs to get on base. Matt Wood followed with a double off the wall in right to drive in Areinamo for the 1-0 lead. Eduardo Garcia was next and fell behind Bandits starter Logan Martin 0-2. Garcia stayed in the at bat and worked the count full before singling to right on the ninth pitch of the at bat to drive in Wood for a 2-0 lead.
Quad Cities (3-1) managed one base runner against Hardin over five innings. Daniel Vazquez walked with one out in the first but was erased on a double play when Trevor Werner lined out to Blake Burke at first. Hardin was only in trouble twice in the game. He trailed Erick Torres with a 3-1 count on three straight balls in the third inning but bounced back to strikeout Torres looking. In the fifth inning, Sam Kulasingam lined a ball right past Hardin’s face for what looked like a single up the middle. However, Areinamo – in his first start at shortstop this season, ranged over to the first base side of second and fired a strike to Burke to the out.
Hardin made just 51 pitches with 34 going for strikes.
Hedbert Pérez doubled the Wisconsin lead in the top of the sixth. Daniel Guilarte had extended the inning with a two-out single against reliever Mauricio Velez. Then, Pérez ambushed a 1-1 pitch and crushed a long home run to right for a 4-0 advantage.
Aaron Rund took over for Hardin in the bottom of the sixth and walked the first two batters he faced before retiring the next three hitters. Rund got the first out of the seventh on a grounder to third. The no-hit bid ended on the next batter. Carter Frederick lined a clean single to center on a 3-2 pitch. Brian Fitzpatrick was called in from the Wisconsin bullpen to take over for Rund and closed out the inning with a flyout and a strikeout.
Then, Fitzpatrick closed out the game by setting down the Bandits in order in the eighth and ninth innings. He retired all eight batters he faced and struck out four.
The Wisconsin offense had fifteen base runners in the game, but only three of those runners reached with less than two outs. Wisconsin’s last seven runs – the last three on Sunday and all four on Tuesday – have been scored after there were two out with none on base in an inning.
Tuesday was the home opener for Quad Cities.
The Rattlers have won two straight games and will go for a third straight win in game two of the series on Wednesday night at Modern Woodmen Park. Ryan Birchard is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Rattlers. Felix Arronde is set to start for the Bandits. Both pitchers will be making their 2025 debuts. Game time is 6:30pm.
The Packerland Conference's track teams will head outside for the first time this season on Tuesday.
Southern Door will host Algoma, Gibraltar, NEW Lutheran/Providence Academy, and Oconto while Sevastopol will welcome Kewaunee, Peshtigo, and Sturgeon Bay. Both meets begin a 4:30 p.m.
The Luxemburg-Casco girls soccer team will get back to work on Tuesday after splitting a pair of matchups last week.
Emi Kuhn's goal in the 22nd minute held up for the Spartans as they topped Sturgeon Bay at Capital Credit Union Park Tuesday afternoon 1-0. They got a fast start against Green Bay East when Monroe Schaenhofer snuck one past Red Devils goalie Jamaya Mariner in the 18th minute to make it 1-0 at the break, only to fall in the end 2-1.
The Jaguars went 0-1-1 in their opening week of action, losing to West De Pere 3-1 before tying Oshkosh North 0-0.
Kickoff will be under the lights at Ashwaubenon at 6:30 p.m.
In other soccer action, Door County United's game against Manitowoc Lincoln on Monday and Sturgeon Bay's match against Notre Dame were postponed.
Picture courtesy of L-C Soccer Club
The Luxemburg-Casco golf team competes in its first meet of the season on Tuesday if recent exploits by Mother Nature allow it.
The Spartans took fifth in the Xavier Regional last season, with James Glampe and Josh Parins qualifying for the sectional meet. Both failed to qualify for the state meet but finished in the Top 25 of the 70-plus golfer field.
Tuesday's meet at Mid-Vallee Golf Course in De Pere is an NEC affair, so it will feature Clintonville, Denmark, Fox Valley Lutheran, Freedom, Little Chute, Marinette, Oconto Falls, Waupaca, and Wrightstown when the teams tee off at 9:30 a.m.
If Mother Nature allows, baseball and softball games could be on the docket for Monday afternoon.
Softball games today include Luxemburg-Casco traveling to Fox Valley Lutheran (4:30 p.m.), Southern Door playing Appleton East at UWGB’s King Park (4 p.m.), and Algoma traveling to Brillion (4:30 p.m.).
