Winter college athletes

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tournament played Feb. 20-22 in Manhattan, Kan., Faith Baptist beat Emmaus 75-54, Barclay College 50-49 and then one-seed Ozark Christian College 65-59 in the championship game. The season ended March 4 with a 71-56 upset loss to 6-21 North Central University in the National Christian College Athletic Association’s North Region semifinals. Keepers had seven points, four steals and five rebounds in 22 minutes in the loss and eight points and three assists in the conference tournament championship win.

Tatum Weir, a 2023 Gilman graduate, was on the UW-Platteville women’s basketball roster but a knee injury prevented her from appearing in any games this season for the Pioneers, who were 8-17 , including a 212 mark in the WIAC.

UW hockey

Sawyer Scholl, who played hockey as a freshman for the 2016-17 Medford Raiders, scored three goals and had six assists this season for the Wisconsin Badgers, who struggled in their second year under head coach Mike Hastings, finishing 13-21-3 overall and 7-16-1 in the Big Ten Conference.

Scholl appeared in 34 games this season.

Scholl had an assist and blocked a season-high three shots in the Badgers’ 4-0 win over number-one ranked Michigan State on Dec. 6. He had a goal and two assists in a 5-4 win at Penn State on Nov. 15. He also had an assist in the Badgers’ 4-0 win at Michigan on Dec. 13.

He one-timed a rebound goal to give the Badgers a 3-1 lead at, again, topranked Michigan State on Jan. 2, but the Spartans rallied for a 4-3 win, the first of their two 4-3 wins over the Badgers in three days. Scholl had a season-high four shots in that game. The second of those 43 losses was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Scholl’s third goal of his sophomore season came in a 2-2 with Long Island University Jan. 18 at the Kohl Center. He picked up a rebound along the boards, skated to the top of the slot and fired a shot through traffic to give UW a 21 lead in the second period.

The night before in a 6-3 win over LIU, Scholl had an assist. He added another Jan. 24 in a 5-4 home win over 10thranked Michigan.

The Badgers’ season ended on the weekend of March 7-9 in the quarterfinal round of the Big Ten Tournament. As the sixth seed, Wisconsin took a 1-0 lead in a best-of-three series at third-seeded Ohio State with a 4-1 win. But the Buckeyes came back to win games two and three 3-2 in overtime and 3-2 to take the series. Ohio State will play Michigan State Saturday in the Big Ten’s championship game.

UW-W wrestling Freshman Logan Kawa worked his way into the UW-Whitewater wrestling team’s invitational lineup this winter, going 4-9 in 174-pound matches and 0-2 at 165 pounds.

The 2024 Medford graduate made his debut Nov. 9 at the Luther College Open in Decorah, Iowa and won his first 174pound match in the Silver Bracket with a pin in 1:26 over Ayden Kaps of Southeast Community College. He went 2-3 for the day, also earning a 4-1 over UW-Eau Claire’s Mason Seidl and earned eighth place in the bracket. He lost the eighthplace match 9-6 to Gunnar Thompson of Loras College.

At the Milwaukee School of Engineering Invite Dec. 7, Kawa lost his 165-pound matches by a 21-4 technical fall to Jan Hernandez-Soto of UW-Eau Claire and by a 9-4 decision to Zach Clark of Bryant and Stratton College. A week later at the North Central College Invitational in Naperville, Ill., Kawa went 1-2 at 174 pounds. After an 8-2 loss to Zachary Huckaby of Wabash, Kawa pinned Theodore Mackey of Concordia University Wisconsin in 4:06. Wabash’s Cooer McCloy ended Kawa’s day with a 5-3 decision.

Kawa next appeared in the Al Hanke Invitational hosted Jan. 18 by Elmhurst (Ill.) University and went 0-2, losing close matches to Jacob Crandall of Harper College and to Corey Bradley of Elmhurst by scores of 10-6 and 7-6. Kawa’s last meet was UW-Eau Claire’s Don Parker Open on Feb. 8. After a first-round bye, he lost a tough one in round two, falling 10-7 in the sudden-victory period to UW-EC’s Brandon Meister. Kawa bounced back with a 4-2 win over his UW-W teammate, RJ Samuels, but then was eliminated by a 19-3 technical fall against St. Cloud State’s Dominic Mann.

The Warhawks hosted the WIAC tournament on Feb. 15 and placed third with 132.5 points, trailing UW-La Crosse (158.5) and UW-Eau Claire (147.5) and beating UW-Stevens Point (64.5), UWContinued