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RiponPress.com Sports Poll

Last week’s sports question on RiponPress.com asked readers how the Brewers should fill the void at first base with Mat Gamel out for the year and Cory Hart sidelined probably until at least May.

Here are the results:‰ In-house options 45%‰ Sign a free agent with ex-perience 55% This week’s question: With the first spring sport starting practice Monday (track and field), which sport are you looking forward to the must?‰ Baseball‰ Boys’ tennis‰ Girls’ soccer‰ Softball‰ Track and fieldTo vote, log on to www.ripon-press.com and click on Sports. The poll is located on the right side of the page. Poll results will be pub-lished in the following week’s Commonwealth.

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The number of school records the Ripon College women’s track and field teams broke during last weekend’s Midwest Con-ference Indoor Track and Field Championships.

To find out which records fell and who broke them, see page 20.

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SPORTS‰ Rodriguez wins state swim title, Duffy also fares well at meet see page 20

The Ripon Community Swim Club member became the first swimmer in pro-gram history to win a state championship last weekend.

Rodriguez, 12, of Ripon won all six events he swam in en route to winning the in-dividual title in the 11-to-12 age category at the 12 & Un-der Wisconsin Short Course State Championships.

The competition took place last week Friday to Sunday in Madison.

“This is going to set a prec-edent,” said Al Brink, Ripon Community Swim Club head coach. “... Andrew is just a really focused and mentally tough [swimmer]. His turns are really, really good.”

His times at the state meet put him among the national leaders in all six events.

For more information on what events he won and his rankings in those events, see the story on page 20.

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‰ Community Swim Club will send six to 13 & over state meet see page 20

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by Jonathan [email protected]

Murphy’s Law — “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong” — was in full force last week Friday for the Ripon High School boys’ basketball team.

The Tigers fell behind early and could never get going.

They battled foul trouble and questionable calls all night and lost their leading scorer (Bryce Bau-man) to a knee injury in the fourth quarter.

The result? A 67-49 season-ending road loss to Sheboygan Falls in the regional semifinals of the WIAA Tournament.

“We couldn’t string anything positive together ...” Ripon head coach Dean Vander Plas said. “We get a stop, we might make a basket and we come back and give up a 3-[pointer] right away or we would come back and foul. We just couldn’t get a string together and it wasn’t for a lack of effort. I thought our kids’ effort was tremendous tonight.

“And then we just had a lot of foul trouble where we were playing

During last year’s end-of-the-season banquet, the Ripon High School boys’ basketball team and its family members were intro-duced to an Australian man born with no arms and no legs.

Nick Vujicic, an inspirational speaker who travels around the world, spoke in a YouTube video on the challenges of not giving up no matter how significant the obstacles in front of you might be.

Despite his predicament, which includes having only one foot shaped as he calls it like a “chick-en drumstick” on the right side of his body, Vujicic enjoys swim-ming and diving, playing soccer, performing music on his custom-ized drum set and much more.

The message Tiger coach Dean Vander Plas was trying to pass along to his players was to never

quit and always fight to get back up after falling down, regardless if it’s on the court or in life.

Little did he know, it would perfectly define this season.

“Along the way you might fall down ...” Vujicic said in the

45-minute YouTube video. “So what do you do when you fall down? You get back up. Ev-erybody knows to get back up because if you’re not walking, you’re not going to get anywhere. But I tell you there are sometimes in life where you fall down and you feel like you don’t have the strength to get back up. So you sort of put a mask on your face when you come to school and pretend that everything is OK when it’s not and you go home and lay in your bed when no one is looking


The Ripon College men’s basket-ball team knew it could hold its own against Midwest Conference regular season champion St. Norbert.

In the first game of the season, it stayed competitive through one half — even leading early in the second half — before falling 73-42.

The second time around, it jumped out to a 15-2 lead against its rival and was in the contest until the very end, losing 57-52.

But the Red Hawks hoped the third time against the Green Knights would be the charm last week Friday.

Unfortunately, that was not the case: they fell 75-65 in the semi-finals of the Midwest Conference Tournament.

St. Norbert hosted the tournament as a result of having the best regular-season record.

The loss marks the end of the Red Hawks’ season and the collegiate careers of five Ripon players.

with combos that we’re not nor-mally playing with, but at the end of the day you have to rise to the occa-sion and we fell short.”

Ripon fell behind 3-0 on the game’s first possession after allowing Sheboygan Falls to get an offensive re-b o u n d and

trailed 5-0 before Bauman scored the team’s first basket midway

through the first quarter.But the three-point deficit

was as close as the Tigers got the rest of the game as the Falcons built a 14-6 lead after the first quarter, were leading 29-19 at halftime and 46-30 after the third quarter.

In that third quarter, Ripon found itself in

severe foul trouble as Bauman, Mason

S t a n g l

and James Vander Galien all picked up their fourth fouls. By now, She-boygan Falls was already in the bonus.

Sam Vander Plas also picked up his fourth foul 30 seconds into the fourth quarter, putting the Falcons in the double bonus.

At the cen-ter of the foul troubles was the officiating, accord-ing to the coach. In all, 46 fouls were whistled in

the game with 25 off them going against the Tigers.

Meanwhile, Sheboygan Falls went 21 of 31 from the line,

while Ripon was 10 of 18.Vander Plas was un-

happy with the officials all game and found out afterward they were re-placements after the scheduled ones could

Tigers’ season ends in regional semis

See ENDS/ page 24

Loss to Sheboygan Falls marks the

end of five careers

Ripon learns to pick itself up from a man without arms or legs

See LEARNS/ page 24


With the exception of the first three-plus minutes of Tuesday’s game, the young Ripon High School girls’ basketball team out-scored Kiel.

Unfortunately for the Tigers, that stretch resulted in a 13-0 deficit from which they were never able to fully recover.

Ripon lost 51-39 to the host Raiders in the regional quarterfinals of the WIAA tournament. The Raiders are the No. 5 seed in their half-sectional bracket, while the Tigers were the No. 12 seed.

Ripon, which plays with four freshmen, four sophomores and two

RC men fall to St. Norbert in conference tournament


The state wrestling tournament may not have turned out exactly the way Ripon High School junior Brady Jacobson, his coaches and his supporters would have hoped.

But at the end of the day, heads were held high across the board.

Jacobson (195-pound weight class) was leading Jacob Murphy of Ellsworth 4-3 after a late take-down in his first-round match.

A reversal with about two sec-onds left, however, resulted in a 5-4 loss and the end of his season.

The Division 2 match took place last week Thursday at the Kohl Center in Madison.

“Brady wrestled very well at the state tournament,” Ripon head coach Jared Esala said. “It was his best performance of the wrestling season. He has gotten better and better throughout the wrestling season. His confidence has improved a lot ... Brady did a

real nice job keeping his compo-sure at the state tournament. It is the biggest venue of the year, and he controlled his emotions and nerves. I believe the pressure of the state tournament helped him amp up his level of intensity.”

“It was a close match,” Jacob-son added. “It could have gone ei-ther way. It was a very good match. I wrestled the hardest I could and in the end it didn’t turn out the

Jacobson loses a heart-breaker at state, holds head high despite the defeat

Slow start cost Tigers in regional loss to Kiel

See STATE/ page 21 See FALL/ page 21

GREEN LAKE native Brad Brooks goes up for a shot against St. Norbert. Dennis Cotton photo

See COST/ page 21

BRADY JACOBSON WALKS through a tunnel of teammates on his way to the van that took him to the state tournament in Madison last week Thursday. Jonathan Bailey photo

THE RIPON HIGH School boys’ basketball team performs its pre-game ritual of roaring like a Tiger before last week Friday’s regional semifinal contest at Sheboygan Falls. Jonathan Bailey photo

SENIORS Mason Stangl, left, and Brady Erickson let their emotions flow after last week’s season-ending loss.

Jonathan Bailey photo

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Ripon College will host football coaching clinic Saturday, March 9

Ripon College will host its annual football coaching clinic Saturday, March 9. Coaches from the Ripon College staff, along with some of the top high school coaches from Illinois and Wisconsin, will speak on the principles of option football and the concepts of the 3-3 defense.

Registration will begin the day of the clinic at 8 a.m. at Todd Wehr Hall, located at the intersection of Ransom and West Blossom streets.

The clinic will be split into two groups: offense, which will meet in Farr Hall’s Bear Auditorium, and defense, which will be held in Todd Wehr.

The speakers will include conference champions, national lead-ers and state-championship coaches. That includes Ripon offensive coordinator Rick Coles, former University of Wisconsin-River Falls head coach John O’Grady, Sun Prairie High School head coach Brian Kaminski, Badger High School head coach Matt Hensler and Glenbard South High School (Ill.) head coach Jeremy Cordell, among others.

As part of the clinic fee, lunch will be provided from noon to 1 p.m. on the Ripon College campus.

For more information, call Ripon College head coach Ron Ernst at 748-8708 or at [email protected].

For the first time, parents of youth from Ripon and the surrounding communities may benefit from the convenience of signing their children up for the Ripon Youth Baseball & Softball program online.

Online registration for the season will open Friday and run through Sunday, April 7.

This registration platform will provide parents with an easy, user-friendly option to register for all leagues. It also will help the organization to be more administratively efficient and environmentally responsible.

An additional convenience for parents that may not have Internet service is the option of walk-in registration.

Families choosing this option may register during the Ripon Youth Baseball and Softball program’s walk-in registration Monday, March 4 and Thursday, March 21 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Ripon Public Library and before and after the organization’s annual meeting Monday, March 18 at the Ripon Middle School.

Fees for all leagues are based on the complexity of the league level, field maintenance costs, administrative costs and umpire fees.

Ripon Youth Baseball and Softball (formerly Ripon Little League) was established during the 1950s and has enjoyed more than 55 years of continuous organized summer recreational baseball and softball leagues for boys and girls ages 4 to 14.

Its goal is for its players is to develop a strong foundation in sports-manship and teamwork, and most importantly, to have fun while learning.

For more information, dates and registration details, visit www.riponyouthbaseballsoftball.com.

Online registration will be offered for youth baseball and softball

Rodriguez wins state title


For the first time ever, the Ripon Community Swim Club has some-one it can call “state champion.”

Andrew Rodriguez, 12, of Ripon won all six events he swam in en route to winning the individual title in the 11-to-12 age category at the 12 & Under Wisconsin Short Course State Championships.

The competition took place last weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Natorium.

“This is going to set a precedent,” said Al Brink, Ripon Community Swim Club head coach. “... Andrew is just a really focused and mentally tough [swimmer]. His turns are re-ally, really good.”

Rodriquez’s teammate, Quyn Duffy, 13, of Ripon also earned six medals ranging from second to sixth place. He turned 13 Sunday, allowing him to compete in the 12 & under state championships.

“It’s perhaps the best state [meet] he’s swam,” Brink said. “He did an awesome job.”

As a result of when Duffy’s birth-day falls, he also will swim in the 13 & over competition this weekend (see the story below).

