Category: Sports
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SEED program offers marketing opportunities
Are you farming in southeast Wisconsin and looking for new or alternative markets for your farm products? Perhaps you are looking to expand your business and are in need of new sales opportunities. SEED (Sustainable, Edible, Economic Development) in Kenosha and Racine Counties is offering the Opportunities in Marketing to Distributors program to all farmers…
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Wilmot fourth, Westosha seventh at SLC wrestling
By Dan Truttschel, Sports Correspondent The Wilmot and Westosha Central wrestling teams combined to bring home three individual titles from last weekend’s Southern Lakes Conference Meet. Burlington won the team title with 231.5 points, followed by Elkhorn with 181, Badger with 169, Wilmot with 153 and Waterford with 139.5. Rounding out the team scores were Delavan-Darien…
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Wilmot boys drop three games in long week
By Dan Truttschel, Sports Correspondent The past week was a tough one for the Wilmot boys basketball team. Wilmot dropped all three games to see its record drop to 7-9 overall and 6-4 in the Southern Lakes Conference. The Panthers opened play with a 67-56 loss last Monday afternoon to New Berlin Eisenhower at the Bradley…
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Wilmot girls take 1-2 overtime loss punch
By Dan Truttschel, Sports Correspondent Two overtime losses in the same week could be enough to hurt a basketball team’s confidence. But that’s not the case with the Wilmot girls squad — instead, it seems to have only made the Panthers stronger. Wilmot fell 70-65 to Waterford in the week’s first game last Tuesday, followed by…
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Turnovers cost Falcons in home loss to Elkhorn
By Dan Truttschel, Sports Correspondent Turnovers at inopportune times came back to haunt the Westosha Central boys basketball team in its only game last week. And, unfortunately for the Falcons, they were just too much to overcome. Visiting Elkhorn outscored the Falcons 16-11 in a key third-quarter stretch en route to a 50-46 Southern Lakes Conference…
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Panthers’ defense rules against Broncos
By Dan Truttschel Sports Correspondent Last week’s home game with Union Grove should have been a stiff test for the Wilmot girls basketball team. But once again, the Panthers’ defense made sure that didn’t happen. Wilmot held the Broncos to just nine second-half points, including only two in the fourth quarter, and cruised to a…
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Gymnasts take seventh at Spartan Invite
By Jennifer Eisenbart Sports editor After competing short-handed against Elkhorn just two days before, Westosha/Union Grove gymnastics coach Bill Price was pleased simply not to finish last Saturday at the Spartan Invite in Madison. The gym team scored 108.15 to finish seventh of eight teams in the White Division. Burlington/Badger/Wilmot won the Green Division with…
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Bad quarter dooms Westosha in two games
By Dan Truttschel Sports Correspondent One big quarter by the opposition continues to be too much for the Westosha Central girls basketball team to overcome. In two games last week, the Falcons hung with both Wilmot and Elkhorn for three of each game’s four quarters – but in the other eight minutes, Central went cold…
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Panther girls win pair of contests, go to 8-1 overall
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Any chance the Delavan-Darien girls’ basketball team had of an upset Friday night disappeared rather quickly. The Comets had visiting Wilmot to thank for that. Wilmot raced out to a 13-2 first-quarter lead, followed by a 20-10 scoring edge in the second and never looked back in a dominating…
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Gymnasts post season best
By Jennifer Eisenbart Sports editor The Westosha/Union Grove gymnastics team formed a co-op this year in order to increase numbers – and the quality of the team. Unfortunately, a number of untimely injuries have taken a toll, putting the squad’s top two athletes on the sidelines. That was the case Saturday as Westosha/UG took 10th…