THiS

Week

IN SPORTS
Thursday, October 8
Volleyball Platteville
at River Valley, 7:15 p.m.;
IowaGrant at Fennimore,
7:15 p.m.; River Ridge at
Potosi, 7 p.m.
Boys soccer Platteville/
Lancaster at Prairie du
Chien, 5 p.m.
Friday, October 9
Football Platteville at
Dodgeville, 7 p.m.; Cuba
City at IowaGrant, 7 p.m.;
Belmont at Benton/Scales
Mound, 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 10

Football Potosi at Black

Hawk (South Wayne), 2 p.m.
Volleyball Belmont at
North Crawford Invitational,
9 p.m.
Cross country Platteville,
IowaGrant at Albany Invitational, 9 a.m.

Sports

Tipping
for Tessa

H Th e P l at t ev i l l e Jo u r n a l H

Belmont rallies
past Shullsburg
in five sets
on fundraiser
night to support
classmate
battling cancer

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Jason Nihles - journalsports@[Link], (608) 348-3006

Wednesday, OCTOBER 7, 2015

PREP CROSS COUNTRY: 48th ANNUAL DICK MCKICHAN PLATTEVILLE INVITE

SWAL FOOTBALL:
IOWAGRANT 22, FENNIMORE 12

Milk Can
stays at
IowaGrant

Tuesday, October 13
Volleyball Riverdale at
IowaGrant, 7:15 p.m.; Belmont at River Ridge (Patch
Grove), 7:15 p.m.; Potosi at
Shullsburg, 7:15 p.m.
Boys soccer Richland
Center at Platteville/Lancaster, 5 p.m.

Johnson runs for 3 TDs as

Panthers defeat Golden Eagles
for a seventh straight time

Briefs

Potosi piles
on Belmont
with big half
By A.J. Gates,
Herald Independent

BELMONT With 463 yards

of offense, the Potosi football
team had little trouble moving
the ball against the host Braves
last Friday night, leading to a
400 Chieftains victory.
With the win, coach Mark
Siegerts squad improved to
52 in the Six Rivers Conference and is assured of a postseason playoff spot.
Meanwhile Jason Weittenhillers Braves fell to 25 overall and 24 in conference play
with two games to play.
Potosi held a slim lead of
70 at the half in Fridays win
at Belmont on a three-yard TD
run by senior fullback Nathan
Friederick, followed by a Lucas
Dressler extra-point kick.
But the Chieftains blew the
game open in the third quarter.
Senior Tommy Pluemer
found the end zone twice in the
third quarter, first on a 23-yard
touchdown pass from senior
quarterback Tyler Udelhoven,
and then on a 43-yard TD run.
Pluemer only touched the
ball three times in the game,
but managed 80 yards and two
TDs.
Potosis other third-quarter
score came on a 13-yard TD
pass from Udelhoven to sophomore Alex Udelhofen.
The Chieftains extended
their lead to 280 lead in the
final 12 minutes on a one-yard
TD run by senior Teagan Friederick and a 70-yard TD run by
senior Alex Abell.
Nathan Friederick led all
rushers Friday night with 124
yards and one touchdown on
14 carries. Teagan Friederick
added 98 yards and one TD on
19 carries.
The Chieftains head to South
Wayne to take on the Black
Hawk Warriors (52, 42 SRC).
Belmont travels to Benton
(34, 24) Friday night.
Potosi 40, Belmont 0

(from Friday, Oct. 1 @ Belmont)

Potosi...................... 0
7 21 12 40
Belmont.................. 0 0 0 0
0
Second quarter
P: Nathan Friederick 44 run (Lucas
Dressler kick)
Third quarter
P: Alex Udelhofen 13 pass from Tyler
Udelhoven (run failed)
P: Tommy Pluemer 23 pass from T. Udelhoven (N. Friederick pass from Udelhoven)
P: Pluemer 43 run (Dressler kick)
Fourth quarter
P: Teagan Friederick 1 run (kick failed)
P: Alex Abell 70 run (kick failed)
Team Statistics
First downs P 21, B 5. Rushing P
43-317, B 47-112. Passing P 8-15-1, 145,
B 3-14-2, 48. Fumbles-lost P 2-2, B 2-1.
Penalties-yards P 7-60, B 5-40.
Individual leaders
Rushing P: Nathan Friederick 14-124,
Teagan Friederick 19-98; B: Raine Voigts
14-46. Passing P: Tyler Udelhoven
8-15-1, 145; B: Quinn Cushman 3-14-2, 48.
Receiving P: Alex Udelhofen 3-63; B: Lane
Kamps 2-46.

