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The Green Bay Packers traded offensive tackle Tony Moll (pictured) to the Baltimore Ravens for DB Derrick Martin.
A 5’10, 200-pound fourth-year player, Martin has played in 28 games, including three starts, for the Ravens over his first three seasons. He was a sixth-round selection by Baltimore in the 2006 NFL Draft.
Moll appeared in 39 games, including 18 starts, for Green Bay over the last three seasons.
It’s only week two of the high school football season, but two Wisconsin football powers didn’t disappoint the fans with an early season showdown in the Fox Valley Association.
More than 4,000 fans packed Paul Engen Field and watched Kimberly jump on the board first. The Papermakers recovered what was ruled a fumble on a Kimberly punt, with the officials saying the ball touched an Appleton North returnman at the 15-yard line. The call appeared to be a bad one and with North still shocked by that turn of events, the Papermakers pounced on the opportunty as Mitch Hintz ran it in on the next play from 15-yards out. The extra point sailed wide left and Kimberly led 6-0.
It didn’t take the Lightning long to respond though. They went back to their power game with 2,000 yard rusher Steve Lichtfuss and the senior running back responded on the next series with a 69 yard touchdown run. The extra point failed and the score was tied 6-6.
The game winner didn’t come until the 3rd quarter. With Kimberly stacking the line, trying to put the breaks on Lichtfuss, North quarterback Andrew Giaimo went play action and hit a wide open Tremayne Williams on a 58-yard touchdown pass. This time the two-point conversion failed and North led it 12-6.
The Lightning then had to hold off the 2-time defending state champs and they pulled it off, despite several players suffering cramped muscles down the stretch.
It’s the first time North (2-0) beat Kimberly since the 2005 season when they won 42-21. Kimberly (1-1) saw it’s 28 game conference win streak and 29 game overall win streak come to an end.
Steve Lichtfuss finished with 151 yards rushing. Kimberly, despite the loss, rushed for over 300 yards as a team. North won the game, but this conference (Fox Valley Association) race is far from over with 7-games left.
Despite a season high 9 walks, the San Francisco Giants came from behind to knock off the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 at Miller Park on Friday night. Bengie Molina capped the comeback with a home run to deep center field.
Prince Fielder drove in his 121st run of the season, which tops the major leagues.
The Brewers jumped out to an early 2-0 lead and Jeff Suppan made it hold up for awhile, taking a no hitter into the fifth. But Aaron Rowand ‘s rbi single in the sixth to chase Suppan. Molina eventually pushed the Giants in front with the home run off of Todd Coffey.
Game two of the series is this afternoon. Matt Cain pitches for the Giants. Yovani Gallardo goes for the Brewers.
The first week wrapped up for Wisconsin’s first school district to install seat belts on school buses. Bus drivers have the new responsibility of making sure every student is buckled up.
Van Galder Bus Company’s School Bus Manager Nancy Sonnag says if students refuse to buckle up, the driver is instructed to stop the bus until they do. If the students refuse further the driver writes up a misconduct report for the school district who will determine the discipline.
Five buses have the belts. Two are used on regular school routes, three as charters for teams and field trips.
Contributed by Beth Wheelock-WCLO
Despite a recent, slight increase in prices, Wisconsin dairy farmers are hurting. Consumers were paying 22 dollars per hundredweight of milk in June, but dairy farmers were only seeing 12 dollars, according to Vernon County Extension Agent Tim Rehbein.
“People ask me where did that ten dollar per hundredweight of milk go? It’s still in the food dollar, but the consumer/retail level is getting that ten dollars per hundredweight,” says Rehbein.
Rehbein says somewhere along the line of dairy production, from processors to wholesalers to consumers, someone is making that money — but it’s not farmers. “if the retail/consumer level doesn’t drop their price, we’re not going to get more product flowing through the market, and get the inventories of dairy products down.”
And there’s another problem: Rehbein says consumers are already reluctant to buy dairy products in a down economy.
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