The Williams Bay boys basketball team comes into the 2021-2022 season with a blank slate. Last year’s team, led by 19-year head coach Troy Nottestad, had eight seniors and finished with a 15-4 overall record and a perfect 8-0 in the Trailways-South conference earning them the conference cham…
Eleven seniors from the Badger varsity girls basketball team from one season ago have graduated and moved on. It was a team that went 15-4 overall and finished with a 13-1 record in the Southern Lakes Conference, sealing a conference co-championship. The 2021-2022 team is going to look very …
The Big Foot girls basketball team won one game in the 2020-2021 season. Their former head coach, Mike Dowden, a math teacher at Williams Bay, is now also the head girls basketball coach at Williams Bay after coaching the Chiefs for three seasons. Big Foot brings in a new head coach this sea…
Despite a scoring surge by the Big Foot Chiefs early in the second half to get within two points of the lead, the Oregon Panthers were able to pull away for an 84-64 win Tuesday night, Nov. 23, at Big Foot High School. This was the opening game of the 2021-2022 season for both teams.
While Big Foot outscored Badger in the second half, the 15-point lead held by the Badgers at the end of the first half was too much to overcome for the Chiefs.
The Badger Badgers boys basketball teams have done everything right, according to fourth-year head coach John Witte. All that is missing is wins. Badger has a combined record of 8-46 over the previous two years.
While high school sports often have high coaching turnover, there has been even more changing that usual in the local basketball scene this offseason, with four of the six boys and girls basketball coaching positions at Badger, Big Foot and Williams Bay changing leaders.
The Badger girls basketball this season excelled not only on the court — it won a second straight Southern Lakes Conference championship — but in the classroom.
After receiving multiple NCAA Division I offers from mid-major schools, a big fish finally came calling for Jaeden Zackery, who will play college basketball in the ACC for Boston College.
Each summer, the best senior basketball players from across the state gather in the Wisconsin Dells for a week of practices, scrimmages and games as part of the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Games.
Dontrell "Trell" Bush was shot and killed late Friday night in Racine's Georgetown neighborhood.
For a group of Lake Geneva youth basketball players, the past year provided a first-hand lesson in perseverance.
Prior to the start of the 2009 season, the Badger girls basketball team was in a bit of a rut. The team’s overall record usually hovered around .500. In conference play, it was usually in the middle of the pack.
Troy Nottestad was born and bred a Badger.
The Lake Geneva Regional News outlines the top 10 players from the 2020-21 high school basketball season.
Check out photos of the Lake Geneva Regional News' Top 10 basketball players from the 2020-21 season.
The Badger boys basketball team’s season came to a close on Feb. 16, as the Badgers lost a first-round playoff game at Waukesha South 60-50.
BELOIT — Sometimes in the playoffs, teams face opponents they have rarely seen.
WILLIAMS BAY — The Williams Bay boys basketball team saw a bit of postseason success, winning their first round playoff game on Feb. 19 before being knocked out in the regional finals one night later.
WIND POINT — The season came to an end for the Williams Bay boys basketball team tonight, losing a 76-43 road game against The Prairie School in the regional finals.
Williams Bay's boys basketball team won its first playoff game tonight, defeating Heritage Christian 72-57.
The Badger and Williams Bay boys basketball teams both closed out the regular season with wins in their final week of action.
WALWORTH — The Big Foot boys basketball team closed out the regular season on Feb. 11 with a home game against Edgerton—a team that has spent much of the year ranked among the top 10 teams in the state.
Big Foot and Williams Bay’s girls basketball teams saw their seasons come to an end in the first round of the playoffs on Feb. 9.
The Badger girls basketball team faced a familiar foe in the first round of the playoffs on Feb. 9.
