Male Athlete of the Week
Zach Borkowski, Burlington High School baseball: After the Demons lost their season opener to Racine Park last week, Borkowski turned on the offense as BHS swept a doubleheader at UW-Whitewater Saturday.
Borkowski went 2-for-4 with two RBI in a 9-3 win over Marinette and also in a 7-3 win over Jefferson.
The Demons are now 3-1.
Female Athlete of the Week
Alyssa Acker, Union Grove Union High School track and field: Acker, a standout pole vaulter for the Broncos, cleared 9 feet, 6 inches at the Racine Invite Saturday to win the event.
Acker’s mark tied a career high for the senior.
Number of the Week
0 – The number of losses suffered this year by the Baylor women’s basketball team, which won the national title 80-61 over Notre Dame Tuesday evening. The squad was led by standout Brittney Griner, who stands 6-10 and scored 26 points in the national championship game. Griner has vowed she will return to Baylor for her senior season next year.
Coed Senior Softball
A 55-year-old-plus coed softball league is being formed in Burlington.
Games will be played Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. from mid-May through August at Congress Street Diamond in Burlington.
For more information, call Kathy Baumeister at (262) 763-3441.
Trapshooting
Cooler weather and breezy evenings tightened up the scoring for the second week of the Southeast Wisconsin SCTP Youth Trapshooting Conference.
Burlington still posted the top score of the week, with Alex Fenning, Myles Walker and Christian Jensen all carding perfect scores in a 122-110 win over Lake Geneva Badger.
Marc Hughes broke all 25 targets to lead Badger. Jensen and Walker are both “perfect” after two weeks of competition.
Union Grove posted the third-highest score of the week, downing Oconomowoc, 114-99. The Broncos were led by John Brunner’s 24.
Waterford was led by a 23 from Brandon Travis in a 110-96 win over Muskego, while Wilmot beat Racine Lutheran 104-99 and Cudahy beat Jefferson with a score of 105.
Westosha Central posted a virtual score of 107 and Milwaukee Marquette a virtual score of 115.
Winners in the junior varsity competition were Burlington, Central, Jefferson, Marquette, Union Grove, Waterford and Wilmot. Alexa McCarthy of Burlington and Brendon Pietschman of Wilmot both posted perfect scores.
Burlington’s Cullen Kruser also had a perfect score competiting in the intermediate competition.
Fish report
March’s record-breaking high temperatures following an unusually mild winter have fish spawning early across Wisconsin and state fisheries crews racing to finish the annual fish surveys that are a foundation for keeping Wisconsin’s fish populations robust.
“We’re in full blown sampling mode across the state,” says Tim Simonson, the Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist who coordinates fish surveys on lakes. “It’s about a month ahead of time in some parts of Wisconsin, so we’re doing our best to keep up with the natural cycles of fish in response to the accelerated warming trend we’ve seen.”
DNR crews also are collecting eggs from fish earlier than normal at the state’s two facilities that operate in the spring.
The spring fish surveys, however, involve the most people and most waters, and record temperatures in the 70s and even low 80s from Superior to Sturgeon Bay and Menomonie to Milwaukee temperatures during the week of March 18 have disrupted the normal progression of work from southern to northern waters.
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