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(2008/07/08)
Spots are still open in the Holmen High School girls basketball fundamentals and shooting skills camp, which begins Wednesday and runs three days a week through August 1.
(2008/07/08)
When longtime Onalaska resident and area basketball official Rod Ostrem was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1962, his future goals in the sport were focused on playing the game. But an interesting thing happened to Ostrem near the end of his second year of playing for the Warhawks. A change that will lead Ostrem to induction into the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame as an official in October.
(2008/07/08)
Two Holmen American Legion baseball pitchers took no-hitters to the late stages of games last week, including Levi Adamk taking a perfect game to the seventh inning in a 6-0 win in game one win of a doubleheader split with Mount Horeb Saturday.
(2008/07/08)
The Holmen Merchants 18-and-under summer softball team began its abbreviated season by being swept 6-3 and 4-3 in a doubleheader at Logan June 25.
(2008/07/08)
Morgan Lasack's two-run triple came as part of a nine-run third inning and allowed the Holmen Merchants 16-aud-under softball team to a split of a Coulee Region Girls Softball League doubleheader at Shelby June 25.
(2008/07/03)
The United States Golf Association and Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews permitted the use of electronic measuring devices to aid golfers last year. That decision has come to revolutionize the way most tournaments are being played in Wisconsin, including on the Three Rivers Golf Association.
(2008/07/03)
Holmen's American Legion basetball team went 3-2 at last weekend's Viroqua tournament, including winning its final two games over Viroqua and Westby, while extending its winning streak to three games with a 12-11, walk-off win over Bi-State Monday.
(2008/07/03)
Holmen High School senior Maria Mackey helped the Division 1 North team to a 81-64 win in the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association state all-star series Saturday at Madison Area Technical College.
(2008/07/03)
High school hockey teams will be able to play two additional regular-season games beginning in the 2009-10 season under a proposal approved by the WI2A Board of Control late last week.
(2008/06/26)
Corey Jessessky hit two home runs and pitched three innings, helping the Holmen American Legion baseball team to its first win of the season Friday, a 12-4 win in game one of a doubleheader with Viroqua.
(2008/06/26)
Holmen's Junior Legion baseball team remained perfect with a 9-7 and 16-2 doubleheader sweep of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Monday.
(2008/06/26)
Holmen High School's girls soccer team finished its season by not scoring a goal in its last 503 minutes, with the dubious streak coming to an end in a 7-0 loss in a Division 1 regional semifinal at Sauk Prairie May 22.
(2008/06/26)
The Sarah Ann Mullenbach Mixed Scramble will become the title sponsor of the Three Rivers Golf Association Juniors circuit, effectively immediately.
(2008/06/19)
Holmen's American Legion baseball team got 12 strikeouts from Levi Adank in its season opener Monday at Sparta. But it still wasn't enough for Holmen to get a win, as the Legion was unable to score in each of its final four at-bats in a 5-4 loss.
(2008/06/19)
After a format change last February to attempt to keep it alive, the Mississippi Valley Conference wrestling tournament has been discontinued for the 2008-09 season.
(2008/06/19)
Holmen High School has had lots of success with its boys and girls basketball programs this decade, with both programs sending teams to the state tournament and winning multiple Mississippi Valley Conference championships. But a group of Holmen community members and coaches are hoping to improve the playing opportunities for more youth players by forming the Holmen Youth Boys Basketball Association.
(2008/06/19)
Holmen's Junior Legion baseball team opened its 2008 season by breaking open a close game with Bangor with eight runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on their way to a 13-3, six-inning win June 4.
(2008/06/19)
Middle and high school athletes in nearly every sport have seemingly limitless opportunites to improve themselves in their offseasons. But most of those camps focus only on the skills specific to their sports.
(2008/06/19)
Newly resurfaced tennis courts in Holmen's Deer Wood park are getting their first major test this weekend, with the Holmen Park and Recreation Department in the midst of hosting a youth tennis tournament through Saturday.
(2008/06/12)
2008 Holmen High School graduate Eric Gunderson finished third among underclassmen at last spring's Division 1 state track and field meet in the 300-meter hurdles. He came close to matching that spot among all finishers at this year's meet, earning a spot on the post-race awards podium by taking fifth.
(2008/06/12)
Holmen High School's girls track and field had all sorts of opportunities to advance one of its three relay teams or three individual qualifiers to the finals of their events at last weekend's Division 1 state track and field meet at UW-La Crosse. Two of Holmen's relay teams were seeded in the top eight based on their sectional times, while Vikings head coach Paul Berge thought the remaining relay and each of the individuals had a chance to reach the finals. But just two of the six HHS entrants even finished in the top half of their fields, shutting Holmen out of sending a team to the finals in an event.