Hillmen soccer
team wins fifth
straight match
The
Platteville/Lancaster
boys soccer team extended its
winning streak to five matches
with a 10 non-conference victory over Wisconsin Heights Friday night.
The Hillmen (941 overall)
improved defeated Dodgeville/
Mineral Point a night earlier by
an identical 10 score to improve to 701 in the Southwest Wisconsin Conference,
three full games ahead of the
second-place Dodgers in the
SWC standings.
Platteville/Lancaster kicked
off last week with a 41 nonconference win over Monroe
last Monday.
No other information on any
of Platteville co-ops matches
last week was provided to The
Platteville Journal prior to press
time.

Senior Brayden Johnson rushed for 175 yards

and all three touchdowns in IowaGrants 2212 victory at Fennimore Friday night.

Front Runners

Momot wins boys varsity race at Platteville Invite

Platteville senior Vince Momot (left) won the boys varsity race at the Dick McKichan Platteville Invitational with a new PHS course record time of 16:19. Teammate junior Dan Iselin finished seventh
overall at 17:02.


photo by Mike Momot
by Jason Nihles

journalsports@[Link]

A pair of Hillmen cross country

records fell Saturday at the 48th annual Dick McKichan Platteville Invitational at UWPlattevilles Veterans
Memorial Park.
Platteville senior Vince Momot
outdueled some of the best runners
in this part of the state, beating all
of them to win the boys varsity race.
He finished first out of 162 runners
and in the process set a new Platteville course record with a winning
time of 16:19.5.
Momot beat runner-up Christopher Pahnke (16:23.8) of McFarland
by more than four seconds.
For Vince to win this meet is
big, said Platteville head coach Rob
Serres. There are really some great
runners out there, and he went out
and gave a fantastic effort for the
win, and for a new PHS course record. We are so proud.
Momot led the Platteville boys to
a third-place team finish in the large
school division, but he had plenty of
help. Junior Dan Iselin finished seventh overall at 17:02 to earn a top10 medal. Freshman Jace Serres finished 15th overall at 17:27, senior

Blake Julius placed 40th at 18:14

and senior Tom Lambert was 56th at
18:40 to round out the Hillmen team
score. Both Serres and Julius earned
ribbons for top-40 finishes.
The Platteville boys finished third
with 85 points, behind champion McFarland (43) and runner-up Madison
Edgewood (74).
We are a tough, tough team, one of
the best we have had, added Serres.
But, we are running up against some
tough teams as well. We have more
in us, and we have a mission to be
better, and we will be.
Junior Brelynn Updike set the
other Platteville course record by
finishing 15th overall out of 138 runners in the girls varsity race with a
time of 21:02.3.
Belleville junior Noelle Marie blew
away the field to win the girls individual title with a winning time of
19:04.7, nearly half a minute better than runner-up Brooke Lonigro
(19:30.0) of McFarland.
Updike led the Platteville girls to
a seventh-place finish in the large
schools division with 135 points.
Sophomore Morgan Wehnke (24th,
21:35) and freshman Julia Kasper

48th Annual Dick McKichan

Platteville Invitational

(from Saturday, Oct. 3 @ Platteville)

(Girls, 5,000 meters)
Large school team scores: [Link] 47, [Link]/Mineral Point
106, [Link] 114, [Link] Edgewood
116, [Link] Prairie 126, [Link]/
Juda 132, [Link] 135, [Link] Dells 157, [Link] 235, [Link]
Valley 238.
Top individuals: [Link] Marie
(Belleville) 19:04.7, [Link] Lonigro
(McFarland) 19:30.0, [Link] Murphy
(Lancaster) 19:31.6, [Link] Kaderly (Albany) 19:49.7, [Link] Bluemel
(Brodhead/Juda) 20:14.0.
Platteville (135): 15.(12).Brelynn
Updike 21:02, 24.(18).Morgan Wehnke
21:35, 40.(26).Julia Kasper 21:59,
61.(36).Sami Brookens 22:42, 72.(43).
Maggie Durni 23:02, 73.(44).Grace
Hammermeister 23:04, 74.(45).Corri
Kettler 23:06.
(Boys, 5,000 meters)
Large school team scores: [Link] 43, [Link] Edgewood 74,
[Link] 85, [Link]/Mineral
Point 99, [Link] 151, [Link] Valley 174,
[Link] Horeb 188, [Link] Prairie 198,
[Link]/Juda 226, [Link]
274, [Link]/Cuba City 304,
[Link] Dells 306.
Top individuals: [Link] Momot
(Platteville) 16:19.5, [Link]
Pahnke (McFarland) 16:23.8, [Link] Langlei (Edgewood) 16:24.9,
[Link] Hatfield (River Valley) 16:33.2,
[Link] Komprood (Darlington) 16:38.3.
Platteville (85): 1.(1).Vince Momot
16:19, 7.(6).Dan Iselin 17:02, 15.(13).
Jace Serres 17:27, 40.(28).Blake Julius
18:14, 56.(37).Tom Lambert 18:40,
73.(45).Jackson Gormley 19:00.2,
77.(47).Calvin Wernimont 19:03.