The two combined to give the Ripon Community Swim Club an eighth-place team finish out of 36 teams in Division 2 with 191 points.

Rodriguez competed in and won the 200-yard butterfly and 200 breaststroke last week Friday; the 50 backstroke and 100 individual medley last week Saturday; and the 400 individual medley and 200 backstroke Sunday.

Last week Saturday, he went up against one of his main competitors — Alex Wowk of Badger Aquatics Club — and won both events by less than a second.

Rodriguez once again swam

against another one of his main com-petitors Sunday in the 400 individual medley — Mason Schoof of the Schroeder YMCA Team in Brown Deer — and won by two seconds.

According to Brink, it was one of the most highly contested events of the state championships.

His times at the meet put him among the national leaders in all six events.

He is ranked 12th in the 50 backstroke (26.92 seconds), 17th in the 200 butterfly (2:08.65), 24th in the 100 individual medley (59.27), 31st in the 400 individual med-ley (4:36.09) and 200 backstroke

(2:08.89) and 63rd in the 200 breast-stroke (2:30).

For more on Rodriguez’s ac-complishments, including comments from him, see next week’s edition of the Commonwealth.

Duffy, meanwhile, finished sec-ond in the 1,000 freestyle, third in the 200 butterfly, 200 freestyle and 400 individual medley, fourth in the 500 freestyle and sixth in the 50 butterfly.

Ripon also had four girls — Elle Lewis, Alaina Vollmer, Hadley Neper and Lexi Tebon — compete in the 10 & under category at the short-course state championships.

According to Brink, nerves were evident from the swimmers.

“The girls felt the pressure of swimming in their first state meet,” he said. “They made some mistakes, [but] otherwise swam well and hopefully learned things which will help them develop as swimmers.”

Lewis finished 33rd in the 100 freestyle, 34th in the individual medley, 40th in the 50 butterfly, 45th in the 50 freestyle, 46th in the 100 breaststroke and 59th in the 100 individual medley.

Vollmer, on the other hand, placed 18th in the 50 backstroke and a 62nd in the 100 individual medley, while Neper finished 34th in the 50 backstroke, 28th in the 200 individual medley and 55th in the 100 individual medley.

Lewis, Vollmer and Neper also teamed up with Tebon to swim two relays. They finished 22nd in the 200 freestyle and 23rd in the 200 medley.

Quyn Duffy also records strong showing at the

12 & under meet

Local swimmers will compete at 13 & over state meet The Ripon Community Swim

Club will be well represented at this year’s 13 & Over Wisconsin Short Course State Championships.

Quyn Duffy, Caleb Kasper, Marcel Hones, Bob Klemm, Jim Klemm and Jarrod Long will swim for Ripon at the meet, which will take place Thursday through Sun-day at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer.

All together, they will compete in 16 events. The events they are competing in at state are:

‰ Duffy — 50-yard freestyle, 200 butterfly, 100 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay.

‰ Kasper — 100 backstroke, 200 freestyle, 100 butterfly, 50 freestlyle and 100 freestyle.

‰ Hones — 200 freestyle, 100 butterfly, 400 individual medley, 200 butterfly, 100 freestyle, 200 individual medley and 400 freestyle relay.

‰ Bob Klemm — 100 freestyle.‰ Jim Klemm — 400 freestyle

relay.‰ Long — 400 freestyle relay.

RIGHT, representing the Ripon Community Swim Club this weekend in the 13 & Over Wisconsin Short Course State Championships are, from left, Jarrod Long, Caleb Kasper, Marcel Hones, Jim Klemm and Bob Klemm. Missing is Quyn Duffy. submitted photo

ANDREW RODRIGUEZ, LEFT, and Quyn Duffy show off all the medals they won at last weekend’s 12 & Under Wisconsin Short Course State Championships. Rodriguez was the state champion, winning all six of his events. submitted photo

RC track and field teams break five school records at conference meet

The Ripon College men’s and women’s track and field teams finished third and fifth out of 10 schools, respectively, at the Midwest Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships held last weekend in Monmouth, Ill.

The Red Hawks set 37 personal records and five new school records set during the two-day competition.

The men accounted for two of the school records that fell as Eric Lang-man set a new mark in the preliminary round of the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.14 seconds and the 1,600 sprint medley team of Langman, James Allen, Matt Wood and Cory Zimmerman broke a two-year-old mark by one second with a time of 3 minutes, 34.23 seconds.

After finishing fourth in the 60 meter prelims, Langman also placed fourth in the finals with a time of 7.17. Wood and Zimmerman also had a lot of success, placing in two individual events apiece.

Wood took second in the 400 meters with a time of 50.21 — which was 0.52 seconds away from the top time — while taking fifth in the 200 meters with a time of 22.76. Zimmerman was the only member of Ripon’s team to win an event, taking first in the 800 meters with a time of 1:56.93, to go along with an eighth-place finish in the mile run (4:39.14).

Perhaps Ripon’s most successful event as a whole came in the weight throw, where Adam Sellner, Phil Akins and Austen Jentges placed fourth, sixth and seventh, respectively, with throws of 52 feet, 4 inches, 48-07 and 46-06.

On the women’s side, Matter set a pair of school records, breaking her own school marks in the 3k and 5k with times of 10:19.97 and 17:39.76, respectively. Jenna Breaker also broke a school record over the weekend, breaking a 26-year-old record in the high jump by 1 inch with a height of 5-05.

In addition to Matter’s first place and second place finishes in the 3k and 5k, respectively, she also placed second in the mile run (5:12.02) and was a part of Ripon’s first-place distance medley relay team, where she teamed with Grace Winter, Lexie Schaffer and Alyssa Nycz to run a time of 12:46.65.

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greatest but this stuff happens.”Jacobson (26-12 overall), who

is Ripon’s first state qualifier since Connor Hanson made it to Madison in back-to-back years in 2009 and 2010, fell behind early in the match.

He was taken down roughly a minute into the first period, but got back to his feet to make it 2-1 before the end of the period.

After starting the second round in the down position, the junior once again stood up and broke the hold to tie the first-round match at 2.

Murphy (28-14 overall) began the third and final period on the mat hoping to gain a point for getting up and while Jacobson did everything he could to keep him there he did just that with about a minute left.

Trailing 4-3 with the season tick-ing away, Jacobson did not give up.

He recorded his first take down of the match with about 15 seconds remaining to take a 4-3 advantage.

And it appeared like he would be moving on to the next day, where he would wrestle at least two matches.

But with around two seconds left and both wrestlers frantically trying to extend their seasons, Murphy recorded a reversal and the victory.

Esala doesn’t think Jacobson got caught up in the moment.

“I don’t believe Brady’s emo-tions got the best of him,” Esala said. “Brady’s opponent kept his composure in the final seconds of the match. Brady was in a great situation to win that match, but just fell short.”

Jacobson added nerves may have possibly played into the reversal, but really doesn’t know.

“I was thinking, ‘Oh yeah, I’m up a point now. I just have to ride him out for 15 more seconds,’ but that didn’t happen,” Jacob-son said. “I thought [as time was

“I’m happy for my seniors that they were able to experience the emotions of playing in the confer-ence tournament one last time,” Ripon head coach Ryan Kane said. “And then I also was happy for the younger guys to experience that, because once you get a taste of playing in that tournament, I don’t care where it is, it’s a fun environ-ment and I hope they all enjoyed it. It’s added incentive when its one of your rivals

“The result is obviously dis-appointing but time will heal all wounds and soon enough they will realize what a great job they did this

FALL/Two St. Norbert runs prove costly in season-ending loss; five players conclude careers continued from page 19

winding down], ‘Holy crap, I just won my first match at state.’”

Despite the loss, Jacobson not-ed the entire trip was a memorable one. He received a large send off at the school before heading down to Madison last week Thursday as well as a police escort out of town.

“The experience going to Mad-ison was a great experience,” Ja-cobson said. “I mean, not a lot of people get that. It’s just a once in a lifetime opportunity. Next year, it depends how the regionals and sectionals look [if I get back].”

Esala hopes the experience fuels Jacobson to return to Madison next year and improve upon the result.

“When Brady creates goals for himself next wrestling season, there is no doubt in my mind that he will want to do better than he did this wrestling season,” Esala said. “He isn’t going to just want to get to the state tournament.

“That goal has already been ac-complished. Why not place? Why

COST/Tigers take steps forward continued from page 19 STATE/Trip memorable for Jacobson continued from page 19

not stand on the top of the podium at the state meet?”

In order for Jacobson to achieve some of the goals Esala suggested, the Tiger coach said the junior will need to “study the sport further” and just continually work on his skills.

Esala also hopes Jacobson’s trip to state will inspire many of his teammates — who were in at-tendance — to reach that level of competition next year and beyond.

“As a coach, I ask for continuous improvement,” Esala said. “Some-times athletes need to be able to visualize their ultimate goal before it can ever be achieved. Many Ripon wrestlers watched the state tourna-ment and were able to watch one of their teammates compete. There is no reason any of the Ripon wrestlers should think wrestling at the state tournament is out of their grasp.

“Not all of them will make it to the state tournament, but all of them will have the opportunity to train to be a state champion.”

year.”Much like the first two meetings

against St. Norbert this year, Ripon held its own for parts of the game.

Early on, it was a defensive battle as the Red Hawks (11-7 confer-ence,13-11 overall) led 11-6 a little more than six minutes in.

The Green Knights (15-3 confer-ence 20-5 overall), however, heated up a little bit as they went on a 14-2 run over roughly the next seven minutes and a 23-9 stretch to close the half to take a 29-20 lead.

Ripon also went cold from the field as it missed nine of its last 11 shots in the first half.

“It’s a possession game in the postseason and there was probably some nerves early on from both teams,” Kane said of the defensive battle early on. “Defense is always going to be ramped up when you’re energy is high, so both teams were doing a great job defensively and it was hard for either team to kind of break free and get a rhythm or a flow to the game.

“We certainly had our chances; we had some open looks in that first half. But big credit to them, too. They’re obviously a good defensive team so it made it hard for us ... It’s important to capitalize on those few offensive looks you do get.”

A reason why the Knights were able to do slow down the Hawks in the first half was their defensive ef-fort on senior Taylor Koth.

Koth, who led the conference in scoring this season with an average of 24 points per game, was held to just four points in the first 20 minutes on 2-of-7 shooting.

“They’ve done a good job on him in the other two games we’ve played,” Kane said. “We tried to talk about ways to kind of get him more involved in the week leading up to the game, but they make it hard for you to get things at the rim and that’s where Taylor is at his best, and that’s where as a team we need to be. We’re not a team that’s going to be really able to hurt you from the perimeter.”

Koth, and several of his team-mates heated up early in the second half as Ripon cut the deficit to 36-33 with 15 minutes left to play.

An ensuing 22-10 run by St. Norbert, however, proved to be the difference in the contest.

The Red Hawks cut the deficit to seven at 65-58 with less than two minutes remaining, but couldn’t get any closer as the Green Knights made their free throws down the stretch to pick up the victory.

