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Kyle Loughrin

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The Ripon College senior stepped up when the Red Hawk men’s basketball team needed him most, helping it to a pair of wins last week.

Loughrin scored 27 points in the Red Hawks’ 82-72 vic-tory over Carroll last week Wednesday, including the first nine points of the second half and five-straight points a few minutes later after the Pioneers tied the game at 47.

He also recorded 13 points in a 64-57 win over Cornell last week Saturday, which included a layup to begin a 7-0 run that broke a 38-36 game open.

In the same contes t , Loughrin became just the 30th player in school history to score 1,000 points in his career.

For more on Loughrin and the Red Hawks, see the stories on this page and page 18.

BY THE

NUMBERS29

The number of offensive rebounds pulled down by the Ripon High School boys’ bas-ketball team in its two games last week — both victories.

It recorded 15 second-chance opportunities in an 80-53 win over Wautoma Tuesday and 14 in a 56-38 defeat of Clintonville last week Friday.

For more on the Tigers, see the story on the top of the page.

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‰ RC basketball teams plan “Red Out” to raise awareness for heart disease see page 18

‰ Ripon College men top Cornell with “D,” clinch berth in tourney see page 18

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‰ Red Hawk women make strides in 68-55 home loss to Cornell see page 19

‰ 35 years later: RC honors 1980 conference champion-ship team see page 28

by Jonathan [email protected]

The Ripon High School boys’ basketball team defeated Wautoma 80-53 Tuesday night at home.

It did not come without a cost.Ben Vander Plas injured his

ankle early in the fourth quarter when he attempted a spin move and stepped on an opponent’s foot.

He limped to the sideline and could not put any pressure on his left foot, needing help to get to the locker room after the contest.

Ben Vander Plas is the Tigers’ second-leading scorer, only behind

fellow sophomore Luke Loewe.“We’ll know more [today,

Wednesday],” Ripon head coach Dean Vander Plas said about Ben’s status. “He turned his ankle. We don’t have any ligament damage. We have some muscle impairment [and he’s] 50/50 for Thursday.”

Dean Vander Plas defended his choice to leave him in there despite the Tigers leading by more than 30 points at the time of the injury.

“[Wautoma’s coach] had his starters in and there’s eight min-utes left to play and I don’t want to leave our [bench] guys out there [against that],” Dean Vander Plas

said. “[We] finished the second half of the third quarter with Luke and Ben on the bench ... and then we just decided to just go back with those two [in the fourth].”

He added the injury could have happened at any time and, in retro-spect, he would have liked to have him sitting on the bench.

The injury put a damper on what was otherwise a dominating effort on both ends by the Tigers.

Ripon (11-1 conference, 15-2 overall) jumped out to a 10-2 lead and led 27-9 after the first quarter

Tigers defeat Wautoma, suffer key injury


The Ripon High School girls’ basketball team had no answer for Little Chute’s defense Tuesday.

It managed just eight first-half points en route to a 70-32 road loss.

The Tigers (5-9 conference, 7-13 overall) trailed the Mustangs 19-6 after the first quarter, 33-8 entering halftime and 55-21 fol-lowing three quarters of play.

Little Chute (13-1 conference, 16-3 overall) is ranked No. 5 in Divi-sion 3 in the most recent WisSports.net Coaches Poll.

“ T h e y simply over-w h e l m e d us,” Ripon head coach Jason Wick-strom said. “Coming in, we knew they had a very good defense. We just didn’t have very much move-ment in our offense and they’re just very physical and quick and they take teams out of what they really want to do on offense.”

While Wickstrom acknowl-edged that Little Chute backed off a bit defensively in the second half, he was happier with the way the Tigers played on the offensive end.

After scoring only eight points in the first half, they tallied 22 in the third quarter and 11 in the


Aubrey Schoff remembers the day she decided she wanted to go out for the Ripon High School wres-tling team.

She emailed her mother,“Soooo, I’m thinking about going

out for wrestling”Her mother’s response?“Wrestling?”While it is becoming more

common to find young women in wrestling, rarely will one decide to go out for the sport for the first time during her senior year.

That didn’t deter Aubrey.

She was searching for something to do over the winter to stay in shape. In past years, she had been involved with the musical, but just wanted to try something a little dif-ferent.

“It kind of started off as a joke,” Aubrey said. “My friend [Hayley Corkran] and I were kind of talking about it. We wanted to get involved in some sort of winter sport — just to try something new — and [the choice] was basketball or wrestling. We [jokingly] were like, ‘Oh, we could wrestle,’ and then we kind of thought about it and were like, ‘Oh, we could.’”

The next thing Aubrey knew, she was at open-mat practices with Corkran before the season and fell in love with wrestling.

“It was just completely new and completely different, something that I had never done before, never experienced anything like it and it just kind of stuck,” Aubrey said. “I couldn’t get away from it.”

While Aubrey enjoyed the experi-

Why is Aubrey smiling?

She wrestled with trying out for a new sport and has no regrets

Ripon girls stomped by Mustangs in 70-32 loss

See STOMPED/ page 23

See AUBREY/ page 22

See DEFEAT/ page 21

Jonathan Bailey

In the 116-year history of the Ripon College men’s basketball team, only 28 players have scored more than 1,000 points.

So it was quite the feat when Ty Sabin and Kyle Loughrin reached the milestone for Ripon in back-to-back games last week.

Sabin eclipsed 1,000 points in an 82-72 road win over Car-roll last week Wednesday, while Loughrin passed the plateau in a 64-57 win over Cornell last week Saturday.

But the road traveled couldn’t be anymore different for the two.

LOUGHRIN’S LONG ROADThe senior from Weyauwega,

Wis., sat on the bench for nearly

Newest members of exclusive club traveled different paths

See PATHS page 20

HOLDING A BANNER welcoming them to the 1,000-point club are Kyle Loughrin, left, and Ty Sabin, right. Behind them are fellow members of the exclusive club, which include, from left, Steve Kohl, Brian Schmitting, Taylor Koth, Lud Wurtz, Doc

Weiske, Tim Barnes and Terry Craemer. Sabin and Loughrin were just the 29th and 30th players in the program’s 116-year history to reach the milestone. They did so in back-to-back games last week. Jonathan Bailey photo

RIPON HIGH SCHOOL senior Aubrey Schoff wrestles with Ian Schraufnagel in an early-season practice. Jonathan Bailey photo

3 What: Regionals When: Saturday at 10 a.m.

Where: RHS gymnasium

RILEY HAAS STRETCHES out for a layup attempt Tuesday in Ripon’s 80-53 win over Wautoma. Jonathan Bailey photo

“They sim-ply over-

whelmed us ... We just didn’t have very much movement in our offense.”Jason WickstromGirls hoops coach

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In order to raise awareness for heart disease, the Ripon College basketball teams will hold a “Red Out” during their final home games Wednesday, Feb. 18, in which fans are asked to wear red.

The women’s game against Beloit College will begin at 5:30 p.m. that night, while the men’s contest will tip off at 7:30.

During the games, Ripon College will honor and remember loved ones by raising awareness of this disease. Cardiovascular or heart disease kills more people in the United States than the next five leading causes of death combined. The “Red Out” is a way to celebrate the life of family and friends that have been lost to this disease.

Red Hawks plan ‘Red Out’ to raise awareness for heart disease

Ripon College swept the Midwest Conference’s Performer of the Week swimming awards, as Jonathan Newbery and Hannah Metz earned the honor for the men’s and women’s teams, respectively, Tuesday morning.

A senior economics and business management major from River Forest, Ill., Newbery earned a pair of first-place finishes at last week Saturday’s University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh dual.

He won the 50-yard butterfly with a time of 26 seconds, which was more than one second better than the second-place time, while also win-ning the 500 freestyle with a time of 5 minutes, 28 seconds.

Metz, a sophomore psychology and sociology major from Naperville, Ill., won the 50 butterfly with a time of 29.56, while also swimming a leg on Ripon’s 200 medley team that finished first with a time of 2:03, which was six seconds better than the second-place time.

RC swimmers honored

Ripon College will host its annual football coaching clinic Saturday, March 14. 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 at 8 a.m. at Todd Wehr Hall on the Ripon College campus, located at the intersection of Ransom and West Blossom streets.

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

The speakers will include conference champions, national leaders and state championship coaches, including Ripon College offensive coordina-tor Rick Coles, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh head coach Pat Cerroni and high school coaches from Wisconsin Lutheran, Lancaster, Rice Lake and Onalaska, as well as retired hall of fame coach Vern Pottinger.

Topics covered will include “Formations To Gain An Advantage,” “Ideas That Help Build Successful Programs,” “Some Little Things = Big Results,” “Pass Rush Technique,” “3-3 Stack Philosophy” and “Linebacker and Defensive Line Drills in the 3-4 Defense.”

Cost is $50 per coach or $300 per coaching staff (up to eight coaches) before Tuesday, March 3 and $60 per coach or $400 per staff after that.

Checks may be made payable to “Ripon College Football.” As part of the clinic fee, lunch will be provided from noon until 1 p.m. For more information, call Ripon College head coach Ron Ernst at

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Ripon College will host football coaching clinic March 14

Men’s basketball conference standings

(Feb. 11) Conference Overall W L W L1) St. Norbert *# 16 0 20 12) Monmouth * 10 5 13 73) Grinnell * 10 5 12 84) Ripon * 10 5 13 75) Lake Forest 8 8 9 116) Lawrence 7 9 9 127) Beloit 6 10 7 148) Cornell 6 10 7 149) Carroll 5 10 8 12

10) Knox 4 11 6 1411) Illinois College 3 12 4 16 * clinched tournament berth # clinched championship


The Ripon College men’s bas-ketball team does not win many games as a result of its defense.

But it made the difference last week Saturday against Cornell.

The Red Hawks struggled of-fensively, but held the Rams to just 29-percent shooting (20 of 68) from the field to come away with a 64-57 home win on Alumni Day.

The Hawks’ 64 points are tied for the fewest they have scored this season, while the 57 allowed is the lowest total they have given up.

Ripon also scored just 64 points against Cornell in early December during a 64-61 victory.

The win, coupled with Lake Forest’s loss to St. Norbert Tues-day, clinches a spot in the Midwest Conference Tournament for the Red Hawks (10-5 conference, 13-7 overall) for the third-straight year.

“It was nice to see,” Ripon head coach Ryan Kane said of the defense. “In the two games we played against them, we were able to get enough stops in order to win. It was a game, offensively, [in which] we weren’t clicking.”

The game got off to rough start for the Red Hawks as the Rams jumped out to a 10-5 advantage less than three minutes into the game.

Cornell (6-10 conference, 7-14 overall) was aided by a pair of 3-pointers in that early run, which caught Ripon a bit off guard.

“They are not a very good perimeter-shooting team,” Kane said. “We kind of knew that we needed to defend their penetra-tion ... and, of course, a kid who hasn’t made a lot of shots for them comes out hot and hits a couple 3-[pointer]s to start the game.”

Kane added that the shots sent a shock into his players and woke them up.

How did they respond? The Hawks scored 14 of the next 16 points to take a 19-12 advantage.

They never trailed after that, but weren’t able to pull away either as their offense struggled.

Despite leading by as many as eight points in the first half, Ripon entered halftime up just 30-27.

Then, after taking another eight-point lead early in the sec-

RC men top C rnell with ‘D’

ond half, it went cold from the field and clung to a 38-36 lead with 12 minutes left in the game.

Needing a basket, the Red Hawks turned to Kyle Loughrin.

The senior, who became the 30th player in school his-tory to surpass 1,000 points earlier in the game, drove to the hoop for a layup.

B r e n d a n McCoy fol-lowed i t up with a 3-point-er and Ty Sa-bin added two free throws to cap off a 7-0 run to make it 45-36.

Kane credits the stretch in large part to the way the defense played.

