Category: Sports
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Girls Soccer: Clippers Tie, Lose to Open Season
Sturgeon Bay’s girls soccer team was unable to score Friday when the Clippers opened their season with a tie and a loss. In two games at Booyah Field, Sturgeon Bay tied Wrightstown, 0-0, and lost to Waterford, 4-0. The Clippers are scheduled to play two road games this week – Monday against Green Bay Notre […]
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Boys Baseball: Vikings Open Season 1-1
The Gibraltar/Washington Island baseball team opened its season last weekend at a tournament at Adams-Friendship, where the Vikings split their two games. On Friday, Gibraltar/Washington Island scored all its runs in the first three innings when it defeated St. Mary’s Springs, 11-8. Of the Vikings’ nine hits, four players tallied two apiece. Marshall Maltby doubled […]
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Clippers Seek Conference, Regional Titles
After finishing 8-5-3 overall last season with a loss in the WIAA Division 4 regional semifinals, Sturgeon Bay’s girls soccer team returns nine starters who seek to win both a conference and regional title. Bob Desotelle is in his 10th season as a head coach with his list of top returning players including three who […]
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Door County League Seeks More Umpires
The 2024 Door County Baseball League season, which is scheduled to begin May 12, now looks like it will open with shortages in the umpire pool. With retirements and relocations, the league is stretched thin on fielding eight umpires every week. Umpire-in-chief for the DCBL, Roger Van Lanen, urges anyone interested in becoming a baseball […]
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Apple Valley Classic League March 18, 2024 • Team / high game: Greystone Castle 738 • Team / high series: Sawyer Harbor Pub & Grill 1944 • Women / high game: Alisa Rupp 253, Michelle Pfannenstiel 233, Michelle Hartel 223 • Women / high series: Alisa Rupp 644, Michelle Pfannenstiel 626, Michelle Hartel 554 • Men […]
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Prep Baseball Teams Prepare for 2024 Season
Weather permitting, Door County’s four Packerland Conference baseball teams are scheduled to take to the field next week for another season. The following season previews are in the order the teams finished last year in the conference. Eagles to Battle for Conference Title After finishing second in the Packerland last season and losing only in […]
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Pioneers Aim for League Title, Trip to State
After ending the season in the WIAA Division 5 regional title game with an overall record of 16-7, Sevastopol’s softball team has goals to do better than that this spring. Brooke Bittorf enters her sixth season as the Pioneers’ head coach with her list of top returning players including three who made the all-conference first […]
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Strivers’ Silvers Win Back-to-Back State Titles
The Door County YMCA Strivers competed last weekend in the YMCA state gymnastics championships at the Fond du Lac Y, where 13 teams from Wisconsin participated. The Strivers’ Xcel Silver team won its second consecutive state title. They also won 10 individual state titles and placed first in the all-around competition in all three age […]
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Naomi Rikkola is All-State Honorable Mention
Sevastopol junior Naomi Rikkola has received honorable mention in Division 5 girls basketball for 2023-24 from the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association. She was named to the All-Packerland Conference first team for the second season in a row as the Pioneers repeated as the league champions. Rikkola this season scored 465 points to reach 1,104 for […]
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WBCA Names Drew Daoust All-State in D3
For the second season in a row, Southern Door junior boys basketball player Drew Daoust has been named to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association’s All-State team in Division 3. The Eagles’ starting point guard was also the Packerland Conference’s Player of the Year for the second season in a row. He scored 885 points in […]
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Mallien Named Eagles’ Head Football Coach
An assistant football coach at Southern Door is taking over as the Eagles’ head coach next season. The Southern Door Board of Education on Monday approved the hiring of Scott Mallien, who has been the team’s defensive coordinator and has also coached track and field at the school. Mallien is replacing Mark Jonas, who is […]
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Clipper Girls Tracksters Second at Ripon
The Sturgeon Bay and Sevastopol track and field teams opened their seasons Thursday at an indoor meet at Ripon College. The Clipper girls finished second out of 13 teams with 87 points, behind only Berlin (178). The Pioneers (15.5) came in 12th. Sturgeon Bay’s top finishers included Nida Zukauskaite winning both the 60-meter hurdles (10.3 […]
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Eight Pioneer Girls Hoopsters Academic All-State
Eight varsity girls basketball players from Sevastopol have been recognized as Academic All-State by the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). The Pioneer girls include seniors Libby Ash, Katie Spude and Kylee Duessler, juniors Naomi Rikkola, Kayla Ranly and Ella Volkmann, and freshmen Lyvia Duessler and Izzy Andreae. Sturgeon Bay senior girls basketball player Tori Alger […]
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Peninsula Conference Renamed Across the Bay
Door County’s two eight-player high school football teams will have one fewer league opponent next fall when the Peninsula Conference will also be renamed the Across the Bay Conference under a realignment plan approved by the WIAA Board of Control. In addition to the name change, Wausaukee is leaving the league to join the Northeast […]
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Daoust Repeats as Packerland Player of the Year
Southern Door junior point guard Drew Daoust has been named the Packerland Conference’s Player of the Year in boys basketball for the second season in a row. Daoust, who holds Door County’s career scoring mark with 2,225 points, tallied 885 points this season to lead the league- and regional-champion Eagles, who went 16-0 in conference […]
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Two Pioneer Girls on Packerland First Team
Packerland Conference girls basketball co-champion Sevastopol has two juniors who were the team’s top-two scorers make the All-Conference first team, Naomi Rikkola and Kayla Ranly. Rikkola this season scored 465 points to reach 1,104 for her career, 219 away from the school record of 1992 graduate Michelle Bushman. Southern Door’s leading scorer, senior Payton Gilbertson, […]
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Tiani LeMieux is Packerland Wrestler of the Year
Sturgeon Bay/Sevastopol sophomore Tiani LeMieux, who finished second this season at 138 pounds among girls wrestlers at the WIAA state individual tournament, has been named the Packerland Conference Wrestler of the Year. LeMieux, who qualified for state for the second year in a row and received All-Conference honors at 150 pounds, finished the season 36-6 […]
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Strivers Sweep Podium at Kettle Moraine YMCA
The Door County YMCA Strivers gymnastic team had a clean sweep of sorts in West Bend while competing on the first weekend in March in the 10-team Fire and Ice Invitational hosted by the Kettle Moraine YMCA. The Strivers’ Xcel Silver gymnasts grabbed gold in the team competition with a score of 114.5. The Strivers […]
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Apple Valley Classic League Feb. 26, 2024 • Team / high game: Greystone Castle 666 • Team / high series: Apple Valley Pro Shop 1,930 • Women / high game: Michelle Hartel 217, Penny Kramer 214, Michelle Pfannenstiel 207 • Women / high series: Michelle Hartel 595, Penny Kramer 594, Michelle Pfannenstiel 548 • Men / […]
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Eagles Fall to Freedom in Sectional Semifinals
The season came to an end Thursday for Southern Door’s boys basketball team. The No. 2-seeded Eagles lost in the WIAA Division 3 sectional semifinals to top-seeded Freedom, 80-50, in a game played at Green Bay Preble High School. The Irish, who led 44-23 at halftime, were able to dominate the game early on with […]