“The flow of the game, obviously, in the second half opened up with both teams scoring in the mid-40s,”

Kane said. “But again, a credit to them in that we just couldn’t come up with enough key stops. They would get a big offensive rebound or they would make a big shot.

“They had two guys who aver-aged a combined five points on the year, I think, go for 24 points. So that’s just a credit to their depth. We wanted to make sure that the guys who hurt us in previous games didn’t hurt us this game and those guys didn’t.”

Koth finished matching his sea-son average — 24 points — after scoring just the four first-half points.

Sophomore Kyle Loughrin added 16 points, while Green Lake native Brad Brooks chipped in with 10 in the losing effort.

Playing in their final game in Red Hawk uniforms were Koth, Andy Popp, Zach Meulemans, Alex Erdmann and Jake Cull.

Koth finishes as the sixth-leading scorer in school history with 1,514 points and the second-leading re-bounder with 721 boards.

While Koth has the majority of the accolades, all five seniors have a lot to be proud of, according to Kane.

“This senior group is a unique group in that they’ve had the op-portunity to play with the first and third all-time leading scorers in school history [Ripon native Scott Gillespie and Aris Wurtz] for two to three years of their career here,” he

said. “And when you play with great players like that, there’s a tendency to feel like you’re in someone’s shadow. Their legacy was only go-ing to be playing with those guys, and now their legacy is, ‘We did it together as a group.’

“They’re very close. They’re very tight and they played that way on the floor. Sometimes it was good and sometimes it was bad how close they were. But ultimately, they left a really great legacy for themselves on this program that can stand on its own.”

As far as the program’s future legacy is concerned, Kane knows overtaking St. Norbert — where he played basketball for four years in the late 1990s — is a must.

“The only reason I want to beat those guys is because they’re good and they’ve gone to the NCAA Tour-nament three of the last four years and they’re on top,” Kane said in regard to whether the rivalry has any special meaning due to his time at St. Norbert. “Anytime you’re on top you have a target on your back and myself and everybody who works in this program are doing all they can to get to that level and to get to the point where we can compete with them and beat them on a consistent basis.”

St. Norbert defeated Carroll 92-68 in the championship game of the conference tournament to earn a spot in the NCAA Division III Tourna-ment, which begins this weekend.

TAYLOR KOTH DRIBBLES the ball around a St. Norbert defender in Ripon’s 75-65 loss last week Friday. Dennis Cotton photo

ALEX ERDMANN fights with a Green Knight defender for possession of the ball. Dennis Cotton photo

juniors, finished the season with a record of 2-21 overall.

“That’s kind of the moral of the story of our season: just inconsisten-cy,” Ripon head coach Jason Wick-strom said of his team’s slow start Tuesday night. “But we finished [the game] strong and ... it’s a good way to go into the next season.”

The Tigers trailed 19-7 after the first quarter and 33-16 entering halftime, before out-scoring the Raiders 23-18 in the second half.

Their best quarter was the third, where they limited the Raiders (15-8 overall) to just three points, while scoring nine of their own.

“Kiel attacked our zone very well [early on] with the high/low action that we knew was going to come,” Wickstrom said. “It’s hard to simulate in practice with their height. They’ve also got very good outside shooters, which didn’t hurt us as bad as the big girls did. We just didn’t box out. We knew re-bounding would be a big key to the game and we just didn’t execute at that phase for pretty much the first half of the game.

“The second half we played with some intensity. If we would have started the game like that it might have been a little bit differ-ent of a story, but it was a good effort in the second half. They kind of played their tempo in the first half and we got it more to our liking in the second half, but it was pretty much too late.”

Despite playing better in the second half, Ripon was never able to cut the deficit to single digits as 10 points near the end of the con-test was as close as the score got.

The Tigers received production from several players on offense, led by Shannon McNeill’s 16 points.

They also benefitted from eight points from Marissa Bunge, seven from Ruth Schroeder and five from Katya Dudzinski.

The scoring distribution was a bright spot for Wickstrom.

“You want to have a balanced attack and we did that tonight,” he said. “Going into the future we’re going to need more people to step up; we just can’t rely on one or two people. We had a few games like that in the season, but, I think, as we got more confident as individu-als there was a little more balanced scoring.”

While this season offered its fair share of struggles and chal-lenges due to the inexperience of

the team, the Tiger coach is proud of the steps it has taken to improve and move forward.

“As far as wins and losses go, it obviously wasn’t a good season,” Wickstrom said. “But as far as the development of the players individually and as a team, I’m very pleased with that. Now we’ve got to take the next step in the off-season and get better at the things we need to work on and polish the things we did well.

“... It’s hard to keep showing up every day [when the outcome’s not necessarily what you want it to be], but they stuck with it. They stuck together and played as hard as they could and did a nice job.”

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not make it due to snowy weather that night.

Fouls, however, were not the only issue that troubled Vander Plas.

In the second quarter, the Tigers were called for three questionable traveling violations — the final one negating a Bauman 3-pointer that would have made it 24-14.

“You tell the kids that the refs got to do their jobs and we’ve got to do ours ...” he said. “But you’re feel-ing bad for the kids because they’re executing the way you taught them to execute and those aren’t travels. The pivot foot’s down ... I was be-side myself. I was probably a bit too beside myself at a couple of times with the disappointment in the way they were [officiating] the game.

“It’s sad that my five seniors had to have what I would say was a very poor effort by the only two people getting paid. I am disappointed in that, yet Falls had to play with them and so did we and they played better than us with them. Give them credit. They beat us and luckily it wasn’t a one-possession game where those two guys were going to matter. We just couldn’t get [on a roll] and those travels really did come [at a

at you; when you don’t have to impress anybody and fear comes in ... It’s that fear that paralyzes you and I just want to ask you to-day, do you think you have hope?

“Because I tell you, I’m down here — face down and I have no arms, no legs. It should be impossible for me to get back up … but it’s not. You see, I will try 100 times to get up and if I fail 100 times — if I fail and I give up — do you think I’m ever going to get up? No. But if I fail and I try again, and again, and again, for as long as I try there’s always that chance of getting up ... And it’s not the end until you’ve given up. And just the fact that you’re here should per-suade you that you have another chance to get back up. There’s still hope.”

Ripon fell down plenty of times early in this past season. It lost its first nine games, includ-ing some in very painful fashion.

The team was leading Win-neconne by 11 points early in the fourth quarter in mid-December, but squandered the advantage to lose 62-56.

A couple days later, it led a Waupaca team without a confer-ence win by four points in the third quarter, before blowing the lead and losing once again, 63-56.

But instead of giving up and staying down, the Tigers took Vujicic’s advice and got back up and finished the season strong.

They won 11 of their last 15 games to conclude the campaign with a record of 11-13 overall for the second-consecutive year.

Even when they did stumble during the strong end to the sea-son and fell, the Tigers managed to get themselves back up.

They followed three of their losses — which consisted of a 53-50 heart-breaker to Xavier, a 56-36 lackadaisical performance against Little Chute and a 64-60 defeat at the hands of Fox Valley Lutheran in which they led by 10 points midway through the

ENDS/Bauman, Potratz, Stangl, Erickson and Grinde play their final high school game continued from page 19

bad time]...”Vander Plas also pointed to the

officiating as being one of the rea-sons Bauman injured his knee in the fourth quarter.

He was down for a couple min-utes, before being helped off the court. He did not return.

“Things didn’t go well for him tonight,” Vander Plas said. “He’s a great scorer and you need him in a game like that. [The injury] hap-pened because [he collided with a teammate], but our own guy got pushed into him and that was the whole thing of the game. Now, here we are and one of the best players in our conference doesn’t get to play because this [game] is out of con-trol. That hurt. It hurt mentally. It hurt emotionally and obviously our game plan changes when you don’t have a 6-[foot], 4-[inch] kid that can rise up over people and shoot.”

Bauman, who is the fourth-lead-ing scorer in school history, finished with eight points — all coming in the first half.

Noah Potratz led Ripon in scor-ing with 13 points, while Sam Vander Plas and Vander Galien added 11 and 10, respectively.

second quarter — with victories. In fact, they won seven-

straight games after the Fox Valley Lutheran loss, before seeing their season come to a conclusion with a 67-49 regional semifinal road loss to Sheboygan Falls last week Friday.

While Ripon likely was hop-ing to improve upon last season’s record after graduating only two players, Vander Plas has plenty of reasons to be proud of how his team responded this season.

“I kept thinking to myself that most kids these days would have quit,” Vander Plas said. “They would have just said, ‘Hey, what about me? Let me score my points and let’s get this season done and move on’ ... and these kids didn’t. They kept coming to the gym every day, [including] the last two days trying to get better [before last week Friday’s loss to Sheboygan Falls].

“I’m not only pleased with that, I’m proud of it and I think that shows great resiliency for them for the rest of their lives. If there is anything I can teach kids it’s that I want them to be grateful and I want them to be tough. To be tough means if you get pushed down, you get up and, I thought, this team did that.”

After showing the Ripon play-ers and their family members watching the YouTube video his ability to get back up, despite having no arms and no legs, Vu-jucic concluded that part of his speech with a powerful message.

“I just want you to know that it’s not the end [when you fall down],” he said. “It matters how you’re going to finish. Are you go-ing to finish strong? You will find that strength to get back up ...”

The Tigers showed that strength this season and in the process put together a memorable season, filled with plenty of life lessons.

They didn’t win as many games as they probably wanted to and they didn’t make it to sectionals or the state tournament, but they have a lot to be proud of.

LEARNS/Tigers epitomize Vujucic’s message continued from page 19

The game was the final high school contest for five seniors.

Playing in their last game in Tiger uniforms were Bauman, Stangl, Potratz, Brady Erickson and J.J. Grinde.

“You need bricks and you need mortar to build a good house and I would say we had a good supply of both, because J.J. and Brady — they just get us to stick together,” Vander Plas said. “I thought Brady had one of the most improved years of anybody, yet if you look at the box scores and stats [you won’t be able to notice that]. He made our practices better every day. He was willing to do all his stuff on the scout team to make us better. He sacrificed himself for us. J.J was the same thing; just a kid who cares about his teammates and loves the game. It was great to have them.

“Then, I thought Noah had an incredible senior year. To step up the way he did from last year ... and doing a lot of the dirty work and having to guard their best player every night, he had a fantastic year. And Bryce, what can you say. The kid’s got a lot of talent and he’s going to play a lot more basketball in his life. He’s just a fun athlete to coach; great offensive skills. And then Mason, it’s just fun to have a kid that rebounds like that. You only get them every once in a while and I’ve now had three of them and they’re just fun to coach because there’s something about what they do that you cannot teach and you just get to watch and enjoy it.”

While the seniors will be missed, Vander Plas knows he has a solid group of players slated to come back next season as well as some from the junior varsity team and a talented class of incoming fresh-man.

Among the likely returning varsity players are current juniors Sam Vander Plas, Vander Galien, Landon Fenner, Marcus Pollesch, and Manny Nelson and sophomore Riley Haas.