“We talk about trying to string stops together,” Kane said. “We try to see if we can get three consecu-

tive stops in a row as many times as we can in a game ... If we can put a few of those together, there’s going to be enough opportunities for us to put small 7-0, 8-0 runs on teams and ... we got that particular stretch

there where we had got-ten three stops in a row and we had gotten three-straight scores.”

Ripon led by at least five points the re-mainder of the game, includ-ing by as many as 11 points.

Sabin paced the Red Hawks in scoring with 28 points, while

Loughrin and McCoy chipped in 13 and 11 points, respectively.

RIPON PULLS AWAY LATE TO DEFEAT CARROLL 82-72

Much like the Cornell game, the Red Hawks pulled away late last week Wednesday against Carroll.

They led by 12 points early in the second half, before watching the Pioneers (5-10 conference, 8-12 overall) storm back to tie the game at 48 with 13 minutes left.

Instead of panicking, Ripon responded by scoring the next five points and 14 of the next 20.

It led by at least six points the rest of the game, including by as many as 12 points, en route to an 82-72 victory in Waukesha, Wis.

“We talk about it all the time, that there is going to be a five-minute stretch in the game where we’ve got to figure out a way [to score] ... and that was that stretch,” Kane said. “... We got it up to 12, they came right back and we

answered it, which was a really good sign.”

Loughrin played a large part in that run as he scored eight of the 14 points, including the first five.

“When they tied it at 48 in the second half, our senior [Loughrin] hit a big 3-[pointer] to stem the tide and that was something he has done in the past and you can’t measure how big that is to have a senior who is rising to the occasion when your team needs it the most and that was what Kyle did for us.”

After Loughrin gave the Red Hawks the lead back during that stretch, Sabin took over from there.

The sophomore, who became the youngest player to record 1,000 points in school history earlier in the contest, scored 16 of his game-high 31 points in the final seven minutes to help seal the victory.

He finished the game 9 of 17 from the field and made 10 of 11 free throws, many coming late.

“Ty’s a closer because he’s composed with the ball in his hands,” Kane said. “He’s confident in his ability to make shots and he makes free throws ... That’s what makes him such a great closer.”

McCoy chipped in with 10 points, while Justin Leistikow added seven in the winning effort.

HAWKS WILL TRY TO BUILD MOMENTUM ENTERING TOURNEY

With a Midwest Conference tournament berth secured, the Red Hawks will try to continue their momentum Saturday, when they travel to Jacksonville, Ill., to face the Illinois College Bluboys.

“Going on the road in our league and getting a win is always a difficult thing to do,” Kane said. “[The Blueboys] are a young team, they’re very talented and they’re getting better as the year goes on. They’re certainly going to play very free and we have a lot more pressure on us than they do. But we were in a similar situation down there a year ago, in basically a must-win game on the road, and we shot the ball great down there and got the win.”

The game is slated to tip off at 3 p.m. and can be seen live on http://portal.stretchinternet.com/ripon/.

KYLE LOUGHRIN CONTESTS a shot in the second half of Ripon’s 64-57 win over Cornell last week Saturday. Jonathan Bailey photo

BRENDAN MCCOY UTILIZES a screen set by Justin Leistikow to get to the hoop last week Saturday. Jonathan Bailey photo

JORDAN STIEDE sticks his tongue out as he goes up for a layup. Jonathan Bailey photo


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If the second time against an opponent is any indication of how much a team has improved, the Ripon College women’s basketball team has to like what it saw last week Saturday afternoon.

Coming off a 73-37 loss to Cornell earlier in the season, the Red Hawks showed plenty of im-provement in a 68-55 home defeat.

They trailed the Rams (10-5 conference, 13-7 overall) just 32-30 entering halftime and were tied at 37 early in the second half, before Cornell went on a 9-0 run to take a lead it never relinquished.

“The girls did a great job ener-gy-wise, just coming out ready to play,” Ripon head coach Lauren Johnson said. “That’s probably the best team basketball that we’ve played all year. Offensively, we were sharper. The girls executed well off of ball screens, so we got a couple easy layups off of cuts and penetrating the paint.”

The Red Hawk coach added Cornell is a team with three all-conference players, the confer-ence’s player of the year for two years and players who have won the conference championship and played in the NCAA tournament.

“I thought, the girls just did a good job taking a step forward for our program,” Johnson said.

Red Hawk women make strides in loss to Cornell

Ripon (2-13 conference, 2-18 overall) got off to a good start as it scored the first four points and was within four the entire half.

It was up by as many as six at 27-21 following a Meg Ryan 3-pointer, before the Rams fought back to take a 28-27 lead with less than five minutes left in the half.

After the Red Hawks tied the score on a couple occasions later in the half, Cornell took a 32-30 advantage into halftime.

In the second half, Ripon con-tinued to keep the game close as it scored five-straight points to draw even with the Rams at 37 with 14 minutes remaining in the contest.

That was when the game got away from the Red Hawks.

Cornell made a pair of 3-point-ers and capitalized off a few mis-cues to go on a 9-0 run that spanned a little less than three minutes.

“We had a couple turnovers and that creates a scoring drought for us,” Johnson said. “Just our ball-screen coverage was a little [lack-

ing]. We got caught, so we gave up, I think, at least two 3-[pointer]s in that nine-point stretch. Defen-sively, we lost sharpness and then offensively, we weren’t as sharp either with turning the ball over.”

Ripon was able to cut the deficit to five, but was not able to get any closer as Cornell made 9 of 10 free throws late to pull away.

Emma McDonald and Ripon native Chelsea Moldenhauer led the Red Hawks in scoring with 12 points apiece in the losing effort.

Nicole Herkert added seven points and a team-high nine re-bounds, while Mikayla Hartman chipped in with six points.

TURNOVER COST RIPON IN LOSS TO SECOND-PLACE CARROLLWhen the Red Hawks could get

shots last week Wednesday, they did a good job of converting them.

The only problem?Opportunities were limited.Ripon shot a season-best 40

percent (19 of 47) from the field, but turned the ball over 28 times

en route to a 64-46 loss at Carroll.The Pioneers scored more than

half their points (36) off turnovers.“It’s too many for how we

convert. It’s too many for how we execute,” Johnson said of the 28 turnovers. “... That’s pretty much the average against Carroll this year within our conference, but it can’t be the average for us and it was Wednesday and it hurt us. They came out in the second half really inspired and we didn’t match that sharpness-wise in the second half.”

Despite all of the miscues, the Red Hawks hung with Carroll (11-4 conference, 14-6 overall) for the majority of the first half.

They recovered from a slow start, which saw them fall behind 6-0, to take a 20-19 lead with less than seven minutes left in the half.

That was when the Pioneers took control of the game as they scored 29 of the next 35 points.

Ripon never got closer than 16 points after that and trailed by as many as 26 points.

In addition to the points off turnovers, Ripon was out-scored by Carroll in the paint 34-18.

Herkert led the Red Hawks in scoring and rebounds with nine points and five rebounds.

RED HAWKS FACE ANOTHER CHALLENGE SATURDAY

Ripon will continue its stretch of facing teams in the top four of

the conference Saturday, when it travels to Jacksonville, Ill., to face the Illinois College Lady Blues.

Illinois College is tied with Cor-nell for third place with a 10-5 con-ference record. It is 13-7 overall.

“It’s a tough trip,” Johnson said. “It’s our longest trip of the year and another tough game. They’ve got an all-American post player that, defensively, we have to try limit her touches impact-wise and they have a couple other good seniors …

“So it will be a chance to see if we can take another step against a top-four team in the league. We’re going to have to take care of the ball, we’re going to half to convert in the half court and then defensively just try to take some of their easy looks away.”

The game is slated to tip off at 1 p.m. and can be seen live on http://portal.stretchinternet.com/ripon/.

RIPON NATIVE CHELSEA Moldenhauer is fouled as she attempts a shot in the second half of the Red Hawks’ 68-55 home loss to Cornell last week Saturday. Jonathan Bailey photo

RIPON NATIVE MADDIE Koster brings the ball up-court against Cornell. Jonathan Bailey photo

EMMA BALLETTI releases a long jumper to tie the game at 37. Jonathan Bailey photo


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Men1. Scott Gillespie (2007-11), 1,871 points; 2. Brad Alberts (1988-92), 1,865; 3. Aris Wurtz (2008-12), 1,821; 4. Tom Reader (1982-86), 1,810; 5. Scott Landisch (2000-04), 1,527; 6. Terry Cramer (1977-81), 1, 503; 7. Ashley Cooper (1978-1982), 1,363; 8. Jay Erdman (1982-86), 1,338; 9. Lud Wurtz (1974-78), 1,327; 10. Bo Johnson (2003-07), 1,265; 11. Adam Zakos (1996-1999), 1,234; 12. Josh Glocke (1998-03), 1,219; 13. Steve Kohl (1998-02), 1,208; 14. Bret VanDyken (1995-99), 1,202; 15. Kermit “Doc” Weiske (1946-50), 1,188; 16. Tyrone Kleinhans (1986-89), 1,164; 17. Craig Smith (1992-96), 1,161; 18. Lee Zarnott (1983-87), 1,131; 19, Jim Cahoon (1962-65), 1,130; 20. Steve Holz (1988-92), 1,118; 21. Taylor Koth (2009-2013), 1,100; 22. Gary Mevis (1961-64), 1,096; 23. Michael Basile (1990-94), 1,053; 24. Tim Barnes (1976-80), 1,079; 25. Ty Sabin (2013-present), 1,052; 26. Tommy Becker (2002-05), 1,043; 27. Ron Cooper (1969-72), 1,042; 28. Kyle Loughrin (2011-present), 1,009; 29. Brian Schmitting (2003-07), 1,003; 30. Jack Ankerson (1961-64), 1,001.

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his entire freshman year at Ripon — scoring just four points.

This came after a successful high school career that saw him record more than 1,000 points.

“It’s a lot different,” Loughrin said. “You go from high school, where you never [leave the game], to never playing your freshman year. But that was to be expected, too. I wasn’t recruited to go here … and we had some unreal talent my freshman year, but it just kind of worked out, so it is good.”

Had it not been for a few injuries at the begin-ning of his sophomore season, Loughrin may not have had the opportunity.

Both point guards, Ty Ketz and Brandon-native Zach DeBoer, were lost for the season before it even started.

“A lot of it was we had some injuries, unfortunately, to some guys and I was able to come in and take their place and I think I did alright,” Loughrin said.

Did he ever.Loughrin scored 265 points his

sophomore season and assisted the Red Hawks in qualifying for the Midwest Conference tourna-ment with two buzzer-beating shots against Carroll.

“He was kind of forced into the role [after Ketz’s injury], but he actually earned it after that,” Ripon head coach Ryan Kane said. “He really took to that spot. He had the respect of the up-perclassmen on that team, which says a lot.”

Loughrin once again took advantage of an opportunity pre-sented to himself his junior year as he helped pick up the scoring slack that came from the gradu-ation of six seniors, including fellow 1,000-point scorer Taylor Koth.

Loughrin finished the season with 405 points and has followed it up with 335 points so far this year to eclipse the 1,000-point mark for his career.

He needed four points last week Saturday to reach the mile-stone and ended with 13 in the game.

Ironically, Loughrin’s path to 1,000 points is almost exactly reminiscent to that of his high school career.

He also scored four points his freshman year at Weyauwega-Fremont after getting called up to the varsity team late, before emerging as a star the final three

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seasons.Kane is not surprised by

Loughrin’s success, but is im-pressed with the growth he has shown.

“I guess I am not amazed at what he has accomplished as far as his ability to score because you can tell he has a natural gift for that, Kane said. “I think what I am amazed with the most is just his progression as a competitor from when I got him as a sophomore to where he is now and just seeing how much his confidence grew.”

SABIN MAKES IT LOOK EASYAs gradual of a climb as

Loughrin’s rise to prominence was, Sabin jumped right into the spotlight from day one.

He burst onto the collegiate scene by scoring 470 points as a freshman en route to being named D3hoops.com Midwest Region Rookie of the Year.

There would be no sophomore slump either.

