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By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Southern Lakes Conference recognized its best spring sports athletes with its all-conference teams last week. Two Lake Geneva Badger athletes were recognized as athletes of the year in their sports. Blake Wisdom was named athlete of the year for golf. Wisdom led the Badgers […]
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Badger High School track teams finished second at the Walworth County Invitational in Elkhorn on May 8. The Badger girls finished second with 161 points behind only Elkhorn’s 179. Hope Ayres-Schulz had a big day finishing first in the 100-meter hurdles (17.18), second in […]
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Badger High School softball team defeated Waterford 8-4 at home on May 8. The win avenged a 6-4 loss in Waterford on April 12. Badger scored all eight of its runs in the first two innings and then hung on behind the pitching of […]
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva Badgers gave one of the best teams in the state a good run but fell just short of advancing to Level 3 of the WIAA football playoffs Friday in a 24-17 road loss to Franklin, ranked No. 6 in the state. The […]
Gallagher steps up with 101 yards By Michael Hoey and Tim Wester The Lake Geneva Badger football team gained sweet redemption in its WIAA Level 1 playoff win over Kenosha Bradford on Friday night. In week two, the Badgers (9-1) led the Red Devils (6-4) all night long […]
Badgers break Westosha Central’s undefeated status By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva Badgers passed a stiff test Sept. 15 against a Westosha Central team led by Utah transfer quarterback Jaden Jackson. The Falcons started the season 4-0 and 2-0 in the Southern Lakes Conference and were tied with […]
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva Badger baseball team pulled off two upsets in winning the WIAA regional championship but fell short of pulling off the hat trick against Waterford in the sectional semi-final on June 6. The #10-seeded Badgers defeated #7 Westosha Central 6-2 and #2 Kenosha […]
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Southern Lakes Conference announced its all-conference awards last week. Badger High School was represented with 38 athletes including 13 football players, nine cross-country runners and eight tennis players selected for all-conference honors. The Badger football team, which won the conference championship with an undefeated […]
Boys hope for injury-free start to season By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Badger High School girls basketball team opened the 2016-17 season with a 64-53 loss to Watertown on Nov. 17. The Goslings are coming off a 17-7 season last year. Badger was 12-11 overall and 9-5 in the […]
Team seals win over Union Grove with strong fourth quarter By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent For the Badgers on Friday, how they started the game wasn’t what counted but how they finished the game. Union Grove did all it could to spoil Lake Geneva Badger’s homecoming game, but Badger dominated […]
