Sports

Athlete: Isaac Garside

Sport: Football

Positions: Wide receiver, running back, linebacker

School: Bonduel High School

Year: Senior

A season ago, Isaac Garside specialized as a wide receiver on the offensive side of the ball for Bonduel, earning a spot on the first team all-conference team in the Central Wisconsin Conference-Large Division. This fall, Garside has continued to be the team’s top target in the passing game but also has served a role out of the backfield after some injuries hit the team.

The senior’s play on the field has helped the team stay in the playoff hunt — the Bears must win two of their final three games to clinch a spot in the postseason — while also serving as one of the team’s vocal leaders and the player most often trying to fire up the crowd.

Q: When did your interest in football begin?

A: My interest in football started when I started playing flag football in second grade.

If you aren’t chasing deer or fall walleyes today, you might want to learn more about lake sturgeon this afternoon at the Wild Rose Fish Hatchery.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is sponsoring discussions about sturgeon stocking, along with a tour of the historic hatchery grounds and a new sturgeon exhibit from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 29) at the Wild Rose State Fish Hatchery education center, N5871 State Road 22, Wild Rose.

I toured the historic hatchery around 2009, just after it expanded to include coolwater facilities to raise brown trout, rainbow trout, Chinook and coho salmon. It also resumed production of northern pike, walleye, lake sturgeon, tiger and Great Lakes musky. The hatchery is responsible for helping nurture the world’s largest self-sustaining population of lake sturgeon.

Luxemburg-Casco 57

Clintonville 0

The Truckers could not slow down the Spartans in a North Eastern Conference matchup on Friday. Luxemburg-Casco scored 43 first half points and outgained Clintonville 458-77.

Sean Finger passed for 39 yards for the Truckers while Bailey Tate caught a 37-yard pass. Tate also finished with 48 rushing yards.

Clintonville is now 0-7 overall and in the NEC.

Algoma 60

Marion/Tigerton 0

The Wolves proved to be too much to handle for the Thundercatz in a nonconference matchup on Friday.

With the setback, Marion/Tigerton falls to 0-7 overall.

Witt-Birn 20

Weyauwega-Fremont 13

The Chargers secured their first Central Wisconsin Conference-Large Division win of the season on Friday by holding off Weyauwega-Fremont.

Wittenberg-Birnamwood improved to 1-4 in conference and 3-4 overall.

Menominee Indian 38

Oneida Nation 0

In a battle of 2-2 Central Wisconsin Conference-Large Division teams fighting for their playoffs lives, the Bonduel football team rose to the challenge and took a big step towards securing a spot in the postseason.

Senior Colin Hanus caught two touchdown passes from senior Parker Bohm, junior Isaac Boldt rushed for two more scores and senior Isaac Garside returned an interception for a score as Bonduel eased to a 35-6 win over Shiocton in Bonduel on Friday.

After each team failed on fourth down attempts on their first drives, Bonduel’s defense forced the first of three first half turnovers to seize momentum. Garside intercepted a pass over the middle and then used his speed and agility to weave his way downfield for a 61-yard interception return.

“We came out and planned on being more physical than them,” Garside said. “Our defense was kind of slow at first but then when we got those turnovers, it fueled us to be more energetic on defense.”

The Shawano/Bonduel girls swimming co-op edged Marinette/Peshtigo 88-75 behind four first-place finishes on Tuesday.

Gabi Bukowski won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 6 minutes, 22.8 seconds while Isabel Colon placed first in the 100 backstroke with a mark of 1:13.08.

Madi Hanson took first in the 100 breaststroke (1:19.97) while the Shawano/Bonduel 400 freestyle relay team of Bukowski, Emily Thornock, Tatiana Kunschke and Haley Quandt won with a time of 5:19.53.

Bukowski took second in the 200 freestyle (2:22.78) while Hanson and Colon also finished second in the 200 IM (2:46.98) and 50 freestyle (27:59), respectively. Olivia Lorbiecki took second in the 500 freestyle (8:10.93).

