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Round One of WIAA football playoffs set
The Janesville Craig High School football team will be out to snap a 10-game WIAA Division 1 playoff losing streak at Mukwonago High School on Friday night. That is one of the 112 first-round matchups in the seven-division playoffs that the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association announced Saturday morning. Milton High will open the Division 2 playoffs at home against Westosha Central High. ...
Beloit Memorial faces Waterford in football finale with playoff implications
BELOIT — With one game left on its regular-season schedule, Beloit Memorial’s football team finds itself in an unfamiliar situation. You’d have to go back in a time machine to 1999 to find a finale for the Purple Knights that matters as much as Friday’s home game with Waterford (4-4, 4-2 SLC). That was the last year Beloit posted a winning record and also the program’s final trip to the...
Janesville Parker feels good at home, romps past Madison East
JANESVILLE — Devon Connors-Shaw stood head and shoulders above the numerous well-wishers that gathered around him and the other Janesville Parker High football players after the Vikings’ 54-6 homecoming victory over visiting Madison East at Monterey Stadium. While there were many well-deserved yelps and pats on the back from fans and teammates, tears welled in the eyes that were underlined by eye black of the 6-foot-4, 240-pound offensive and defensive lineman. ...
South Beloit sweeps away Harvard in non-conference action
SOUTH BELOIT — The English teachers of South Beloit High School would surely be proud that the SoBos’ girls volleyball team took a note out of the “Three Musketeers” playbook. It was evident during Tuesday night’s 25-11, 25-18 sweep over Harvard in non-conference action that there wasn’t an ounce of selfishness on South Beloit’s side of the court. One for and all for one is just how the SoBos roll. ...
Tre Poteat's Three Touchdowns Lifts the Wildcats to Win Over Craig to Finished Undefeated Regular Season
VERONA — University of Tennessee commit Tre Poteat showed exactly why the Volunteers recruited him on Friday night against the Cougars. The Verona Area Wildcats wide receiver and defensive back scored three touchdowns in three different ways as Verona (9-0 overall,7-0 conference) cruised to a 49-7 win over Janesville Craig (5-4 overall, 4-3 conference) to finish the regular season unbeaten in the Big Eight Conference. Poteat started off his excellent...
St. John Jets only undefeated Dartball team after first week
BELOIT — The St. John Jets are the only undefeated team left standing in the Beloit Church Dartball League after one week of action. The Jets swept the River of Life Lightning 10-8, 5-4 and 7-2 the first night of league play. Four teams are tied at 2-1: Good Shepherd Chiefs, Our Saviors Trolls, Trinity Eagles and Messiah Thunder. ...
Hononegah's spectacular late pass play puts NIC-10 football race up for grabs
When Hononegah couldn’t move the ball, quarterback Dominic Kelly started running. “He’s a playmaker,” coach Brian Zimmerman said after Kelly led Hononegah to a 22-19 win at Belvidere North to forge a tie atop the NIC-10, with both teams now 7-1. “We talked at halftime about giving him opportunities with the ball. He took advantage of those.” ...
Edgerton spoils McFarland's playoff certainty
MCFARLAND -- Entering Friday night’s contest against the McFarland football team, the Edgerton Crimson Tide had already clinched a playoff spot with four conference wins. So the Crimson Tide did the next best thing: Play spoiler. The Spartans, who entered the game on the “playoff bubble” with three conference wins, suffered a 21-16 loss to...
Harlem rallies past Boylan; Huskies create a three-way tie for first place in the NIC-10
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — It is going to be some kind of finish to the NIC-10 football season. As we enter the final week, three teams are tied for first place at 7-1. Harlem created that three-way tie with Hononegah and Belvidere North Saturday afternoon by rallying to win at Boylan 31-24. With Boylan leading […]
Janesville Craig's Arreazola competes in WIAA state tournament for fourth straight season
MADISON — Janesville Craig senior Rya Arreazola competed in her fourth consecutive Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 1 state tennis tournament Thursday and while losing to Middleton’s Lydia Sabat, 6-0, 6-3, the fact of making a fourth straight appearance in the state tournament is not lost on her first-year coach Peter Stuckey. “She’s a tremendous athlete,” Stuckey said. “(Arreazola) made it to state as a Number 2 seed in the previous years, but she really embraced the No. 1-seed role on our team this year...
Two fourth-quarter touchdowns propel Hononegah to comeback win at Belvidere North
BELVIDERE, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — For the better part of three quarters it looked like the Belvidere North Blue Thunder were on their way to a thunderous win in NIC-10 play Friday night. They led Hononegah 19-7 going into the fourth quarter, but the Indians dug down and delivered two touchdowns that quarter to come away […]
Waunakee pounds Milton, 38-10, to remain unbeaten in conference play
MILTON — The Waunakee High School football team did what it has done for the past 30 years Thursday night — win. The Warriors completed their eighth undefeated Badger Conference season in the past nine years with a 38-10 victory over host Milton at Jerry Schliem Stadium Waunakee enters the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 1 playoffs with an 8-1 overall record that includes a 7-0 Badger Conference Large mark....
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