“I got some pretty special kids coming back,” Vander Plas said. “And much like the special kids

we’re losing, I’ve got a great group coming back and the junior class is obviously a bit dear to me because my son is in that class and that was really tough for me and him in the locker room tonight. I don’t want to have that feeling. I would like to finish strong with that group.

“There’s something there be-cause you’ve known them since they were so little and, I think, you get a little more emotional.”

Ripon finishes the season with a record of 11-13 for the second-consecutive year — after winning 11 of its final 15 games.

BRYCE BAUMAN GRIMACES in pain as a Sheboygan Falls athletic trainer works on his knee in the fourth quarter after a teammate was pushed into him. Watching on is Ripon head coach Dean Vander Plas. Jonathan Bailey photo

SAM VANDER PLAS launches a shot over the out-stretched arms of a Sheboygan Falls defender in the second half of the Tigers’ 67-49 regional semifinal loss last week Friday. Jonathan Bailey photo

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Last week’s sports ques-tion on RiponPress.com asked readers which Ripon High School fall sport they were looking forward to the most?

Here are the results:‰ Boys’ soccer 5%‰ Cross country 5% ‰ Football 64%‰ Girls’ tennis 9% ‰ Volleyball 18% This week’s question: What is the key to sinking a hole-in-one?‰ Luck ‰ Skill‰ A combination of luck and skill To vote, log on to www.riponpress.com and click on Sports. The poll is located on the right side of the page. Poll results will be published in the following week’s Commonwealth.

Ben Reilly

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The incoming Ripon High School senior will enter his final season with the cross country team on a high note.

Reilly finished second only to Matt Groose of Madison in the Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run last week Saturday with a time of 18 minutes, 29.63 seconds.

The performance was more than 29 seconds faster than what he ran during last year’s Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run, when he placed third overall.

He finished that race with a time of 18:58.88.

Reilly and the rest of the cross country team will begin practice for the upcoming season Monday, Aug. 19.

The first competition for the Tigers is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 6 in Freedom.

A season preview will run in the Sept. 5 Commonwealth.

For pictures from the first day of practice, see next week’s Commonwealth.

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NUMBERS86

The number of runners who completed the Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run last week Saturday in Ripon — eight more than last year.

Matt Groose of Madison was the fastest finisher, com-pleting the race in a time of 16 minutes, 40.71 seconds.

Malerie Harmon of Berlin was the fastest female. She finished the run in 20:28.63.

For complete results and photos from the event, see page 22.

INSIDE

SPORTS‰ Red Hawks picked to finish fifth in Midwest Conference see page 22

‰ Runners take to the road in Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run see page 22 ‰ Ripon’s baseball traveling teams enjoy fair share of success see page 23


What started as a father-son bonding activity has turned into an op-portunity to take home the ultimate prize for one area youth.

Incoming Ripon High School freshman Luke Loewe will compete in The Bass Federation (TBF) Junior World Championship this weekend in Oil City, La.

He is Wisconsin’s only representative in the 11-to-14-year-old age bracket, which feature state qualifiers from 40 other states.

Loewe gives a lot of credit to his father, Jason, for his chance to bring home a world championship as he was the reason why he got into the sport.

“My dad just brought me out there and let me fish,” Loewe said, adding he was probably 4 or 5 years old at the time. “I started bass fishing right away, too, because that’s mostly what my dad fished for and that’s what I like to fish for, too.

“I have always gone with my dad whenever he went, so before I ever got in any of our youth tour-naments, my dad and I got in a couple tournaments on like Little Green Lake, Big Green [Lake] or [Lake] Winnebago. My dad and I actually won a Fishers of Men Legacy Father/Son Tournament on Winnebago and that’s where I started get-ting an interest in bass fishing tournaments.”

Loewe has continued to pursue his interest in bass fishing by competing in several youth organizations and tournaments.

He is a member of a youth club started a couple years ago by his father and also has competed in the Ripon High School Outdoors Club’s annual bass invi-tational tournament.

It was as a member of the club his dad started that he fished in a lot of bass tournaments and qualified for the state competition.

From there, he punched his ticket to this week-

end’s TBF Junior World Championship.Winning state, which took place late last year on Mason Lake

in Briggsville, and earning a spot in the world championship were no easy feats for Loewe.

“No, it was a tough lake,” Loewe said of whether he won the state championship handily. “We went out the day before and caught a lot of fish for practice fishing, but not very big ones. The day of the tournament, I started in the back of the boat because I was in the younger division. So, I was just fishing

behind the older kid in my boat and we were catching a lot of fish, but just not big ones.

“Later on in the day, I managed to catch two keepers and then later I caught my biggest fish. I saw it swirl on the surface and I caught that. So that was the winning fish, but I only brought in

three fish that were just over 14 inches. It was a tough day, but three fish were enough to win.”

The difficulty in catching the fish is both the most satisfying and challenging part of bass fish-

ing in the eyes of Loewe.“One rewarding thing is probably just going

out there and knowing that you were smart enough to figure out the fish and were

able to catch them,” he said. “And it’s rewarding when you catch a big bass,

definitely, because it’s rare ... It just

See LOEWE/ page 23

Local youth sets eyes on ‘Big One’

Think one hole-in-one is rare? Try two

Loewe will compete for world championship this weekend

Throughout the summer, it doesn’t seem like a week goes by where there isn’t a charity or company golf outing taking place.

Very few, if any, however, can make the same claim as one local insurance agency recently did.

Both Tom Olson of Oshkosh and Dave Weiske of Thomasville Ga., recorded hole-in-ones within a short time period on par-3 holes.

Olson sunk the first one on the No. 6 hole of the Blue Course and Weiske followed it up with an ace on the White Course’s No. 8 hole.

According to event organizer and Diedrich Agency employee Ruth Zimmerman, the hole-in-ones were the first ones in the invitational’s 32-year history.

“I think one is very rare, let alone two,” Zimmerman said. “It was pretty exciting.”

The excitement of the two hole-in-ones didn’t take long to spread, either.

“Everybody was on their cell phones texting and letting the other teams that were out playing know what happened,” Zimmerman said.

The Diedrich Agency 32nd-An-nual Golf Invitational was open to employees, customers and friends.

One hundred and four golfers competed in the 18-hole scramble.

The Diedrich Agency wit-nessed not one, but two hole-in-ones during its 32nd annual golf invitational Monday, Aug. 5 at Mascoutin Golf Club in Berlin.

Ushering in a new era

Boys’ soccer and girls’ tennis teams

begin practice under new coaches

Practice began for the Ripon High School boys’ soccer and girls’ tennis teams earlier this week, with soccer getting under-way Monday morning and tennis starting Tuesday — both the ear-liest days allowed by the WIAA.

Both teams enter the season with new coaches.

Ripon Middle School teacher Kyle Sackett takes over the boys’ soccer team from Don Bogdan-ske, while 2013 Ripon High School graduate Ryan Long as-sumes the reins of the girls’ ten-nis team from Buzz Rasmussen.Jonathan Bailey photos

ABOVE, TYLER JENNINGS kicks the ball toward the goal Tuesday while Alex Wheaton, left, chases after him. Calling for the ball on the other side of the field is Sam Vander Plas, who is being defended by Isaac Wheaton. Inset, new head soccer coach Kyle Sackett provides instruction to goalkeeper Peter Gauthier. A season preview will run in next week’s Commonwealth.

RIGHT, INCOMING Ripon High School freshman Luke Loewe shows off a largemouth bass he caught while out fishing on Big Green Lake. submitted photo

RECORDING HOLE-IN-ones during the Diedrich Agency 18-hole scramble Monday, Aug. 5 were Ripon native Dave Weiske of Thomasville, Ga., left, and Tom Olson of Oshkosh. submitted photo

‰ Quick Start Tennis Camp held last week for Ripon youth see page 28

NEW GIRLS’ HEAD tennis coach Ryan Long and assistant coach Becki Baird talk to the team during the first day of practice Tuesday.

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Sports

Men1. Matt Groose (16 minutes, 40.71 seconds); 2. Ben Reilly (18:29.63); 3. Aaron Zimdars (19:11.25); 4. Nathan Zimdars (19:33.53); 5. Matt Willett (19:38.18); 6. Sandor Axelrod (19:49.46); 7. Brock Martinez (19:49.96); 8. Hector Leon (19:54.85); 9. Andrew Clark (20:26.51); 10. Seth Zimdars (21:10.72); 11. Ben Lukoski (21:31.36); 12. Riley Gatzke (21:56.49); 13. Matt Teachout (22:34.41); 14. Jack Nosko (22:58.06); 15. Phil Sterr (23:47.33); 16. Connor Banerjee (24:02.32); 17. Tom Kloosterboer (24:10.66); 18. Derek Rodriguez (24:11.15); 19. Mike Nygarp (24:32.86); 20. Jacob Ford (24:44.91); 21. Orion Hones (24:45.50); 22. Michael Spencer (24:53.74); 23. J.J. Goljenbroom (25:13.81); 24. Neil Kwiatkowski (25:39.77); 25. Nick Sears (25:44.64); 26. Matthew Becker (25:45. 33); 27. Shawn Karsten (25:46.50); 28. Tyler Vodak (26:42.56); 29. Miles Fisch (28:18.35); 30. Seth Muskavitch (28:57.75); 31. Mark Dudzinski (28:59.39); 32. Mitch Martinez (30:47.95); 33. Samuel Ford (32:02.35); 34. Mike Fisch (32:22.16); 35. Corey Viars (32:50.88); 36. Paul Kasten (33:44.40); 37. Patrick Rose (35:18.83); 38. Dale Grubba (43:16.44); and 39. Eric Klaes (55:07.59).

Women1. Malerie Harmon (20 minutes, 28.63 seconds); 2. Kaitlyn Azinger (22:25.89);

Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run results

Competitors took to the streets of Ripon last week Saturday to take part in the Ripon Noon Ki-wanis Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run.

Eighty-six people finished the race. Matt Groose of Madison was the top overall finisher with a time of 16 minutes, 40.71 seconds.