Shawano Community High School will induct four athletes into its Athletic Hall of Fame at 12:45 p.m. Saturday on the football field prior to the team’s homecoming game against Xavier.

The inductees are Steve Buettner, Tera Burr, Kory Hyvonen and Roy Otto.

Buettner attended SCHS from 1976-80, participating in football, basketball and track.

Buettner was named the football team’s MVP in 1978 after rushing for 864 yards and being named to an all-conference team in the Wisconsin Valley Conference. He was also the MVP in 1979 after totaling 1,157 rushing yards and landing on the first team in the Bay Conference.

Burr graduated from SCHS in 2005. She was a three-sport athlete, playing tennis, basketball and softball, and earned 10 varsity letters by the time she graduated.

Here is a look at some of the top performances in the area over the past week:

Jessie LaBerge - Bonduel golf

The senior tied for fifth overall as an individual at the Division 2 Little Chute Regional at Mid Vallee Golf Course on Wednesday to secure her spot in sectionals. LaBerge shot a round of 94 and will next golf at the Xavier Sectional at Ridgeway Country Club in Neenah on Monday.

Taylor Johnson - Shawano golf

The sophomore golfer continued her strong season on the links by posting a round of 99 at the Division 1 Seymour Regional at Crystal Springs Golf Course on Wednesday to secure herself a spot at sectionals. Johnson will golf in the Green Bay Preble Sectional, which will be held at Royal Scot Golf Club in New Franken on Tuesday.

Collin Buerman - Shawano soccer

Three games into the season, the Green Bay Packers have some of their fans wondering if it’s time to call an audible on their expectations, enjoy the show and stock up on the Glenfiddich.

Blown out at Washington in a game that exposed a lot of the old problems on defense, the Packers took the added hit of also losing defensive tackle Muhammad Wilkerson — the free agent brought in to energize the pass rush — for the rest of the season with an ankle injury.

This loss is significant, as is the lingering injury to quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ knee. The Packers’ best player and best hope for a playoff run was joyless and hurting throughout the presser that followed the 31-17 loss.

Rodgers was asked what he might say as a team leader to rally the troops after a washout of an afternoon like last Sunday.

“Just go home and have a scotch,” he said. “That’s what I’m going to do.”

Serving played a major role in a key Central Wisconsin Conference-North Division showdown between Tigerton and Wisconsin Valley Lutheran on Tuesday night.

Wisconsin Valley Lutheran racked up plenty of serving aces on its way to spoiling Tigerton’s homecoming match. The Wolves won by scores of 25-22, 25-19, 24-26, 25-17.

“Their serving was a lot better than ours was tonight,” Tigerton senior Kelsi Shumaker said. “They hit it where we weren’t, where we couldn’t dig it. They definitely found our weak spots and that’s what brought us down.”

“Their serving got us, we got stuck in the service order quite a few times with two or three of their servers,” Tigerton coach Holly Meverden said.

The Tigers and Wolves traded momentum in an extremely tight first set. The two CWC-North foes were within two points for the entire set before WVL won the final two points to win by three.

With a 2-2 record in the Central Wisconsin Conference-Large Division, following back-to-back losses to Iola-Scandinavia and Amherst, a conference championship is likely out of the picture for the Bonduel High School football team. The most realistic way for the Bears to guarantee themselves a spot in the postseason is to win two of their final three games.

Bonduel will play home games the next two weeks, starting with a battle against Shiocton on Friday. Shiocton also is 2-2 in conference play, so Bonduel coach James Westrich knows doing the little things well will put the team in a great position to come out on top.

“We are excited to get back on the field this Friday,” Westrich said, after the Bears nearly rallied past Amherst a week ago. “This is a big game for us, and we will have to play good fundamental football and cut down on our mistakes.”

In last year’s matchup, Bonduel raced out to a 32-0 lead before coasting to a 32-14 victory.