The Great Lakes Division First-Half Champion Green Bay Rockers will have three players participating in Wednesday's All-Star Game festivities.

Maddox Long, Koshiro Ohno, and Alex LePage will suit up for the Great Lakes Division Team when the two sides meet at Warner Field in Madison Wis. Field Manager Josh Merrill and his coaching staff from the Green Bay Rockers will also be in the dugout to lead the Great Lakes Division.

This year’s All-Stars were chosen in a vote by the 24 member teams of the Northwoods League. Ballots were cast by each team’s field staff and media contacts. 

First pitch is set for 6:35 p.m.

The Green Bay Packers head back to camp a week from now.

According to Packers.com, the first public practice will occur on Wednesday, July 23, with additional ones scheduled for Thursday and Friday (July 24-25). The Annual Meeting of Shareholders will follow the Friday practice at 3 p.m. After a day off on Saturday, Green Bay will hold the first of four public practices in five days on Sunday (July 27-28 and 30-31). Following its Packers Family Night scrimmage on August 2nd, the Packers will have three straight public practices (Aug. 5-7) before taking on the New York Jets at home on August 9th at 7 p.m. The Packers will have one public practice on August 12th, before going to Indianapolis, where it will have a joint practice (Aug. 14) before facing the Colts on August 16th. The Packers finish off the open training camp sessions with an open practice on August 19th and then an open joint practice against Seattle (Aug. 21) before facing the Seahawks at Lambeau Field on August 23rd.

All public training-camp practices at Ray Nitschke Field are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m., but practices will be closed to the public and moved inside the Don Hutson Center if it rains.

Local Shoreland League teams split their games on Tuesday night.

In Casco, Collin Lacey threw a no-hitter on the mound and scored two runs on the basepaths as the A's topped Ashwaubenon 6-0. Trevor Reinhardt went 3-4 with three RBI and Noah Lindsley collected two doubles for the A's in the win.

In Algoma, the Guins were down 11 before scratching across their first run in a 13-2 loss to Manitowoc. The Guins were outhit 15-5, two of which registered by Aaron Brey. Jaden Dillar and Jack Peterson both homered in the loss.

The Ahnapee Trailblazers could not hold onto its 2-0 lead Tuesday night, falling 3-2 to Wrightstown.

The Trailblazers score their two runs in the top of the third inning thanks to a run-scoring by Steven Prescott and a RBI single off the bat of Siggy Hansen. Wrightstown pushed across single tallies in the third, fourth, and sixth inning to steal the victory away.

Ethan Kratcha led the way with two hits while Bo Tanck registered a double in the loss.

Due to rainouts on June 8th, the start of the 2025 Door County Baseball League Playoffs will have to wait a week.

League officials announced on Monday that the slate of games that were rained out will now be played on August 17th, pushing back playoff games to August 24th (semifinals) and August 31st (finals). The slate of games include:

• West Jacksonport at Kolberg
• Institute at Egg Harbor
• Maplewood at Sister Bay
• Washington Island at Baileys Harbor

Kolberg and Institute also have a game to make up after their matchup on 7/6 was postponed due to field conditions. 

STANDINGS

Bays 7-2

Maplewood 6-3

Ports 5-4

Baileys Harbor 5-4

Kolberg 5-3

Island 4-5

Egg Harbor 3-6

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The Dairy Days Dash, a fundraising 5K run/walk event hosted by the Luxemburg Area Chamber of Commerce and supported by 33 local sponsors, was held on June 7th.  Around 200 runners ran a 3.1 mile course through the village of Luxemburg, enjoying fresh ice cream cones after the finish.

This year’s fundraising efforts went to support Kewaunee County Suicide Prevention, a collaborative county-wide effort to educate people in a technique called QPR: Question, Persuade, Refer.  This training helps identify people who are struggling and get them the help they need.  Overall, the Dairy Days Dash raised $7,000 for these efforts, which was presented to Sheriff Matt Joski at this year’s Kewaunee County Fair Kickoff Dinner.

Next year’s event is scheduled for June 6th, 2026.  Follow the Dairy Days Dash on social media for details in the coming months. https://www.facebook.com/DairyDaysDash

The Luxemburg Area Chamber of Commerce exists to provide education, support and connections to help businesses thrive. It is a nonprofit service organization dedicated to the improvement of the Luxemburg commercial and civic communities. The Chamber hosts events, maintains partnerships, and communicates opportunities for businesses and community members alike.