Malerie Harmon of Berlin was the quickest woman, finishing the race in 20:28.63

Photos by Ian Stepleton, Jeff

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3. Bailey Hoch (23:39.95); 4. Trisha Olm (23:40.51); 5. Ashley Himebaugh (23:49.18); 6. Natasha Ing (23:55.88); 7. Samantha Beck (24:29.63); 8. Allison Sterr (24:40.44); 9. Christina Sutula (24:48.04); 10. Keeley Dohmeier (24:51.79); 11. Molly Groose (25:10.63); 12. Alyssa Thiel (25:56.39); 13. Stephanie Melchor (25:59.85); 14. Amy Sterr (26:05.65); 15. Carissa Zuercher (26:37.63); 16. McKenzie Nodolf (26:38.74); 17. Hollie Sutula (26:50.88); 18. Amelia Bruce-Allington (26:58.26); 19. Bethany Nodolf (28:14.13); 20. Adelin Nodolf (28:14.60); 21. Jessica Resch (28:31.37); 22. Leah Sutula (28:47.05); 23. Chris Dudzinski (28:47.66); 24. Marsha Blank (29:32.06); 25. Jenni Vodak (30.09.61); 26. Katherine Schneider (30:11.35); 27. Lizzie Hoch (30:14.74); 28. Nancy Spencer (30:51.74); 29. Emma Jacob (31:05.16); 30. Melissa Nyman (31:45.97); 31. Casandra Kohn (32:07.78); 32. Miranda Lors (32:50.13); 33. Carrie Nitz (33:34.51); 34. Tera Gentry (34:40.50); 35. Maggie Rose (35:17.86); 36. Kathy Rollin (35:47.69); 37. Bri Kwiatkowski (35:49.20); 38. Martha Becker (36:45.49); 39. Jill Puhlman-Becker (36:47.72); 40. Jillian Majerrus ( 37:01.85); 41. Trisha Andersen (40:41.47); 42. Angela Banerjee (43:13.99); 43. Susan Massey (53:44.55); 44. Michele Schrader (53:45.61); 45. Cheryl Iverson (54:11.12); 46. Jessica Joanis (55:04.61); and 47. Pamela Mumm (55:06.90).

RUNNING IN THE Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run are, from left, Shawn Karsten, Orion Hones, Ben Lukoski, Christina Sutula, Matt Becker, Mitch Martinez and Bailey Hoch.

RIPON NATIVE BRI Kwiatkowsi pushes a stroller during the Doug Lyke 5k Twilight Run last week Saturday.

RIPON’S JESSE NODOLF shades his eyes before the run last week Saturday, while his daughters McKenzie, left, and Adelin wait.

MATT GROOSE of Madison runs to a first-place finish.

DOUG LYKE 5K Twilight Run participants begin the race last week Saturday.

The Diverse Options (DO) Foundation will hold its Midweek Break Community Golf Classic Wednesday, Aug. 28 at the Golf Courses of Lawsonia in Green Lake.

The event features an 11 a.m. shotgun start and includes 18 holes of golf with a cart, complimentary gifts, a complimentary social hour following golf, dinner and a live auction. Golf tournament fees are $90.

Proceeds will go to support more than 300 individuals with disabili-ties in Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Green Lake and Marquette counties.

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Diverse Options golf outing will be held Wednesday, Aug. 28

The Ripon College football team finished sixth Monday in the Mid-west Conference Preseason Coaches Poll, garnering 54 points.

The voting system awards 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second place, eight points for third place, etc.

St. Norbert was picked to win the Midwest Conference, as it received 92 points, including four of a possible 11 first-place votes.

Illinois College also saw four first-place votes, finishing second in the poll with 89 points. Carroll, meanwhile, received the remaining three first-place votes and finished third in the voting among coaches.

Monmouth was fourth, followed by Lake Forest, Ripon, Cornell, Grinnell and Knox. Lawrence and Beloit rounded out the poll in 10th and 11th place, respectively.

The Red Hawks return a combined 16 players on offense and defense this season, including senior quarterback Tom Sawyer and offensive lineman Tyler Jonas, who were each second-team all-conference selec-tions last year. Luke Morgan returns to Ripon’s defense after earning honorable mention all-conference honors in 2012.

The Red Hawks haven’t finished a season under .500 since 1994.The season preview for the Ripon College football team, which begins

its season Saturday, Aug. 31 at Wisconsin Lutheran, will run in the Aug. 29 issue of the Commonwealth.

Red Hawk gridders picked to finish sixth in the Midwest Conference

The annual Green Lake Area “13dot1” Half Marathon and 5k Run/Walk has hit high numbers already for registration for the Sunday, Sept. 1 event.

The race, which is sponsored by Community Health Network, will mark the fourth year that streets and avenues surrounding Green Lake will be filled with runners and walkers of all ages.

The scenic, tree-lined 13.1- and 3.1-mile race routes start and finish in the city of Green Lake, with several stretches along the shores of Big Green Lake. The run also includes a tour of the Green Lake Conference Center, with features historic structures, stone walls and manicured golf courses.

Registration is $60 for the half marathon or $30 for the 5k for those 18 and older. It is accessible by visiting www.greenlakehalfmarathon.com, and clicking on the ‘Registration’ link.

Prices are less for participants under 18 years of age.Prizes will be awarded to top overall male and female finishers and

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“One challenging part is probably trying to figure out the fish and what spots to go to and how they want to bite. There are so many different things you can try to do to catch them and they might not always want some of them.”

Another rewarding part of bass fishing for Loewe is the ability to represent Wisconsin at this weekend’s world champion-ship.

“It means a lot,” he said of representing the state. “It’s a great experience. It’s going to be the best in the world at na-tionals; they’re from all over the [United States]. It’s going to be fun and I think it will be great.”

The experience will be mag-nified by the fact that the TBF Junior World Championship is being held in conjunction with one of the most prestigious events in tournament fishing: the FLW’s Forrest Wood Cup.

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LOEWE/Weigh-ins will be aired continued from page 21

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“I think it will be fun to just go out there and see what hap-pens.”

On the run: Ripon’s traveling teams enjoy fair share of success

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THE RIPON 12U baseball team fared well in many tournaments this past summer, which includes a first-place finish at a Wautoma Tournament last month. Pictured are, front row, from left, T.J. Mullowney, Iffer Long, Tyler Brown, Brendan Baird, Bailey Revels; back row, coach Cory Revels, Luke Morgan, Kristian Bradley-Kasten, Luke Rogers, coach Tom Auchtung, Hunter Auchtung, Cade Jahns and coach Dick Jahns. submitted photo

THE RIPON 8U team recently concluded its season. Pictured are, front row, from left, Kyle Robe, Henry Beuthin, Maddux Poock, Bodie Gref; back row, coach Eric Killam, Teegan Spence, Adam Sina, Willy Miller, Mason Killam, Jackson Loewe, Matthew Brookover and coach James Miller. submitted photo

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Ripon and surrounding areas’ youth were a little less colorful this summer as community or-ganizations and schools utilized new tents donated from Agnesian HealthCare to help shelter chil-dren and others during sporting activities.

As part of the Sun Safe Soccer program, Agnesian HealthCare donated a total of 100 tents to 23 organizations.

In addition, Agnesian Health-Care donated 400 single-use sunscreen packets with each tent.

Three area organizations were among many area groups that will benefited from the donated tents, including Ripon High School, the Ripon Youth Travel Baseball/Ripon Diamond Booster Club and the Laconia High School.

“Ripon High School cross country and track teams are look-ing forward to using the donated tents to provide shade and shelter when we travel to competitions,” head coach Chris Gatzke said. “The size and portability of the tents will allow our teams to eas-ily set them up upon arrival. It is important for our athletes to be protected from the sun and rain before competing.”

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“We are grateful for the com-mitment of coaches, program directors and role models for helping to build sun-safe habits that will stay with players for a lifetime,” Steffes said. “Agnesian HealthCare is a proud sponsor of Sun-Safe Soccer.”

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Ripon’s future racqueteers

A five-day Quick Start tennis camp was held for third- through fifth- graders last week at the Ripon High School tennis court.

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Short tennis courts, nets and appropriate balls were used to enable young tennis players to play a modified form of tennis.

HALLE HADEL TAKES a swing at the ball last week Friday.

QUICK START TENNIS Camp instructor and former Murray Park Elementary School teacher Jim Borell explains the next drill to the third- through fifth-graders that make up the camp. Listening to him are, from left, Logan Gaul-Mattson, Mason Felton, Drew Kastenschmidt, Ethan Schneider, Kurtis Cerney, Celina Lopez, Colin Schneider and Max Hartman.

DREW KASTENSCHMIDT BALANCES tennis balls on his racquet. Helping him stack the balls were Max Hartman, left, and Casey Brown.

COLIN SCHNEIDER puts his muscles into a return shot during doubles play last week Friday.

CARISSA BUKOWSKI EYES up the ball as it approaches her racquet.

MARSANNA JOHNSON JUMPS high into the air to return a shot during a drill last week Friday. Waiting their turns are Celina Lopez, left, and Ethan Schneider.

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Last week’s sports question on RiponPress.com asked readers who will win the Ripon Com-monwealth Press/Express Pigskin Picks contest. Here are the results:‰Carol Hilke (Pastimes Pub & Grille) 12% ‰Jonathan Bailey (Commonwealth) 6% ‰Bob Katerzynski (The Pizza Factory) 12% ‰Sheila Wyer (Domi-no’s Pizza) 12% ‰ Dennis Miller (Miller’s Tavern) 63%

This week’s question: Was the 2012 Brewers’ season a successful one? ‰Yes; they still managed to finish the season above .500 and were in conten-tion for a wild card spot ‰No; anything but the playoffs is unacceptable with the level of talent they have

To vote, log on to www.riponpress.com and click on Sports. The poll is located on the right side of the page. Poll results will be published in the following week’s Commonwealth.

Noah Potratz

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The number of minutes out of 60 that the Ripon College football team held onto the ball during its 42-17 Homecoming victory over Knox College last week Saturday.

For more on the Red Hawk football team, see the story on this page.

INSIDE

SPORTS‰ Tiger boys’ soccer team rest regulars in loss to the WLA Vikings see page 20

‰ Ripon harriers record mediocre showing at Kimberly Invite see page 2

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For most people, get-ting benched from a posi-tion they worked so hard to earn would be enough to hang their head and lose self-confidence.

Not Noah Potratz.The Ripon High

School senior, who started the season as the starting quarterback, was a major reason why the football team nearly pulled off the upset of Freedom last week Friday.

He caught four passes for 101 yards and two touchdowns from the person who took his job — James Vander Galien.

His second touchdown reception, an 11-yard score, cut the deficit to 22-20 with a little more than three minutes left.

Ripon ended up losing by that score after the ref-erees ruled Hayden Fenner did not reach the end zone on the two-point attempt.

For more information on Potratz and the Tigers, see the story on this page.

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“I think these o u t c o m e s

were the result of peaking at the right time and by achieving balance by our singles as well as our dou-bles players.”Buzz RasumussenRHS tennis coach

“I felt he was in ... I felt we got the fumble on the

ensuing kickoff ... What do you do? Other than I called him a ‘replacement ref.’”

Marty MoldenhauerRHS football co-head coach

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Did Hayden Fenner cross the goal line on a two-point conversion play that would have tied the game last week Friday?

That’s the big question that has loomed over the Ripon High School football team ever since its 22-20 homecoming loss to Freedom.

Following an 11-yard touch-down pass from James Vander Galien to Noah Potratz on a fourth-and-four play with just more than three minutes left, the officials ruled Fenner was stopped inches short of the end zone on his two-point attempt.

Co-head coach Marty Molden-


Entering Monday’s subsection-al, Ripon High School girls’ tennis coach Buzz Rasmussen felt like his team was peaking at the right time.

He couldn’t have been more right.

