By Greg Bates Correspondent DE PERE – Every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Evan Heim meticulously reads through the latest NFL transaction wire. If there’s an offensive lineman on the list, it piques the interest of the 2015 De Pere High School graduate – it could be a job opportunity. “If a guy goes on IR …
By Greg Bates Correspondent GREEN BAY — Sam Daugherty will always remember his first varsity start for the Seymour boys’ basketball team. The senior — who struggled shooting coming off the bench in the first two games of the regular season — scored 10 second-half points and helped the Thunder erase a 15-point deficit to …
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By Greg Bates Correspondent SUAMICO — Last season as a sophomore, AJ Lieuwen wasn’t relied on to be a leader. There were plenty of upperclassmen to fill that role on the Bay Port boys’ basketball team. But with some key seniors gone, Lieuwen — who is one of two starters back from a season ago …
By Greg Bates Correspondent DE PERE – If this season was a high-stakes poker game, the De Pere girls’ basketball team would be all in. The Redbirds are coming off a 23-4 campaign and lost in a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 1 sectional semifinal. De Pere graduated one key contributor — Sophia McCarthy — …
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By Greg Bates Correspondent APPLETON – An early-season test is what the Notre Dame Academy Tritons girls’ basketball team needed in order to gauge where it’s at in relation to the top teams in the state. The reigning Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 state champions had the ultimate challenge, heading on the road Tuesday …
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By Greg Bates Correspondent DE PERE – It could have been another dark day for Luke Davison. The St. Norbert College hockey player was losing his hair, not by choice and not without a fight – but the cancer was starting to take its toll. Davison’s teammate and friend Tim Nicksic organized a Friday night …
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By Greg Bates Correspondent ASHWAUBENON – Things looked bleak. A loss by the Ashwaubenon football team in either of the final two regular-season games would have ended the season. Dan White, Scott Baranczyk and Eric Destache were senior leaders who weren’t going to let the 1996 squad go down in program lore with another losing …
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By Greg Bates Correspondent PULASKI — Entering the season, West De Pere Phantoms girls’ basketball coach Chris Abaray said he knew he had four solid freshmen that would be on his varsity squad. What Abaray didn’t know was how those underclassmen would respond early in the year on the big stage. Abaray got his answer …
By Greg Bates Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – And then there were two. Bay Port and Pulaski are the lone Green Bay-area football teams that survived past Level 2 of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association playoffs. Both teams face tough tests this Friday, Nov. 5, as second-seeded Bay Port travels to No. 1-ranked and undefeated Franklin …
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By Greg Bates Correspondent SEYMOUR – Early in the second half of a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 3 boys’ soccer sectional final, Notre Dame Academy Head Coach Michael Prudisch had to go to his bench. A Tritons midfielder was cramping up, so Ian Noble was inserted into the game. It didn’t take the sophomore …