Baseball games include Luxemburg-Casco hosting Algoma (4:30 p.m.) and Southern Door welcoming Valders (4:30 p.m.).
The Door County United (Sevastopol/Gibraltar) soccer team will take the pitch for the first time this season when they travel to Manitowoc to battle the Ships.
Under the guidance of first-year head coach Chris Roedl, the United look to improve on their 5-12-2 record last season that ended with a 5-0 loss to Wrightstown in the regional round of the WIAA Tournament. Eve Andreae, Caitlyn Fellner, Dasia Daubner, and Lanie Brauer are among the All-Packerland Conference performers from a season to go that could be running it back with the squad this year. The United had their first match of the season on Saturday postponed.
The Ships were able to get their first win of the season last Thursday as they shut out West De Pere 2-0.
Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. in Manitowoc at Ron Rubick Field.
The Green Bay Blizzard saw a first-half lead disappear for the second week in a row, falling 51-47 to the Arizona Rattlers on Sunday.
The Blizzard stuck around the game despite a large disparity between total yards (350-166) and passing yards (269-98). Trailing 13-8 at the end of the first quarter, Max Meylor engineered three touchdown drives in the second quarter to help the Blizzard take a 30-26 lead in the locker room. The Blizzard were able to extend that lead in the third quarter only to see the Rattlers outscore them 22-10 in the final stanza to steal the game away. The Rattlers scored three straight touchdowns to put the game out of reach for the Bllizard's second straight home loss.
The Blizzard will have a short week ahead of them as they play at the Resch Center on Friday night against the Tulsa Oilers at 6:05 p.m.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers earned their first win of the season with a 7-6 victory over the Cedar Rapids Kernels in front of a 5,001 fans on Sunday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field. Blake Burke, the Milwaukee Brewers competitive balance pick in the 2024 draft, went 3-for-4 with three RBI and his first professional home run. Jadher Areinamo added a homer and three RBI for Wisconsin
The Kernels (2-1) started the game with a windblown triple to center by their lead-off batter Kaelen Culpepper. Wisconsin starting pitcher Chandler Welch got the first out on a strikeout and the second out when Culpepper tried to score on a grounder back to the mound off the bat of Brandon Winokur.
Welch was one pitch away from getting out of the inning with a 2-2 count on Billy Amick. However, Amick laced a double to left-center to drive in Winokur. Later in the inning, Gabriel Gonzalez doubled when the ball popped out of the glove of Yhoswar Garcia, who was trying to make a diving catch in left. Amick scored on the play and the Kernels were up 2-0.
Wisconsin (1-2) responded immediately in their half of the first. Yophery Rodriguez, who had trouble with Culpepper’s fly ball to start the game, got a little redemption as he tripled to start Wisconsin’s rally. Burke put the Rattlers on the scoreboard with a line drive single to right to score Rodriguez. Areinamo, the third Wisconsin hitter of the inning, crushed a 2-1 pitch from Kernels starter Tanner Hall off the scoreboard for a two-run homer and a 3-1 lead.
Cedar Rapids tied the game on a two-out single by Kyle DeBarge in the second. They took the lead in the third when Amick tripled to start the frame. Khadim Diaw drove in Amick with a sacrifice fly.
The Rattlers evened the score in the bottom of the third. Rodriguez had a lead-off double, Burke moved him to third with a ground out, and Areinamo drove him in with a grounder to second.
Burke put Wisconsin in front with a 434-foot home run to right-center in the bottom of the fifth. Hall got the first two outs of the inning and was ahead of Burke 1-2. Then, Burke jumped on the next offering and smashed the baseball to the flagpoles beyond the wall in right-center, the deepest part of the ballpark.
Cedar Rapids tied the score again in the top of the seventh inning against Patricio Aquino. Amick started the inning with a double, his third hit of the game. Gabriel Gonzalez doubled with one out to drive in Amick. The Kernels loaded the bases with one out on a walk and hit batsman. However, Aquino escaped by getting Kyle Hess to ground into an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play.
There were none on with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning for Wisconsin. Rodriguez changed that when he drew a walk on the 3-2 pitch from Jack Noble. Rodriguez was running on an 0-1 pitch to Burke and scored easily when Burke’s blooper to left spun past Gonzalez for an RBI double.
The Kernels threatened again in the top of the eighth as a double by pinch-hitter Danny De Andrade and an error by Eduardo Garcia put runners on first and second with no outs. Wisconsin called on Yerlin Rodriguez to get out of the jam and the right-handed reliever struck out the next three batters to preserve the win.