The Tigers won all of their matches at the Watertown Luther-an Prep Subsectional in straight sets to advance their entire team to sectionals for the second-straight season.

They tallied 24 team points to defeat Lodi, which had 20, for the title. Nine teams competed at the event.

The per-f o r m a n c e c o m e s a little more than a week a f t e r R i -pon won a share of the Wisconsin Combined T e n n i s Conference Tournament title.

“I think these out-comes were the result of peaking at the right time and by achieving balance by our singles as well as doubles players,” Ras-mussen said. “From a coaching standpoint, I am extremely proud of their results to date because of their long hours devoted to practice and their determination exhibited in pressure filled competition.”

Advancing to sectionals in sin-gles competition for Ripon were Nicole Thorson (No. 1), Laura Lyke (No. 2 ), Caroline Brumley (No. 3) and Annie Docter (No. 4).

Making it in doubles were the No. 1 team of Kaylee Johnson and Savannah Skamra, the No. 2 tandem of Stephanie Borgardt and Hannah Henderson and the No. 3 duo of Emily Docter and Jamie Gundlach.

All of the positions played two

hauer, who also believes Fenner recovered the following kickoff, disagrees with the call.

“I felt he was in,” he said. “I felt that night that he was in. I felt we got the fumble on the ensuing kickoff and it was right in front of us. What do you do? Other than, I called him a ‘ replacement ref.’”

Moldenhauer did say he has watched the replay in slow motion and it’s real hard to tell, but he still thinks Fenner crossed the line.

The call, as well as the ensuing

one on the kickoff, effectively, ended any chance Ripon had of forcing overtime and possibly pulling off a major upset that al-most nobody saw coming.

The Tigers, w h o l o s t t o the Irish 50-0 last season and were coming off a 48-0 loss to Seymour a week earl ier, did give up two first downs on the final drive to allow Freedom

to run the clock down to zero.“The kids played their hearts

out,” Moldenhauer said. “Every-body thought we were going to

get crushed but the kids and the coaching staff. We knew we could play with this team and they kept up a great attitude all week and just worked their butts off and it showed on Friday. They’re ready to take on the world and they did a great job.”

Ripon’s other co-head coach, Al Schrader, credited the team’s ability to handle the distractions that come with Homecoming and respond to challenges laid out in pre-game speeches as a reason for the success.

“We had some guest speakers come in and I think coach [Gib] Stoeberl put it best when he spoke to the team prior to the game that

See CALL/ page 22

Tigers lose Homecoming game on controversial call


The Ripon High School vol-leyball team seemed to play with a little extra energy during its Home-coming match last week Thursday.

Throw into the equation a flus-tered Freedom team and the result was a victory.

The Tigers defeated the Irish in four games during Homecoming week 25-16, 25-15, 18-25, 25-22.

It marks the second-straight

year Ripon has won its Homecom-ing match and the second confer-ence win for the Tigers this year.

The two conference victories surpass their total from last year, when they only won their Home-coming match against Winneconne.

“This was a big win for us,” Ri-pon head coach Tracy Landerman said, mentioning how there was a large home crowd for Homecom-ing.

The Tigers came out of the gates strong in the match, taking it to an

Irish team, which appeared shaken in the first couple of games.

“We took advantage right away in the first two games,” Landerman said. “We kept them on the defen-sive scramble. We did a lot of good things offensively, so we kept them off balance and were able to take advantage of that.”

The Tiger coach credited the team’s serving and passing as reasons why it kept Freedom in

See QUEEN/ page 28

Queen of the courts: Ripon wins Homecoming match for second-straight year


1905.That is the last time a Ripon

College football team started a season with five-straight losses.

Back then, there were just 45 states, the average wage was less than a quarter per hour and most doctors had no college education.

The Red Hawks were in danger of matching that start last week Saturday when they hosted Knox College in their Homecoming game.

History was avoided, however,

as they scored 28 unanswered points to defeat the Prairie Fire 42-17 at Ingalls Field in Ripon.

“It was a great win for us be-cause our kids have been working extremely hard,” head coach Ron Ernst said. “They’ve been work-ing hard and we’ve been very close in most of our games this year and it was just nice to see our kids put four strong quarters together.”

Ernst, who has never lost to Knox in 16 meetings, added he doesn’t believe the kids felt any extra pressure to win last week Saturday, despite the 0-4 start and his track record against the Prairie Fire.

“We certainly did not put any pressure on as coaches,” he said. “We felt all week that if we played up to our ability ... there is not

Breaking throughHawks avoid first 0-5 start

since 1905 with win over Knox

See BREAKING/ page 23

See ADVANCES/ page 20

RIPON’S HAYDEN FENNER attempts to stretch the ball, indicated by the arrow above, across the goal line on a two-point conversion try late in the game last week Friday. The officials ruled him short of the end zone, giving Freedom the 22-20 victory over the Homecoming-hosting Tigers. Ripon co-head coach Marty Moldenhauer disagrees with the call. Jonathan Bailey photo

RIPON COLLEGE FOOTBALL players celebrate after winning their first game of the season last week Saturday. Jonathan Bailey photo

AUBREIGH ZIMMERMAN, LEFT, shares a smile with Brooke Brewer after scoring a point in Ripon’s four-game Homecoming win over Freedom last week Thursday. Jonathan Bailey photo

Ripon girls’ tennis team advances to sectionals

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The Ripon College volleyball team enjoyed mixed success last weekend, going 1-1 at home in a pair of Midwest Conference matches.

It defeated Beloit College in its conference opener last week Friday, winning in three games 25-15, 25-12, 25-21, before falling in four games to Lake Forest a day later, 25-14, 13-25, 20-25, 25-10.

The one conference victory is already more than the Red Hawks had last year, as it was held winless during the 2011 campaign.

Leading the way in kills for Ripon during the two matches last week-end was Emily Gary with 18. Erin Galow added 16 kills, while Karlye Wehner chipped in with 14. Brianne Milroy paced the team in digs with 34. Kristie Oglesby recorded a team-high 56 assists.

Ripon (1-1 conference, 7-14 overall) will try to bounce back from the Lake Forest loss Friday when it travels to Carroll University to take on the Buccaneers. That match will begin at 7 p.m. in Waukesha, Wis.

It then will travel to Appleton Tuesday to take on Lawrence in a match that also is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

Ripon College volleyball team splits pair of conference matches

The Ripon College women’s soccer team lost its third consecutive Midwest Conference game Sunday afternoon as it was shut out by host Beloit Col-lege 2-0. Both Buccaneer goals came in the final six minutes of the contest.

Beloit (2-2 conference, 5-4-1 overall) broke a scoreless tie in the 85th minute when Kirsten Takaki netted a goal on an assist from Sian Cun-ningham. Cunningham then added an insurance goal with 13 seconds to play to secure the victory.

Ripon (2-3 conference, 5-4 overall), which also lost to Lake Forest 3-2 in double overtime a day earlier, will try to get back to its winning ways Thursday when it hosts Finlandia University in a non-conference match. That game will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Prairie Field in Ripon.

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On DeckA look ahead at this week’s Ripon sporting events

RHS Tigers Red Hawks

‰ Volleyball vs. Freedom (7 p.m.)

‰ Football at Winneconne (7 p.m.)

‰ Cycling at MWCCC Regionals

‰ Cycling at MWCCC Regionals

‰ Volleyball at Carroll (7 p.m.)

N Cross Country at Ripon College Invitational (11 a.m.)‰ Women’s soccer at Illinois College (11 a.m.)‰ Men’s soccer at Illinois College (1:30 p.m.)

‰ Cross country a t Lomira Invitational (4 p.m.)‰ Boys’ soccer at Freedom (5 p.m.)

‰ Volleyball vs. Freedom (7 p.m.)‰ Boys’ soccer at Regionals (TBD) ‰ Volleyball at Lawrence (7 p.m.)

N Women’s soccer at Finlandia (3:30 p.m.)

‰ Women’s soccer at Lawrence (3:30 p.m.)

‰ Men’s soccer at Lawrence (3:30 p.m.)

‰ Women’s tennis at Lawrence (3 p.m.)‰ Women’s golf at Midwest Conference Championships

‰ Women’s golf at Midwest Conference Championships

‰ Women’s golf at Midwest Conference Championships

matches with the exception of No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles. They played just one.Although all matches played by Ripon were won in two-straight

sets, Rasmussen pointed out a tough match played by the No. 2 team of Borgardt and Henderson.

It defeated a team from Wisconsin Dells 6-4, 7-5, in what the Tiger coach called probably the longest match of the day for Ripon.

Borgardt and Henderson then defeated their counterparts from Wa-tertown Lutheran Prep 6-2, 6-3.

The Tigers competed in the Whitewater Sectional today [Wednesday] with a chance to advance to the state tournament on the line.

Results were not available at press time.

ADVANCES/Sectional meet takes place today continued from page 19

In what is one of the largest cross country meets in the country, the Ripon College men’s and women’s teams finished 25th out of 27 schools and 19th out of 29, respectively, at the Roy Griak Invitational last week Saturday.

Leading the women in the meet was Michelle Matter. The senior ran a 6k time of 23 minutes, 51 seconds, which was good for 28th overall out of 408 runners. That finish marks the highest finish at the Roy Griak Invitational by a Ripon runner in school history.

Grace Winter was second on the team, finishing 85th overall with a time of 24:59. Abi Quackenboss was 126th, while Karla Perez was 145th with times of 26:06 and 26:33, respectively.

Katie Williams, Natalie Williams and Alyssa Nycz also scored points for the Red Hawks with times of 26:44, 26:54 and 27:13, respectively.

Leading the Ripon men was Cory Zimmerman, who placed 97th out of the 272 runners that finished the race. He ran an 8k time of 28:10.

Rob Waters was second on the team with a time of 30:43, while Ben Cosme was third with a time of 33:29. Nick Luedtke wasn’t far off that pace, with a time of 33:54, which was 49 seconds better than Andrew Pierson. Noah Scott and Akash Sen also scored points for the Red Hawks with times of 35:56 and 42:44, respectively.

The Red Hawks now will get ready to run in Saturday’s Ripon College Invitational. That meet will begin at 11 a.m. in Ripon.

RC harriers compete against tough competition at Roy Griak Invite

On the same day that the Ripon College women’s soccer team lost to Beloit College 2-0, the Red Hawks men’s soccer team fell to the Buc-caneers by the identical score last week Sunday in Beloit.

Beloit (3-2 conference, 7-3 overall) scored one goal in each half, with its first-half score coming in the 36th minute on an unassisted goal by Ryan Munger. It added an insurance goal in the 56th minute when Anthony Ra-cine found the net on an assist from Isaiah Turner-Wyatt to cap the scoring.

Ripon (1-3-1 conference, 3-6-1 overall) will continue its conference schedule Saturday when it travels to Illinois College to take on the Blue-boys. That game will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Jacksonville, Ill.

