Shots from the Hip: Golf wins first meet, WIAA news

By Cripe Olson

Head Coach Tim Phillips and the Prescott cross nation workforce will host a multi-team invitational this Thursday at Prescott High School. The competitors begins at 5:30 p.m. behind the highschool. The course, full with new signage, is recognized as one among the harder programs in the Middle Border Conference. 

Senior Macy Reiter shot a 39 to steer the subject and fellow senior Layla Salay shot a 42 as the Prescott Cardinals gained a Middle Border Conference meet at Ellsworth by seven strokes over second place St. Croix Central. Senior Lily Vesperman additionally completed in the high 5 with a stable spherical of 44. The Cardinals are picked as the favourite in the convention this season. Due to the WIAA Competitive Balance rule, Prescott will as soon as once more be competing at the Division 1 degree when the WIAA Tournament begins on Sept. 30. 

Wisconsin highschool athletics: the place the WIAA State Tournament often doubles as a showcase for personal colleges from the state’s bigger inhabitants areas. Year after 12 months, personal colleges appear to search out their option to the high of the championship pile, notably in the decrease divisions. No want for Wisconsin prep followers to fake this 12 months shall be a shock. Today, the top-ranked volleyball groups in the Badger State are all personal colleges: Divine Savior Holy Angels of Milwaukee, Appleton Xavier, Dominican of Whitefish Bay, and Heritage Christian of New Berlin. Nothing to see right here, of us. 

The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) has introduced its preview and predictions for the 2026 soccer season. The predictions have been voted on by the convention’s head coaches and sports activities data administrators. University of Wisconsin-Platteville is predicted to say the convention title. The Pioneers made the fourth NCAA look in program historical past a season in the past and enter the 2026 marketing campaign ranked No. 6 in the D3football.com Preseason Top 25 Poll. A 12 months in the past, the convention despatched 4 groups to the NCAA Division III event and UW-River Falls emerged with its first nationwide title. The WIAC grew to become the first convention in NCAA Division III historical past to have 4 groups compete in the championship. Additional WIAC packages on this 12 months’s D3football.com Poll embrace UW-River Falls (seventh); UW-La Crosse (tenth), and UW-Whitewater (twelfth)

From the WIAA…Brian Nadeau, superintendent at Ellsworth, presided over the first assembly of the 2026-27 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Board of Control final week. The board voted to impose a one-year moratorium on the licensed officers’ score system after current knowledge from the WIAA Officials Center indicated that the present post-contest score system has important participation deficiencies. The pause in the score system will enable WIAA management and advisory committees to assessment and doubtlessly modify the course of. An interim system shall be established for member colleges to submit particular inquiries and suggestions as wanted.

From the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: The DNR encourages hunters and meat processors to take part in the DNR’s Deer Donation Program. The program helps inventory meals pantries and helps residents in want all through the state. Since the program started in 2000, hunters have donated over 100,000 deer, which have been processed into over 4 million kilos of floor venison. The DNR is happy to announce a rise to the reimbursement fee for meat processors that settle for deer donations by means of the DNR’s Deer Donation Program. Going ahead, meat processors shall be reimbursed $125 per deer (beforehand $100) or $135 per deer if CWD testing was required (beforehand $110). This improve is supposed to encourage extra meat processors to take part in the program.

Speaking of looking, primitive-weapons fans will apparently should journey to Missouri, Nebraska, Alaska or Alabama if the atlatl is their most well-liked instrument of harvest. In states the place it’s authorized, the historic contraption can be utilized to reap huge sport, small sport, invasive species and even fish. Apparently, when correctly wielded, an atlatl dart can generate sufficient momentum and penetration to deliver down a quite substantial mammal. Prescott High School alumnus and profitable trophy deer hunter Dave French has apparently set his sights on taking that idea to the subsequent degree. “I’ve long wanted to harvest a deer using a primitive weapon,” French mentioned not too long ago. “Anyone can down a deer from 300 yards with a modern-day deer rifle, but to down a mature buck using an atlatl, that takes some cunning, patience, skill and strength.”

French has harvested a number of spectacular bucks over the years with a rifle, so this looks like the pure development: First, grasp the fashionable firearm. Then, only for enjoyable, make issues significantly harder. Best of luck Dave, in your pursuit.

Headshaker of the Week: Since 1959, Williamsport, Penn., has been the house of the Little League World Series. Sixteen groups stay this week—eight from the United States and eight worldwide groups—and supposedly, they’re there to play baseball. I say “supposedly” as a result of after watching final weekend’s New Jersey-Iowa sport, I’m not completely satisfied ABC bought the memo. Apparently, the Little League World Series is now half baseball sport, half actuality present, half documentary and half Sunday-morning inspirational program. The precise baseball appears to be the portion ABC feels most comfy interrupting. The innings finish, and as a substitute of letting us watch the youngsters prepare for the subsequent one, right here comes one other function. Then one other story. Then one other heartwarming second. Before lengthy, I’m questioning whether or not I’m watching baseball or ready for the subsequent phase of 60 Minutes: Little League Edition. ABC, I’ve a modest proposal: present the youngsters enjoying baseball. That’s it. So please, ABC, give the function packages a relaxation and let the youngsters play. We tuned in to look at baseball, to not uncover what each participant’s mother and father had for lunch. It was a headshaker.