With at least three games left to play this season, Sabin has already tallied 582 points.

The point total ties him with Tom Reader for fifth in school history for points in a single season.

Riponite Lud Wurtz holds the record with 697 points, a record that can be broken if Sabin contin-ues to average 29.1 points and the Red Hawks make the tournament.

Sabin also became the quickest player in Ripon College’s 116-

year history to score 1,000 points when he reached the milestone last week Wednesday at Carroll.

“I definitely didn’t think I would do it that quick,” Sabin said of joining the 1,000-point club. “I never thought about it like that, but I feel like it was just a good fit and everything is working out, so it has been a good decision.”

Kane also didn’t imagine Sabin scoring 1,000 points that quickly.

“I knew I had a 1,000-point scorer,” Kane said of Sabin. “I didn’t know I had it in two years.”

Making Sabin’s accomplish-ment even more impressive is the fact that he never scored 1,000 points in high school.

He finished his career at Cath-olic Memorial (Waukesha, Wis.) with 814 points — more than half of which came his senior year.

“I didn’t hit the weights until

junior year, so I was small and undersized,” he said. “Senior year I had a pretty good year, but other than that [it wasn’t great].”

While Sabin didn’t score 1,000 points in high school, he was able to celebrate his collegiate milestone in front of former high school teammates and coaches as Carroll is less than a mile away from Catholic Memorial.

“It definitely was very cool to do it back home, in front of my friends and family,” Sabin said. “It was cool to all celebrate it together and do it there.”

If Sabin keeps up the pace he is on, he will have plenty more accomplishments to celebrate.

Sabin is well on his way to shattering the school’s all-time ca-reer scoring record, which is held by Ripon native Scott Gillespie, and will be in the conversation for career 3-pointers made, free-throw percentage and average points per game.

“He’s a kid who’s getting the most out of what he puts into it,” Kane said. “I’ve always said at the Division III level, kids who put in that time and kids who play with a bit of a chip on their shoulder like they have something to prove are the ones that always see a great amount of success ... He’s really taking to this idea of trying to become the best basketball player he can and to prove to everybody that he was overlooked in high school and we’re the beneficiaries

of that motivation.”

TWO SHARE AREAS IN COMMONOne area Sabin and Loughrin

have in common is how much they are honored to become mem-bers of the 1,000-point club.

“It’s great,” Loughrin said. “You look at the names on [the list], there are some unreal play-ers.”

“It’s definitely a cool honor and to see all of the alumni back here this weekend who have done it and to just celebrate it all together was pretty cool,” Sabin added.

Another similarity between the two is their mutual respect.

“For Kyle to get it, it’s awe-some,” Sabin said of the 1,000 points. “Being here and leading our team like he does, it’s just awesome to see all that hard work pay off for him.”

“When you’re able to do that day in and day out like ‘Sabs’ is doing, it’s unreal,” Loughrin said.

Both ultimately, however, have the team in mind.

“I feel like my best thing that I can do for the team is to score,” Sabin said. “That is my role. I just try to score and put us in a good position to win.”

“That’s not exactly what mat-ters,” Loughrin said about the in-dividual accomplishments. “We’re here for a conference champion-ship, so that’s all I care about.”

ABOVE LEFT, KYLE Loughrin reaches the 1,000-point mark with a left-handed layup last week Saturday against Cornell. Above right, Ty Sabin releases a 3-pointer to achieve the milestone last week Wednesday against Carroll. Jonathan Bailey and Dennis Cotton photos

KYLE LOUGHRIN SHAKES the hand of Ripon College’s first-ever 1,000-point scorer and longtime Ripon coach, Doc Weiske, before last week Saturday’s game. Jonathan Bailey photo


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Wickstrom said of the second half.A bright spot for Ripon in the

game was Marissa Bunge.The junior scored a game-

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Shannon McNeill added six points, while Erin McNeill chipped in with three in the losing effort.

EVEN QUARTERS UNFRIENDLY TO TIGERS IN 75-45 LOSS

The Tigers were able to hang with the No. 8-ranked team in the state in Division 3 for the first and third quarters last week Thursday.

They trailed just 20-15 after one quarter and played even in the third.

The even-numbered quarters were a different story.

Ripon was out-scored 41-17 in the game’s second and fourth quarters en route to a lopsided 75-45 home loss to the Xavier Hawks.

Wickstrom credits the rough quarters to the Tigers’ inability to stop the Hawks (10-3 conference, 14-4 overall) offensively.

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Xavier shot 48 percent (27 of 56) from the field in the game, which includes 57 percent (8 of

14) from behind the 3-point line.“When teams make shots like

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going to be a real good night,” Wickstrom said. “Offensively, I thought we did a pretty good job

all night. The first time we played them we scored 30 points, so we made shots. But defensively, we were just not locked in. We weren’t closing out. And when you leave players wide open with the abil-ity that some of the players have at Xavier, more times than not, you’re not going to be success-ful.”

T h e Ti g e r coach did add tha t had h i s team been play-ing an oppo-nent other than Xavier, Ripon’s offense would have gave it a chance to win.

Bunge led Ripon in scoring with 16 points, while Shannon Mc-Neill added 15 in the losing effort.

The two players combined to knock down seven 3-pointers.

RIPON WILL CONCLUDE TOUGH STRETCH OF GAMES FRIDAYThe Tigers will finish a stretch

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conference’s best teams Friday, when they host the Freedom Irish.

Freedom is fourth in the con-ference with a 10-4 record. It is a half-game back of second place.

“They’re a very solid team,” Wicks t rom said of Free-d o m . “ We know what they can bring to the table. Coach [Mike] Vander Loop i s a v e r y good coach. They run the same stuff as they have for years, we just have to stop i t . They’re very physical

and quick at the guard [position]. They don’t make mistakes and we’re going to need to match that and then match their intensity ev-ery quarter and just play four full quarters and, hopefully, we can be there in the fourth quarter.”

The home game is scheduled to get underway at 7:15 p.m.

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Aubrey walked in as the only female wrestler and the first in recent memory to the surprise of many of her teammates.

“At first, the team was very iffy about it,” Aubrey said. “... First day of practice I walk in and some of them were very timid.”

She acknowledged that throughout the season, she be-came just another teammate and there was no difference between her and any other wrestler.

The reaction of surprise was shared not just by her teammates but by other classmates as well.

“Whenever they hear about it, they’re like, ‘Wait, you’re wres-tling?’” Aubrey said. “I wasn’t sure what reaction I would get — and what I have mostly gotten is surprise. Not so much disgust or a lot of confusion, just massive sur-prise just from the fact that they would never expect it out of me.”

Another challenge for Aubrey was surviving the rigors of the first few weeks of practice.

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featured plenty of running, which she was somewhat accustomed to from cross country.

“The first couple weeks were crazy,” Aubrey said. “After getting through the first week of practice, it was like a huge relief and I was really proud of myself ... After the

first couple weeks, you kind of get into the hang of it. You start building muscles, obviously, and it starts coming quicker.”

Though Aubrey began building those muscles and a better under-standing of the sport, it did not translate into success on the mat.

Despite being just 1-21 this season, with her one victory com-ing via forfeit, the senior manages to stay positive.

“After working in practice ev-ery week, it’s frustrating,” Aubrey said of losing. ‘With the mentality that you build up over the season, you learn to pick yourself right back up and just keep going ... While [my record] is understand-able for my case, it is hard. But it’s just a small bump.”

Instead of dwelling on the losses, Aubrey picks out the small victories she can take out of her

matches.Former Ripon High School

resource officer Randy Butters explained in December that he would receive a lengthy message from Aubrey, who works for him, after every match.

It would include the result, as well as what she did well.

“You have to take every match and look at it individually,” Aubrey said. “If you look at the whole picture, you’re never going to get anything out of it. But if you break it up and look at those small things, which is what wres-tling is — it is all about the small things to equal one big picture — then that is where you get results.”

For that reason some of Au-brey’s most memorable moments this season came from strides that she made.

“I love the moments where I

can tell that I have improved,” Aubrey said. “Even if it’s the smallest, tiniest improvement, that’s probably one of the best feelings — just knowing that I worked on that in practice and I saw that result.”

Another part of the experience she has cherished is the support from her teammates.

“I can’t express how much this team has been supportive,” Au-brey said. “Probably some of the best moments have been seeing their support for me, just because I am a senior, I am a girl and this is my first year.”

She added that the team in general is probably the best one she has even been a part of.

The experience as a whole is one Aubrey values and knows will help her the rest of her life.

“Wrestling itself is such a pow-erful, mental, physical and emo-tional sport,” Aubrey said. “No. 1,

it has taught me about all three of those things. Physically, you get so strong. Mentally, you get so strong and emotionally, you have to deal with failure and everything. Those three things especially I have learned from this experience.”

Thinking back to her decision to go out for the wrestling team, Aubrey is happy with her choice — even if she did receive a puzzled response from her mom.

“The biggest thing going into this was that I was never going to drop out,” Aubrey said. “If I didn’t like it, I was just going to push all the way through and finish it, because I never wanted to stop something that I started. I always like to follow through. I am so glad that I love it, because I have absolutely no regrets.”

Actually, there is one regret.“I wish I would have come out

freshman year,” Aubrey said.

AUBREY SCHOFF ATTEMPTS to gain the upper hand against Ian Schraufnagel. Schoff went out for wrestling for the first time this season as a senior and the only girl. Jonathan Bailey photo

AUBREY SCHOFF PRACTICES her starts on Ian Schraufnagel, who is in the down position. Jonathan Bailey photo

AUBREY SCHOFF SHOWS off the team trophy that the Tigers won at the Markesan Invitational. submitted photo


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DEFEAT/Ripon cruises past Truckers with big first half, host rival Berlin Thursday continued from page 17

and 44-22 entering halftime.The lead was stretched to as

many as 40 points in the second half, before it started to shrink.

“Our thought process as we fin-ish our season is being able to get off to good starts,” Dean Vander Plas said. “A couple times early in the season, we struggled with getting out of the blocks. So we’ve really been looking at practices and games and trying to get a great start, especially on the defensive end of the floor.

“The last two games, we just got really good, solid starts on defense and, for us, that makes our offense flow better. We’re an offensive-minded team, but when we can get stops and get easy looks that really helps us get in the flow.”

The Tigers also pulled down 15 offensive rebounds and scored numerous second-chance points.

Loewe and Ben Vander Plas combined for 47 of Ripon’s 80 points as they scored 27 and 20 points, respectively, in the win.

Another player who had an im-pact in the game was Riley Haas.

The senior scored 10 points, dished out a team-high five assists and pulled down five rebounds — two of which led to easy baskets.

“It’s been a focus for us to get Riley better touches, and one of the ways to get better touches is to be more active on the boards and Riley’s taking that to heart,” Dean Vander Plas said. “He uses his athlet-icism, his long arms and just his instinct to get to the glass and helps us by getting those second shots. And then that helps him play better defensively, as well.”

Austin Lopez added seven points off the bench, while Hunter Merrill and Tyler Pick chipped in with six and four points, respec-tively.

RIPON CRUISES PAST TRUCKERS WITH BIG FIRST HALF

The Tigers had no problem handling Clin-tonville last week Friday, winning 56-38 on the road.

They out-s c o r e d t h e Truckers (3-10 conference, 4-13 overall) 40-18 in the first half, be-fore backing off a bit in the second half.

“Our kids came out with an excellent ap-

proach to the defensive end of the floor,” Dean Vander Plas said. “Our half-court defense was really good and then, we did a really good job on the glass and getting great looks. We started the game with some point-blank shots.”

According to Dean Vander Plas, Ripon’s first 14 points were all scored from about a foot away from the hoop or from the free-throw line after getting fouled near the hoop.

“Then the kids never looked back,” Dean Vander Plas said. “We went deep into the rotation early, so every kid that came in through that whole first half, third quarter really did a nice job and we continued extending the lead and then really took the foot off the gas pedal late.”

Ripon was aided throughout the game by offensive rebounds.

