Westboro easily won its first game in the Dairyland League’s Small Division tournament, but the top-seeded Trojans let an 8-1 lead slip away in Sunday’s semifinal and did not get the chance to play for the title following an 11-8 loss to the fifth-seeded Tomahawk Titans. A five-run sixth inning rally got Tomahawk back in the game. The Titans tied it at 8-8 in the eighth and then, with all

The Rib Lake Osprey handed Abbotsford a lopsided loss to end the regular season and they slapped the Merchants with another one Saturday night to close out the quarterfinal round of the Dairyland League’s Small Division tournament. On the heels of that 15-5 win in Abbotsford on July 30, the Osprey were given some free bases early Saturday and they paid them off with big hits in a 142, seven-inning

eighth. Connor Westfall pushed through 7.2 innings to pick up the win. He worked around eight walks, eight hits and three hit batters by getting seven strikeouts and some infield outs at key times to keep Spirit off the board early. Dayne Marlenga went three for five with two RBIs to lead Westboro offensively. Marlenga’s RBI single was part of a six-run third inning. Spirit had just tied

A one-time assistant coach in the program under Robin Rosemeyer, Gilman high school tech ed teacher Tyler Pockat is back with the Pirates’ boys basketball program, hoping to lead the team back to prominence as its new head coach. Pockat’s hiring became official at the July 17 school board meeting. He takes over a program that has struggled with inexperience and a shortage of natural basketball

Hey sports fans, remember when a sports conference could generally be defined as a grouping of schools/teams joined by similar traits to fill a season’s worth of schedules, build traditions and create rivalries within a sensible geographic region? Huh, I guess now that I look at my Webster’s New World Dictionary that was published in 1990, conference was simply defined as “an association of

The thought of coaching had been in his mind for some time and with the group he’s helped coach for a half-dozen years or so now hitting high school, the timing of Gilman’s baseball head coach position opening up seemingly couldn’t have been better for Derek Nichols. The 2003 Gilman graduate officially became the school district’s choice to take over the program during the July 17 board

The title of world champion is sounding pretty good these days for Dustin Duerr of Medford. In his fourth trip to the World Horseshoe Pitching Championships, Duerr won the men’s D1 division championship by going 11.5-3.5 in his 15 games played July 20-22 in Lansing, Mich. Duerr was a half-game ahead of runner- up Sean Smith of Texas and thirdplace finisher Kevin Thomas of Georgia, who both