Wisconsin was looking for insurance in the bottom of the eighth, but once again had none on with two outs. Then, Tayden Hall ripped a double to right and Hedbert Perez cracked a triple to right-center for a 7-5 lead.
Gonzalez gave Cedar Rapids some hope with a lead-off home run in the top of the ninth. However, Yerlin Rodriguez closed out the game by retiring the next three batters in order for his first save of the season. Rodriguez struck out four in his two innings of work to close out Wisconsin’s first win of the season.
The Kernels had twelve hit, including nine for extra bases (six doubles, two triples, and a homer), but went 4-for-18 with runners in scoring position. Wisconsin had eight hits seven of them going for extra bases (three doubles, two triples, and two homers).
The Timber Rattlers are off on Monday. They will return to action on Tuesday with their first road game of the season when they start a series with the Quad Cities River Bandits at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa. Wisconsin has named Tyson Hardin as their starting pitcher. The Bandits are scheduled to start Logan Martin. Both pitchers will make their 2025 debuts in the game that is scheduled to start at 6:30pm.
The Green Bay Blizzard look for their second win of the season on Sunday when they host the Arizona Rattlers at the Resch Center.
The Blizzard held onto a halftime lead to beat the Iowa Barnstormers 52-47 at the Resch Center on March 28th. The offensive pace slowed down after the break, but the gap never disappeared after the Blizzard entered the locker room with a 31-26 lead. The Rattlers earned 56-28 victory over the Tucson Sugar Skulls thanks in part to five first-half touchdowns in their season debut.
Kickoff is set for 3:05 p.m.
Saturday was the biggest day of the young season for the area's baseball and softball teams.
The Sevastopol Pioneers softball team could not avenge the basketball team's loss to Assumption last month, falling to the Royals 5-1 and 6-3.
The Luxemburg-Casco baseball team registered single tallies in the late innings to beat Freedom 3-1 at Capital Credit Union Park on Saturday morning.
It only took one inning to doom the Algoma baseball team to a 10-0 loss to Green Bay Preble at Green Bay Southwest on Saturday.
The Gibraltar/Washington Island baseball team saw its offense hit all cylinders on Saturday, beating Adams-Friendship 12-2 and Randolph 14-4.
The Gibraltar Vikings softball team finished its weekend tournament 0-3 after losing 20-5 to Lake Mills and Black River Falls 21-20.
The Sevastopol Pioneers baseball team could not push across a run in its 8-0 loss to Roncalli on Saturday.
The Green Bay Gamblers had a forgettable end to their home regular season slate on Saturday, losing to the Sioux Falls Stampede 9-2.
After David Green scored the Gamblers' first goal n the opening four minutes, the Stampede scored the next eight goals. Aidan Park broke the dubious streak of tallies with one of his own in just under five minutes to go in the game. Gavin Moffatt was chased from the game just over halfway through the game after stopping 22 of the 27 shots he faced.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers had a late lead but let it get away from them in a 6-4 loss to the Cedar Rapids Kernels Saturday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field. The Rattlers fought back from an early 3-1 deficit to take a 4-3 lead in the fifth inning only to see the visitors tie the game in the seventh and take the lead with two runs on no hits in the eighth.
Wisconsin (0-2) staged a two-out, rally in the bottom of the third to take a 1-0 lead. David Garcia was hit by a pitch, Yophery Rodriguez reached on a bloop single that dropped on the infield dirt at short, and Jadher Areinamo drew a walk to load the bases. Then, Cedar Rapids starting pitcher Alejandro Hidalgo hit Blake Burke with the next pitch to force in the first run of the game.
The Rattlers were left wondering what could have been in that inning as Juan Baez smoked a hard grounder up the middle on the next pitch. However, Hidalgo snared the ball on the mound with a quick reaction to turn the potential run-scoring hit into a 1-3 putout to end the frame with the bases loaded.
Bishop Letson, the Wisconsin starting pitcher, ran into some trouble with one out in the top of the fourth as he walked back-to-back hitters and exited the game. Letson left after 58 pitches with four strikeouts and one hit.
Rayne Doncon greeted reliever Bayden Root with a three-run home run to left-center on a 1-2 pitch to give the Kernels (2-0) a 3-1 lead.
The Timber Rattlers responded in the bottom of the fourth. Eduardo Garcia hit a leadoff double, and Luis Castillo moved him to third with a grounder to the right side of the infield. Yhoswar Garcia drove in Eduardo Garcia with a single.