The Dairy Days Dash is a non-profit event that promotes fresh dairy products and brings hundreds of people to Luxemburg on the first weekend of June each year. Proceeds from the event are donated to a selected charity at the Kewaunee County Fair Kickoff dinner. 

The Shoreland League is back in action on Tuesday night with two games featuring local teams.

The Algoma 'Guins will be at home against the Manitowoc Bandits while the Casco Athletics will also be home against the Ashwaubenon Lookouts. Both games will take place at 7:30 p.m.

On Monday night, the Kewaunee Chiefs came up short against the Two Rivers Polar Bears 2-0. Both runs came in the third inning as the Polar Bears outhit the Chiefs 8-3. Lincoln Barta, Collin Spranger, and Nathan Havolitz registered the hits for the Chiefs. 

Ahnapee and Bay Port piled up the runs, but the Trailblazers pushed ahead in the end, winning 16-13 Monday night.

The Pirates were up 6-0 before the Trailblazers pieced together a seven-run rally with a Jacob Massey double and a Steven Prescott single in the third inning's biggest blows. After relinquishing the lead in the bottom of the third inning, the Trailblazers added another seven runs on the scoreboard with a Jonah Dahms double the key hit in the rally. It proved to be an important frame as the Pirates outscored the Trailblazers 4-2 from that point on, but it was not enough to overtake them. 

Prescott went 3-6 with two RBI while Massey and Dahms each had two hits. Dahms, Ethan Kratcha, Massey, Prescott, and Jack Jeanquart all had multi-RBI games.

Two of the top teams in the Door County League kept pace with each other on Sunday with big wins.

Baserunners were a plenty in Sunday's Egg Harbor/Sister Bay matchup, but it was the Bays that cashed in for an 11-4 victory.

Kolberg rallied for eight runs in their final two innings to stun Washington Island at home 9-7.

In Friday's action, Maplewood demolished Institute 16-0 while Baileys Harbor edged West Jacksonport 2-1 in 10 innings. 

The Green Bay Rockers enter the All-Star break with a 10-5 second-half record after beating the Lakeshore Chinooks  9-4.

The Chinooks jumped out to 4-0 lead before the momentum swung in favor of the Rockers with a six-run fifth inning. The rally was highlighted by a grand slam slugged by Joe Mennella. A two-run single by Caleb Daniel led the way for a three-run eighth inning to put the game well out of reach in favor of the Rockers.

Daniel, JP Peltier, and Mennella all had two hits as the Rockers outhit the Chinooks 10-3 despite committing three errors. Evan Bogart earned the win in relief, allowing no runs on one hit across the final five innings.

After splitting their first two matchups, the Green Bay Blizzard captured the win on the road against the Quad City Steamwheelers on Saturday night.

The Blizzard outscored the Steamwheelers 16-3 in the first quarter, a stat that proved to be important for the team to hold onto the victory as they were outscored in the second and fourth quarters. 

Max Meylor threw for 200 yards and four scores to go along with his 74 yards and three touchdowns on the ground to lead the Blizzard to victory. Four different receivers caught touchdowns for the Blizzard, led by TJ Davis who had five grabs for 88 yards.

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers were down by a run with a runner at third and no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning on Sunday afternoon against the South Bend Cubs at Neuroscience Group Field.  The runner was left stranded, and Wisconsin dropped a 5-4 decision to the Cubs.

South Bend (34-53 overall, 11-10 second half) took the lead in the top of the second inning.  Carter Trice doubled and stole third with one out.  Wisconsin starting pitcher Sam Garcia had his glove knocked off by a line drive off the bat of Reggie Preciado.  The ball trickled behind the mound and the only play was an out at first as Trice scored.

Wisconsin (40-46, 6-15) rallied in the bottom of the second.  Juan Baez singled and Kay-Lan Nicasia walked.  Yhoswar Garcia bunted them into scoring position.  An infield single by Blayberg Diaz drove in Baez.  Daniel Guilarte had a sacrifice fly to score Nicasia for a 2-1 lead.

The Cubs rallied in the top of the fourth inning. The first three batters of the inning reached on a single, a walk, and a single to load the bases against reliever Jack Seppings.  Miguel Useche tied the game with a sacrifice fly to right field.  The throw in from Nicasia got away from Blake Burke for an error to put runners on second and third with one out.