(2008/06/12)
Holmen High School junior Billy Pearse played better in relation to par Tuesday at Monday and Tuesday's Division 1 state golf tournament. But the rest of the field did as well, leaving Pearse just short of the middle of the 104-player field.
(2008/06/12)
Joanna Schultz, a 2006 Holmen High School graduate and a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame, finished .13 of a second and two spots short of consideration for the Division 1 national meet in the 400-meter dash at last weekend's Mid-East Regional at the University of Arkansas.
(2008/06/05)
Holmen High School's girls track and field team will again be a busy outfit at Friday and Saturday's Division 1 state meet at UW-La Crosse. Holmen qualified each of its three sprint relays, hurdlers Whitney Croell and Hanna Niccum and sprinter Cathryn Helmers to the meet.
(2008/06/05)
Holmen High School junior Billy Pearse will play in Monday and Tuesday's Division 1 state golf tournament after carding an even-par 39-33-72 Tuesday at The Meadows at Six Mile Creek, finishing second among the 46 players whose teams did not qualify for state.
(2008/06/05)
Holmen High School senior Eric Gunderson finished third among underclassmen in the 300-meter hurdles at last spring's Division 1 state track and field meet. Gunderson will finally get a chance to see if he can fulfill that potential this weekend at UW-La Crosse.
(2008/06/05)
Central and the Holmen High School softball team were about as evenly-matched as possible in a Division 1 regional final May 22. Both teams managed seven hits and struck out just once on offense, while pitchers Kayla McCluskey and Kallie Mechling each allowed just one earned run. But two heads-up baserunning plays in the same at-bat in the eighth turned out to be the difference in a 5-4 Red Raiders win that ended Holmen's season at 11-6.
(2008/06/05)
Holmen High School's baseball team looked like it cured a lot of its ills in its regular-season finale with defending Division 3 state champion Aquinas May 20, outhitting the Blugolds 11-8 and committing two fewer errors. But Holmen's lack of offense and inconsistent defense jumped back to the fore at Tuesday's Division 1 regional semifinal at Onalaska in a 6-0 loss that ended the Vikings season at 2-17.
(2008/06/05)
Holmen High School boys tennis coach Greg Jameson and Onalaska head coach Kurt Gutknecht both lauded the strength of the Waunakee subsectional entering the May 21 sectional at Nielsen Tennis Stadium in Madison. That played out throughout the sectional, but also at No. 3 doubles, where the Holmen team of juniors Ethan Pedretti and Trent Bodin lost each of their matches.
(2008/06/05)
Holmen High School's girls soccer team finished its season by not scoring a goal in its last 503 minutes, with the dubious streak coming to an end in a 7-0 loss in a Division 1 regional semifinal at Sauk Prairie May 22.
(2008/05/29)
Whitney Croell in the 100-meter hurdles, the girls 4X200 relay team of Jessica Wakefield, Hanna Niccum, Lauren Hicke and Leah Jagodzinski, Cathryn Helmers in the 400, the girls 4X100 relay team of Wakefield, Croell, Hicke and Jagodzinski, Niccum in the 300 hurdles, the girls 4X400 relay team of Angela Berkley, Croell, Hicke and Helmers, and Eric Gunderson in the 300 hurdles will represent the Holmen High School track and field program at the Division 1 state meet May 30-31 at UW-La Crosse.
(2008/05/29)
Zach Malvik, a 2002 Holmen High School graduate playing professionally for the Kilsyth Cobras in Australia, broke his foot midway through the second quarter of Saturday's game with Geelong and is out for the remainder of the season.
(2008/05/29)
Holmen High School's boys golf team entered last year's Division 1 regionals as a favorite to advance to sectionals, but an illness sustained by then No. 2 player Billy Pearse helped keep Holmen from advancing as a team. The Vikings put that behind them Tuesday the Reedsburg Country Club, shooting a 30-over-par 159-159-318 to finish 14 shots clear of fifth-place Baraboo and advance to Tuesday's 9 a.m. Division 1 sectional at The Meadows of Six Mile Creek in Waunakee.
(2008/05/29)
Holmen High School's baseball team has been oh-so-close to several Mississippi Valley Conference wins in the last month, including an extra-inning loss, two 1-run losses and a two-run loss, one of which was a 12-11 loss to Aquinas at Copeland Park April 26. Holmen finally reserved the tides on one of those close games Tuesday at Viking Field, capping their regular season with their first signature win this spring, an 8-7, eight-inning win over Aquinas.