It pulled down 14 second-chance opportunities off of only 26 misses, converting many into

points. “We had a size advantage at

every spot,” Dean Vander Plas said. “Their tallest player is 6-[foot], 1[inch] and we wanted to play at the rim and we wanted to win the battle of the boards. We thought having the good effort on the boards would give us an oppor-tunity to win and the kids did a great job.”

Leading Ripon in rebounding was Ben Vander Plas.

The sophomore finished with 12 rebounds, seven of which came on the offensive end of the floor.

He also scored a game-high 25 points for Ripon on 10-of-16 shooting from the field and 5-of-5 shooting from the free-throw line

“Ben had an incredibly great start to the game,” Dean Vander Plas said. “I think he had 21 points at half and six offensive rebounds at half, so it was a nice start there.”

In addition to Ben’s contribu-

Boys’ basketball conference standings (Feb. 11) Conference Overall W L W L1) Freedom 12 1 17 12) Ripon 11 1 16 23) Xavier 11 1 15 34) Little Chute 7 6 11 75) FVL 4 8 4 146) Waupaca 3 9 5 137) Clintonville 3 10 4 138) Berlin 3 10 6 139) Winneconne 2 10 4 13

tions, Dean Vander Plas noted Haas and Loewe played well against the zone.

Loewe finished with 13 points and team-highs in assists (four) and steals (three), while Haas chipped in with four points, two rebounds and two steals.

The game marked the end of a stretch that saw Ripon play 10 of its last 12 games on the road. It was 10-2 during that time, including 9-1 away from the Tiger Den.

Tuesday’s home game against Wautoma was the first of four home games in the Tigers’ final five contests to end the regular season.

“Thinking of how young the team is and how they’ve been able to rally on the road has been a sig-nificant part of their growth,” Dean Vander Plas said. “So I was pretty pleased with that.” I can’t wait to come home and play.”

RIPON WILL HOST BERLIN THURSDAY, FREEDOM TUESDAY

With the uncertainty of Ben Vander Plas’ injury, the Tigers will

continue their home stand Tuesday when they host rival Berlin.

They also will welcome in Free-dom Tuesday for a pivotal Eastern Valley Conference match-up.

The Irish currently are in a three-way tie with Ripon and Xavi-er for first place in the conference.

Freedom and Xavier are sched-uled to play each other Thursday.

“It’s your archrival,” Dean Vander Plas said of Berlin. “Teams that are this close together, you always play each other as good as you play anybody. And they’re do-ing a nice job. They got a big win against Little Chute on the road a couple weeks ago. They’ve played better, they continue to improve and they’ve got some size. They play the 1-3-1 zone and then Free-dom comes in here with as good of a man-to-man defense that we will see all year; with five seniors that just refuse to lose. It’s a big stretch of games for us. We’ve got to con-tinue to improve and get better.”

Both home games are scheduled to get underway at 7:15 p.m.

EDDIE MUENCH SQUARES up for a short jumper in the first half of Ripon’s win over Wautoma. Jonathan Bailey photo

BEN VANDER PLAS steals a pass and looks to run during Ripon’s 80-53 win over Wautoma Tuesday. Running with him up the court are Eddie Muench, left and Tyler Pick. Jonathan Bailey photo

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RIPONITE LUD WURTZ shoots the ball during the Ripon College men’s alumni game last week Saturday as Green Lake native Brad Brooks defends. Behind Wurtz are Brett Vraney, left, and Jay Fish. Dennis Cotton photo


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STANDING AT half court while being honored during halftime of the Red Hawks’ game against Cornell last week Saturday is the 1980 Midwest Conference championship team. The squad, which is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its title, feature six Ripon College Hall of Fame players and two Hall of Fame coaches. It is the first 20-win team in program history. Pictured are, from left, Jim Mendyke, Tim Barnes, Doc Weiske, Kent Timm, Dan Husnick, Steve Hopp, Duke Lehto, Chris Ogle, Terry Cramer and Rally the Red Hawk. Jonathan Bailey photo

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Last week’s sports question on RiponPress.com asked readers how many games the Ripon American Legion Post 43 baseball team will win.

Here are the results:‰ 16 or more 9% ‰ 11 to 15 55%‰ 6 to 10 9%‰ Five or fewer 27% This week’s question: Which former Wisconsin Badger will have a more successful NBA career?‰ Frank Kaminsky (Char-lotte Hornets — No. 9 pick)‰ Sam Dekker (Houston Rockets — No. 18 pick)‰ Josh Gasser (Brooklyn Nets — undrafted) 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 pub-lished in the following week’s Commonwealth.

Austen Nissen

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The incoming Ripon High School senior stepped up for the Ripon American Legion baseball team last week when it needed him the most.

After scheduled starter Ben Ermatinger was hit in the face by a fly ball a couple days earlier, Nissen filled in for him last week Thursday against Watertown.

He allowed eight runs, only five of which were earned, on 10 hits in an 8-6 loss.

A day later, Nissen once again was called upon in a pinch after all three of Ripon’s catchers were unable to make the game against Slinger.

The normal third baseman rose to the challenge as he held his own behind the plate.

Nissen also drove home one run during the two games.

For more on Nissen and the Ripon American Legion team, see the story on this page.

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The number of kids taking part in the annual Tom Jones Memorial Green Lake Soccer Camp this week — which is up 12 from last year.

The camp, which began Monday and ends Thursday, was open to girls and boys ages 4 to 18 and took place on the Green Lake School playground.

It focuses on dribbling, passing and teamwork through a number of drills, games and scrimmages.

For more information on the camp and photos, see page 19.

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“I absolutely think [switch-ing to halves is] the right

thing for Wisconsin basketball to do for the kids that play.”

Dean Vander PlasRHS boys’ basketball coach


Michael Polcyn’s stint in the minor leagues was short-lived.

The Ripon native was placed on the voluntarily retired list by the St. Louis Cardinals last week Wednesday — less than two weeks after signing a free-agent deal.

He played two games with St. Louis’ rookie-league affiliate, the Gulf Coast League (GCL) Cardi-nals, before informing the orga-nization of his intention to retire.

In those games, both against the GCL Nationals, Polcyn batted 1 for 7 with a double and a strikeout. He


The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association (WIAA) has taken a step to limit stalling in high school basketball games, while giv-ing kids more playing time.

It passed a recommendation last week Thursday at its June meeting to replace the four-quarter format with two 18-minute halves for var-sity games on a one-year trial basis for the 2015-16 season.

F r e s h m a n and junior var-sity games also will switch to two halves for next year, but will continue to play a total of 32 minutes.

The change received mixed re-actions from the two Ripon High School varsity basketball coaches.

“I absolutely think it’s the right thing for Wisconsin basketball to do for the kids that play,” Ti-ger boys’ basketball coach Dean Vander Plas said. “There are four more minutes. There are less inter-ruptions. There will be less holding of the ball at the end of quarters.”

Ripon High School girls’ head basketball coach Jason Wickstrom did not feel as strongly about the change.

“I think with any sport, things evolve and I don’t think it’s a bad or good thing,” Wickstrom said, noting it might make the game go a little quicker. “I don’t think it’s going to be too much change.”

One reason why Wickstrom be-lieves it won’t change much has to do with the stalling affect, which was one of the main reasons for the change being made.

In the previous, four-quarter for-mat, teams often would hold onto the ball for roughly the final minute of each quarter for the last shot.

Wickstrom was skeptical about whether the format change would make a difference.

“I don’t think so,” he said. “ T e a m s , i f they’re going to do that, are still going to do it. That’s why it’s a trial for one year. I think ev-erything will be answered in that [time] ...”

Vander Plas, on the other hand, thinks it will cut down on stalling.

“It’s tough enough to hold the ball at the end of the quarters for a minute, so using that tactic at the end of the first half [for lon-ger would be tough],” he said. “I guess someone could do it, but I highly doubt that’s the way most coaches will play it. It’s not a consideration that I would have.”

The move toward two, 18-min-ute halves was an alternative to adding a shot clock to limit stalling.

Had the WIAA required a shot clock, schools would have had to purchase expensive equipment, as well as found someone to operate it during games.

While Vander Plas understands

started one g a m e a t third base and one at first, com-m i t t i n g one error.

“It just wasn’t for me,” Pol-cyn said, adding it had noth-ing to due with an injury. “I decided I was going to come back and finish school.”

Polcyn, who just completed his senior year at Ripon College, needs

a few more credits to graduate.According to the college and

his player page, he was pursuing a degree in exercise science.

While the decision to give up on his dream of playing in the big leagues wasn’t an easy one, Polcyn already has come to grips with it.

“Obviously, baseball is a big part of my life, but I knew it had to come to an end at some point,” he said.

Polcyn noted that although his hope of making it to the major leagues likely is done, he still might play baseball for fun.

The short stint with the GCL Cardinals is not the first time Polcyn has not lasted long away

from Ripon.He signed a scholarship to play

Division I baseball at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but transferred closer to home before playing a single game.

Polcyn then played two years for the Division III University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Titans, before finishing his collegiate playing ca-reer for his hometown Red Hawks.

The Ripon native, who was apprehensive when called about his decision to retire, did not specifically mention being away from home as a reason.

He was in Jupiter, Fla., which is the home of the GCL Cardinals,

for about a week and a half before electing to hang up his cleats.

Polcyn did note his grandpa was down there, but that he was more than three hours away from him and he basically was on his own.

He added that he “met a few good guys, but that’s about it.”

Polcyn was the first Ripon High School player to sign a deal to play in the minor leagues since Dan Konecny, who was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 2004.

He also was just the second player from Ripon College to sign a minor league deal, joining Matt Denure — who was picked by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1998.

Calling it quits: Polycn retires from baseball


A short-handed Ripon American Le-gion Post 43 baseball team hung with the squad that ended its season a year earlier last week Friday.

But in the end, numbers — or lack thereof — caught up to it.

Ripon, which was playing with just nine players and no one on the bench, led Jeffer-son 3-2 in the sixth inning, before allowing a run in the sixth and two in the seventh en route to a 5-3 loss at Barlow Park.

Undermanned Legion team falls in valiant effortIt also was hurt by numbers in an 8-6

home loss to Watertown a day earlier and had to forfeit a game against Lomira last week Wednesday for not having enough players.

“In a way, it’s pleasing that we were that close, but kind of frustrating that we aren’t getting the people we need so we can come out on top in these games,” Ripon head coach Keith Cluppert said.

Ripon, which had its regular third base-man — Austen Nissen — behind the plate as all three of its catchers were unable to make the game, fell behind Jefferson 2-0

after the first three innings.Despite being short-handed, Ripon

(1-3 division, 1-4 conference) didn’t go away quietly.

It scored three runs in the fifth inning to take the 3-2 advantage it held until the top of the next inning.

Ben Ermatinger jump-started the in-ning with a one-out single and Brett Peth and Payton Bryden followed with a single and RBI double. Following an error that allowed Peth to score and Bryden to reach

See FALLS/ page 18

See WIAA/ page 18

WIAA switches basketball from quarters to halves for next season

Michael Polcyn

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KIDS FOUND A use for their hands during the Tom Jones Memorial Green Lake Soccer Camp, which began Monday and runs through Thursday at Green Lake School. Above, celebrating one of their fellow camper’s victory are Colin Rieder, left, 9, of Ripon and Nate Wehner, 10 of Highland Park, Ill. Behind them is Drew Stepleton, 9, of Ripon. Right, Finn Alvord, 5, of Green Lake high-fives staff member Sarah Glashagel. Scott Haywood, who has an “A” license from the U.S. Soccer Federation, led the camp along with his staff members. For more information and photos from the camp, see page 19. Jonathan Bailey photos

CODY MERRILL APPLIES a tag on a Watertown base-runner as umpire Casey Hansen watches in Ripon’s 8-6 loss. The runner was called out on the play. Jonathan Bailey photo

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The Baranowski family ofGreen Lake — Joel, Kristen andJonathan — took first place andwon a boat, motor trailer and tro-phies. It reeled in five bass weigh-ing a combined 20.44 pounds,which is a new tournament record.