The Rattlers brought the infield in to get an out at the plate.  Jefferson Rojas spoiled the strategy with a single through the infield to score two runs to give the Cubs a 4-2 lead.

Eduardo Garcia gave the Rattlers a little hope with a two-out, solo home run to left in the bottom of the fifth.  Garcia’s thirteenth home run of the season was his third hit of the game, left him a triple shy of the cycle, and pulled the Rattlers to within a run.

The game stayed at 4-3 until the eighth when Preciado doubled home a run in the top of the frame to give South Bend an insurance run.

In the bottom of the eighth, Blake Burke singled to start the frame for his 25th multi-hit game of the season.  However, he was erased on a 5-4-3 double play.  Hedbert Pérez restarted the rally with a double, and Juan Baez cashed him in with a two-out single to bring the Rattlers back to within a run.

Wisconsin gave the fans something to cheer in the bottom of the ninth.  Yhoswar Garcia singled, stole second, and went to third on a throwing error to put the tying run 90 feet from home plate with no outs.  Cubs reliever Grayson Moore denied the Rattlers a storybook finish by striking out the next two batters and ending the game on a ground out to first.

South Bend was 6-for-6 with stolen base attempts on Sunday afternoon.  They won five of the six games of the series.

The Timber Rattlers are off for the Major League All-Star Break through Thursday.  Wisconsin returns to action on Friday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa against the Cedar Rapids Kernels, the Midwest League’s first half West Division Champions.  Game time is 6:35pm. 

With one half of the league playing on Friday, the other half of the Door County League is set for their traditional Sunday matinees.

Sunday's matchups include Egg Harbor hosting Sister Bay while Washington Island goes from one end of the peninsula to the other to play Kolberg. Both games begin at 1:30 p.m.

The Green Bay Glory withstood the heat to earn the 3-2 win over AFC Roscoe on Saturday.

Tyler Bagley's scored the Glory's first goal with Keven Sosa also helping to give the team a 2-1 halftime lead. Osvaldo Ramirez registered the team's game-winning goal in the second half to give the Glory the win.

A five-run sixth inning helped the Green Bay Rockers sprint past the Lakeshore Chinooks 8-7.

Trailing 7-3, the Rockers used five hits and took advantage of an error to score their five runs. The biggest blow came from a two-run single off the bat of David Ballenilla. Xaige Lancaster had three hits while Eli Selga and  McClane Helton each posted two hits. Gavin Brummund picked up the win with two innings of shutout baseball and two strikeouts.

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers watched the South Bend Cubs hit ten home runs and win the first four games of this week’s six-game series at Neuroscience Group Field.  Rattler hitters Hedbert Pérez and Kay-Lan Nicasia let the Cubs know how that felt as they both homered in the bottom of the seventh inning to erase a 2-0 deficit and propel Wisconsin to a 3-2 win on Saturday night.

Tanner Gillis was the Wisconsin starting pitcher as he made his second appearance off the injured list.  Gillis allowed two hits over three scoreless innings with four strikeouts.

The Cubs (33-53 overall, 10-10 second half) broke through in the top of the fourth without a hit and with help from a bout of wildness from reliever Anthony Flores.  The first two batters of the inning walked.  Flores appeared to settle down as he struck out the next batter and was ahead of Ivan Brethowr with two quick strikes.  The next pitch was inside, and the Rattlers appealed on a check swing that was ruled a ball.  Brethowr insisted that the ball had grazed his right leg and – after a brief discussion between the umpires – first base was awarded to Brethowr to load the bases.  Miguel Pabon followed with a sacrifice fly to give the Cubs a 1-0 lead.

Flores walked the next batter to reload the bases.  Then, he walked Rafael Morel to force in the second run of the inning.

Wisconsin (40-45, 6-14) struggled to get anything going against Cubs starting pitcher Ryan Gallagher, who retired the first sixteen Rattlers he faced in the game.  Yhoswar Garcia singled with one out in the bottom of the sixth to be Wisconsin’s first base runner of the game.

That changed after the seventh inning stretch.  Blake Burke singled to start the inning.  Pérez was at the plate with one out and crushed the first pitch of his at bat to right for a game-tying, two-run home run.  Pérez has eleven homers this season with four of them against the Cubs.