RC men’s soccer team falls to host Beloit College 2-0

Ripon youngsters hit the gridiron

ABOVE, RIPON YOUTH Football quarterback Garrett Jennings takes warm-up snaps from center Aaron Socha prior to a game last month at the Oshkosh YMCA. Right, Casey Brown (81) puts a move on a player from the opposing team. submitted photos


There was a youth movement for the Ripon High School boys’ soccer team Tuesday night.

With the idea of saving their varsity regulars for the conference-finale against Freedom Thursday and the playoffs, which began Tuesday, the Tigers played many of their younger players against Winnebago Lutheran Academy (WLA).

The contest was played at the Fond du Lac Soccer Complex.

While they lost the non-con-ference match 10-2, Ripon head coach Don Bogdanske was pleased with the effort.

Seven of the goals Ripon al-lowed came in the final 20 minutes or so after fatigue kicked in.

“This may have been a loss but we are really proud of the way the guys played,” Bogdanske said. “They got plenty of varsity min-utes, played a state caliber team, and as the official pointed out, they never gave up. Each of the players did an outstanding job at their position and it was not about the score; it was about the method of play and the experience gained.”

After WLA scored a goal in the opening minute, Ripon settled down and did a nice job of pres-suring the ball, according to Bog-danske.

The Vikings scored two more

times in the half, but Brady Erick-son kept it close for the Tigers with a tally late in the half.

In addition to playing with many of its younger players, Ripon made changes to its game plan, going to a new formation.

The Tigers were out-shot in the contest 26-9.

RIPON DEFEATS CLINTONVILLE IN CONFERENCE SHOWDOWNThe Tigers improved their

conference record to 3-4 Monday night as they defeated Clintonville

2-1 at Ingalls Field in Ripon.Elias Nelsen scored both of Ri-

pon’s goals in the first half to give it a 2-0 advantage and the defense made it stand.

It allowed its only goal in the second half on a misplayed ball that rolled past the goalkeeper.

“Our defense played extremely well and our offense is improving all the time,” Bogdanske said. “We had excellent passing from our midfield players to the forwards and we were very patient with the ball giving us the advantage

of possession ... We continued to pressure the ball and would miss several more goals as time progressed, one of which was a penalty kick.”

Ripon out-shot Clintonville 27-10.

TIGERS DROP BOTH MATCHES AT WAUPUN TOURNAMENTRipon lost both of its matches

at the Waupun Tournament last week Saturday, falling to the host Warriors 1-0 and Kaukauna 2-0.

Bogdanske said the Tigers played well in the Waupun match and had good possession, but were unable to capitalize on their shots.

Waupun scored the match’s only goal on a misplayed ball at the corner of the net.

Ripon goalkeeper Travis Num-merdor was unable to get a grip on the ball and it rolled past him.

The Tigers doubled up the War-riors in the shot column 12-6.

Against a Kaukauna team filled predominately with seniors, Ripon sat most of its starters to rest them for the Clintonville match.

Much like the Waupun match, Bogdanske felt his team played well and had some fine attacks offensively.

Ripon will travel Thursday to Freedom to take on the Irish, before opening up regional play Tuesday. Its opponent and the lo-cation of the game were unknown at press time.

Tigers rest regulars in loss to WLA

ELIAS NELSEN RACES past the Clintonville defenders on a breakaway opportunity Monday. He scored both of the team’s goals to help it defeat the Truckers 2-1. Jonathan Bailey photo

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“If there was a theme for the meet for us, it was the lost shoe.”

Ripon High School cross coun-try coach Chris Gatzke made that assessment after he saw a number of his runners lose their footwear at the fifth-annual Papermaker Invitational last week Saturday in Kimberly.

“I haven’t seen so many people lose a shoe during a meet as we did [last week] Saturday,” he said. “One of our boys was stepped on from behind and lost both of his shoes and this is a chip-timing race, so he lost his chip ... He had to go back then and find them on the course.

“We had one [runner] in the girls’ race that had to stop and try to put her shoe on because it was the one that had the chip on it. She was wor-ried she wasn’t going to score and that was going to screw everything up, so she went back to get the chip.”

Running on trails that weren’t very wide and against a large and competitive field, the Tiger girls fin-ished 11th out of 16 schools, while the boys were 13th of 16 teams.

The tight quarters and the jock-eying for position resulted in many of the lost-shoe problems.

“It’s on a trail so it’s not like running on a golf course where it’s wide open” Gatzke said. “They were really running in an area for a lot of it [that wasn’t real big], so when you’re trying to move for position you get stepped on pretty easy.”

Also challenging the Tigers at

Ripon harriers record mediocre showing at Papermaker Invitethe meet were a number of Divi-sion 1 and top Division 2 teams, a couple tough hills and distractions that surrounded the team as a result of it being Homecoming week.

“It is a tough race,” Gatzke said. “Expectations were lowered know-ing the circumstances for the meet — Homecoming, people worried about going to the dance that night, the other outside distractions and still excited about a heck of a foot-ball game the night before where nobody wanted to leave [early] because it came down to the last minute.”

Considering the situation, Gatz-ke was pleased with the team’s performance, but did note it needs to be better in the races to follow.

One race which stood out to Gatzke was the one ran by Amy Hutchings.

The senior, who began the sea-son in a walking boot, recorded the second-fastest time on the girls’ team (17 minutes, 14 seconds). The time was good enough for 44th place out of 122 varsity runners.

“Amy Hutchings continues to improve,” Gatzke said. “So it’s nice to see her continue to get better.”

The only Ripon runner on the girls’ side to record a faster time than Hutchings was two-time state qualifier Katelin Cunningham.

Cunningham finished in 13th place with a time of 16:09.

On the boys’ side, Evan Long paced the way. The sophomore finished in 40th place out of 111 runners with a time of 18:23.

While the times and finishes were not as high as Gatzke knows

they could’ve been, he is confident that the invitational was beneficial.

“It’s always a worthwhile meet to go to because it puts us back onto a reality check and then we can be a little bit more motivated to do well on Thursday,” he said.

The Tigers will compete in the Lomira Invitational Thursday, before turning their focus to the conference meet, which takes place a week from Saturday at Tuscumbia Country Club in Green Lake.

The meet Thursday will go a long way in setting the lineup for conference — a factor Gatzke be-lieves will push individuals even harder to run their best time.

“It’s a good motivator because this is the one where we determine who runs varsity at conference,” Gatzke said.

The invitational is slated to get underway at 4 p.m.

Papermaker Invitational Girls’ Varsity: 11th out of 16 teams

(122 runners)13. Katelin Cunningham (16 min-

utes, 9 seconds); 44. Amy Hutchings (17:14); 54. Theresa Kasper (17:34); 60. Kaitlynn Azinger (17:43); 90. Ari-ana Hones (18:24); 105. Taylor Beck (18:52); 108. Emma Thirsten (19:01); 114. Stephanie Bradshaw (19:27).

Girls’ Junior Varsity: 10 of 12 teams (245 runners)

67. Shannon McNeill (19:24); 89. Mackenzie Briskie (19:48); 100. Au-brey Schoff (20:04); 106. Amy Lauber (20:14); 110. Alicia Abraham (20:19); 118. Kylie Beck (20:28); 144. Billie Larson (20:57); 173. Michelle Powers (21:39); 179. Katya Dudzinski (22:01); 198. Ashley Johnson (22:48); 204. Melanie Snyder (23:03); 218. Amy Hein

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Boys’ Varsity: 13th of 16 teams (111 runners)

40. Evan Long (18:23); 56. Ben Reilly (18:44); 62. Jay Gatzke (18:55); 84. Josh Kelekovich (19:49); 85. Bruce Cunningham (19:49); 86. Seth Zimdars (19:52); 96. Robert Klemm (20:25); 106. Marshall Bauman (21:13)

Boys’ Junior Varsity: 7th of 13 teams (238 runners)

45. Johnny Brewer (20:07); 49. Miles Zack (20:08); 64. Derek Rodriguez (20:26); 71. Beau Ermatinger (20:32); 84. Matthew Mott (20:43); 100. Lucas Peppler (21:07); 112. Dexten Hielke (21:23); 113. Sam Ehster (21:27); 155. Lincoln Wurtz (22:33); 166. James Klemm (22:55); 186. J.J. Grinde (23:30); 196. Corey Schoff (24:05); 198. Nick Kruman (24:17); 202. George Beduhn (24:36); 215. Andrew Bergthold (25:23); 226. John Lyke (26:48); 230. Benjamin Wolf (27:40); 234. Adrian Schraufnagel (29:25).

KATELIN CUNNINGHAM LEADS a pack of runners during the girls’ race last week Saturday. Cunningham finished in 13th place out of 113 runners with a time of 16 minutes, 9 seconds. Sheri Schmidt photo

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RHS Tiger footballNext Opponent: Winneconne

Where: WinneconneWhen: Friday, 7 p.m.

Facts: Ripon is coming off a heartbreaking 22-20 Homecoming loss to Freedom last week Friday, while Winneconne enters the game following a 21-14 road victory over Fox Valley Lutheran. Last year, the Wolves squeaked out a 13-6 victory in Ripon. Winneconne enters this year’s meeting with a conference record of 4-2, while Ripon is 1-4.Keys: The Tigers will need to put last week’s loss behind them and focus on the task at hand. Offensively, co-head coach Marty Moldenhauer said the team has to do what it did last week and just keep coming at the Wolves. He added it has to take what Winneconne gives it and not reinvent the wheel. Defensively, the Tigers need to take care of quarterback Dylan Hecker, who is the key to the Wolves’ offense. Hecker is second in the conference rushing and can make teams pay with his arm as well.

“I think they realize just what they can accom-

plish as a team and that’s an important lesson.”

Al SchraderRHS football co-head coach

JAMES VANDER GALIEN unloads a pass during Ripon’s game against Freedom last week Friday. Vander Galien was a season-high 6 of 12 passing for 113 yards and two touchdowns.

NOAH POTRATZ, RIGHT, lets a fist pump fly following his second receiving touchdown of the game. The touchdown cut the deficit to 22-20, leading to the controversial two-point play. Alongside Potratz is offensive lineman Taylor Rank. Jonathan Bailey photo

RIPON DEFENDERS CONVERGE to bring down the Freedom running back last week Friday. Jonathan Bailey photo

LANDON FENNER, RIGHT kneeling, upends the Irish’s Nathaniel Peters in the first quarter of last week’s game. Jonathan Bailey photo

this is not just about you guys, it’s about every person who’s worn a Ripon Tiger football jersey,” Schrader said. “Yeah, you play for yourself, but you play for your community and all the people who have come before you.

“It really rung home with the kids and then a lot of things we talked about it preparation, really seemed to ring home. They had a confidence in themselves that you could just tell when you looked at them and when they took that field we knew they were ready.”

The Tigers wasted no time proving they were ready as they hustled down the field and recov-ered the opening kickoff, which bounced their way. Landon Fenner came away with the ball for Ripon.

Six plays later, on fourth and goal from the 3-yard line, Vander Galien rushed it in for a touch-down.