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why it’s not practical, he is in sup-port of it being added to the game.

“I’d love the shot clock justbecause it creates more opportuni-ties for kids when you force paceof play,” Vander Plas said. “Youcan still be a slow-down team; youcan be a fast-paced team; but at theend of the game, it forces you toplay rather than becoming physi-cal ... But I’ll take the two halvesand we’ll plan strategy around it.”

Vander Plas added this makesvarsity basketball’s format moreuniform with AAU basketball,traveling teams and college — allof which play halves, not quarters.

“Those fortunate enough to playcollege, they will be ready for thatstrategy, that situation,” he said. “Ithink it just makes sense for theflow of the game, but it also makessense for the players as they wantto inspire to higher things. They’reused to making more decisions onthe court without having a quartertimeout to be able to talk to them.”

He also noted more kids will getthe chance to play as the startersno longer will have short breaksbetween quarters, meaning theywill need to come out for breathers.

“We had an event this weekendwhere [the coaches] were togetherandoneof the thingswe talkedaboutwas having to get deeper and betterat that part of it,” Vander Plas said.

While the ability to providemore kids with playing time maybe a positive, it also could hurtteams without as much depth.

“If there is a concern, that mightbe one,” said Wickstrom, who hasput small teams on the hardwoodthe last few seasons. “This year,we probably will have eight or ninekids on our varsity team and you’vegot to worry about foul trouble.”

In addition to needing to man-age fatigue and foul trouble more,Wickstrom noted he might need toalter how he relays messages.

“You definitely have to maybechange how you communicate toyour team, because I always used[the quarter break] as a refresher, [asa chance to] talk about some of thestuff that we’re doing good and bad,”he said. “We might have to covermore during halftime and rely moreon the players to figure things out.”

The mercy rule, which also is

being applied to freshman and ju-nior varsity games next season, willtake effect the final eight minutes ofthe game, unless a timeout is called,if a team leads by 40 points or more.

OTHER RULES CHANGESSwitching to two halves is not

the only basketball recommenda-tion the WIAA Board of Controlapproved last week Wednesday.

It also passed a recommenda-tion to change the way the tour-nament is seeded and to allow thehome team to wear white uniformsduring regional games. At the sec-tional level, teams will continue towear jersey colors as prescribed bythe current alphabetical rotation.

In the past, each of the four sec-tional brackets were broken up intoeight-seeded regionals and wouldonly be seeded as a half-sectionalbracket if 60 percent of schools inthat portion of the bracket votedfor it. Now, all sectionals will beseeded in two half brackets.

Both Wickstrom and VanderPlas are supporters of the change.

“I actually like the half-bracket,just because then you’re not al-ways stuck with Laconia,” Wick-strom said. “Two years ago wehad the half-bracket and I justthink with more teams there ismore areas where you can advancefurther, depending on your seed.”

“I think that’s the right thingto do,” Vander Plas added. “… Ifwe’re really doing seeding thanthe better team should have a bet-ter option to play at home longer.”

One example Vander Plas gavewas the regional Freedom andXavier were in last year.

Both teams won more than 20games and were ranked in the state.

“One of them had to leave[their home court in regionals] andthere was not an above .500 teamon the other side,” Vander Plassaid. “That’s not the right thingto do for the kids. Those Freedomand Xavier kids earned the oppor-tunity to go further.”

Vander Plas acknowledged un-der this new rule that teams mayhave to travel further, but believesit’s worth the inconvenience.

“I think it’s more difficult forthe coaches,” he said. “I alsothink logistically, you could havea team from Little Chute playinga team from Eagle River and thatmay create an issue on a Tuesdaynight, but I think those are far out-weighed by the benefit of the bet-ter teams getting the advantage.”

Wickstrom, who also noted thepotential travel concerns, is happyit’s uniform across the board.

“I could care less how it is, but itshould be consistent,” Wickstromsaid of the tournament format.

The other change the WIAAmade is rearranging the schedulefor the boys’ and girls’ state bas-ketball tournaments next March.

The Division 3 semifinals willbe played during the Thursdayafternoon session instead of Fridaymorning and the Division 4 semi-finals will be conducted during theThursday evening session.

The Division 5 semifinals, mean-while, will be played Friday in themorning session, with the Division 2and 1 semifinals being played in theafternoon and the evening.

The schedule for the finals onSaturday remains unchanged.

FALLS/Ripon has busy week ahead continued from page 16

third, Owen Krueger singled homeBryden with two outs.

In the sixth inning, Ripon hurtitself as it committed two errors andhad a passed ball — which led tothe tying run being scored.

An inning later, Jefferson (4-5conference) took matters into itsown hands as it started off the framewith a single and an RBI double andadded another run-scoring doubleto add to the lead.

Krueger was saddled for the lossfor Ripon, despite pitching prettywell. He allowed just the five runs— four earned — on 10 hits andstruck out eight batters.

It was the second complete-game he pitched in four days as healso went all seven innings in a 1-0loss to Mayville in the first game ofa doubleheader last week Tuesday.

His performance continued atrend of strong outings by Riponpitchers to start the season.

“I am happy with all of ourpitchers that pitched last week,”Cluppert said, adding Ripon waswithout two of its pitchers. “Therewere a lot of games in a shortamount of time and they got usthrough a tight stretch. This week,we’ve got pitchers coming back,so I hope we’re in better shape.”

Offensively, Ripon finished thegame with eight hits. Ermatingerand Nick Retzlaff led the way withtwo apiece, while Alex Goyette,Peth, Bryden and Krueger ac-counted for the other four hits.

Overall, Cluppert was pleasedwith Ripon’s offensive production.

“I think our hitting has beenreally good once we got past thatdoubleheader that we didn’t hitvery good there,” Cluppert said.“[In] the Watertown game, wescored a lot of runs and had goodhits; [it was the] same way withJefferson.”

RIPON PUTS SCARE INWATERTOWN, FALLS 8-6

Ripon stayed within strikingdistance of one of the South Divi-sion’s best teams, but came out onthe short end of an 8-6 score lastweek Thursday at Barlow Park.

It was defeated by Watertown,which improved its record to 7-1.

“We just never got over thehump,” Cluppert said of the loss.“To be within a couple runs of ateam that has been this good earlyon in the season is pretty good.”

Much like the Jefferson game,Ripon fell behind Watertown 2-0in the early stages of the game as itallowed two first-inning runs.

But once again, it battled back,tying the contest at two apiece withruns in the first and third innings.

Watertown, however, respondedwith three-run innings in the fourthand the sixth and Ripon could neverquite recover.

Ripon did score a run in the fifthinning to cut the deficit to 5-3 andthree in the ninth to make it 8-6, butthat is as close as it could get.

Peth led the way offensively forRipon as he went 2 for 3 with three

RBIs and scored once.Bryden and Goyette added

2-for-4 days and each scored a run,while Ermatinger was 2 for 3 witha double and run scored.

Nissen picked up the loss onthe mound. He allowed the eightruns — five earned — on 10 hitsin a complete-game effort.

It could have been worse, butNissen and his defense wiggled outof trouble in a number of innings,including a bases-loaded jam withno outs in the second inning.

RIPON AIMS TO GET PEOPLEBACK, WIN GAMES THIS WEEK

Ripon will try to put its problemswith numbers behind it this week,when it is scheduled to play sixgames in six days.

It will begin the stretch of con-tests Thursday with a home gameagainst division-foe Waupun.

It also has a home game Fridaywith Hartford, a non-conferenceroad doubleheader with BerlinSaturday, a home contest againstMarkesan Sunday and a road gameagainst Oconomowoc Tuesday.

“I think this week shouldchange,” Cluppert said of the num-ber issue. “We should be having amajority of the people back. Youdon’t have to be great starting out,but you keep working and gettingbetter and once tournament comesaround, hopefully you’re there. Ithink I see that happening.”

For a list of when the games areslated to start, see the upcomingschedule on this page.

Ripon American Legion baseball upcoming schedule

Thursday: Waupun, 7 p.m.

Friday: Hartford, 7 p.m.

Saturday: @ Berlin DH, 1 p.m.

Sunday, July 5: Markesan, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, July 7: @ Oconomowoc,6 p.m.

Wednesday,July8:@Horicon,6p.m.

Home games unless otherwise noted are played at Barlow Park

ALEX GOYETTE MAKES contact with a pitch against Watertown.He finished 2 for 4 with a run scored. Jonathan Bailey photo

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SportsGame on in Green Lake!

The annual Tom Jones Memorial Green Lake Soccer Camp concludes Thursday morning.

The camp, which began Monday and takes place on the playground of Green Lake School, was open to girls and boys ages 4 to 18.

Fifty-three kids participated in this year’s camp, which is up from last year, with Scott Haywood and his staff returning to provide instruction.

Haywood is recommended by the Soccer Association for Youth and is the founder and director of Back of the Net Soccer Academy.

He has an “A” license from the U.S. Soccer Federation. The camp focuses on dribbling, passing and teamwork through a

number of drills, games and scrimmages.

Jonathan Bailey photos

JENNA TESSONE, FRONT right, 12, of Morris Ill. attempts to juke Rowan White, 8, of Madison. Trailing Tessone, from left, are Isabella Giordanelli, 12, of Italy; Zoe Alonso, 15, of Janesville, Wis.; Connor Banerjee, 15, of Markesan; and Dorsey Strasburger, 9, of Memphis, Tenn.

CAMP INSTRUCTOR SCOTT Haywood explains to the younger group that the first person to raise their hands and answer a soccer-related question will win a pair of goalie gloves.

SHAWNA STIBB, LEFT,11, of Princeton and Kate Graber, 10, of Western Springs, Ill., fight for possession of the ball.

DRIBBLING THE BALL are, from left, Josh Knapp, 5, of Green Lake; Hans Lussnig, 6, of Glencoe, Ill.; and Katy Luepke, 5, of Green Lake.

WILL GERSTEIN, 13, of San Francisco deflects a shot from Payton Murphy, 10, of Green Lake. Behind Gerstein are, from left, Wesley Carne, 10, of Madison; Dorsey Strasburger, 9, of Memphis, Tenn.; Zoe Alonso, 15, of Janesville, Wis., Amanda Tessone, 15, of Morris, Ill.; and Cal Peters, 13, of Green Lake. CAIN FRANZEN, LEFT, 9, of Ripon and Nate Wehner, 10, of

Highland Park, Ill., fight for possession of the ball as Moritz Deegen, 8, of Berlin watches.

ABOVE, RACING each other to the ball are Moritz Deegen, left, 8, of Berlin and Jake Graber, 8, of Western Springs, Ill. Above right, Connor Banerjee, left, 15, of Markesan and Rowan White, 8, of Madison battle for the ball.

EVERETT WOLOSZYN, 8, of Princeton boots the ball. Around him are, from left, Moritz Deegen, 8, of Berlin; Nate Wehner, 10, of Highland Park, Ill.; and Emily Gryske, 8, of Green Lake.

Thursday, October 23, 2014 - Page 23

See COMEBACK/ page 30

“The difference between us

being 1-5 and 5-1 is the fact that we’re just not making plays at critical times.”

Ron ErnstRC football coach

Sports


Last week’s sports ques-tion on RiponPress.com asked readers who should the Wisconsin Badgers start at quarterback?

Here are the results:‰ Joel Stave 50%‰ Tanner McEvoy 15%‰ Stave and McEvoy should split time 4%‰ Somebody else 31%

This week’s question: How will the Milwaukee Bucks fare this season? ‰ Will make the playoffs ‰ Will miss the playoffs ‰ I don’t follow the NBA

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 pub-lished in the following week’s Commonwealth.

Evan Elliott

RIPON

RECAP

The Ripon High School senior was a bright spot in the Tigers’ 50-7 season-end-ing home loss to the Free-dom Irish last week Friday.

