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Beloit Sky Carp rained out, will play doubleheader on Wednesday
BELOIT — Tuesday night’s game between the Beloit Sky Carp and the Peoria Chiefs was postponed due to field conditions at ABC Supply Stadium. The two teams will make up the game as part of a doubleheader starting at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday. The twinbill will feature two seven-inning games. Multiple sources are reporting the Miami Marlins are promoting their top pitching prospects, Noble Meyer and Thomas White, from low-A Jupiter,...
Brodhead's Ava Risum, Clinton's Ashley Theisen head up All-RVC Rock Division softball
Junior pitchers Ava Risum and Ashley Theisen took top honors on the 2024 Rock Valley Conference-Rock Division All-Conference Softball Team. Risum earned Pitcher of the Year for Rock Division champion Brodhead while Theisen earned Player of the Year for Clinton. The Cardinals’ Steve Krupke was named Coach of the Year. Both Risum and Theisen tore it up in the pitcher’s circle and at the plate as two-way threats. ...
North Boone softball advances to state for first time in program history with 5-3 win over IC Catholic
LISLE, Ill. — With the top of Immaculate Conception Catholic’s order due up and just three outs separating the North Boone softball team from its first ever trip to the state championship, starter Cami Carter asked teammate Lauren Stefek for one simple favor. “I told Lauren, ‘Just tell me to breathe,’” the Vikings’ senior ace said. “That’s what I was talking to her about. Just tell me to breathe. That’s what she did and I was okay — I let everything go.” ...
North Boone stellar season comes to end with 5-3 loss to Newman Central Catholic in sectional finale
BYRON, Ill.—North Boone head coach Andrew Baden got the obvious out of the way by commenting that his baseball team’s 5-3 loss to Newman Central Catholic in an IHSA 2A sectional final wasn’t how it wanted the season to end. But Baden then added that there was one major reason he was proud of his Vikings’ outing on a warm and sunny Saturday at Byron High School: they never deviated from the style of play that got them this far. ...
PREPS: Hononegah, North Boone boys track and field athletes compete at state
CHARLESTON, Ill. — A strong season for Hononegah hurdler Coen Lee ended at the IHSA 3A Boys State Track and Field championships in Charleston, Ill. on Friday afternoon. Lee didn’t advance to the finals after he ran a time of 15.31 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries to place 28th and finished 44th in the 300 hurdles prelims after crossing the finish line in 42.13 seconds. The Indians’ 4x400 relay...
Back-to-back home runs sends Hampshire baseball past Hononegah in regional championship
ROCKTON — With the score tied up at one and an impressive duel well under way between Hononegah and Hampshire, it felt like the next team to find a way to plate a run would walk away the winner. That proved to be true when the Whip-Purs’ Calen Scheider took the first pitch he saw in bottom of the fifth over the center-field fence for the go-ahead home run before Ari Fivelson followed it up with a solo homer to right field to act as...
UW-W's Shelvin Garrett II runner-up in nationals; Bucs' Candis Damtse 9th
UW-Whitewater’s Shelvin Garrett II earned his overall sixth NCAA Division III All-American honor on Saturday as he claimed second in the triple jump at the 2024 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Garrett, the 2024 Indoor triple crown national champion, claimed silver at the Outdoor Nationals for the second consecutive season. The Beloit Memorial High School graduate advanced through the first round of jumps...
Beloit Sky Carp finish road trip 3-9 after losing to Great Lakes Loons 9-3
MIDLAND, Mich. — At least it didn’t go 10 innings. The Beloit Sky Carp, who played four straight 10-inning games against the Great Lakes Loons heading into Sunday’s afternoon contest and lost three of them, fell 9-3 in the series finale. The Loons won the series 4-2 and Beloit ended its road trip with a 3-9 record to slip to 20-24 overall. The fourth-place Sky Carp trail Midwest League West...
Hononegah girls win 30th game, regional softball title against Harlem
MACHESNEY PARK, Ill. – Hononegah’s lone hiccup during the NIC-10 season came against Harlem when, with the conference championship secured, head coach Denny McKinney chose not to give No. 1 pitcher Aislynn Palmer the ball. He figured, why give the Huskies another long look at his ace? Saturday, the move paid off with Palmer pitching a complete game with 13 strikeouts and the Indians capturing a 4A regional title with...
PREP TRACK: Beloit Memorial's Jaslyn Gama off to state meet after taking third in 400
BEAVER DAM, Wis. — Beloit Memorial track and field’s Jaslyn Gama has been wrapping up her senior season by putting up some great times again and again in her races. The senior has run herself all the way into the WIAA Division 1 State Track and Field Championships after she finished third at the 400-meter dash in Thursday’s sectional meet in Beaver Dam. Gama finished in 1:01.66 behind the Janesville...
