Basketball guru has turned Trojans into perennial power By Troy Sparks Sports Correspondent There’s no doubt that Darryl Rayfield is passionate about coaching. People who watch Rayfield in action during an East Troy boys varsity game are used to it. If that’s how you want to judge Rayfield’s animation […]
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Girls track team wins Albright Invite
Boys tie with Palmyra-Eagle for fourth By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The key to success at a multi-team track and field invitational usually comes to down to which team has better depth. Enter the East Troy High School girls. The Trojans earned four first-place finishes, but it was a slew of […]
Golfers open season at Geneva National Invite
Boys team takes 23rd out of 24 teams By Dan Truttschel Correspondent With a spring season that has resembled winter more than anything, getting time on a golf course to practice – let alone compete – has been easier said than done. And for the East Troy boys squad, Monday’s […]
Conference rival takes down Whitewater boys tennis
By Troy Sparks CORRESPONDENT The Whippets tennis team had winners from No. 2 singles Cole Kinson, No. 3 singles and the No. 3 doubles duo of Broderick Frye and Weston Lema. However, it was not enough to get a team win against Jefferson. “Austin Kaya and Cole Kinson both looked […]
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Elks baseball opens with split By Chris Bennett Sports correspondent The Elks took the lead in the bottom of the sixth and beat Westosha Central 7-6 April 10 in a Southern Lakes Conference high school baseball game at Elkhorn. Central returned the favor and beat the Elks 5-4 in walk-of […]
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Rough week for Trojan sports teams By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The final result in last week’s Rock Valley Conference dual at McFarland didn’t favor the East Troy High School boys tennis team. But it wasn’t as lopsided as the score might seem to indicate. East Troy had its chances, especially […]
Track teams take first at Whitewater quad
Trojans bring home seven individual titles By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Even before the weekend’s sudden return to winter conditions throughout the state, the spring weather has been less than perfect for high school athletes. But that didn’t stop the East Troy High School boys and girls track and field teams […]
Chiefs softball team creative with practices
By Dan Truttschel Sports correspondent This isn’t exactly the kind of start first-year Big Foot softball coach Troy Hummel had hoped for. And it has nothing to do with how things are progressing on the field. It’s all about Mother Nature – but the Chiefs certainly aren’t alone. The winter […]
Whippets soccer team lets one slip away
By Troy Sparks SLN CORRESPONDENT The Whitewater girls soccer team needed to play defense a little bit longer to earn its second victory of the season in a nonconference home match against Delavan-Darien, but came up a little short. With the Whippets leading 1-0 late in the April 10 contest, […]
Opinion: Spring sports, sleet and snow don’t mix
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent This never-ending winter weather is taking its toll on all of us. Looking out my window last weekend was another exercise in deepening my six-month depression. After all, I checked the calendar and Monday was Tax Day, which unless the yearly painful deadline had changed, happens […]
