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  • 1 week ago | beloitdailynews.com | Jim Franz

    BELOIT — Quinton Greer and Tim Listenbee breathed some new life into the annual alumni basketball at the Barkin Arena which has tipped off the Juneteenth Celebration for the past five years. They were pleased with the results, too, after ambitiously adding teams from Janesville Craig and Parker as well as Beloit Turner to three from Beloit Memorial to turn the event into an alumni tournament. It helps fund the free Juneteenth Celebration at Telfer Park on Saturday.

  • 2 weeks ago | beloitdailynews.com | Jim Franz

    BELOIT — Bringing back some of Beloit Memorial High School’s best basketball players for alumni games at the Barkin Arena has been a fine way to tip off the Juneteenth Celebration the past five years. This year, the basketball part of the Celebration hosted by the Elite Ladies of Beloit will be the most ambitious yet with an All-Area Alumni Basketball Tournament scheduled. kAm%96C6 H:== 36 2 J@FE9 82>6 2E ?@@?

  • 2 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Jim Franz

    By JIM FRANZ/ADAMS PUBLISHING GROUP WISCONSIN DELLS - Mike Gregory has been through enough high school baseball years to accept the ones that end seasons. His Edgerton High School team endured that Tuesday when Turner High defeated the Crimson Tide 7-0 in a WIAA Division 2 sectional semifinal at Wisconsin Dells High School.

  • 3 weeks ago | beloitdailynews.com | Jim Franz

    BELOIT — Never mind that a soggy forecast made them wait an extra day for the first pitch, top-seeded Beloit Turner was dialed in for Wednesday’s WIAA Division 2 regional baseball semifinal. “We’re all gas and no brakes right now,” starting pitcher Eric Halon said after blanking ninth-seeded Delavan-Darien 5-0 at the Stateline Family YMCA Youth Sports Complex.

  • 3 weeks ago | beloitdailynews.com | Jim Franz

    BELOIT — When the Summer Olympics came to Atlanta, Ga., in 1986, Kim Wolter purchased tickets to attend the track events and even had the opportunity to step out onto the straightaway. “I got to go out there on the track and it hit me and I just cried,” she said. “As a kid I had always watched the Olympics and dreamed I’d go there to run. I would have done whatever I needed to do.

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