Elliott recorded a sack, forced a fumble and even hauled in his first-career catch in the fourth quarter.

“Evan is just a heck of an athlete,” Ripon head coach Mike Yoder said. “He’ll do anything you ask him to do and he usually will do it very, very well. Was he planning on being an offensive force this year? No. His forte is defense and he did it very well and, hopefully, he is recognized in the confer-ence for that with the confer-ence meeting coming up.”

Elliott is one of eight seniors who played their final game last week. He has been a mainstay on the defense in his career.

For more on Elliott and the Tiger football team, see the story on the bottom of the page.

LOCAL

SPOTLIGHT

BY THE

NUMBERS2

The number of runners who earned all-conference honors for the Ripon High School cross country teams last week Saturday at the East-ern Valley Conference meet.

Both Bruce Cunning-ham and Seth Zimdars were named to the third team as a result of their 16th- and 19th-place finishes, respectively.

For more on the Tigers, see the story on this page.

INSIDE

SPORTS

‰ Red Hawk harriers finish fifth and sixth at private college meet see page 24

‰ Red Hawks will get “Spooky in Storzer” Friday, Oct. 31 see page 24

‰ Green Lake Co. Deer Advisory Council will hold meeting Oct. 29 see page 24

‰ JV volleyball team takes home title at Wausau West Invitational see page 30


On the first play from scrim-mage, the Freedom Irish rushed the ball 64 yards for a touchdown.

That about summed up the game for the Ripon High School football team last week Friday.

The Tigers allowed 42 first-half points and the first 50, be-fore scoring a late touchdown in a 50-7 home loss at Ingalls Field.

They end their season with a 1-8 record, while the Irish enter the playoffs with an 8-1 mark.

“That’s obviously not the way you want to start a ballgame and that hurts the morale and kind of puts people in a funk a little bit,” Ripon head coach Mike Yoder said, adding Freedom is a good


Ripon College football coach Ron Ernst feels like a broken record.

The Red Hawks fell behind St. Norbert 13-0 after one half and could not recover as they lost 13-10 last week Saturday in De Pere.

It marks their fourth-straight loss and fifth in six games this year, most of which featured streaky play.

“Right now, we’re struggling with consistency offensively,” Ernst said. “We get the ball in the red zone a couple times and we can’t get the production out of it that we really need. It is just one of those things that we’re go-ing to keep wo r k i n g on. These a r e n o t p r o f e s -s i o n a l athletes . T h e s e a r e n o t s c ho l a r -ship kids. These are kids who are going to class. They’re working hard. They’re doing everything they can. I am proud of every single one of them. I thought they competed hard Saturday. They fought like crazy.”

Ernst added Ripon could easily be 5-1 right now instead of 1-5.

It has lost two games by three points or less and has been in two other games before fading late.

“The difference between us being 1-5 and 5-1 is the fact that we’re just not making plays at criti-cal times and that is what it comes down to. We have got to find ways to make plays at the critical time in which they needed to be made.”

One of those critical plays came with less than five minutes remain-

All for naught: Tigers’ comeback falls shortby Jonathan Bailey

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The Ripon High School volley-ball team easily could have given up Tuesday night against Berlin.

But “quitting” is not in its vo-cabulary.

Down two games to none in its regional quarterfinal match, the Tigers battled back to force a game five, before ultimately falling 15-9.

They lost the hard-fought battle, which took place in Berlin, 9-25, 24-26, 25-21, 25-15, 9-15.

“The kids were very excited to play,” Ripon head coach Tracy Landerman said. “They were very motivated to play. They believed in the fact that they could beat this team and to start out and be in the hole of 9-25, that is tough. At any time, they could’ve just believed that it wasn’t meant to be and they didn’t. They knew

they could do it and they fought hard to get back into it. They still dropped the second game, but that wasn’t going to deter from what they were trying to accomplish.”

The match got off to a rough start for the Tigers as they strug-gled handling the Indians’ serves.

They committed at least six serve-receive errors in game one, which saw Berlin go on a 17-3 run to cruise to the victory.


The Ripon High School boys’ cross country team showed it could do more than just run a 5k race last week Saturday at the Eastern Valley Conference (EVC) meet.

It also has hurdling abilities.Several Tigers were forced to jump over teammate

Riley Gatzke after he was tripped and knocked down at the beginning of the race.

Two of them — Zachary Ferch and Matt Mott — managed to run their fastest times of the season, while the other — Luke Loewe — struggled to regain his rhythm.

As a team, the Ripon boys finished sixth out of nine schools.

The girls were ninth out of nine.The meet took place at Winagamie Golf Course in

Neenah, Wis.“I am not disappointed with that sixth-place finish,”

Ripon head coach Chris Gatzke said. “It was definitely a good warm-up going into our sectional meet Saturday.”

Entering the competition, Gatzke was hoping his boys could finish fifth, citing that the top-four teams were all ranked in the state.

Had the spill not happened, he is confident the Tigers could have placed fifth or maybe even fourth.

They finished eight points behind fifth-place Waupaca and 26 points back of Winneconne.

Freedom won the team title.Avoiding the early-race mishap to lead Ripon were

juniors Bruce Cunningham and Seth Zimdars.Both received third-team all-conference honors for

their efforts.Cunningham finished in 16th place with a season-best

time of 17 minutes, 43 seconds, while Zimdars placed 19th with a time of 17:58.

“It was great to see that we had two all-conference runners,” Gatzke said, adding he was hoping to have just one. “If you look at our conference, just getting an all-conference selection with the competition we have is phenomenal.”

Not far behind them and only four spots away from making it three Tigers to receive all-conference honors

team and he expects it to do well in the playoffs. “But they came back out and they kept playing and I am proud of them. It’s the consistency and being able to make plays right off the bat and that is something we are going to have to learn.”

In addition to the 64-yard touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage, the Tigers also yielded touchdown passes of 64, 14 and 30 yards, a touchdown run of 25 yards and allowed a touch-down on a fumble in the first half.

They did settle down a bit after that as they forced two fumbles in the final six minutes of the second quarter to keep the deficit at 42-0 and gave up only one touchdown in the second half: a 37-yard pass.

While Freedom had many of its backups in during that stretch,

Yoder was still proud of his team’s ability to stop the bleeding.

“It doesn’t matter who we play, we still have to play well and do our assignments,” Yoder said. “We said at halftime, ‘I don’t care if it is a third-, fourth-, youth-team, you still have got a job to do and any team can score on you.’ So you have got to keep playing and you learn from it and move on.”

Ripon also managed to score a touchdown late in the fourth quarter on a one-yard run by senior quarterback Brock Moldenhauer.

“I think it means a lot for team morale,” Yoder said. “Again, our kids aren’t dumb. They know they did it against probably a second-tier defense, but that doesn’t

Running strong

Tiger boys post solid finish after shaky start;

girls finish ninth

Red Hawks fumble away

chance at victory

Season finale gets out of hand early for Ripon

BRUCE CUNNINGHAM LEADS a trio of runners around a turn during last week Saturday’s Eastern Valley Conference meet. He finished as the highest-placing Tiger and one of Ripon’s two all-conference selections. Sheri Schmidt photo

RIGHT, SHOWING emotion after a five-game loss to Berlin in the regional quarterfinals are, from left, Rachel Peppler, Brianna Davis, Abby Brewer, Aubreigh Zimmerman, Nora Moran, Reagan Zimmerman and Marissa Bunge. Jonathan Bailey photo

See RUNNING/ page 25See FUMBLE/ page 25

See FINALE/ page 24

BROCK MOLDENHAUER HAS the ball poked out of his arms in the second quarter of last week Friday’s 50-7 loss to Freedom. The Irish recovered the ball in the end zone. Jonathan Bailey photo

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Red Hawks harriers finish fifth and sixth at private college meet

The Ripon College men’s and women’s cross country team finished fifth and sixth out of eight and 12 teams, respectively, at the Wisconsin Private College Championships last week Saturday in Milwaukee.

The men finished with 128 team points, which was 29 more than St. Norbert, while the women were 31 points shy of fifth place with 161 points.

Rob Waters earned first-team all-state honors for the men with a ninth-place finish, leading the Red Hawks with a time of 28 minutes, 11 seconds.

Zach Schmidt wasn’t far behind with a time of 28:42, which was 17th among the 73 runners who finished the event. Andrew Pierson added a 31st-place time of 29:54, while Mikey Allen placed 33rd with a time of 30:01. Nick Luedtke rounded out the team score with a time of 30:54.

On the women’s side, Karla Perez was the highest finisher for the Red Hawks as she finished in 20th place with a time of 25:21.

Natalie Williams added a 28th-place time of 25:58, while Alyssa Nycz placed 33rd with a time of 26:22. Rounding out the team scorers for Ripon were Emma Allen (36th, 26:24) and Dianne Pedroza (47th, 27:24),

The Red Hawks will take a week off from competition, before taking part in the Midwest Conference Championships Nov. 1 in Appleton.

RC tennis team finishes season at conference championships

Friday,Oct. 24

Saturday,Oct. 25

Sunday,Oct. 26

Monday,Oct. 27

Tuesday,Oct. 28

Wednesday,Oct. 29

‰ Volleyball at Monmouth (7 p.m.)

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

RHS Tigers Red Hawks

Thursday, Oct. 23

N Home game‰ Away game

‰ Women’s soccer at Cornell (1:30 p.m.)‰ Volleyball at Knox (1 p.m.)

‰ Women’s soccer at St. Norbert (7:30 p.m.)

‰ Cross country at Cedar Grove Sectional (10 a.m.)

N Football vs. Carroll (1 p.m.)

‰ Swimming at Loras (11 a.m.)‰ Men’s soccer at Cornell (11 a.m.)

‰ Cycling at Nationals (TBA)

‰ Cycling at Nationals (TBA)

‰ Men’s soccer at St. Norbert (5 p.m.)

The Green Lake County Deer Advisory Council (CDAC) held its first meeting at the Green Lake Government Center last month.

In 2014, the old Deer Manage-ment Units were replaced with each county being its own deer management unit.

CDACs are charged with gath-ering input from local residents to share with the DNR for its consideration in establishing the proper deer populations, antler-less quotas and season options for the county.

Council members represent target groups involved with agri-culture, forestry, tourism, trans-

portation and conservation clubs. The chairman for the Wiscon-

sin Conservation Congress for each county chairs the meeting.

Last month’s meeting was ba-sically bringing the CDAC mem-bers up to speed with the deer metrics for Green Lake County.

A power point presentation was given by Jim Holzwart, the DNR wildlife manager for Green Lake County.

Holzwart noted that there are 31 square miles of public area in the county and of that, 27 square miles are deer range.

In 2013, hunters harvested 321 deer on public land (36 per-cent were taken by bow).

The county has a total of 349 square miles of private land with 152 of them being of deer range. On the private land there was a total deer harvest of 3,536 deer (25 percent of that were taken by bow). Holzwart also noted that the 2013 over-winter popula-tion for Green Lake County is at about 11,000 deer.

The next CDAC meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Green Lake County Government Center, lower level training room.

At this meeting, council mem-bers will establish a preliminary CDAC recommendation to either increase, maintain or decrease

the current herd. Holzwart noted that Green

Lake County was designated as a county that exceeded the toler-able levels of deer damage to crops in the three-year period, 2011 to 2013.

That means the county is required by state administrative code to reduce or maintain its deer population.

Thus, CDAC members only will consider reducing or main-taining the county deer herd at the October meeting.

More information on the CDAC program can be found at the DNR web site: http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/hunt/cdac.html.

FINALE/Eight seniors conclude their Tiger careers continued from page 23

matter … You still have a job to do and it doesn’t matter who you do it against. It’s important that seniors go out on a high note and if the kids can make that happen, then they should do that.”

The game marked the final high school contest for eight seniors.

Playing their final game in a Tiger uniform were Moldenhauer, Tanner Stangl, Owen Krueger, Tony Wagner, Evan Elliott, Jake Merrill, Dakota Button and foreign-exchange student Jakob Kastenholz.