Nicasia stepped in with two outs and none on base to face Gallagher.  Nicasia also jumped the first pitch from Gallagher to launch a go-ahead home run to right-center to give the Rattlers a 3-2 lead.

Wisconsin’s bullpen carried that one-run lead to the finish line.  Yerlin Rodriguez, who had entered in the seventh inning, pitched a perfect eighth.  Aaron Rund got the call for the ninth inning and pitched around a two-out single by Preciado by striking out Morel to end the game.
 

The final game of the series is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field.  Sam Garcia (1-5, 6.21) is set to start for the Timber Rattlers.  Connor Schultz (0-3, 4.91) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Cubs.  Game time is 1:10pm CDT.

The Green Bay Glory hit the Fire Pitch in Chicago on Sunday for a match against Edgewater Castle.

Last week, the Green Bay Glory moved into second place in the Wisconsin Cup standings after registering a 1-0 road win over the Milwaukee Torrent.

Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. 

After taking the holiday off, the Green Bay Blizzard return to action on Saturday night with a matchup against the Quad City Steamwheelers.

The two teams have split their previous matchups this season, with both winning their respective home games. The Steamwheelers won late to steal a 39-37 win away from the Blizzard in the season opener. The Blizzard got their revenge about a month later with a much more comfortable 47-25 win at the Resch Center. 

Kickoff is set for 7:05 p.m.

A pair of five run innings ended the night early for Maplewood as they beat Institute 16-0 in eight innings.

Leading 4-0 early, the Mets did their damage late with five runs in fifth and seventh innings to put the game away. The Mets outhit the Cubs 12-5 with Mason Kovacs, Adam Gutschow, and Zach Marchant each posting two hits. Four players had at least two RBI, thanks in part to five extra base hits. Logan Schuh paced the Cubs with two hits. Tory Jandrin earned the win, punching out eight batters while allowing three hits across five shutout innings.

Jefferson Rojas was too much for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Friday night.  The #3 prospect in the Chicago Cubs minor league system hit a pair of homers to lead the South Bend Cubs to a 6-2 victory over the Rattlers at Neuroscience Group Field.

Rojas gave the Cubs (33-52 overall, 10-9 second half) the lead two pitches into the game when South Bend’s lead-off hitter cracked an 0-1 pitch over the wall in left for his tenth home run of the season.

South Bend added to their lead in the bottom of the second.  Edgar Alvarez doubled off the wall in center to start the inning.  Drew Bowser followed with a triple to right-center to make it 2-0.

Ariel Armas lined a home run to left on an 0-2 pitch from Rattler starting pitcher Manuel Rodriguez to lead off the fourth inning.  The homer was his second of the series and the ninth of the series for South Bend.

Wisconsin (39-45, 5-14) got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth inning.  Jadher Areinamo doubled with one out.  Cubs starting pitcher Erian Rodriguez walked Hedbert Pérez and hit Juan Baez to load the bases.  Tayden Hall drove in Areinamo with a sacrifice fly.

The Rattlers crept closer in the bottom of the fifth.  Blayberg Diaz doubled to start the inning and was still at second with two outs.  Then, Blake Burke drilled a 3-0 pitch to the wall in right for an RBI double.  That double by Burke was the only hit the Rattlers had with runners in scoring position on Friday night.   Wisconsin finished the night 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position.

The game remained 3-2 as reliever Stiven Cruz held the line against the Cubs through the seventh.  He got the final out of the fourth inning and worked around hits in the fifth, sixth, and seventh.

In the eighth, Cruz gave up singles to Cameron Sisneros and Armas and left the game with runners at the corners with one out.  Bayden Root took over for Cruz and gave up an RBI single to Alvarez.

Rojas struck again in the ninth with a two-run home run to left.  Rojas has hit four homers in this series and this one, in a steadily increasing downpour, sealed South Bend’s fifth straight win.

The Rattlers were outhit 14-7 on Friday night and have been outhit 46-35 in the first four games of this series.
 

Game five of the series is scheduled for Saturday night at Neuroscience Group Field.  Tanner Gillis (1-1, 1.71) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers.  South Bend has named Ryan Gallagher (4-5, 3.70) as their starter.  Game time is 6:40pm.

The Green Bay Rockers made the most of their day in Wisconsin Rapids with a pair of wins over the Rafters.

