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Rock Valley College's women's basketball team falls in NJCAA D-II Tournament
JOPLIN, Mo. — All good things apparently do come to an end as Rock Valley College’s 34-game winning streak came to an abrupt close with an 80-70 loss in the NJCAA Division II National Basketball Tournament. The No. 3-seeded Golden Eagles (34-1) fell to No. 6 Mesa Community College (Ariz.) on Wednesday night. The Lady T-Birds play in the semifinals on Friday. RVC will play in the consolation bracket against...
PREPS: Hononegah baseball squeaks by Rockford Boylan
ROCKFORD—The old saying goes “No pain, no gain.” Well, the Hononegah baseball team certainly benefited from Drake Broege being the victim of a little bit of suffering on Thursday afternoon. After Xavier Huber and Bryce Ewin both singled in the top of the fifth, Landen Seymour was intentionally walked. Broege stepped up with two outs and was smacked by a pitch, breaking a 1-all tie and scoring what proved to...
Beloit Turner baseball team bridges gap in experience
BELOIT — Beloit Turner baseball coach Jeff Clowes needs to replace starters at nearly every position after last season’s senior-dominated team rolled to a 17-1 record in the Rock Valley Conference and a 23-4 mark overall. He’s not worried about it, either, mainly due to the efforts of last year’s seniors. “We knew we’d have to bridge the gap, so a number of our jayvees often practiced with us,” said...
Beloit Memorial baseball team prepares for Southern Lakes Conference
BELOIT — Steven Johnson admits he had rather grandiose plans for a Beloit Memorial baseball revival last spring in his first year as head coach. It didn’t take him long to realize rebuilding the Purple Knights would be more of a process than an overnight sensation. Beloit was 2-20 and shut out nine times in 2022. Last season only brought one more win for the 9-19 Knights, although Johnson said...
Hononegah's Owen West will swim for St. Norbert College
ROCKTON — Owen West joined an organized swimming team in the seventh grade, stepped up his game as a Hononegah High School sophomore and earned three trips to the IHSA state meet. Wednesday afternoon, he saw the reward for his efforts, signing a letter-of-intent to attend St. Norbert College and swim for the Green Knights. “I really like the coach there,” said West, who felt right at home on the...
Rockford Lutheran routs South Beloit's baseball season opener
ROCKFORD — South Beloit’s baseball team allowed Rockford Lutheran to score in only two innings in Tuesday’s season opener. Unfortunately, they were both huge innings as the host Crusaders won 12-1 in a game shortened to five innings by the mercy rule. The SoBos pushed across a run in the first inning when Richard Carlson beat out a bunt against Lutheran starter Cole Lemmers and later scored on a dropped...
Hononegah's Aislynn Palmer mows down Hersey in season opener
BARRINGTON, Ill. — Hononegah head coach Denny McKinney went into Tuesday’s season opener against Hersey expecting to use three or four pitchers. He changed his mind, however, as he saw Aislynn Palmer set down batter after batter. The sophomre right-hander pitched a four-hit 2-0 shutout against Hersey (Arlington Heights) with 14 strikeouts in the Barrington Spring Fling Tournament. ...
PREPS: North Boone softball trounces Rockford Jefferson in double-digit victory
POPLAR GROVE, Ill.—For the North Boone softball team, there’s just something about scoring into the double-digits. The Vikings recorded eight hits and took advantage of four errors to trounce visiting Jefferson 15-0 on Tuesday afternoon. North Boone has now scored 10 or more runs in three of its first four games of the season. Hayden Staver, who went 3-for-3 with an RBI and four runs, scored first on a wild...
Visit Beloit and Perfect Game to host three youth baseball tournaments
BELOIT — Visit Beloit and Perfect Game, a renowned baseball and softball organization, will team up to host some exciting tournaments this summer. Baseball tournaments in Beloit are scheduled for June 14-17, June 28-July 1 and July 19-22. These tournaments will be held at the YMCA Youth Sports Complex, ABC Supply Stadium and Pohlman Field. Visit Beloit’s partnership with Perfect Game reflects its commitment to attracting respected sports organizations to...
COLLEGE UPDATE: Jackson Burk collects first save at UW-Whitewater
Former Beloit Turner standout Jackson Burk collected UW-Whitewater’s first save of the season March 14 when he pitched 2 1-3 innings in a 5-2 victory over 11th-ranked Birmingham-Southern in the nightcap of a double-header in Pensacola, Fla. Burk came on in the seventh inning and struck out the final batter. The 6-foot-1 sophomore also pitched a scoreless eighth inning and had two strikeouts in the bottom of the ninth. The...