(2008/05/29)
Holmen High School pitcher Kallie Mechling set career-highs with one hit allowed and nine strikeouts in Tuesday's Division 1 regional semifinal against Tomah at the Viking Elementary Fields. Mechling's most dominant outing of her career helped Holmen to a 2-0 win and a spot in a regional final at Central Thursday (after the Courier deadline), a game in which the Vikings entered with nothing to lose and everything to gain.
(2008/05/29)
Holmen High School's No. 3 doubles team of Ethan Pedretti and Trent Bodin won both of their matches at Monday's subsectional at St. T's Tennis and Sports in Winona, advancing to Wednesday's sectional at Nielseon Tennis Stadium in Madison (after the Courier deadline).
(2008/05/22)
Holmen High School golfer Sam Kube continued his late-season surge with a 4-over-par 76 at Monday's Mississippi Valley Conference finale, with Holmen getting ready to begin its quest to advance in the postseason Tuesday in Reedsburg.
(2008/05/22)
Holmen High School's baseball team pounded out 15 hits, while Jordan Vaaler allowed one run in six innings of work, as Holmen earned its first win of the season Monday, a 9-1 decision over Tomah.
(2008/05/22)
Holmen High School's softball team entered their final three Mississippi Valley Conference games in control of their own destiny for their first league championship since 2005, and their first outright league title since 1999. But losses to bottom-half teams Onalaska Friday and Tomah Tuesday left Holmen needing help from Logan Thursday (after the Courier deadline) to tie with Central for the title.
(2008/05/22)
Holmen High School's girls track and field team got event wins from Lauren Hicke in the high jump, Whitney Croell in the 100-meter hurdles, Jen Buchner in the discus and from three relays, but it was far from enough for Holmen to catch Logan Tuesday, as the Vikings finished second for the second straight year at the Missisippi Valley Conference meet at Logan.
(2008/05/22)
Hurdlers Eric Gunderson and Mitch Johnson each finished in the top three of a hurdles race, while Nick Kannel was a part of two top-three finishers for the Holmen High School boys track and field team at Tuesday's Mississippi Valley Conference meet at Logan.
(2008/05/22)
Holmen High School's boys tennis team showed inconsistency in a week filled with stronger opponents such as Central and Sauk Prairie. That trait showed particulary well in the No. 1 singles match of Na Xiong against Viroqua's Chris Steele Friday at the Viking Elementary Courts.
(2008/05/22)
Holmen High School's girls soccer team was the victim of a shutout for the third consecutive game Tuesday, falling 5-0 at Tomah. The streak comes at the worst of times, with Holmen opening the Division 1 playoffs Thursday.
(2008/05/15)
Holmen High School junior and No. 2 pitcher Lauren Schaller is a pretty tough self-critic. After no-hitting Onalaska 3-0 Monday, she was more concerned about the four walks and six wild pitches she allowed.
(2008/05/15)
Holmen High School junior Sam Kube was among the most consistent players for the Vikings a year ago, at one point shooting 10 consecutive rounds in the 70s. Kube entered Monday's Mississippi Valley Conference match at par-71 Hiawatha in Tomah without a round in the 70s this season, but blew away that barrier with an even-par round that allowed him to win the individual title.
(2008/05/15)
Longtime Holmen High School girls track and field coach Paul Berge has talked all season about Logan likely being beyond his team's reach in the team chase at Tuesday's Mississippi Valley Conference meet at Logan. Holmen seemingly enters the meet with the sprinting and hurdling depth to stick with the Rangers, but likely will need strong performances in some of the field events to keep up with Logan.
(2008/05/15)
Holmen High School's boys track and field team looked to be entering the 2008 season making a move up in the Mississippi Valley Conference meet. The question was how far.
(2008/05/15)
It wasn't long ago that the Holmen High School boys tennis team struggled to win any matches at the Eau Claire Memorial Old Abe Sweet Sixteen Invitational. Holmen won just two matches at the event two years ago. But the Vikings won nine matches at Saturday's event and finished 11th, their best-ever showing in the event.
(2008/05/15)
Holmen High School's baseball tean has shown improved play in Mississippi Valley Conference games the last two weeks. That trend continued April 30 against Central, though it came to a crashing halt Monday in a doubleheader at defending league champion Logan.
(2008/05/15)
Holmen High School's girls soccer team played Mississippi Valley Conference contender Logan to a 1-1 tie between two halves played Monday and Tuesday. Unfortnnately for Holmen those two halves did not come in the same game. Holmen trailed 3-0 at halftime Monday on their way to a 4-1 loss, while standing tied at halftime Tuesday, before falling 3-0.
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