photo by Rob Callahan / The Fennimore Times

by Jason Nihles

journalsports@[Link]

FENNIMORE The Milk Can is staying at

IowaGrant.
Senior Brayden Johnson rushed for 175 yards
and scored all three IG touchdowns to lead the
Panthers to a 2212 come-from-behind victory in
the 46th annual rivalry game Friday at Fennimore High School.
We were a little sluggish to start but played better as the game went on, said IowaGrant head
coach Gary Allen. Our leaders stepped up in the
second half and everyone really played with a lot
of intensity. The kids were frustrated at halftime
but instead of falling apart they came together
and played well. We were able to complete some
passes and our fullbacks Zach Campbell and Brady
Peat had some good carries. That loosened things
up for Brayden.
A week after blowing a 22-point halftime lead
and being held scoreless in the second half of a
5036 loss to Mineral Point, IowaGrant struggled offensively for the first 24 minutes of Fridays
SWAL match-up.
The Fennimore defense pitched a first-half shutout and Tucker Trefz scored on a 4-yard run with
21 seconds left in the half to give the host Golden
Eagles a 60 lead going into halftime.
The Panthers (52, 41 SWAL) were inside the
Fennimore 5-yard line once in the first half, but
the Golden Eagles held on downs.
But the IowaGrant offense finally got on track
early in the third quarter.
A long Caleb Hill pass to Collin Price set up an
11-yard Johnson touchdown run and Acea Upmanns extra point gave the visiting Panthers a
76 lead just 45 seconds into the second half.
That catch early in the second half was big,
added Allen. I think sometimes our opponents
concentrate so much on Brayden, other kids get
opportunities.
The defensive battle continued until late in the
fourth quarter when Johnson scored from three
yards out with 2:22 left. He added the two-point
conversion to make it 157.
After a Fennimore turnover, Johnson scored

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see MILK CAN page 12A u

PREP VOLLEYBALL: MADISON Edgewood INVITATIONAL

Hillmen win Edgewood Invite, win streak reaches 19

by Jason Nihles

journalsports@[Link]

Senior Allison Woodworth had five kills and a block in Plattevilles sweep at
Lancaster last Thursday.
photo by Jason Nihles

MADISON The wins keep piling up

for this years senior-dominated Platteville volleyball team.
The Hillmen won five more matches
on Saturday to win the Edgewood Invitational. Platteville swept the host
Crusaders (1910) 2519, 2516 in the
championship match to win the title.
Coach Lindsay Neals Hillmen
(ranked fourth in Division 2) improved
to 294 overall and have won 19 straight
matches dating back to a 20 loss to
Merrill in the championship match of
the UWWhitewater Warhawk Open on
Aug. 29. The Hillmen have also won 28
of their last 29 matches since beginning
the season 13 at the Watertown Early
Bird Tournament.
I am very happy we are on such a
winning streak, said Neal. I think it
shows the level of talent I am working

with. We have gone up against a number of Division 1 schools during and beat
them. The streak is due to our dedication
to being the best and looking toward our
postseason goals.
Platteville was as dominant as ever on
Saturday, winning all 10 sets it played,
never allowing an opponent to score
more than 19 points in any set.
The Hillmen crushed Beaver Dam 25
9, 256, then swept Potosi 2511, 2519
to begin pool play. Platteville then swept
Division 1 Madison Memorial to win its
pool and earn a first-round bye in singleelimination bracket play.
The Hillmen made quick work of D1
Waunakee, 2514, 2511, in the semifinals before sweeping host Edgewood.
Senior Morgan Stecklein led the
Platteville with 34 kills, 36 digs and 21
aces in five matches. Allison Woodworth
had 19 kills and a team-high 12 blocks.
see HILLMEN page 12A u