Sports

The Hillsboro Tigers softball team advanced to the WIAA D5 Sectional Championship game with a 6-1 victory over Ithaca Tuesday night.  The victory avenged an earlier 9-2 loss during the season to Ithaca. Kianna Liska went 4×4 with an RBI in the victory and Jaelyn Bloor picked up the victory inside the circle pitching a complete game giving up just 1run on 5hits walking none and striking out 5.  Hillsboro improves to 19-3 on their season and will take on the Wisconsin Rapids Assumption Royals in the Sectional Final Thursday in New Lisbon.

The Hillsboro Tigers softball team won their 3^rd straight regional champions Thursday evening with an 8-1 thumping over Brookwood.  Hillsboro used a big 5 run 2^nd inning to help secure the victory.  The two Tiger seniors had big games for Hillsboro.  Peyton Sullivan had a Kirk Gibson like performance going 3×3 with a key RBI in the 2^nd inning for Hillsboro.  Jaelyn Bloor went 1×3 with an RBI at the plate but picked up the victory in the circle going 7 strong innings giving up just 1 run while scattering 5 hits and striking out a pair of batters against just 1 walk.  Hillsboro will travel to Seneca on Tuesday for a sectional semi-final matchup.  Hillsboro improves to 18-3 on their season.  Brookwood got a homerun from Kymber Kaiser in the loss.  Brookwood finishes their season with a record of 13-11.

The Wonewoc-Center Wolves softball season came to an end Wednesday evening falling to Seneca 7-3 in a WIAA D5 Regional Semi-Final.  Wonewoc-Center had a 1-0 lead going into the 6^th inning but Seneca erupted for 7 runs over the final two frames to garner the victory.  Kelsey Justman went 2×4 while Bryn Ertel went 1×2 with an RBI for Wonewoc-Center in the loss.  Seneca was led by Raya Wallin who went 3×4 with 3RBI’s.  Wonewoc-Center finishes their season with a 9-9 record.  Seneca improves to 10-11 and moves on to take on Ithaca in a Regional Championship game.