Not all freshman have the impact Gibraltar's Azucena Jauregui has had on her teams this year, but then again, not all freshmen are like Azucena Jauregui.

After earning a spot on the Vikings' varsity volleyball team and earning All-Packerland Conference honors during the basketball season despite battling injuries, Jauregui earned her spot at the WIAA State Track and Field Meet in LaCrosse this weekend in the 300M hurdles with a time of 48.88. That is one second faster than she ran earlier in the week in the WIAA Regional and approximately five seconds faster than her first try at the event in April at Algoma. The combination of going the distance at that speed with hurdles in between has been tough for Jauregui, especially the final 100 meters.

Jauregui not only was All-Conference for basketball, she was also All-Packerland for the 300m high hurdles (Honorable Mention), 4x200m relay (1st Team) and the 4x100m relay (Honorable Mention). She is grateful for the success after putting in a lot of hard work the entire school year.

Jauregui, along with other athletes from across Door and Kewaunee counties, will make their way over to LaCrosse Thursday for the start of the WIAA State Track and Field Meet on Friday with most events for Division 2 and 3 beginning at 3:30 p.m.

Gibraltar is hosting a send-off event for Jauregui at the school beginning at 10 a.m. while Southern Door will do the same for theirs at 10:45 a.m.

You can watch our full interview with Jauregui below

Picture courtesy of Gibraltar Area School District

For the second straight day, Gibraltar/Washington Island came out swinging and garnered a lead they would not give up, winning their third straight regional title with a 10-4 victory over Florence Wednesday evening.

After Hobbs Emerson survived a laborious first inning unscathed, The Vikings plated three runs in the first inning with Owen Dannhausen's single, a wild pitch, and a ground out driving in the runs. The Vikings tacked on four more in the second inning with Cam Munao's RBI double and an Aaron Brey two-run home run providing the fireworks.

Logan Mccoy calmed things down for the Bobcats as he held the Vikings scoreless over the following three-plus innings. It allowed the Bobcats crawl back into it with one run in the third inning and two more in the sixth to make it 7-3. The Vikings got those runs back in their half of the sixth inning courtesy of two base-loaded hit-by-pitches and an RBI single by Charlie Reinhardt. The Bobcats scratched across one more run in the top of the seventh inning, but pitcher Miles Richmond induced the pop out that clinched the regional title for the Vikings.

Brey led all batters with three hits and two RBI in four at-bats. Rericha added two hits while Reinhardt (2), Munao, Dannhausen, Emerson, Mason Grooms, and Mason Isaacson-Krueger recorded RBI. Emerson earned the win on the mound, going 5.2 innings allowing three runs (1 ER) on four hits while striking out six. 

The Vikings will be back in action on 105.1 The GOAT at 10 a.m. next Tuesday when they battle top-seeded Rib Lake at 10 a.m. in Rosholt. If the Vikings advance, they would play for the sectional championship at 4 p.m.

A 10-0 win over Prentice on Tuesday set up a chance at a third straight regional title for Gibraltar/Washington Island when they host Florence on Wednesday.

The Vikings jumped on Buccaneers starter Ryder Jones immediately, registering five straight hits to start the first inning, including doubles from Aaron Brey and Hobbs Emerson, to stake them to a 5-0 lead.

As Ryder settled, Brey never gave in, striking out two batters in every inning and a pair of singles his lone blemishes through four innings. The Vikings staged another rally in the fourth inning with Cam Munao and Brey hitting back-to-back RBI doubles as they put up another four runs to make 9-0 entering the fifth inning.

A triple by Hardy Hueckman put the shutout in peril in the sixth inning, but Brey was able to retire the next two men to preserve his pitching line of no runs on three hits with 12 strikeouts. The Vikings would record two singles to start the bottom of the sixth inning before the Buccaneers intentionally walked Emerson to get to Wyatt Bultman, who ended the game on an RBI single.

Munao finished the day 4-4 with one RBI to lead the Vikings at the plate. Owen Dannhausen and Luke Rericha each recorded three hits while Brey went 2-4 with two RBI. Seven of the nine starters recorded at least one hit and six posted at least one RBI in the win.

The Vikings will now host Florence on Wednesday after they beat Lena 12-2 in six innings. A game mired with nine errors, the Bobcats turned a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the fifth into a 7-2 lead heading into the sixth inning before reaching the mercy rule with five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Logan McCoy and Bradley Steber each had one hit and two RBI in the Bobcats win.

Tim Kowols will have the call of the regional final on 105.1 The GOAT beginning at 4:15 p.m. with the pregame show followed by the first pitch at 4:30 p.m. The winner of the game advances to next Tuesday's sectional in Rosholt

The wait is over for the Gibraltar/Washington Island baseball team as they open their WIAA Tournament play with a date against Prentice in Fish Creek on Tuesday.

The Vikings last played on Tuesday, which was an 11-8 win over Bonduel. Cam Munao doubled and homered as a part of a 4-4, four RBI day for the Vikings. Hobbs Emerson also drove in four runs on three hits while Owen Dannhausen also clubbed three hits. The Vikings overcame five errors in the contest, which led to six of the eight runs allowed by Emerson and Aaron Brey to be unearned.

Click here to listen to our pregame interview with co-manager Tom Sawyer

The Buccaneers enter the game with an 8-11 mark, earning their bus ride to Fish Creek with an 11-1 victory over Three Lakes. It snapped a two-game skid with the victory, highlighted by their 1-2-3 batters going a combined 6-11 with six RBI and three doubles.

Tim Kowols will have the call on 105.1 The GOAT beginning at 4:15 p.m. followed by the first pitch at 4:30 p.m.

Several area golfers will try to earn their spot in WIAA State Golf Championships field on Tuesday when they travel to their respective sectional sites.

In Division 2, Luxemburg-Casco's Stanley Peot is the lone local representative competing at Crystal Springs Golf Course in Seymour.

In Division 3, Gibraltar and Evan MacCaux of Kewaunee, and Chase Kanapka of Sevastopol will compete at Bass Lake in Crandon.