Wittenberg Enterprise & Birnamwood News

Volleyball: Nietzer, Wild earn CWC-North’s highest honors

Published by admin on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 10:07am

GRESHAM — The Gresham Community High School volleyball team posted a perfect record to win the Central Wisconsin Conference-North Division this fall. The team was honored in a big way, with senior Karisa Nietzer being named the conference’s Player of the Year and Tim Wild being tabbed the Coach of the Year.

“It means a lot to me. I’ve worked so hard and long for that achievement,” said Nietzer. “I went into every game thinking that I need to play hard no matter what, because in the end it would pay off.”

Girls Swim: Witt-Birn's Metropulos, relay team qualify for state

Published by admin on Sat, 11/09/2019 - 10:03pm

Updated: 11:00 a.m., 11/11

WISCONSIN RAPIDS — The Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School girls swim team qualified for state in two individual events and a relay while competing in the Division 2 Wisconsin Rapids Sectional on Saturday.

Junior McKenna Metropulos qualified for state after tying for second in the 50-yard freestyle (25.07 seconds) and taking third in the 100 butterfly (1:00.65).

Girls Basketball: Witt-Birn chasing conference title

Published by admin on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 10:09am

WITTENBERG — The Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School girls basketball team enters the new season with a talented roster and high aspirations.

The Chargers are coming off an up-and-down 2018-19 season in which they went 8-4 in Central Wisconsin Conference-East Division play. Witt-Birn, which is coached by Nick Mechelke, is healthy coming into the season and returns all but two players from last year’s team.

“The Chargers have high expectations this year as we are looking to compete for a conference championship,” said Mechelke, who expects the CWC-East to be strong again.

College Highlights (Nov. 5)

Published by admin on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 8:03pm

Finger makes all-conference team

Clintonville High School graduate and UW-Superior junior Tyler Finger made the second team all-conference to help his team to a second-place finish in the conference championship on Saturday.

Finger finished 15th overall to earn the all-conference spot, completing the course at Nemadji Golf Course in Superior in 28 minutes, 19.2 seconds.

Finger was also the team’s representative for the UMAC Sportsmanship Award.

Minniecheske caps strong freshman season with Ripon

Youth Swim: WASP opens fall/winter season with strong finishes

Published by admin on Mon, 11/04/2019 - 1:48pm

WESTON — The Wittenberg Area Swim Program opened its fall/winter season competing in the Turkey Splash at the Aspirus YMCA on Sunday, with several swimmers turning in top finishes.

Kelsie Davis had WASP’s only first-place finish on the day, claiming the top time in the 100-yard freestyle in 1 minute, 1.27 seconds. Davis placed in the top four in all four of her events in the 11-12 year-old division.

Cross-Country: Clintonville's Wilson, Shawano's Kaquatosh finish in top 30 at state

Published by admin on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 3:45pm

Updated: 9:45 p.m., 11/2

WISCONSIN RAPIDS — Clintonville’s Jesse Wilson and Shawano’s Demetrius Kaquatosh each turned in top-30 individual finishes in the Division 2 boys race at the WIAA Cross Country State Championships at the Ridges Golf Course on Saturday.

Wilson, a sophomore, took 18th after completing the course in 16 minutes, 56.3 seconds. Kaquatosh placed 26th with a time of 17:01.3 to cap his high school career.

Wittenberg-Birnamwood’s Wyatt Dickman also competed in the D2 boys race, finishing 99th in 17:50.7.

Girls Swim: Witt-Birn finishes third at Bay Conference Meet

Published by admin on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 2:24pm

Updated: 10:15 a.m., 11/6

CLINTONVILLE — The Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School girls swim team earned a third-place finish at the Bay Conference Meet on Thursday at Clintonville High School.

Witt-Birn accumulated 358 points, trailing only Seymour (446) and Door County United (428) in the seven-team event.

“It just seemed like every time a Charger swimmer dove in, something special happened,” said Witt-Birn coach John Rudeen on his team’s big night.

An overabundance of sports to cover

Published by admin on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 4:56pm

Over my year-and-a-half serving as the sports editor, I have had the privilege of covering several strong sports teams and a multitude of talented individuals.

The fall sports season, which will wrap up within the next couple weeks, presented the biggest challenge over that timeframe though, with an overabundance of teams and individuals to cover.

Coming into the fall season, I knew there would be some solid area football teams to keep an eye on, but I had no idea that I’d have Shawano, Bonduel, Wittenberg-Birnamwood and Marion/Tigerton all earn postseason berths.

Cross-Country: Bonduel teams ready for another state run

Published by admin on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 4:51pm

SHAWANO — Two local teams and three individual runners will put on their uniforms and lace up their shoes one last time this season to compete in the 2019 State Cross-Country Championships at Ridges Golf Course on Saturday.

Bonduel will send its boys and girls teams into the Division 3 races, while Shawano’s Demetrius Kaquatosh, Wittenberg-Birnamwood’s Wyatt Dickman and Clintonville’s Jesse Wilson all run as individuals in the Division 2 boys race.

Athlete Profile: Ireland DeRoos

Published by admin on Tue, 10/29/2019 - 10:43am

BOWLER — The Bowler High School volleyball team’s season came to an end after a regional title loss to Gresham on Saturday. That loss brought the end for a talented senior class that included Ireland DeRoos.

DeRoos helped the Panthers to a strong season on the court and to a No. 2 seed for the postseason.

In the team’s five-set regional semifinal win over Gillett on Thursday, DeRoos accumulated 11 digs and nine total kills. She posted seven total kills and five digs in a sweep of Marion in a regional quarterfinal match on Oct. 22.