Defense has been the bread and butter of the Lena/STAA football team this season.

Turns out the Titans’ offense is pretty good as well.

Lena/STAA opened the WIAA 8-player playoffs Oct. 18 with a 51-6 win over Princeton/Green Lake.

Meanwhile, Marion/Tigerton advanced to the second round with a 20-16 win over Alma Center Lincoln in Marion, and Suring saw its season end with a 40-14 road loss to Sevastopol.

Gillett’s cross country team returned home from the Marinette & Oconto Conference Meet with a pair of individual championships.

Bradyn Wendorff and Hope Soper won the boys and girls races, respectively, Oct. 16 at Big Stone Golf Course in Three Lakes.

Meanwhile, Lena/STAA placed three runners in the top five to win the girls team championship.

At the same time Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers were dismantling the Milwaukee Brewers to head to the World Series, the Wittenberg-Birnamwood football team was being dismantled as well.

The Chargers closed out the regular season Oct. 17 with a 56-28 loss to Amherst.

Two Packerland Conference football teams heading in opposite directions closed out the regular season Oct. 17.

Bonduel headed to Sturgeon Bay and wrapped up second place in the conference standings behind Kewaunee with a 62-0 win over the Clippers.

Sturgeon Bay wasn’t the only team to be shut out in its regular-season finale, as Bay Port handed Pulaski a 42-0 loss.

Bonduel 62, Sturgeon Bay 0

At the Suring triangular Oct. 16, Coleman topped Lena 3-0 (30-28, 25-14, 25-16), and Suring swept Coleman 3-0 (25-8, 25-21, 25-21).

Other scores: Menominee Nation 3, Gresham 0; Marion 3, Bowler 0; Denmark 3, Bonduel 2; Pulaski 3, Green Bay Southwest 0; Gillett 3, St. Thomas Aquinas Academy 1; Seymour 3, Shawano 0

Leslie L. (Butch) Vorpahl passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 15, 2025, surrounded by family after a long and courageous battle against cancer.

Mariah Wondra is a big reason why the Bonduel girls cross country team has competed at state the last three seasons.

The senior has also made a name for herself as one of the top distance runners in the Central Wisconsin Conference, as she cruised to her second straight individual championship Oct. 16 at the CWC meet in Rosholt.

Two days after wrapping up a Central Wisconsin Conference-North championship with a five-set win over White Lake, the Tigerton volleyball team wrapped up its regular season with a nonconference match against Almond-Bancroft.

The Red Raiders got the win over the host Jaguars 2-1 in the final conference game for each team.

Colin Tackmier opened the scoring for Pulaski off a corner kick by Nolan Pratt in the 16th minute. Chase Beyer got the equalizer for Ashwaubenon in the 44th minute off a direct free kick sent in by Landen Cure.

The game winner came in the 60th minute as Daenen Kehoe found Gunner Decker on a cross the Decker finished for the goal.