In the fifth, Areinamo doubled with one out. Burke was next and worked a ten-pitch walk after falling behind 0-2 on the first two pitches. One of the misses to Burke was a wild pitch that moved Areinamo to third base. Baez drove in the tying run with a weak grounder to first that also allowed Burke to move up to second. Eduardo Garcia followed with his second double of the game and this one scored Burke for a 4-3 advantage.
The Kernels tied the game in the top of the seventh. Caeden Kendle singled to start the inning and Kyle DeBarge singled with one out. Reliever Anthony Flores threw a wild pitch to let both runners move into scoring position and Brandon Winokur knocked in Kendle with a grounder to second.
A bout of wildness in the top of the eighth allowed the Kernels to take the lead. Reliever Dikember Sanchez walked the first two batters he faced and hit the third to load the bases with no outs. He would throw a wild pitch to let the go-ahead run score before walking the next batter to reload the bases. Kendle drove in an insurance run for Cedar Rapids with a tricky grounder to first. Sanchez walked one more batter to load the bases again before Zach Peek relieved from the Wisconsin bullpen to get the final two outs of the frame with no further damage.
Paulshawn Pasqualotto entered the game from the Cedar Rapids bullpen in the bottom of the eighth inning and walked the leadoff batter but erased that walk on a double play and ended the inning with a strikeout. He returned for the bottom of the ninth and retired Wisconsin in order to earn the save as he closed out the game.
Despite the teams combining for ten runs, neither offense was efficient. The Kernels stranded ten runners and went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Wisconsin left seven on base while going 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position.
Game three of the series is Sunday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field. The starting pitching matchup is scheduled to be Chandler Welch for the Timber Rattlers against Tanner Hall for the Kernels. Game time is 1:10pm.
Playing on turf fields may help at least two teams get some of their first swings of the season on Saturday.
Luxemburg-Casco baseball plays Freedom at 9 a.m. during a daylong showcase of NEC Baseball at Capital Credit Union Park.
Gibraltar baseball continues its tournament at Adams-Friendship High School beginning at 10 a.m., while the softball team, weather permitting, picks up action again in Mauston at 2 p.m.
Sevastopol baseball travels to Roncalli for an 11 a.m. first pitch, while the softball team visits Assumption for a noon doubleheader, weather permitting.
Algoma baseball takes advantage of the turf field at Green Bay Southwest for a 1 p.m. first pitch against Green Bay Preble.
THURSDAY'S ACTION
The Algoma softball tied the game late but was walked off by the Chilton Tigers in a 3-2 defeat.
The Green Bay Gamblers made it two wins in a row Friday night with its 4-2 victory over the Sioux Falls Stampede at the Resch Center.
The two teams traded goals with Egor Shilov and Aidan Park tallying goals for the Gamblers. The two teams would trade goals in the second period as well with Mykhailo Danylov breaking the 2-2 tie. The Gamblers added insurance late when Zach Wooten tallied an empty netter to end the game. Gavin Moffatt was named the #1 star for his performance in net for the Gamblers, stopping 38 of the 40 shots he faced.
The Gamblers end their home regular season slate at 6:05 p.m. Saturday.
It took until August 21, 2024 for a Wisconsin Timber Rattlers pitcher to get eleven strikeouts in game last season. Manuel Rodriguez, a 19-year-old in his High-A debut, got there in game one of the 2025 season. The Rattlers starting pitcher struck out eleven over 4-1/3 innings on Friday night in the season opener at Neuroscience Group Field against the Cedar Rapids Kernels. However, the Kernels defeated Wisconsin 4-1 to spoil the party.
Rodriguez opened the game by striking out the side in the first inning to open the season. He would strike out two more batters in the second and pitched around a one-out double in the third with three more strikeouts for eight Ks in the first ten batters faced.
Wisconsin (0-1) looked like they would get to Cedar Rapids starter Charlee Soto in the first inning. Lead-off batter Yophery Rodriguez singled on the first pitch he saw. Blake Burke followed with another single two pitches later. Soto got the first out with a strikeout before walking Matt Wood to load the bases. The threat died down as Soto got Juan Baez to tap in front of the plate on the next pitch for an inning-ending 2-3 double play.
The Kernels (1-0) broke through in the top of the fourth. Kyle DeBarge started the inning with a single and stole second. Rodriguez issued his only walk of the game to the next batter. Then, Billy Amick singled to shallow right and a bobble by Hedbert Perez allowed DeBarge to score.