Hayden Fenner recorded the big play of the drive — a 16-yard rush.

Following a pair of defensive stops, the Tigers added to their 6-0 lead with a 51-yard touch-down pass from Vander Galien to Potratz. Hayden Fenner added a two-point conversion to make it 14-0.

“It felt good,” Moldenhauer said of the fast start. “The kids were ready. They were prepared and they took it to them right away.

“ W e c a n c o a c h t h e m , we can call the plays but it takes those 11 play-ers out there to all go in the right direction and make things happen and they did that. We had some good help with what the defense was doing and we knew that they were attacking really hard so we’ve worked really hard on the passing game this year and it showed Friday night. James was dead on. He should have been better than 6 for 12 [passing], I thought.”

Four of Vander Galien’s six completions and both of his touch-downs went to Potratz, who was the starting quarterback for the first two weeks of the season.

Potratz’s work ethic and un-willingness to hang his head even after he lost the job he worked so hard to win is a reflection of his character, according to Molden-hauer.

“That’s just an attribute to what kind of person Noah really is,” he said. “He’s very unselfish and wants to do what’s best for the team. That’s what it takes in this game. You have a lot of heroes in places, but when you have less heroes and you have team players, you’ll do a lot better.”

While Ripon got off to a fast start, due in part to Potratz and Vander Galien, Freedom answered with 14 points in the second quarter to tie the game entering halftime.

The Irish scored on a 3-yard pass and a 55-yard run, the latter of which the Tigers were caught out of position as a result of the play call.

“We had a blitz called, which took our outside backers and put them inside and, lo and behold, what they do is come outside,”

Schrader said. “Our pursui t wasn’t there. We just got caught inside and those things are going to happen from time to time.

“The thing is, they forgot about i t and went back to

playing that defense and we gave the ball back to our offense.”

Ripon’s defense held firm for the rest of the game, with the exception of a 29-yard, wobbly touchdown pass toward the end of the third quarter.

“Our guys up front just did a phenomenal job,” Schrader said. “They were out-sized, but they did a real good job. They had a [task] to basically keep our linebackers free and they did that all night. That really contributed to us being able to stop them with those linebackers coming up. Our corners did a pretty good job of coming up and stop-ping the run. Our safeties — both James and Landon — had quite a

few tackles so they came up strong.“Our coverages were good and

we really took a step forward. That attitude of coming up and as coach Moldenhauer said, ‘Just punching them right in the mouth,’ they kept that up all night and it was really fun to be a part of that.”

Schrader added the touchdown pass in the third quarter was just a “great call” by Freedom and that if it wasn’t so deep in the Tigers’ territory, Ripon would’ve had a safety over the top covering the tight end.

Offensively, the Tigers strug-gled a bit after scoring the two early touchdowns.

According to Moldenhauer, part of the problem came as a re-sult of the Irish moving one guy over, making it harder to get to the linebackers.

“They wanted it more than what we did at that point,” Mold-enhauer said. “Not saying we let down, but they realized their backs were against the wall and they had to pick it up. I think you see that with our team, too. If our backs are against the wall, we snap to it and, I think, that’s what Freedom did.”

Moldenhauer added Ripon’s final touchdown drive was a result of that very thing — its back being against the wall and time winding down.

Freedom out-gained Ripon in total offensive yardage 329-256 due in large part to 248 yards from running back Nathaniel Peters.

The Tigers were led offensively by Vander Galien, who threw for 113 yards and rushed for 14 more.

Potratz finished with a team-high 101 yards receiving, while Hayden Fenner rushed for 80 yards.

Ripon will try to move on from the heartbreaking loss Friday, when it travels to Winneconne to take on the Wolves.

“It was hard for them on Friday, I could tell,” Moldenhauer said. “Other losses that we had when we spoke with the kids they were [responding] and understanding. Friday, they didn’t say a word. They were [upset] … My thinking is they are going to bring them-selves back to where they need to be immediately because they’re hungry.”

“I think they realize just what they can accomplish as a team and that’s an important lesson,” Schrader added. “They know what they can accomplish and they know what it took to get there. That was a good lesson to learn, and just by looking at them and talking to them over the weekend, they’re looking forward to Friday night.”

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RIPON COLLEGE QUARTERBACK Tom Sawyer runs for a big gain during the second half of the Red Hawks’ 42-17 victory over Knox College last week Saturday. Jonathan Bailey photo

RED HAWK HEAD coach Ron Ernst congratulates Tom Sawyer after a scoring drive last week Saturday. Jonathan Bailey photo

a team on our schedule that we can’t beat.”

While the game started off slow with a scoreless first quarter, Ripon (1-3 conference, 1-4 over-all) was in control for the majority of the contest.

The only time it struggled was a three-minute stretch late in the second quarter, when Knox (0-4 conference, 0-5 overall) scored a pair of touchdowns to take a 17-14 lead. The second touch-down came after a fumble on the kickoff.

With just more than a minute left before halftime, the Red Hawks could’ve just hung their heads and went into intermission behind, but they didn’t.

Instead, they answered with an impressive 10-play, 70-yard scoring drive, capped by a Connor Greenwald 3-yard touchdown run with 5 seconds left.

“That was absolutely huge,” Ernst said. “... Our offense moved with great precision and effi-ciency down the field and our kids made some big plays. To score with just a couple seconds left was absolutely huge. It was just a huge momentum-shifter, I thought, going into halftime. It was very big.”

Ripon took the momentum into the second half and ran with it, scoring the game’s final 21 points.

The defense picked off a pass in its own territory on Knox’s first possession of the second half to help the Red Hawks keep the

momentum and the lead.Ripon, which held Knox to just

277 yards of total offense, also intercepted another pass midway through the fourth quarter.

“I was very proud of our de-fense [last week Saturday],” Ernst said. “I thought they played extremely well. I thought we tried to take away what they did best and, I thought, for the most part, we were able to do that.

“[Knox] has some good ath-

letes so they made some plays, as any college team will, but for the most part, I thought, we minimized what they did and we were able to hold them out of the end zone except for that 3-minute stretch where we really kind of struggled a little bit.”

One reason why the defense played so well was the effective-ness of the offense.

The Hawks held onto the ball for nearly 45 of the 60 minutes.

They picked up a season-high 32 first downs and 436 rushing yards, which ranks as the ninth-highest single game total in school history.

Overall, Ripon finished with 520 yards of total offense.

“I thought our offense played extremely well,” Ernst said. “I believe the time of possession was almost 44 minutes and to me, that was a huge part of why our defense played well ... Our offense just did an outstanding job of controlling the ball.”

Ernst added it was nice to see a total team effort, with the backs running hard, the offensive line doing a great job blocking and the wide receivers executing their blocks and catching the ball.

One player who really stood out to him was Tom Sawyer.

The junior quarterback rushed for 162 yards and two touchdowns on 29 carries and was 6-of-10 passing for 84 yards and no in-terceptions.

“I thought Tom had his best game as a college football player,” Ernst said. “He made some very good decisions and he ran the of-fense with tremendous precision and in this kind of offense that’s what you need. You need a quar-terback that can make decisions on the run and make plays with his feet, his arm and his brain and that’s exactly what Tom did today.”

Sawyer was one of three Red Hawks with 100 or more yards rushing. The other two to accom-

plish the feat were Greenwald (107 yards) and Max Hermann (100).

It was just the second time in the last nine years in which Ripon had three players rush for 100 or more yards — the other coming in 2011.

Ripon will try to build off its first win of the season a week from Saturday when it hosts Grinnell.

First, however, is a much-need-

ed week off to rest some players. “We have a bye week and it

couldn’t come at a better time,” Ernst said. “We are going to get some kids healthy. We need to have this time off and our kids are really thankful because we are a very beat-up team right now and having this time off will be very good for us.”

The Red Hawks’ game against the Pioneers is slated to kick off at 1 p.m. at Ingalls Field in Ripon.


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ASHLIEGH GEHRKE (3) hits the ball over the net during the third game of Ripon’s four-game victory over Freedom last week Thursday. She finished with seven kills. Jonathan Bailey photo

KELSEY SPLITTGABER SETS the ball up to Kallin Splittgaber (10) during Ripon’s victory over Freedom. Jonathan Bailey photo

scramble mode, not allowing the Irish many opportunities to set the ball up for attacks.

After winning the first two games pretty handily, Ripon started to struggle at times in stretches.

It fell behind in the third game 8-3, before calling a time out and scoring the next eight points. It, however, then was out-scored 17-7 by an increasingly confident Free-dom squad to force a fourth game.

“When the game got a little tighter and Freedom pulled that one off, we got caught up where it was like a flip,” Landerman said. “They got some momentum and had momentum in their favor.

“We just needed to pick up the pieces and get back to playing the way we can, because I really believe that offensively we had way more to offer than they did. I think we were more solid all the way around. It was just a matter of cleaning up the little mistakes where we couldn’t utilize our of-fense. That’s when they scored a lot of their points on us.”

The Tigers did just that, re-bounding in a tightly-contested fourth game to win the match. The score was within three points for most of the game, including tied at 17.

Leading 24-22, Ripon was the beneficiary of a match-ending ser-vice error by Freedom. The Tigers also won the second game on a missed serve by the Irish.

One of the areas Landerman was most pleased with in the match was the balance shown offensively.

In the team’s first conference win, two individuals got hot and took over offensively. Last week Thursday, the production came from up and down the lineup.

Four players recorded five or more kills, led by Aubreigh Zim-merman with nine. Kelly Burkart

added eight, while Ashliegh Geh-rke and Kelsey Splittgaber chipped in with seven and five, respectively.

“We have a very balanced of-fensive attack and when we are in a position to take advantage of that — meaning good passing, good communication — then we have a solid team,” Landerman said. “We have a lot of depth offensively, but sometimes we just get caught up in those little moments of lapses defensively, getting caught out of position.”

The Tiger coach was pleased with the team’s consistency last week Thursday as a whole, but

said it’s always an area that can improve.

She also was happy with the play at the net and the number of block touches (27) the team recorded.

A couple areas Landerman noted can still be improved are the ability to finish off an opponent and being more effective with its block touches.

Of the 27 touches, the team recorded only three block kills.

The Tigers will attempt to build off the positives from their Home-coming victory and improve upon the weaknesses when they travel to

Winneconne to take on the Wolves Thursday.

They will then host Waupaca Tuesday on what is sure to be another night filled with energy as it will be parent and senior night in the Ripon High School gym-nasium.

Landerman likes the team’s chances to pick up a couple more conference wins against those teams.

Ripon will conclude its season a week from Thursday against perennial-power Berlin.

“We have a very viable oppor-tunity to beat the teams that are re-

maining in our conference — prob-ably the strongest of those [com-petitors] being Berlin,” Landerman said. “[Last week Thursday] we did a nice job of putting together pretty close to a complete match, but the fact they went four games with us [means] we can still sharpen things up.”

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to start around 7 p.m.

Ripon team leaders Service aces: Kayla Putzer 3,

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