Area Sports

Having to participate in cross over games the final week of the season due to Cameron leaving the conference this year the Lakers girls downed the Birchwood Bobcats Tuesday night before losing their road finale in Grantsburg to the Pirates Thursday night. The Lakers met the Birchwood Bobcats Tuesday night, February 18 on the home…

Professional baseball spring training has begun, local high school winter sports seasons are nearing the end, and for area slo-pitch softball players a hint of spring brings out the gloves, spikes, bats and balls, prepping for the upcoming season. For one local player the softball season has been extended into the near-retirement era. Todd Zemke,…

Ripon freshman Alison Leslie has been named Midwest Conference Women’s Basketball Performer of the Week after helping Ripon win both of their games last week, en route to clinching the team’s third consecutive MWC Championship. A Biology major from Clayton, Wis., Leslie averaged 29 points per game during the week, scorching the nets with a…