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PREPS: Beloit Memorial girls swimming team falls to visiting Burlington
BELOIT — Beloit Memorial’s girls swimming team managed only two first places as it fell to visiting Burlington, 112-58, on Tuesday at the Richard Vogel Natatorium. Beloit’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of Caroline Severson, Emma Polo-Fuertes, G’Yauna Morga-Thomas and Laila Lee finished first in 1:54.94. Polo-Fuertes won the 100 breaststroke in 1:26.00. The Purple Tide took three second places. The 200 medley relay team of Serinity Buchanan, Aalayja Listenbee-Fleming, Polo-Fuertes...
Beloit Memorial, James Ford tune up to face Burlington
BELOIT — Beloit Memorial head coach Brad Dement says football fans at Burlington High School will be treated to a showdown Friday night between two of the best running backs in the Southern Lakes Conference. He is referring to his own team’s James Ford III, who eclipsed 2,000 career yards in last week’s 28-21 win over Wilmot, and the Demons’ Kade Boyd, who has rushed 139 times for 923 yards (6.6 average) and 10 touchdowns this fall. ...
Beloit Turner can't keep up in 32-0 loss to Sterling
BELOIT — While the lopsided final score of 32-0 wouldn’t suggest it, Beloit Turner head coach Grant McLain was proud of the defensive effort his squad showed against Sterling. Heck, if it wasn’t for the remarkable leg of Golden Warriors’ kicker Ryan Gebhard the Trojans’ ‘D’ could have held the Illinois perennial powerhouse to just three scores. But on the offensive side? McLain was straightforward about the lack of success. ...
Hononegah's Kylie Simpson, Landon Samuelson top area finishers at Midwest Invitational
JANESVILLE — The Hononegah cross country team’s top runners ensured that the Indians were well-represented at the 86th annual Midwest Invitational hosted by Janesville Craig at Blackhawk Golf Course on Saturday. Junior Kylie Simpson finished 18th out of 305 girls’ runners while junior Landon Samuelson took the 18th spot as well in a race featuring 358 boys’ runners. Simpson ran the tricky course in a flat 19 minutes while Samuelson...
Beckham Denu, Beloit Memorial defense steps up in 1-1 draw with Union Grove
BELOIT — It felt like just yesterday that Beloit Memorial boys soccer head coach Brian Denu had to convince his middle child Beckham Denu to go out for goalkeeper as he entered high school. Four years later, Denu is in goal, taking to the sky to make astonishing saves and helping prevent the reigning state champions from stealing a win from the Purple Knights. Denu’s efforts at stymying a late...
Deerfield/Cambridge Cross Country: Emme Drobac wins Midwest Invite
The Midwest Invitational features some of the top runners from Wisconsin and Illinois. The race, held at Blackhawk Golf Course in Janesville, brings in over 50 teams to the area during the final week of September. With over 300 runners competing in the girls race, Deerfield junior Emme Drobac still came out on top on Saturday, Sept. 28. ...
Poynette/Portage soccer shuts out Janesville Parker
The Poynette/Portage soccer team etched a win over Janesville Parker on Monday, Sep. 30 with a commanding 6-0 final score. Poynette/Portage would score twice in the first half and four times in the second half. Xander Potter and Bryce Frey made a majority of the team’s goals. At the five minute mark in the first half, Potter scored his first goal of the night with the assist from Frey. Seven minutes later, Potter would score again with the assist from Kalan Fox. Scoring plays would...
SoBos post romp over AFC
SOUTH BELOIT — It is perhaps a telling sign of just how far the South Beloit football team has come when the SoBos’ 35-14 victory over Ashton-Franklin Center Friday night can be considered a disappointment of sorts. It wasn’t so long ago that any victory, over any time, was a cause for celebration in SoBo land. Not so now, where the team’s bar has been raised under coach Josh Redieske....
Lakeside's Reagan Gebhart wins RVC Championship by 1 shot
JANESVILLE — Lakeside Lutheran senior Reagan Gebhart fired the low round of the day, carding a 79 to win the Rock Valley Conference Championship held at Janesville Riverside Golf Course on Thursday, Sept. 26. Gebhart held off two other golfers — Jefferson senior Annika Bilau and Cambridge sophomore Jill Thompson — by one stroke to win medalist honors. The Warriors shot 387 as a team to finish second in the...
COLLEGE UPDATE: Hononegah grad Braxton Brown shines for Edgewood golf team
Hononegah graduate Braxton Brown earned Athlete of the Week honors at Edgewood College after the senior golfer made some school history at the Midwest Region Fall Classic in Kansasville, Wis., on Sept. 20-21. Brownn shot the second-lowest 36 hole in school history with a career-best 79-82-161. Her 79 at the Brighton Dale Links tied her career-best score. She had 10 pars and a birdie in the opening round. Brown closed...
PREP FOOTBALL: Hononegah runs over Freeport in NIC-10 victory
FREEPORT, Ill. — If the Hononegah football team was distracted by the week’s chaotic sequence of events, it sure didn’t show on Friday night. The Indians rumbled for 282 yards on the ground and shut out Freeport 35-0 in NIC-10 action just three days after being forced to forfeit last week’s win over Harlem due to what head head coach Brian Zimmerman termed a “clerical error” that made senior quarterback Dominick Kelly ineligible to play. The coach added that everyone on the roster is eligible...
Red Hawks shut out on the road by Monona Grove in boys soccer
MONONA — Four different Silver Eagles scored a goal in Monona Grove’s 4-0 victory over Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Badger-Large conference opponent Milton Red Hawks in their boys soccer match on Tuesday night. Scoring chances were available for the visiting Red Hawks in both halves, but the home Silver Eagles fended off each attempt in their shutout triumph. “They didn’t make any mental errors and we did and that cost...
Beloit College soccer teams split on visit to Cornell College
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — Beloit College’s women’s soccer team opened Midwest Conference play Saturday with a 4-1 victory over host Cornell College. The Buccaneers (2-7-2, 1-0-0) scored early, taking a 1-0 lead a minute and 39 seconds into the contest on a goal by Abigail Membrino. Two minutes later, Megan Thompson put Beloit ahead 2-0 with Natalie Ortiz picking up the assist. Five minutes into the second half, Ortiz scored...
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