PREP SOFTBALL: Brodhead edges Lodi 3-2 to win second-straight regional title
BRODHEAD, Wis. — The reigning Division 3 state champion Brodhead softball team didn’t need to do anything overly flashing or heroic to take down an upset-minded Lodi and clinch a WIAA Division 3 Regional Championship on Thursday. Instead, the top-seeded Cardinals kept it simple and relied on some small-ball and some outstanding work from starting pitcher Ava Risum to take down No. 4 Lodi 3-2. It is Brodhead's second-straight regional...
PREP BASEBALL: Clinton opens postseason play with 6-3 win over Dodgeland/Hustisford
CLINTON — The Clinton baseball team started the playoffs in a similar way to how it ended the regular season: hot. The sixth-seeded Cougars, who came into Thursday as winners of six of their past seven games, poured on all six of their runs in the first two innings as they rolled No. 1 Dodgeland/Hustisford 6-3 in a WIAA Division 3 regional opener. Collin Gill had an RBI single in...
Hononegah boys track and field continue tradition by sending hurdler Coen Lee, 4x400 relay to state
ROCKTON—It was the days of leg warmers and parachute pants the last time that the Hononegah track and field team wasn’t represented at the state championship. The Indians’ 4x400 relay and hurdler Coen Lee ensured that the tradition would be upheld for at least another season as both will compete at the IHSA 3A Track and Field Championships on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill. beginning on Friday. ...
Beloit Turner holds off Evansville in 6-4 regional win
BELOIT — When his team floundered a bit at the end of the regular season, losing six of seven games, Beloit Turner head baseball coach Jeff Clowes told his Trojans “there is always a reason why and every valley is because there is a better peak.” A little long for a slogan on a T-shirt, but they got the idea. That difficult stretch could be chalked up to a young...
Beloit Sky Carp fall again to Great Lakes Loons in 10th inning 7-6
MIDLAND, Mich. — This is just getting monotonous. For the second straight game, the Beloit Sky Carp lost a late lead to the host Great Lakes Loons, who then pulled out a one-run victory in the 10th inning. Wednesday night, Beloit fell,14-13. Thursday wasn’t quite that kind of slugfest, but the Loons still won 7-6. ...
Gwen Baker strong from circle in Milton's 10-0 win over Beloit Memorial in regional final
BELOIT—Beloit Memorial senior Allie Gustafson said that one of the toughest issues that comes with facing Milton ace Gwen Baker is the intimidation factor. And who could blame the third baseman? After all, Baker, who will play at NCAA Division I Butler after graduating this spring, towers over practically every opposing batter at 6-foot-1. That lengthy stride when the senior throws makes her already insanely quick fastball that has topped...
North Boone baseball uses balanced attack to down Riverdale 8-3 in sectional semifinals
BYRON, Ill.—Andrew Baden emphasized heading into Wednesday night’s IHSA 2A sectional semifinal showdown with Riverdale that the North Boone baseball team's well-roundedness would be the key to victory. The third-seeded Vikings proved their head coach right as all nine batters either got a hit, scored a run or knocked one in while Eli Lopez threw seven strong innings to help North Boone take down the No. 3 Rams 8-3 to advance to the sectional championship. ...
Cami Carter blasts grand slam, pitches shutout in North Boone's sectional semifinal victory
MARENGO, Ill.—Any time a batter blasts a grand slam, they pretty much instantly become their pitcher’s best friend. Now North Boone’s Cami Carter certainly isn’t the narcissistic type, but even she had to be giving herself a pat on the back for the extra run support after the senior cleared the bases with her huge bomb to right field in the second inning. The righty also threw seven shutout innings...
Kyle Weaver among the former Purple Knights coming back for alumni games at Barkin Arena
BELOIT — Since retiring as a professional basketball player, Beloit’s Kyle Weaver has spent a lot of time around the hardcourt in his hometown mentoring young players at both the middle school and high school levels. On June 1, he’ll have the opportunity to rub elbows at the Barkin Arena with former Purple Knights from his own heyday as well as some older players still hooping it with some regularity. ...
Beloit College's Siddalee Meyers earns First Team All-MWC
BELOIT — Junior outfielder Siddalee Meyers of Beloit College earned First Team All-Midwest Conference honors for softball and sophomore teammate Kaylee Witte was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association D-III Region XI Third Team. Meyers, a Parkview High School graduate, earned First Team honors for the first time and becomes the first Buccaneer to land on the First Team since 2021. Meyers started in all 38 games for Beloit...
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