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Track and field: Warrior girls win seventh conference title in a row
Waunakee continued its stranglehold on Badger Large Conference track and field. The Warrior girls won their seventh straight conference title at the Badger Large meet on Tuesday, May 14, while the boys captured their third conference championship in a row. “Both teams really stepped up and got the job done,” said Waunakee head coach Jen Grabarski. “Our girls looked a little more comfortable going into the meet pointwise than the...
Boys golf: Waunakee second at regionals, advance to sectionals
By virtue of their second-place finish at the WIAA Sauk Prairie Regional, held at Lake Wisconsin Country Club on Tuesday, May 21, the Waunakee boys’ golf team advanced to sectionals. Dealing with four weather delays and nearly eight hours of golf, the Warriors ended up with a 302 — good enough to send them to the WIAA sectional at Blackhawk Country Club slated for Wednesday. Middleton shot a 294 to...
Softball: Warriors end regular season with loss to DeForest
Held to three hits, the Waunakee softball team wrapped up the regular season with a 5-2 Badger Large Conference loss to rival DeForest on Tuesday, May 14. The Warriors were supposed to end the campaign with a game at Janesville Craig on Thursday, May 16, but it was cancelled due to inclement weather. Against the Norskies, Waunakee took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but DeForest...
Cambridge baseball: Owen Bernhardt hits go-ahead double as Blue Jays win over Poynette
With Cambridge up 5-0 after the fifth inning, it looked like Tuesday’s game between the Pumas and Blue Jays was going to be a stress-free win for Cambridge. Instead, the game got a lot more interesting. The Pumas rallied for five runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game, but the Blue Jays scored twice in the top of the seventh to score a 7-5 win over...
Boys lacrosse: Warriors cap off undefeated regular season with Badger title
They finished off an undefeated regular season, with a Badger Conference championship to boot. Now, it’s time for the No. 1 ranked Waunakee boys’ lacrosse team to turn its focus to the postseason, as regional play begins on Friday, May 24. On Monday, the Warriors capped off the regular season with a tight 11-9 win at Oregon, as Gunnar McFadden finished with a hat trick. It was tied 6-6 at...
Home Talent: Local Nine opens season with a win over Black Earth
Picking up where they left off in 2023, Waunakee’s Local Nine won an 11-7 slugfest with Black Earth on Sunday to open the 2024 Home Talent campaign. “It was a very good first game of the year,” said Local Nine head coach Justin Acker. “Everyone got in and contributed. The bullpen did a great job of giving up on only one run in six innings. (Shea) DuCharme had a phenomenal diving catch in the fifth inning saving at least two runs, and we turned a...
Baseball: Warriors upset top-ranked Sun Prairie East
As far as signature wins go, this one was a doozy. On Saturday, May 18, the Waunakee baseball team upset top-ranked Sun Prairie East 6-4, staving off the Cardinals in a non-conference victory after taking an early six-run lead. The Cardinals, ranked No. 1 in the final Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association Division 1 poll of the season, plated two runs in the third and fourth innings, but they couldn’t get...
Home Talent: Poynette falls to Columbus in league opener
The preliminaries are over. Now, the games count for real. After edging Columbus 4-3 in the final exhibition game on Wednesday, May 15, in a walk-off win, the Poynette Home Talent team opened the league season with a 12-9 loss to Columbus on Sunday, May 19. Four different Poynette players had hits in the exhibition victory, as Carter Hansen laid down a suicide squeeze bunt to score Garrett Thurston for...
Girls soccer: Lodi ties Evansville, edges Columbus
Unbeaten in their last four matches, the Lodi girls’ soccer team edged Columbus 1-0 and tied Evansville during a four-game homestand. Anna Balfanz’s goal in the 65th minute on Tuesday, May 14, lifted the Blue Devils over the Cardinals in a hard-fought Capitol North Conference victory, as Lea Traeder assisted. Quetzal Peterson made seven saves for Lodi (6-5-3 overall, 2-2-1 in the Capitol Conference). ...
Track and field: Johnson leads Puma girls to fifth at conference meet
Piper Johnson went the distance to become a conference champion. Traveling to Lake Mills on Tuesday, May 14, for the Capitol Conference track and field meet, where the Poynette girls finished fifth, the highest team place for the Pumas since 2019. Johnson won the 1,600 run by eight seconds. “She ran a steady race and was able to pull away from the field in the last 400m,” said Kevin Frehner,...
Baseball: Late rallies doom Pumas
Had the Poynette baseball team held onto a couple leads, it would have been a better week for the Pumas. A pair of losses to rival Lodi left the Pumas (4-14 overall, 1-7 in Capitol North Conference play) with a sour taste in their mouths. In a seesaw affair, Poynette lost 12-9 to the Blue Devils on Tuesday, May 14, giving up six runs in the bottom of the sixth...
Baseball: Lodi sweeps rival Poynette
Down 8-6, the Lodi baseball team rallied to defeat rival Poynette 12-9 in a Capitol North Conference battle on Tuesday, May 14, and turned around two days later and pounded the Pumas 12-1. Eli Schneider led the way in the first game against the Pumas, going 4-for-4 with three runs and three RBIs, while Paxton Wyman went 2-for-2, scoring four runs and lacing a double. Dakota Franklin reached base in three of four at-bats, stealing a base and scoring a run. ...
Deerfield softball scores win against Wisconsin Heights, loses close matchup to Lodi
The Deerfield softball team’s rally in the bottom of the sixth inning fell short in a 5-4 loss to Lodi on Thursday, May 16 at Deerfield High School. In the sixth, sophomore Rowan Lasack scored junior Cora Nelson on an RBI single, sophomore Riley Fisher then scored Lasack on an RBI single and sophomore Lily Betthauser drove in freshman Nevaeh Schears on a Lodi error to cut the Lodi lead to 5-4. ...
Home Talent: Waunakee looks to return to the final four
After going to the final four last season, Waunakee’s Home Talent baseball team is hungry for more in 2024. The Yaks, as the Local Nine are known, must replace designated hitter Dane Luebke, among others, but most of the 2023 crew returns looking to finish the job that team started. The road might be tougher this time around, though. “Two years ago, we lost in the sectional championship game,” said...
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