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 […]
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38 Badger athletes get all-conference honors
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 […]
Young girls basketball team loses to Watertown
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 […]
Badger survives homecoming game
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 […]
Comets suffer first conference loss to Badger
By Kevin Cunningham Correspondent Having a great offense while being protected by a strong defense is a recipe for success in the game of football. For Delavan-Darien High School, the team has been accompanied by both aspects of the game, scoring at least 35 points in its last three games […]
Badgers hold off Comets
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent Fans might have expected the match-up between Lake Geneva Badger and Delavan-Darien to be a shootout. Instead, Badger was on the ropes until blocking a punt with just over three minutes left and scoring its only touchdown of the game to take the lead and […]
Badger football reloads
Badgers will rely on returning quarterback to lead team By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Badger High School football team shared the Southern Lakes Conference title last year with Waterford, made it to the state semi-final Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Associationi playoff game for the second time in school history and […]
Legion 16U team improves to 5-0
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva American Legion Post 24 16U team won its fifth straight game to start its season 7-2 over Genoa City at Jonas Field at Badger High School on June 13. “It was another nice win and a good combined effort from our pitching […]
Badger athletes earn SLC recognition
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent All-Southern Lakes Conference awards were issued last week for spring sports. Several Lake Geneva Badger athletes were recognized. Badger golf led the way with four of its top players being recognized and with Luke Bourneuf being named SLC Athlete of the Year for golf. The […]
American Legion 16U team wins first four games
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva American Legion Post 24 baseball team won its first four games of the summer season last week. “The team pitching and defense were very good in our first week and several hitters got off to a hot start,” Coach Ken Johnson said. […]