Athens players have more experience and will win more games
ATHENS HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL - Introducing the 2025-26 Bluejay girls varsity and junior varsity basketball players. High school players pictured, from left to right, front row are: Ellis Baer, McKenna Lepak, Vanessa Espinoza-Quiroz, Sy’Rih Hartwig, Grace Schreiner and Katelyn den Otter; middle row: Brynley Louis, Ava Erickson, Ayva Haehlke, Itzel Espinoza-Quiroz, Jaelin Switlick, Brooklyn Hein and Kenzie Woller; back row: Yurt Alegjo-Herrera, Brinley Kornack, Lauren Beaty, Jordyn Gross, Anna Keemann, Riley Hanke and managers Terah Schreiner and Ava Ford. PHOTO BY CHRIS KEPNER ATHENS HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL - Introducing the 2025-26 Bluejay girls varsity and junior varsity basketball players. High school players pictured, from left to right, front row are: Ellis Baer, McKenna Lepak, Vanessa Espinoza-Quiroz, Sy’Rih Hartwig, Grace Schreiner and Katelyn den Otter; middle row: Brynley Louis, Ava Erickson, Ayva Haehlke, Itzel Espinoza-Quiroz, Jaelin Switlick, Brooklyn Hein and Kenzie Woller; back row: Yurt Alegjo-Herrera, Brinley Kornack, Lauren Beaty, Jordyn Gross, Anna Keemann, Riley Hanke and managers Terah Schreiner and Ava Ford. PHOTO BY CHRIS KEPNER
The Athens varsity girls basketball team has already matched its win total from all of last season of two games. Athens beat both Phillips and Abbotsford this season for the first time since Januar...
With Gibraltar-Washington Island base runner Miles Richmond behind him, Rib Lake third baseman Ty Niemi cleanly fields a ground ball hit byViking Mason Isaacson and throws him out to end the Redmen’s 7-4 victory in a WIAA Division 4 sectional semifinal. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
Finley Arndt celebrates with Laney Hraby (5) and Addison Brahmer after she and Brahmer scored on Zayleah Leonhardt's game-winning hit in the top of the eighth inning in Thursday's WIAA Division 2 sectional final played in Altoona. Medford won 6-4 and will play Pewaukee Friday at 4:30 p.m. in a state semifinal in Madison. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
Zayleah Leonhardt, Rylee Hraby, Ava Hartl, Sophie Koester and Jolie Steliga are in the center of the celebration after Hraby got the last strikeout to end Thursday’s 6-4 win over Baldwin-Woodville in the WIAA Division 2 softball sectional semifinal. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
Medford’s Rivalee Stokes gets into her throwing motion during the preliminary round of Saturday’s WIAA Division 2 girls state discus competition. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
Shortstop Talon Scheithauer awaits the toss from second baseman Brody Olson as they get a fourth-inning forceout on Laona-Wabeno’s Eli Owen during Rib Lake’s 12-1 regional final win onWednesday, June 3. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
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