Rodriguez bounced back to strike out the final two batters of the fourth and the first batter of the fifth to give him eleven strikeouts. In the game, he allowed an unearned run on three hits over 70 pitches.
Cedar Rapids added to their lead in the sixth inning. DeBarge walked and Brandon Winokur followed with an RBI double. In the seventh, Wisconsin’s defense committed errors on two consecutive plays before Gabriel Gonzalez singled to load the bases. Caden Kendle lined the next pitch to the corner in left to drive in two runs for a 4-0 advantage.
The Rattlers only had four baserunners from the second through the eighth innings with three walk and a runner reaching on an error.
Then, the bats woke up in the ninth to bring the tying run to the plate on a chilly night at the park. Wood and Baez started the ninth inning with singles. Tayden Hall plated Wood with a two-out single to left to break up the shutout bid before the Kernels got the final out of the game to seal the win.
There were thirty strikeouts in the game. Four Wisconsin pitchers combined for seventeen with three Kernels hurlers totaling thirteen.
Game two of the series is Saturday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field. Bishop Letson, the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers, is making his Midwest League debut. Alejandro Hidalgo has been named the starter for the Kernels. Game time is 1:10pm.
Green Bay Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur officially named several new coaches to round out his staff for 2025.
The Packers have hired DeMarcus Covington as defensive line/run game coordinator, Luke Getsy as senior assistant, Cory Harkey as special teams quality control coach, Jeremiah Kolone as offensive assistant (minority fellowship), Jeff Koonz as defensive assistant and Jamael Lett as a defensive quality control coach, promoted Sean Duggan to linebackers coach and Sean Mannion to quarterbacks coach and moved Connor Lewis to pass game specialist/game management.
It is a second tour of duty for Getsy after he left the organization to become the offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears while the announcement marked promotions for Duggan and Mannion from their roles on last year's staff.
The Sturgeon Bay girls soccer team heads back to Capital Credit Union Park on Friday for a three-team round-robin.
The Clippers opened the season earlier this week at Capital Credit Union Park with a 1-0 loss to Luxemburg-Casco. The team struggled against the Spartans' defense, managing just one shot on net.
Friday's schedule is as follows:
3:00 p.m. - Wrightstown vs Sturgeon Bay
4:30 p.m. - Wrightstown vs Waterford
6:00 p.m. - Waterford vs Sturgeon Bay
In Thursday's action, Luxemburg-Casco had their chances, but it was Green Bay East that walked out of City Stadium with the 2-1 victory.
While there are plenty of baseball and softball games on the schedule, Mother Nature will have the final call.
The Algoma Wolves softball team saw an early lead slip away in its 7-4 loss to Seymour on Thursday.
Temperatures in the mid-40s and high winds have helped dry things out since storms hit the area beginning Tuesday night and lasted well into Wednesday. If field conditions are good enough, below are the scheduled games for Friday.
Picture by Ron LeCloux
The Green Bay Gamblers will play their final home games of the regular season on Friday and Saturday when they welcome the Sioux City Musketeers to the Resch Center.
The Gamblers started and ended March with wins thanks to a 6-2 decision over Team USA last Sunday. Elliot Gulley registered the lone Gamblers in the first period, but the team was still chasing Team USA 2-1 before they turned their fate with four goals in the second period. Geno Carcone scored two goals in the first ten minutes, while Will Zellers and Zach Wooten added tallies in the back half to make it 5-2. Aidan Park added an insurance goal in the third period to give the Gamblers their first win since March 1st when they beat Youngstown on the road 4-3. Leo Henriquez had a light day at the office with just 20 shots on goal, stopping 18. The win gave them one of the final spots in the USHL playoffs. The Musketeers are also in the playoffs in the Western Conference with 65 points. They have gone 6-4-0-0 in their last 10 outings.
Friday's game will start at 7:05 p.m. while Saturday's matchup begins at 6:05 p.m.
The Green Bay Rockers introduced their newest alternate identity on Thursday, putting the roll in "rock and roll."
In partnership with a local manufacturer, the Green Bay Rockers will be the Green Bay Rollers for at least one game this season as they salute the city's role in the toilet paper industry. The Rockers will wear the specialty-themed toilet paper jerseys when they play the Madison Mallards on July 23rd .
