By Brian Kalish June 13, 2013 Stevens Point– One game separates the SPASH baseball team from their ultimate goal: winning a state championship.  After slipping past Kenosha Bradford in the state quarterfinal, SPASH bludgeoned #1 ranked Bay Port to earn the right to play in the title game.  Meanwhile, Sun Prairie shut out Waunakee [...]

  CWS Sports Desk June 12, 2013 Battle Creek, MI – John Kravetz threw seven strong innings while giving up just one run as the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters downed the Battle Creek Bombers, 4-1. The start by Kravetz was the deepest a Rafters starter has gone this season and marked the first time that Rafters’ starting [...]

  By David Keech June 11, 2013 Babcock — The high school sports season has concluded for most teams, with spring baseball finishing Thursday June 13(SPASH heads to state championship game) and a new sports season is set to begin: horseback riding lessons at Jeremiah’s Crossing. At Jeremiah’s Crossing, located in Babcock,  disabled athletes of [...]

  CWS Sports Desk June 11, 2013 Grand Chute– The SPASH Panthers disposed of Kenosha Bradford and Bay Port to advance to the championship game of the 2013 WIAA baseball playoffs. Quarterfinal game: They say that in sports, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.  Truer words have never been spoken.  Just ask SPASH [...]

  By David Keech June 4, 2013 Wisconsin Rapids – Now that the Green Bay Packers’ Tailgate Tour has come and gone, and we’ve had a chance to let it all soak in, CWS takes a look back at the Packers’ stop in Wisconsin Rapids.  In this third of our three part series, CWS sat down [...]

CWS Sports Desk  June 10, 2013 Battle Creek, MI – Greg Maisto threw six strong innings and left with the lead, but the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters couldn’t hold on and fell to the Battle Creek Bombers Monday night, 7-5. The loss was the seventh in the last eight ballgames and was the second straight game against [...]

By David Keech  June 9, 2013 Wisconsin Rapids –  Jackson Slaid added five RBI and the Rafters rallied from an early 4-0 deficit Sunday evening to defeat the Lakeshore Chinooks, 4-0. The win snapped a six-game losing streak for the Rafters and moved them out of the bottom of the Northwood’s League south division standings. The [...]

CWS Sports Desk June 8, 2013 Wisconsin Rapids — The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters dropped their sixth-straight ballgame Saturday evening to the Lakeshore Chinooks in extra innings, 4-2. The loss dropped the Rafters to 0-2 in games decided in extra innings and improved the Chinooks to 3-0 against the Rafters. The loss was the second of [...]