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Kevin Vogel is a senior at JCHS, and has an interest in going into communications after high school. He is involved with athletics, and will maintain his interests by pursuing a career in sports broadcast.
Les Gray is on the coaching staff at JCHS and Jr High. He teaches Jr. High English, and shares a special perspective in providing coverage of school sports.
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Eighth grade girls defeat Fort
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Les Gray
CreekNews sports writer
The Johnson Creek 8th grade girls basketball team defeated Fort Atkinson 39-11 while on the Johnson Creek home court Thursday (January 22). Jumping out to a 17-4 lead in the first quarter, the Lady Jays never looked back. Eight players broke into the scoring column led by Kiara Lemminger with 12. Khadija Boss added 8 points, while Brittani Gosh added 6, with Sarah Hantler and Amanda Keeser 4 a piece. Breanna Witte and stacy Draeger each slapped two more on the total. Katie CCwirla added a free throw for one point.
"This was a game where we were able to give our non-starters a lot of minutes in the game. Everyone did an excellent job of playing with great heart and intensity," coach Brice Nelson said. "We had been talking about not letting the intensity level fall when our starters are on the bench. I thought we were able to do this."
The win places the Lady Jays 8th grade record at 3-0 with seven regular games left.
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Johnson Creek-Lake Mills Wrestling
LAKE MILLS -- Johnson Creek grapplers Dom Caminata and Ben Larson led the Lake Mills-Johnson Creek wrestling team to a fourth place finish at the L-Cat Duals Tournament last Saturday. Both the Creek wrestlers were 5-0 in their weight class.
Going 2-3 with wins over Waterloo and Palmyra-Eagle, with losses to Slinger, Delavan-Darien and Waukesha West the Johnson Creek wrestlers carried their own weight for the day.
Even though the L-Cats foufeited in four weight classes, they still managed to hold their own with tournament champion Slinger.
Receiving a forfiet at the beginning of the event, Caminata slammed three pins and a favorable decision at 171 and 189 pounds to share Most Valiuable Wrestler honors with Alex Charo, a sophomore from Delavan-Darien.
Caminata took 79 seconds to pin Justin Branson of Delavan-Darien, warming up for a 67 second bout pinning Matt Schmidt of Slinger. In the 189 pound class he Palmyra-Eagle's Wayne Castle was the Creek senior's next pin, and he closed out the day with an 8-3 decision over Steve Wilberg of Waukesha West.
Creek Junior Ben Larson echoed those matches with three pins, a forfeit and a decision. Wrestling in the 119 pound class he pinned Holly Dow of Waterloo in 94 seconds, then won a 9-4 decision over D-D's Sean Murphy.
Tom Fassbender of Slinger was pinned after wrestling up against Larson for 2 minutes 34 seconds. Shaun Gantz held Larson off for 3 minutes one second, before Larson pinned the Waukesha West wrestler. Larson got a forfeit from Palmyra-Eagle.
Johnson Creek's Josh Yager finished 3-2 in the 160 pound class. Yager is 12-6 for the season at this writing.
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