According to the Rockers, Green Bay has one of the largest tissue recycling operations in the world. It’s the place where the first splinter-free toilet paper was introduced in 1935. The robust industry of toilet paper production also helped shield the city from the worst of The Great Depression, making it the "Toliet Paper Capital of the World."
Two Packerland Conference teams head to UW-Stevens Point for an indoor track meet on Thursday.
Sevastopol and Kewaunee will battle the likes of Adams/Friendship, Antigo, Suring, Pittsville, Loyal, Amherst, Athens, Bonduel, Coleman, Gillett, Gresham, Manawa, Marathon, Neillsville, North Fond du Lac-
Northland Lutheran, Oconto Falls, Lourdes Academy, Pacelli Catholic, Three Lakes, Laona-Wabeno, Wild Rose, Tri-County, Rosholt, New London, Lakeland Union, Columbus Catholic, Iola-Scandinavia, Reedsville, Augusta Area, and Rio Community in the co-ed meet beginning at 4 p.m.
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The Luxemburg-Casco girls' soccer team will play on a turf field in the Green Bay area for the second time this week when they face Green Bay East at City Stadium.
Emi Kuhn's goal in the 22nd minute held up for the Spartans as they topped Sturgeon Bay at Capital Credit Union Park Tuesday afternoon 1-0. The Spartans' attack peppered Sturgeon Bay goalkeeper Isabella Jimenez Seyfer with shots, forcing her to make six saves. Defensively, the Spartans' defense made it a quiet night for goalkeepers Ashley Fameree (1st half) and Teagan Gunderson (2nd half) as they combined for just one save.
Thursday is the season opener for the Red Devils.
The two teams will face off against each other on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
A lot of familiar faces are returning to Titletown for another campaign with the Green Bay Glory.
The Glory began their string of roster announcements over the weekend, beginning with former Algoma goalkeeper Haakon Utesch. The organization has announce one member for its men's and women's teams in the days since. You can see those new additions below:
Field conditions will ultimately be the deciding factor on whether there are games on Thursday.
Some schools have already decided to push off their games to a different date or cancel it altogether:
Games not officially canceled but arguably doubtful include:
There are also games scheduled for Friday, but the next game most likely to be played is Saturday at 9 a.m. when Luxemburg-Casco battles Freedom at Capital Credit Union Park in Ashwaubenon.
The Sturgeon Bay Clippers baseball team scored two runs in each of the final two wins to turn a 3-0 deficit into a 4-3 victory at Green Bay Southwest on Tuesday.
The Trojans scored all three of its runs in the opening frame, touching up Bryce Plzak on one hit and four walks. The bullpen held the Trojans down the rest of the evening, limiting them to four hits and five walks over the final five innings. Clippers pitchers struck out nine on the day. The Trojans threatened in the fifth inning and nearly stole a run on an overthrow, but Steven Prescott's throw into catcher Caleb Plzak was in time to keep it a three-run game.
Prescott would come up big offensively in the sixth inning with an RBI single to make it 3-1 while Siggy Hansen's RBI single made it 3-2. After holding the Trojans scoreless in the bottom of the sixth, Patrick Haese delivered the game-winning RBI double to drive in two runs. Ethan Kratcha led the Clippers with hits with two.
Emi Kuhn's goal in the 22nd minute held up for the Luxemburg-Casco girls soccer team as they topped Sturgeon Bay at Capital Credit Union Park Tuesday afternoon 1-0.
The Spartans' attack peppered Sturgeon Bay goalkeeper Isabella Jimenez Seyfer with shots, forcing her to make six saves. Defensively, the Spartans' defense made it a quiet night for goalkeepers Ashley Fameree (1st half) and Teagan Gunderson (2nd half) as they combined for just one save.
The Spartans are back in action on Thursday with a road contest at Green Bay East while the Clippers welcome Wrightstown on Friday.
Picture courtesy of L-C Soccer Club
Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball star Anthony Roy will finish his collegiate basketball career elsewhere after he entered the transfer portal this week.
At over 25 points per game, Roy was the leading scorer on the team before a leg injury derailed his lone season in Green Bay. The team spiraled into a 20-plus game losing streak following his injury. He spent time at San Francisco and New Mexico State along with being the NAIA Player of the Year prior to his stint with the Phoenix will have one year of college eligibility left.
After being relatively silent for his other transfer portal entrants, head coach Doug Gottlieb was encouraging following Roy's entrance, taking to social media to wish him success in the future and laud him for earning a degree while on campus.