Even though they did not enjoy much success in the win column during their careers, Yoder noted the group will be missed greatly.

“Seniors always mean a ton,” Yoder said. “... They might not realize that or understand it, but the young guys look up to those se-niors. They’ve been there, they’ve done that. They have got a lot of experience. A lot of our seniors played as sophomores. They played as juniors, obviously. They bring an aspect that the younger guys just haven’t had the opportunity to do.”

One senior who excelled in his final high school game was Elliott.

The defensive end recorded one sack, one forced fumble and even hauled in his first-career pass.

“Evan is just a heck of an ath-lete,” Yoder said. “He’ll do any-thing you ask him to do and he usually will do it very, very well. Was he planning on being an offen-sive force this year? No. His forte is defense and he did it very well

and, hopefully, he is recognized in the conference for that with the conference meeting coming up.”

While Elliott and the other se-niors will be missed next season, Yoder is excited to see the younger players take the next step forward.

Adding to the excitement is the fact that the Tigers will change conferences as part of a massive

conference-realignment plan.They will be a part of a confer-

ence yet to be named, along with Berlin, Winneconne, Campbell-sport, Kettle Moraine Lutheran, Kewaskum, Plymouth and Waupun.

“It’s a new conference. It’s a new opportunity and I think our younger kids are looking forward to that,” Yoder said. “We were

sticking six, seven, eight sopho-mores on a defense and you’ve got sophomores on offense.

“It is a great opportunity for them to have a clean slate and kind of put their stamp on a new offense. I think there is a lot of excitement because of that and I am hoping that will be a good push for them in the offseason here.”

ABOVE LEFT, BROCK Moldenhauer rushes into the end zone from one-yard out in the fourth quarter for Ripon’s only touchdown. It was set up by a long completion to Austen Nissen, above right. Nissen took the ball down to the one-yard line. Jonathan Bailey photos

EVAN ELLIOTT, MIDDLE, celebrates a fumble recovery in the second quarter of Ripon’s 50-7 loss to Freedom last week Friday. Elliott had a big game to close out his high school career as he recorded a sack, forced a fumble and even caught a pass. Watching to the right are, Cody Button (54) and J.J. Zack (25). Jonathan Bailey photo

Green Lake Deer Advisory Council will meet Oct. 29

Red Hawks will get ‘Spooky In Storzer’ Friday, Oct. 31

The house where the Red Hawks play will look more like a haunted house on Friday, Oct. 31, as Ripon College volleyball team will host a costume contest during its home match against Lake Forest College.

The match will begin at 7 p.m. on that night at Storzer Center’s Wyman Gymnasium, as the Red Hawks continue their push for a second-consecutive trip to the Midwest Conference Tournament.

The “Spooky In Storzer” costume contest will be judged by a panel of Ripon College celebrities. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third places and will include cash, gift certificates and Ripon College gear.

The Ripon College women’s tennis team saw two players advance to the consolation finals at the Midwest Conference Championships last weekend in what was the culmination of the 2014 season.

Maddie VandenHouten and Madeline Salzer advanced further than any-one on the team. VandenHouten lost her consolation-finals match 8-4 at the No. 1 flight, while Salzer fell 8-0 in her No. 3 singles consolation match.

In doubles play, the No. 2 team of Courtney Olson and Lucero Pena proved to be the most successful for the Red Hawks, winning their first round match 8-2, before bowing out in the quarterfinals.

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was Quynlan Duffy.The freshman finished 25th with

a time of 18:12, which was four seconds off the all-conference pace.

Riley Gatzke recovered from the fall to finish fourth on the team with a 34th-place time. He was followed by Ferch (38th, 18:53), Mott (39th, 18:58) and Loewe (40th, 19:03).

On the girls’ side, Kaitlynn Az-inger led the way for the Tigers with a 38th-place time of 22:35.

The rest of the Ripon girls struggled a bit as they finished near the back of the pack in the race.

Ashley Johnson crossed the line in 54th place with a time of 24:25 and was followed by Hannah Co-ziahr (57th, 24:54), Sarah Rodman (58th, 25:03), Aubrey Schoff (59th, 25:24), Kate Hopfensperger (60th, 25:31) and Lauren Wetzel (61st, 25:31).

“Kaitlynn ran a faster time this time than she ran last time at the St. Mary Central course, so there were improvements there,” Gatzke said. “And again, it’s a really, really tough conference. It would have been very easy for them to give up and not even really push, but they did. They tried hard.”

Gatzke also added there was a shake-up between the varsity and

ing last week Saturday.After recovering a St. Norbert

fumble deep in their own territory, the Red Hawks drove the ball to the Green Knights’ 15-yard line.

Needing only a field goal to tie the game or a touchdown to take the lead, they fumbled the ball.

St. Norbert picked up a couple first downs and gave Ripon little time to work with, in which it turned the ball over on downs.

The fumble was the Red Hawks only turnover of the game.

“Certainly, I know that turn-overs are part of the game,” Ernst said. “You try to minimize those as much as you can, whenever you can and it just seemed to hit us at the wrong time. I am not second-guessing anybody or anything. It is just that we have got to hang onto the ball better. We have got to make better decisions and make plays in all areas of the game —

offense, defense, special teams — when there are chances to be made and that is what we need to do.”

Another area in which Ripon’s offense struggled last week Satur-day was on third-down conversions.

It converted just 2 of 14 attempts for a 14-percent success rate.

The Red Hawks were 1 of 2 on fourth-down opportunities.

“Again, that is making plays when you have to make them,” Ernst said. “We’re not in third-and-10, third-and-12 situations a lot. The situations that we are in are third and three, third and four, third

and two — very manageable situ-ations and we’re just not getting it done and that is just something that we have got to do. We have got to figure out a way to get third downs converted and be more consistent.”

Consistency also was a factor defensively, as the Red Hawks al-lowed 13 points in the first half and none in the second. It marks the third time this year they have shut out their opponent in the final half.

St. Norbert converted a 32- and 31-yard field goal in the first half, before punching the ball in from one-yard out before intermission.

Ripon found the scoreboard with a 22-yard field goal from Connor Greenwald in the third quarter — the first of his collegiate career — and added a five-yard touchdown run by Skylar Liebzeit in the fourth.

In addition to kicking the field goal, Greenwald led the Hawks in rushing with 42 yards on 11 carries.

Midwest Conference Football Standings

W

(Oct. 22)

L

Conference

W L

Overall

Nathan Silloway, meanwhile, hauled in a team-high 75 yards receiving on three catches, includ-ing a 52-yard reception on the drive that ended with a fumble.

Stephen Covalt completed that pass and finished 4 of 15 for 83 yards, while Tom Sawyer added 47 yards on 4-of-8 passing.

As a team, Ripon was out-gained by the Green Knights in total offensive yards 384 to 291.

St. Norbert has now won 15 of the last 16 match-ups in the series.

RIPON WILL WELCOME RED-HOT CARROLL SATURDAYThe road won’t get much easier

for the Red Hawks Saturday, when they host the Carroll Pioneers.

Carroll is a perfect 6-0 this sea-son and is coming off a 76-7 shel-lacking of Lawrence. It defeated St. Norbert 30-6 a week earlier.

“They’re a good team,” Ernst

said. “This may be the best team they have had in several years. They’re ranked nationally ... They’re very big. They’re very strong. They’re very fast. And that’s the case on both sides of the ball.

“What we have to do is prepare and not so much worry about them, but worry about us. If we can play consistently, convert third downs, keep their offense off the field as much as possible, control the clock, we have got a shot ... No team is unbeatable. We fear no one, but respect everyone. So, it is going to be a great game. I know our kids are looking forward to it. As a coach-ing staff, we are, too. We’re going to line up and just get after them.”

Ripon will need to win this game and its final three after that if it hopes to continue its streak of 20-straight non-losing seasons.

The game is scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m. at Ingalls Field.

FUMBLE/Road doesn’t get easier for Red Hawks Saturday as they host 6-0 Carroll continued from page 23

RUNNING/Ripon turns sights to Saturday’s sectional competition, qualifying for state continued from page 23

junior varsity teams as Alicia Abra-ham will move up to varsity for the next race due to her performance.

She finished the junior varsity race 28th overall with a time of 24:48, which would have been

good for third on Ripon’s varsity team.

Full individual results for Ripon at the Eastern Valley Conference meet include:

Girls’ varsity (ninth place)38. Kaitlynn Azinger (22:35); 54.

Ashley Johnson (24:25); 57. Hannah Coziahr (24:54); 58. Sarah Rodman (25:03); 59. Aubrey Schoff (25:24); 60. Kate Hopfensperger (25:31); 61. Lauren Wetzel (25:31).

Girls’ junior varsity (Incomplete)28. Alicia Abraham (24:48); 58.

Billie Larson (26:50); 67. Mackenzie Briskie (27:37); 83. Hayley Corkran (30:52).

Boys’ varsity (sixth place)16. Bruce Cunningham (17:43);

19. Seth Zimdars (17:58); 25. Quynlan Duffy (18:12); 34. Riley Gatzke (18:39); 38. Zachary Ferch (18:53); 39. Matt Mott (18:58); 40. Luke Loewe (19:03).

Boys’ junior varsity (third place)7. Cole Frank (19:48); 9. Beau Er-

matinger (19:56); 14. Andrew Bergth-old (20:15); 15. Sam Mott (20:17); 17. Joshua Sperger (20:18); 27. David Garcia (21:04); 30. Dexten Hielke

(21:12); 33. Joshua Schmidt (21:26); 39. Austin Baranczyk (21:38); 40. Collin Schultz (21:38); 44. James Kl-emm (21:57); 63. Michael Kasuboski (27:24).

UP NEXT: SECTIONALSA year after not being repre-

sented at the state meet for the first time in 19 years, the Tigers will try to begin a new streak Saturday.

They will travel to Cedar Grove for a Division 2 sectional meet.

“On the boys’ side, I still think we have an outside chance [to qualify as a team],” Gatzke said. “I think for the first time in the last couple of years, if we do the things right, we have the chance. We don’t have to count on some-body else doing something wrong. In essence, we can finally have a better chance of controlling our own destiny without having to rely on somebody else.”

He also noted that an individual could advance to the state competi-tion, even if the team doesn’t.

“Can they qualify? Yes, but we have to improve those times a little

bit more and it is going to be a chal-lenge,” Gatzke said. “I feel we have a better chance of qualifying the entire team than we do individuals. However, I knew it was going to be tough and I was hoping to earn one all-conference selection and we have two. So stranger things have happened and I have got confidence in them.”

On the girls’ side, Gatzke is hop-ing to see his Tiger runners improve their times and places.

Competing in the meet against Ripon will be Berlin, Campbell-sport, Cedar Grove-Belgium, Co-lumbus, Lomira, Mayville, North Fond du Lac/Oakfield, Omro, Oostburg, Portage, Saint Lawrence Seminary (boys only), Waupun, Winneconne and Xavier.

The boys’ race will begin at 11 a.m. and will be followed by the girls’ competition at 11:45.