Hononegah baseball looking to build off trip to Super Sectional in 2024
ROCKTON—Two IHSA 4A Super Sectional appearances in three seasons can create quite a high precedent. But this season’s edition of the Hononegah baseball team certainly isn’t shying away from the lofty expectations. Instead, the Indians are embracing it. “Coach (Matt) Simpson really engraves into us that we have a standard here,” senior Drake Broege said. “We try our best to meet that standard.” ...
Rock County Fury players, coach pick up postseason awards
Rock County Fury coach Luke Steurer and senior forward Emma Kligora added to the team’s conference championship-winning season with awards from the Badger Conference. Steurer was named the league’s girls hockey coach of the year, and Kligora was a unanimous first-team all-conference selection and was named the conference’s player of the year. Kligora, a Milton High School student, finished third in the state in total points with 57. That total...
Trio of Knights named to All-SLC wrestling team
BELOIT — Beloit Memorial had three wrestlers named to the All-Southern Lakes Conference First Team: junior Owen West (B-132), Amiyah Clark (G-132) and Melissa Abarea-Cozme (126). William Du Chemin, a freshman 106-pounder from Wilmot, is the Boys Wrestler of the Year. Carley Ceshker, a sophomore 138-pounder from Badger, is the Girls Wrestler of the Year. The entire All-SLC team follows: ...
Beloit Memorial's Jocelyn Tibbetts on All-SLC Second Team
BELOIT — Beloit Memorial junior guard Jocelyn Tibbetts has been named to the 2024 All-Southern Lakes Conference girls basketball Second Team. Tibbetts was perhaps the most consistent Purple Knight, averaging 12 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. Beloit finished 5-7 in its first season in the SLC and went 8-13 overall. Tibbetts shot 36.2 percent from the field and 72.6 percent from the free-throw line, converting 37 3-pointers. She averaged...
Beloit Memorial's Amare Hereford earns First Team on All-SLC
BELOIT — Beloit Memorial sophomore guard Amare Hereford has been named to the 2024 All-Southern Lakes Conference boys basketball First Team. Hereford was the catalyst for a dramatic turnaround by the Purple Knights in Todd Marks’ second season as head coach. They went from 6-19 overall and 4-16 in their final season in the Big Eight Conference to 21-6 in the SLC (the most overall wins in the league) and 10-4 for third in the standings. They won a WIAA Division 1 regional championship, beating...
South Beloit baseball hopeful for turnaround with young group
SOUTH BELOIT—Rome wasn’t built in a day and head coach Dominic Strangman knows that the South Beloit baseball program won’t be fully resurrected in one either. Just don’t let a 2-17 record last season fool you into thinking that there wasn’t some significant progress made after the SoBos went winless in 2022. “We took some big steps,” the head coach said. “It was the first time in a couple years...
Beloit College baseball team finishes 6-3 on Florida trip
AUBURNDALE, Fla. — Beloit College’s Buccaneers swept a double-header against Central College (Pella, Iowa), 11-2 and 7-2 on Friday, but finished off its Florida trip with a 12-6 loss to North Park on Sunday. The Bucs (7-4) went 6-3 on the trip. In game one on Friday, Beloit scored in the second inning when Miles Souza and Jacopo Tamburni hit back-to-back doubles. ...
PREP ROUNDUP: Lauren Stefek goes 5-for-5 with two homers to lead North Boone to split
MARENGO, Ill. — Shortstop Lauren Stefek went 5-for-5 with two home runs and four RBIs as North Boone routed Lakes Community High School 16-4 on Saturday. The Vikings then fell to Marengo 11-1. Against Lakes, Stefek put the Vikings on the board in the first with a solo blast to right, the first of seven home runs for North Boone. ...
Beloit College softball drops final pair of games in Florida
CLERMONT, Fla. — The Beloit College softball team dropped its final two games in The Spring Games hosted in Florida on Friday. The Buccaneers, who finished the trip 1-9, first fell 4-1 to Springfield College and then lost an 11-10 extra-inning heartbreaker to Plymouth State University in the afternoon game. In the first game, Angela Donath helped Beloit strike first when she scored Lylah Murrah with an infield single. Ashley...
Marquette rolls Arrowhead to claim WIAA Division 1 State Championship
MADISON — After Arrowhead High School had survived the first-ever quadruple overtime game in the history of the WIAA Boys State Basketball Tournament by beating No. 4 Neenah 99-95 in the semifinals, the magic seemingly ran out. The top-seeded Warhawks (27-3) were rolled by Marquette 84-62 in the finals behind a 29-point output from Nolan Minessale. The third-seeded Hilltoppers (26-4) splashed a Division 1 state championship record 12 3-pointers in...
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