The league's attempt to ban the controversial play known as the "tush push" will have to wait.
The Green Bay Packers authored a proposal that would have stopped the play popularized by the Philadelphia Eagles by preventing additional players from pushing the quarterback on a sneak play. According to ESPN, 16 teams were in favor of taking the play out of the game, eight shy of what was needed to actually ban it. While player safety was an issue, there was concern that the rule change unfairly targeted one or two teams, in this case the Eagles.
The league did enact these changes during its NFL Annual Meetings this week:
2025 Approved Playing Rules Summary
1-A. By Competition Committee; amends Rule 6, to make permanent the new form of free kick play implemented in 2024 designed to 1) resemble a typical scrimmage play by aligning players on both teams closer together and restricting movement to reduce space and speed and 2) promote more returns, subject to the following changes: (a) modifies the alignment requirements for receiving team players in the setup zone; (b) changes the dead ball spot after a touchback to the 35-yard line if the ball lands in the end zone and is downed in the end zone by the receiving team or goes out of bounds behind the receiving team’s goal line.
2-A. By Competition Committee; aligns the postseason and regular season overtime rules by granting both teams an opportunity to possess the ball regardless of the outcome of the first possession, subject to a 10-minute overtime period in the regular season.
3. By Competition Committee; amends Rule 15, to expand Instant Replay’s ability to advise the on-field officials on specific, objective aspects of a play and/or to address game administration issues when clear and obvious video evidence is present.
2025 Approved Bylaws Summary
1. By Competition Committee; amends Article XVII, Section 17.16 of the Constitution and Bylaws, to permit clubs to designate two players for return at the roster reduction to 53 players.
2. By Competition Committee; amends Article XVII, Section 17.16 of the Constitution and Bylaws, to permit clubs participating in the postseason to receive two additional DFRs increasing the maximum from 8 to 10.
3. By Competition Committee; amends Article XVIII, Section 18.5 of the Constitution and Bylaws, to insert Point Differential as the third tiebreaker for awarding contracts.
2025 Approved Resolutions Summary
G-1A. By Pittsburgh; for one-year only, permits clubs to have one video or phone call with no more than five prospective Unrestricted Free Agent during the Two-Day Negotiation Period. Permits clubs to make travel arrangements with such players upon agreeing to terms.
G-2. By Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston, Las Vegas, Minnesota, Philadelphia, and Washington; to permit clubs to prepare kicking footballs (“K-Balls”) before game day, similar to the process permitted for game footballs.
G-3. By Washington; to permit clubs that may qualify for the postseason to obtain scouting credentials for two consecutive games (Weeks 17 and 18) played by a potential postseason opponent. Also requires clubs hosting Wild Card games to provide scouting credentials to all teams within the same conference who are participating in the postseason.
The Luxemburg-Casco and Sturgeon Bay soccer teams are scheduled to kick their season off at Ashwaubenon's Capital Credit Union Park on Tuesday.
The Spartans finished in the middle of the pack of the NorthEastern Conference, boasting a 7-12-2 season record that ended with a close 3-2 loss to Fox Valley Lutheran. The Clippers were similar, going 9-11-4 on the year and losing their regional game to Providence Academy/NEW Lutheran 1-0.
Kickoff is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
The Gibraltar and Southern Door track teams will head south on Tuesday for an indoor track meet hosted by Lourdes Academy at UW-Oshkosh.
Lake Country Lutheran, Suring, Catholic Memorial, Little Chute, Horicon, Seymour, Auburndale, Brillion, Campbellsport, Chilton, Clintonville, Dodgeland/Hustisford, Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah, Fox Valley Lutheran, Freedom, Gillett, Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran, Kiel, Kohler, Manawa, Lomira, Omro, Pacelli Catholic, Rosholt, St. Mary Catholic, Sheboygan Falls, Shiocton, Two Rivers, New London, Berlin, Kettle Moraine Lutheran, St. Mary's Springs Academy, Xavier, Oneida Nation, Pius XI, Westfield, Green Lake/Princeton, Kewaskum, Marinette, Denmark, Wrightstown, and Shawano Community are also scheduled to participate.
The first events will begin at 4:45 p.m.
If the area's high school baseball and softball teams are searching for a glimpse of spring, their attention may turn to Green Bay Southwest High School on Tuesday afternoon, where the Sturgeon Bay Clippers baseball team is scheduled to play against the Trojans.