In their 12-8 win, the Rockers built up an 8-0 lead before slowly letting the Rafters back onto the game. JP Peltier, Collin Helms, and Kasin Khansarinia each drove in two runs and Caleb Daniel posted three hits with a double.

In their 7-1 victory, the Rockers scored three times in the second inning and four times in the fourth inning to run away with the game. Eli Selga went 3-4 with a homer and three RBI. Cayden Sheffield also had two hits in the win.

After their All-Star teams battled each other Thursday night, the Door County League and Shoreland League continue their regular season on Friday night.

The Shoreland League shut out the Door County League 5-0 at Joannes Park in Green Bay on Thursday, giving the Shoreland League a 2-1 advantage in the series since the All-Star Game was moved to the ballpark three seasons ago.

Friday night games include Maplewood visiting Institute and Baileys Harbor welcoming West Jacksonport. In the Shoreland League, Casco is at home against Two Rivers, and Kewaunee travels to Denmark. All four games will start at 7:30 p.m.

A familiar face will be on the Gibraltar sidelines again this winter, albeit for a different squad.

The Gibraltar Area School Board is set to hire Justin Burress as its girls' basketball coach when it convenes on July 14th. The team's former coach, Evan DeBroux, resigned in March following the team's first-round exit against Niagara.

The last time we saw Burress was hugging players and their family members following the Vikings boys' magical run to the Kohl Center following their loss to Randolph in the WIAA State Semifinal. The Vikings girls lost five players to graduation last season, including two of their top three scorers. 

The Green Bay Rockers will try to sweep a doubleheader on Friday after the rain shortened Thursday matchup with a 5-0 lead against the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.

The Rockers scored all five runs in the third inning before the game was forced to be called. An error on a ball hit by Collin Helms sprung the leak for the Rockers, allowing three of the five runs to be unearned. 

The Rockers and Rafters will start the shortened game at 3:05 p.m. before playing their regularly scheduled 6:35 p.m. game.

Nestor Cortes pitched four scoreless innings, allowed three hits, walked none, and struck out two as the starting pitcher for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Thursday night at Neuroscience Group Field.  The South Bend Cubs scored twelve runs after Cortes left the game and beat Wisconsin 12-3.

Cortes, who was on a rehabilitation assignment from the Milwaukee Brewers, needed just 54 pitches to work his four innings.  The only hits he allowed were an infield single to Cristian Hernandez in the first, another infield single to Hernandez in the fourth, and a single to center by Cameron Sisneros in the fourth.

Wisconsin (39-44 overall, 5-13 second half) took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning on a two-run home run by Hedbert Pérez.  The homer was the tenth of the season for Pérez.
 

Jaron DeBerry took over for Cortes to face the Cubs (32-52, 9-9) in the top of the fifth inning and retired the first two batters.  The third out was elusive.  Rafael Morel’s sinking liner to left dropped in for a single and DeBerry walked Ivan Brethowr on four pitches.  Jefferson Rojas followed with a single to center to score Morel and send Brethowr to third base.  Yhoswar Garcia tried to throw out Brethowr at third and that allowed Rojas to take second.  Hernandez was next and his fly ball to the track in left-center dropped just out of the reach of Garcia to give South Bend a 3-2 lead.

That lead moved to 4-2 with a two-out, solo home run by Drew Bowser in the top of the sixth.

The Rattlers cut the deficit to one run in the bottom of the inning on a lead-off double by Blake Burke and a two-out, RBI single by Luiyin Alastre.  But that would be as close as the Rattlers would get.

Rojas hit a solo homer in the seventh and Miguel Pabon added a two-run single in the eighth.

The Cubs poured it on in the ninth on a two-run home run by Sisneros and a three-run triple by Brethowr.

South Bend has hit six home runs in the first three games of the series at Wisconsin.  They had three on Tuesday night in their 13-4 win and added three more on Thursday night.

Burke and Blayberg Diaz led the offense for Wisconsin.  Diaz had three hits, including a double.  Burke had two hits, a walk, and scored two runs.

Game four of the series is Friday night at Neuroscience Group Field.  Manuel Rodriguez (0-1, 1.69) is set to start for the Rattlers.  South Bend has named Erian Rodriguez (2-3, 3.00) as their starter.  Game time is 6:40pm.