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Boys Baseball Season Preview - Lancers Return Eight Letterwinners

The Lancer boys baseball team returns eight letterwinners, including six starters, to this year's squad that finished 9-9 overall last year with a conference record of 8-4. Senior August Hecker was a 2nd team all-conference selection last year at shortstop, while fellow senior Casey Stanzel was an honorable mention pick at 2B. 

The Lancer program has a total of 23 players this year: 8 seniors, 2 juniors, 6 sophomores and 7 freshmen. Head varsity coach Paul Durkee, who is in his 7th year at the helm, noted, “We are not breaking up the team into Varsity and JV as of yet. With so few juniors there will be a taxi squad of sophomores to play varsity.” Durkee feels that defense will be the strength of this year's team, and that the Lancers will finish in the top third of the conference, with St. Mary Catholic, Ozaukee, and Random Lake being the teams to beat.

Durkee's assistant coaches are Jeff Dolan and Dylan Koski. A.J. Lorrigan is the JV head coach, assisted by Guy Gast. Jon Meyer will be the new statistician for the year.

Tuesday, March 29th is the first scheduled game at home against Algoma at 4:30pm; however, it is likely the field will not be playable by then. Please check the online MLHS Calendar to get up-to-date information on game postponements and cancellations throughout the spring sports season. The second game on the schedule is a game at Brillion this Saturday, April 2nd at 11am. The JV squad's first game is also scheduled for that day against Brillion, but is a home game at MLHS at 11am.

One game on the schedule to highlight is Thursday, April 14th when the boys will be playing Mishicot at the home of the Green Bay Rockers in Green Bay.

Fans, come to games this season to enjoy and support Lancer baseball!

Girls Track Team Takes 6th At Lincoln Indoor

The Lancer girls track team began its season in fine form, finishing in 6^th place out of 15 teams, and as the top Div. 3 team at the Pam Kjono Invite held indoors at JFK Fieldhouse in Manitowoc Friday. The Lancers had 6 medalist finishes at the meet, highlighted with an event title in the 4x400 relay, as our relay team of senior Emily Marohn and freshmen Maren Dewane, Ginevra Ermis, and Addie Korte had a decisive victory, finishing in 4:43.09, 7 seconds ahead of 2^nd place Manitowoc Lincoln.

Marohn made the podium in her other two events as well, capturing 2^nd place in the 55m hurdles in 9.82 seconds, and taking 4^th place in long jump with a 14’ 5” leap. Our 4x160 (4 lap) relay took 2^nd place, featuring junior Isabella Blauert, sophomore Peyton Luebke and freshmen Dewane and Bitsy Blauert. More 4^th places were earned by Peyton Luebke in the 200m (30.77) and senior MonRaye Ermis in the shot put (33’ 7”). Also earning points for the Lancers with 8^th place finishes were senior Emma Miller in the long jump (13’ 11.5”) and freshman Selah Schulz in the 400m (1:12.96). Full results are on athletic.net.

The 15 teams at the meet were divided equally among Division 1, 2 and 3 schools. De Pere High School took the team title with 96 points, followed by Kimberly with 90. The Lancers captured 43 points, 3 points ahead of 7^th place Ozaukee.

Coach Bubolz was pleased with the Lancers’ first meet of the season, “Great job to our competing athletes. This is not an easy meet. Indoor itself can be overwhelming. We had many brand-new athletes. This is our first time on a track this year. They did a great job and we had no missed events, dropped batons, etc. We had a lot of great performances and definitely great effort all around! I'm really proud of these kids.”

The Lancers are off of competition this week as they prepare for their first outdoor meets of the season next week. They’ll be traveling to Hilbert on Tuesday, April 5^th for a 4:30pm quadrangular, and then two days later on April 7^th they head to Oostburg for another 4:30pm quad meet.

Congrats to our Lancer tracksters for a great start to their season!

Three Events Capture Points for Boys Track at Lincoln Indoor Meet

This past Thursday, our Lancer boys track team participated in its one and only indoor track meet of the season, the Earl Hebert Invite held at Lincoln High School in Manitowoc. The Lancers were led by senior Shawn Egerer's 7th place finish in the 3200m run with a time of 11:43.06.  Senior Sho Fukasawa finished in 8th place in the 55m dash with a time of 7.06. The 4x160 (4 lap) relay team of seniors Fukasawa and Chase Loeh, junior Kaden Hagenow and sophomore Kaeden Storzer finished in 8th place with a time of 1:25.19. Full results of the Earl Hebert Invite can be found at athletic.net.

The boys do not have any scheduled meets this week but will be practicing hard for the regular season outdoor meets, which start the following week. On Tuesday, April 5th, the boys travel with the girls to Hilbert to compete against the Wolves, as well as Mishicot and St. Mary Catholic. Then on Thursday, April 7th, the teams travel to Oostburg for another quad meet, with Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah and Kohler/Christian.

As always with spring sports in Wisconsin, keep up to date on cancellations and changes to the schedule by visiting the school calendar on www.mlhslancers.org.

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