In manager Neil Henrigillis' second season, the Clippers split their 28 matchups, seeing their season end against Denmark 11-1. Caleb Plzak, Bryce Plzak, and Patrick Haese are returning All-Packerland Conference performers from a year ago. The Trojans are coming off a 10-17 season that ended in the regional round against Pulaski. The first pitch was moved from 6 p.m. to 4 p.m. to avoid potential weather issues later in the evening.
Games that were postponed or canceled include:
Sevastopol softball at Valders
Kewaunee softball vs. Appleton East
Sevastopol baseball at Valders
Kewaunee baseball at Denmark
Southern Door softball at Appleton West
Algoma softball vs. Bonduel
Gibraltar softball vs. Manitowoc Lutheran
The Green Bay Packers are the newest NFL team to place their flag in European countries as a part of the NFL's Global Markets program.
The Packers were granted rights across Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, joining the Baltimore Ravens (United Kingdom), Los Angeles Chargers (Greece), and Washington Commanders (United Arab Emirates) as the league's new teams admitted into the program. The Packers will share rights with the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers for Germany, the Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, and Pittsburgh Steelers for Ireland, and the Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, and San Francisco 49ers for the United Kingdom.
Launched in 2022, the Global Markets Program awards NFL clubs international marketing rights to build brand awareness and fandom beyond the U.S. through fan engagement, events, commercial opportunities, and NFL Flag development.
In total, 29 clubs will participate in the program across 21 international markets—up from 25 clubs across 19 markets in 2024—as the NFL continues to prioritize global growth and connect with more fans worldwide.
“The expansion of the Global Markets Program in 2025 reflects the NFL’s continued focus to grow the game and connect with fans on a global scale,” said NFL Executive Vice President, Club Business, Major Events & International Peter O'Reilly. “With more clubs entering the program and existing clubs adding to their global rights, and as the program expands to new markets, we are seeing strong momentum and impact in growing fandom worldwide together.”
We have known that Opening Night for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers is Friday, April 4 at Neuroscience Group Field for a long time. Now, we know the players who will be in uniform for manager Victor Estevez when they face the Cedar Rapids Kernels at 6:40pm this Friday with the announcement of the roster for the 2025 season.
Estevez, his coaching & support staff, and the 29 players on the Wisconsin roster will be looking to defend their 2024 Midwest League West Division Title with a group of prospects and returning players from last year’s playoff run.
There are five members of MLB Pipeline’s Brewers Top 30 Prospects list opening the season in Wisconsin: Outfielder Yophery Rodriguez (#7), pitcher Bishop Letson (#15), and infielders Blake Burke (#17), Jadher Areinamo (#24), and Juan Baez (#27). The Baseball America Prospect Handbook’s Brewers Top 30 List is slightly different with Letson (#8), Rodriguez (#14), Areinamo (#24), Burke (#26), and Manuel Rodriguez (#28).
Seventeen members of the 2025 roster played for the Timber Rattlers: Areinamo, Patricio Aquino, Ryan Birchard, Burke, Jeferson Figueroa, Brian Fitzpatrick, Eduardo Garcia, Tayden Hall, Aidan Maldonado, Hedbert Pérez, Yerlin Rodriguez, Yophery Rodriguez, Bayden Root, Aaron Rund, Dikember Sánchez, Chandler Welch, and Matt Wood
Estevez, who was the Carolina League Manager of the Year in 2023 and the Midwest League Manager of the Year in 2024, is back for his second season with the Rattlers.
2025 Timber Rattlers:
Pitchers (16): Patricio Aquino, Ryan Birchard, Daniel Corniel, Jeferson Figueroa, Brian Fitzpatrick, Anthony Flores, Tyson Hardin, Bishop Letson, Aidan Maldonado, Zach Peek, Manuel Rodríguez, Yerlin Rodriguez, Bayden Root, Aaron Rund, Dikember Sánchez, and Chandler Welch
Catchers (3): David García, Edgardo Ord?ñez, and Matt Wood
Infielders (6): Jadher Areinamo, Juan Baez, Blake Burke, Eduardo Garcia, Daniel Guilarte, and Tayden Hall
Outfielders (4): Luis Castillo, Yhoswar Garcia, Hedbert Pérez, and Yophery Rodriguez.
There are players from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States with the Rattlers.
Fans can get their first look at the 2025 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in action during Fan Fest on Wednesday, April 2 when the team practices on the field – weather permitting – at 1:30pm with a scrimmage scheduled for 3:00pm. Admission and parking are free.
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