Andrew Hanlon photo/Little Chute sophomore Madi Birling has been one of the bright spots for the Mustangs this season. Birling had a hit against New London, two hits against Wrightstown and two more against Denmark last week.
File photo/Sophomore Drew Joten continues to be one of the leaders on Little Chute’s 10-1 team. Joten had two hits and two RBI in a win against Peshtigo last week and threw 6 2/3 of shutout ball in a win against Waupaca.
Before losing two crucial games against conference-leading Denmark Monday and Tuesday, the Little Chute baseball team continued its unbeaten run in a string of games last week.
Andrew Hanlon photo/Kaukauna’s Kally Meredith slides in safely at second base just before Kimberly’s Brooke Ellestad puts the tag on her in the Ghosts’ 5-4 win over the Papermakers last Tuesday afternoon.
The Kaukauna softball team scored one run in the first inning, two more in the second, another in the third and another in the fourth to grab a 5-0 lead over Kimberly as the two rivals squared off last Tuesday afternoon.
Beginning with the 2022-23 season, a 35-second shot clock will be permitted in high school basketball games by state association adoption. A proposal for a national rule mandating a shot clock was not approved.
The boys’ tennis season got underway last Tuesday with a road matchup against Oshkosh West, and despite picking up wins from their number 2, 3 and 4 singles players, the Papermakers fell to the Wildcats 4-3.
The Kimberly track team hosted a triangular last Monday afternoon alongside Fox Valley Association foes Oshkosh West and Appleton West to get its spring season underway.
The girls were paced by a school-record 149 feet, 1 inch throw in the discus by Kayla Behnke, which beat Emily LaCount’s then-record 139-1 from 2015.
The Kimberly girls’ soccer team moved to 3-1-1 after two wins and a draw this past week. The Papermakers routed Appleton West 10-0 on Tuesday before a draw on the road at Fond du Lac. Kimberly then closed out the week with another blowout, this time 8-0 at home against Pulaski in a non-conference match.
After the dust cleared on Sunday – and it was a fun Sunday with multiple games featuring playoff-seeding implications – the Milwaukee Bucks ended up with the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference and will face the Miami Heat, who made Milwaukee look silly in the bubble playoffs last year.
The Kaukauna boys’ golf team travelled to Royal St. Patrick’s in Wrightstown Wednesday and came back with this year’s Heart of the Valley Invite title on the ever-difficult links course.
That was the highlight of the week, however, as the Ghosts’ win was sandwiched between two Fox Valley Association dual losses.
