Sports

The Kaukauna girls’ basketball team began the season 3-0, but fell to 3-2 after losing to Appleton East and Hortonville — two of the Fox Valley Association favorites — in back-to-back games this week Tuesday and Friday.

Versus Hortonville

The Kaukauna wrestling team cruised through its second Fox Valley Association dual of the season, beating Hortonville 61-7 in its home opener.

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control reviewed and approved three pandemic-related accommodations, effective immediately, at its December meeting.

Little Chute sophomore Monica Stevens was named to the North Eastern Conference’s Second-Team All-Conference squad for the 2020 season. Stevens led the Mustangs in kills this past fall with 99 and blocks with 42 and was second on the team in aces.

Not only did Kaukauna beat Appleton North 73-55 in Thursday’s season-opening Fox Valley Association game, the team got Coach Mike Schalow his 500^th career win.

Along the way the Marshfield and UW-La Crosse graduate coached at Leland and Dakota high schools in Illinois and now 26 years at Kaukauna.

The Little Chute boys’ basketball team began the year with a 60-53 home loss against West De Pere Tuesday night, but responded quickly three nights later, winning its first North Eastern Conference matchup of the season 42-30 over Clintonville.

Versus Clintonville             

Junior girls Jessica Wilson and Ellah Pahl, along with sophomore Riley Huss, junior Mason Genke and senior Casey DeBoth were all named to the North Eastern Conference’s First-Team All-Conference squad for the 2020 fall season.

The Papermakers’ wrestling team began the season 1-0 after routing Fond du Lac 64-10 on the road Saturday morning in a Fox Valley Association dual.

The Maker girls faced their stiffest test of the early season last Tuesday night as they welcomed Fox Valley Association rival Hortonville, and Kimberly passed with flying colors, using a dominant defense to take care of the Polar Bears 61-56 before destroying Fond du Lac Friday night and winning at Notre Dame on Saturday.

The Papermaker boys were expected to have a strong defense this season, and that certainly was the case Friday night in the team’s season opener, but it was the offense that put on a show as Kimberly hit the century mark, beating Fond du Lac on the road 105-65 to begin the year.