Knock MS Out of the Park

HEAD FIRST SLIDE INTO THE MUD - Carter Hanke of Marathon walks past his older brother, Cody Hanke of Marathon, after sliding into home in the mud on Saturday night. The Marathon Veterans Field infield was very muddy on Saturday night after Friday and Saturday’s rainfall. The rain subsided late Saturday afternoon. The infield was so muddy that softball players had trouble running as fast as they’d normally do around the bases. The Hanke brothers played for Last Out which beat Underwood Construction, 15-7.

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ST. MARY’S FAMOUS CHEESE CURDS - People wait all year to purchase cheese curds at the St. Mary’s stand during the annual Knock MS out of the Park and Marathon Fun Days at Veterans Park. Mother-daughter duo Sharon Miller and Katie (Miller) Drexler are shown working in the cheese curd stand on Saturday.

SOFTBALL TEAMMATES ENJOY A BIG WIN - Last Out softball player Karter Underwood grabs his teammate Marshall Westfall’s shoulders while sharing a laugh with him at the end of an inning during their team’s 15-7 win against Underwood Construction on Saturday night at Veterans Park. Underwood played high school baseball for Marathon and Westfall played on the Athens baseball team’s back-toback WIAA Division 4 state championship teams in 2017-18.

“LUKE DUKE” FROM DUKES OF HAZARD SINGS AND PLAYS GUITAR - Actor and singer Tom Wopat performs country musician Waylon Jennings’s song “Just a good ole boy,” which is the Dukes of Hazard television show’s theme song, on Saturday during the annual Knock MS Out of the Park event at Marathon Veterans Park. Wopat is best known for playing Luke Duke on Dukes of Hazard from 1979-1985. Marathon High School 1992 graduate Scott Buchberger grew up watching Dukes of Hazard and he bought a General Lee car in 2003. He met Wopat in Iola in 2019 and became friends with him. Wopat grew up in Lodi, Wisconsin.