HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
After 13 years coaching in the Forreston Cardinals basketball
program, including the last five (5) as head coach,
Jake Groom is stepping down. Groom is leaving
Forreston to pursue a goal he had growing up, as he is
enlisting in active duty in the Army for the next four (4)
years. He coached Forreston to a 21-and-13 season
this past winter, the Cardinals most victories in 10 years.
Plus the outlook for Forreston basketball in the coming
years is bright. Groom made the decision last fall that
this would be his last year at Forreston. And he knows
it looks like a strange time to be leaving an improving
program.
“When people look at this from an outside perspective and
they don’t know me they’ll say what in the world is this guy
thinking…it’s never been about me. There are parts of you
for sure that like to win. I like to win more than anybody.
I’d love to have championships with my name on them.
Everybody wants that. But honestly for me it’s about what
I can do to help our kids, help them grow and help see
that hard work does pay off.”
Jake Groom leaves Forreston with a record of 58-and-75
in five (5) years, with 21 of those 58 wins coming this
past season. He will leave for US Army basic training
in South Carolina on August 12th.
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The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association
has announced school programs that’ve reached
the six-point performance factor threshold during
the past three seasons would be placed up a division,
containing the next largest set of enrollments,
from where the schools’ enrollments would place
them. After an appeals process, the following area
teams will be in the following divisions for the next
winter sports season. Boys basketball, Mineral Point
moving up to Division-3, Girls basketball, Cuba City
jumping up to Division-3, Albany/Monticello up to
Division-4. Boys wrestling, Fennimore moves to
Division-2. Both Albany/Monticello and Cuba City
appealed the promotion but were not approved.
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HOCKEY
2021 Orangeville High School graduate Tessa Janecke
(JAN-uh-kee) and her United States teammates battled
Canada yesterday in the golf medal game of the Women’s
Ice Hockey World Championship in the Czech Republic.
The game went to overtime before Janecke ended it
with the game winning goal with 2:54 left in the extra
session. Team USA won the game 4-3, and Tessa Janecke
was named the Player of the Game for the United States.
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SUNDAY MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Midwest League
Quad Cities River Bandits 3, Beloit Sky Carp 0
**(The game was suspended in the bottom of the 4th
inning and will be completed on May 20th. Beloit
is off today and heads to South Bend on Tuesday).**
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