1) Carroll 2) Macalester 3) St. Norbert 4) Lawrence 5) Beloit 6) Ripon

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1) Cornell 2) Illinois College 3) Monmouth 4) Lake Forest 5) Knox 6) Grinnell

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SHARING SOME LAUGHS while warming up for last week Saturday’s Eastern Valley Conference race are, from left, Kaitlynn Azinger, Lauren Wetzel, Kate Hopfensperger, Ashley Johnson, Hannah Coziahr, Sarah Rodman and Aubrey Schoff. Sheri Schmidt photo

ABOVE, MATT MOTT, middle, and Zach Ferch run close together last week Saturday, while Luke Loewe is not far behind. Below, Riley Gatzke leads a Waupaca runner. Sheri Schmidt photos

SHOWING OFF THEIR third-team all-conference medals are Bruce Cunningham, left, and Seth Zimdars. They earned the honor with 16th- and 19th-place finishes, respectively. Sheri Schmidt photo

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TEAM STANDINGS: Glacier Canyon Rentals 37; Phoenix Card Services 35; Novaks 33.5; Gooseblind 32; Reds 31; Tall Pauls 31; Center House 28; RCD Construction 27.5; Plaza Bowl 26; Moderow Electric 18; Diedrich Jewelers 18. HONOR SCORES: Aaron Johnson 216; Warren Frank 201; Brian Hiemstra 210; Randy Frank 208; Ed Scoville 245; Mark Bethke 213; Zach Bryant 203; Doug Sauerbrei 249; Greg Dragolovich 228; Scott Novak 212; Randy Rich 216; Jim Vikre 211; Gary Pierce Jr. 603, 216; Matt Vandebrink 614, 230; Josh Frank 616, 215; Stacy Workowski 646, 236; Jeff No-vak 651, 245; Jim Manthei 656, 254; Steve Mancl 657, 238; Rick Retelle 665, 235; Ben Sprague 677, 236; Jefry Carley 698, 254; Rick Erdmann 712, 279; Russ Stracy 728, 299; Clint Wiesmueller 744, 289; Bill Er-ickson 754, 275.

SUNDOWNERS TEAM STANDINGS: Center House 39; KT Re-pair & Auto Body 36; Picklettes 32; Stars & Strikes

Ripon leader boardWomenSeries

Vicki Stracy .....................586Sarah Kesich ..................579Candi Semenske ............576

GameSarah Kesich ..................246Marissa Frausto ..............243Marlene Pinnow ..............224

MenSeries

Andy Schmick .................790Clint Wiesmueller ............779Bill Erickson ......................754

GameClint Wiesmueller ............300 Russ Stracy ....................299Clint Wiesmueller ............289

32; Goeden Farms 28; Reds 26; We R OK Builders 24; Modern Rentals 21; Kopplin Kinas 21; Diedrich Agency 21. HONOR SCORES: Stephanie Kuklinski 191; Wen-dy Worth 217; Rita Dolgner 188; Denise Zuhlke 198; Teri Hilke 500; Deana Vandebrink 514, 209; Christina Erdmann 516, 194; Brenda Washkovick 541, 197; Mickie Oskola 544, 200; Roxanne Lyyski 548, 204; Barb Tress 559, 222; Shae Moderow 563, 201; Ma-rissa Frausto 575, 243; Candi Semenske 576, 211; Sarah Kesich 579, 246; Vicki Stracy 586, 209.

SATURDAY NIGHT COUPLES TEAM STANDINGS: Fantaxtic 4 7; Family Ties 7; F’n Corner Pins 7; Cozy Cousins 7; Who Gives a Split 0; Strike Force 0; Pin Pals 0; Bowling Buddies 0; Somebodies 0; Ben Sprague 0; Alex Amend 0 HONOR SCORES: Alicia Kelma 184; Shellie Hiemstra 186; Al Gee 500, 198; Greg Kelma 507, 187; Brian Kempfer 514, 202; Jenni Jerabek 519, 192; Deana Vandebrink 546, 204; Mike Dorsey 560, 203; Dan Heeren 592, 233; Chris Jerabek 597, 267; Matt Vandebrink 599, 249; Jay Huckaby 621, 244.

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TEAM STANDINGS: Hitching Post 66.5; Sandbag-gers 63.5; Plaza Bowl 60;Modern Rentals 59; Berlin Journal 58.5; Pick N Save 57.5; Dominos 55; Ripon Family Restaurant 47; PNS Power 46.5; Alibis 46.5. HONOR SCORES: Eric Krueger 203; Dave Page 200; Tyler Mentink 225; Brian Kempfer 223; Donovan Stindt 221; Ray Olson 213; Mitch Lemiesz 600, 248; Jeremy Schouten 602, 224; Rick Olson 603, 247; Tim Robbins 619, 247; Mike Reyna 627, 217; Jim Price 639, 254; Tony Magin 641, 223; Jim Manthei 644, 248; Steve Smit 645, 238; Tom Robbins 657, 225; Mike Dorsey 675, 265; Dan Vanloo 718, 268; Bob Lyyski 740, 273; Clint Wiesmueller 779, 300; Andy Schmick 790, 279.

KOFFEE KLUTCH TEAM STANDINGS: Priebe Sales & Service 41; James Davis Consulting 26; Amys Tigetettes 26; Na-tasha Novak Agency 26; Kutzs 18; Ace Hardware 17; HONOR SCORES: Gerri Kono 177; Sharon Wolt-ers 463, 185; Marlene Pinnow 524, 224; Audrey Kel-ma 549, 205.

GREEN LAKE SENIORS TEAM STANDINGS: Lake Real Estate 23; Ripon Family Restaurant 15; Marges Upholstery 14; Kinas 14; 1st National Bank 14; Horicon Bank 14; Green Lake Subway 12; Green Lake Flooring 12; Christia-nos 12; Sharkz 10. HONOR SCORES: Ray Sheldon 178; Ron Bradley 452, 177; Helen Smith 461, 187; Bill Yentz 518, 194; Lee Rank 521, 180; Tom Cukale 566, 200; Ed Scoville 566, 203; Bob Dewar 605, 220.

RIPON SENIORS TEAM STANDINGS: Pick N Save 20; Alibis 17; Fox River Glove 15.5; BMO Haris Bank 14.5; Diedrich Jewelry 14; Plaza Bowl 13; Ace Hardware 10; Ripon Senior Center 9. HONOR SCORES: Shelby Bock 467, 201; Tom Cu-kale 469, 180; Tom Mills 493, 179; Jim Kanelos 517, 221; Dolly Theune 519, 186; Bob Dewar 520, 195; LB Croley 521, 191; Lee Rank 536, 201; Bill Yentz 545, 193; Bob Ziebell 551, 223; Ed Scoville 559, 197.

COMEBACK/Match marked the final high school contest for eight seniors continued from page 23

In game two, Ripon also was hurt by serve-receive errors and missed service errors as they com-bined for at least eight miscues.

Despite the mistakes, it still had the opportunity to win the game as it overcame an early 11-6 deficit to tie the game at 24.

But the Indians scored the final two points, including the final one on a service ace that deflected off the net and landed on Ripon’s side.

“I think we let that one slip through our fingers because we fought back into that and it was tight and there were a couple of pivotal mistakes that kind of tripped us up in the end, which is unfortunate because I think that game should have been ours,” Landerman said about game two.

The Tigers didn’t let the loss linger as they led games three and four from start to finish to tie the match up at two games apiece.

They were up in the third game by as many as eight points and went on a 12-3 run to break open an 8-7 advantage in game three.

“The kids played very well in those games,” Landerman said. “I am very proud of what they did.”

The momentum appeared like it would carry over into the fifth and

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decisive game as Ripon scored the first two points, but Berlin scored nine of the next 10 to take control.

Coming back to haunt the Ti-gers again was their inability to handle the Indians’ serving game.

They committed three serve-receive errors, after minimizing them in games three and four.

“We struggled right away in that game five in our serve receive,” Landerman said. “We were not passing the ball well and, of course, then you’re out of system and you’re scrambling to try and put something together offensively and you’re really not controlling the things you want to do at the net.”

Ripon also was guilty of two service errors in the game, one of which started the 9-1 run for Berlin.

“When you fight hard and win the ball back and miss some of those key serves, it is tough,” Landerman said, adding it is a momentum-changer. “I think some of those missed serves seemed to really stand out more because they are at real critical

points and that is unfortunate.”The loss marked the final high

school match for eight seniors.Among those playing their last

contest in a Tiger uniform were Abby Brewer, Brooke Oakes, Ashliegh Gehrke, Aubreigh Zim-merman, Brianna Davis, Alissa Bal-ke, Carol Belau and Nora Moran.

“I really enjoyed working with this team,” Landerman said. “They came to practice. They worked hard. And with any season, it is really tough to say goodbye to any team. The last match is always tough. It is bittersweet because you have kids who have invested a lot of time in the game and you’re proud of them for them and you hate to see it turn out that way be-cause you would like to see them come out on the right end of that.”

Ripon team leaders Service aces: Miranda Kovalaske 2,

Rachel Brewer 2; kills: Zimmerman 23, Rachel Brewer 8, Kovalaske 4; blocks: Moran 3, Zimmerman 1, Balke 1, Da-vis 1; assists: Davis 29; digs: Abby Brewer 23, Zimmerman 19, Davis 18.

TIGERS POST 6-4 RECORD AT WAUSAU WEST INVITATIONALRipon ended the regular season

on a positive note last week Satur-day at the Wausau West Invitational.

It went 6-4 in 10 games at the competition, which was set up dif-ferently from many of the invites they have competed in this year.

Instead of playing the best-of-three-game matches, the Tigers faced five teams for two games each, with the number of games won de-ciding the invitational winner.

The 6-4 record was good enough for third place out of the five teams.

“It was a good day for us,” Landerman said. “We tried some different combinations and played well together and it was a good way to finish out the regular season.”

The day didn’t start off that well for Ripon as it lost its first game to host Wausau West 16-25.

But it rallied to win its next five games, including a 27-25 win over West. It also swept a pair of games against Pittsville (25-10, 25-9) and Neillsville (25-20,

25-19).The Tigers ended the day by

losing three of their last four, but were competitive in most of them.

They lost both of their contests (14-25, 22-25) to the eventual champion DC Everest Evergreens — who finished undefeated — and split a pair of games with Eau Claire Regis (17-25, 25-19).

One of the areas Landerman credited for the success was the effectiveness of the passing game.

“I think what really helped us and made for some better play is the fact that we were passing well and it allowed us to utilize our of-fense,” Landerman said. “So kids who sometimes don’t always get the opportunity to swing at the ball, had that opportunity because we were passing much better.”

She also noted the defense and the blocking game, which has struggled off and on throughout the season, did a good job.

Ripon team leaders Service aces: Davis 6, Amber Sand-

strom 3, Kovalaske 3; kills: Zimmerman 24, Gehrke 14, Marissa Bunge 14, Balke 10; blocks: Kovalaske 4, Balke 4, Bunge 3; assists: Davis 84; digs: Davis 17, Abby Brewer 13, Balke 8.

RIPON SWEPT BY WINNECONNE IN THREE GAMES

The Tigers hung with Win-neconne for two of the three games last week Thursday, but couldn’t win any of them as they were swept 19-25, 13-25, 20-25.

“In spurts, we were very com-

petitive with them,” Landerman said. “Second game, a lot of un-forced errors on our side really put us behind the eight-ball and we struggled to get out of that one.”

With the loss, Ripon finishes with a conference record of 1-7.

Ripon team leaders Service aces: Kovalaske 1, Balke

1; kills: Zimmerman 9, Rachel Brewer 3, Bunge 3, Balke 2; blocks: Bunge 3, Kovalaske 1, Balke 1; assists: Davis 16; digs: Aubreigh Zimmerman 12, Davis 11, Abby Brewer 9.

JV Tigers takes home title THE RIPON High School junior varsi ty team took first place at the Wausau West Invitational last week Saturday. It finished with a 7-3 record. Pictured are, front row, from left, Kendra Oskola, B re e M o d e ro w, A m b e r Reimer; second row, Grace Sonntag, Marissa Davis, Mia Pollesch, Sam Beahm, Alexa Neuenfeldt, manager Coral Choppa; back row, coach Ellie Sitek, Gabby Schwandt, Hailey Bloedow, Marissa Olson, MacKenzie Klettke, Taylor Resop and Emma Kautzer. submitted photo

NORA MORAN SETS the ball over the net during Ripon’s 25-15 game-four victory over Berlin. Behind her, are, from left, Rachel Brewer, Aubreigh Zimmerman and Brianna Davis. Jonathan Bailey photo

BRIANNA DAVIS fol lows through after setting the ball in the fifth and final game. Jonathan Bailey photo

MARISSA BUNGE goes up for a contested ball Tuesday. Jonathan Bailey photo

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