Sevastopol High School varsity volleyball made a statement on Saturday winning the Algoma Invitational. The Pioneers and the host Wolves met earlier in the season with Algoma sweeping that match three sets to zero. Sevastopol got their revenge Saturday 25-23, 15-25, 26-24. The Pioneers tallied three other wins Saturday, all in straight sets. They defeated Mishicot 25-18, 25-14. Sevastopol downed Two Rivers 25-18, 25-11. The Pioneers also knocked off Reedsville 25-7, 25-14. 

Mya Ploor led the team with 39 kills, Sam Differt had 14 ace serves and Sasha Laaksonen generously served up 82 assists in the four matches. Defensively, Rebekah Andreae stood tall with 14 blocks. Sevastaopol improved to 11-7 on the season overall.

Algoma High School volleyball hosts five schools Saturday including Sevastopol. Other teams participating are Crivitz, Mishicot, Reedsville, and Two Rivers. 

Algoma has lost its last two matches in straight sets. The final score from Thursday against NEW Lutheran was 14-25, 19-25, 23-25. Sevastopol swept the Stockbridge Invitational Tuesday night defeating Stockbridge and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Last week the Sevastopol High School football offense exploded for 38 points in the second half and this week it was the Pioneer defense leading them to victory. Sevastopol shut out Gillett in the first half and then had two big red zone stops in the second half. The Pioneers defeated the Tigers 16-6 in a game broadcast on 104.1 WRLU and DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com.

Sevastopol scored both of their touchdowns in the second quarter. Triston Beauchamp threw a 30 yard touchdown to Logan Beyer and an 18 yarder to Spencer Evenson on a fourth down play. They converted both of their two point conversions. Gillett finally got on the board on the first drive of the third quarter. The Tigers' freshman quarterback Derek Block ran for a touchdown.

Sevastopol mostly went to a ball-control clock-killing offense in the second half.

The Pioneers have now won two in a row after beating Wausaukee 46-34 last week. They'll go for their third straight victory next Friday when they host Lena/St. Thomas Aquinas. The game will be on 104.1 WRLU and DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com with the pregame show starting at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7.

Sevastopol's Olivia Stenzel wanted to run fast on Thursday and almost took that mantra to a small school division win at the Jim Bremser Invitational in Mishicot.

Stenzel ran a 20:25 en route to a second place finish in the 5K race to lead the Pioneer girls to a sixth-place placing. Jake Pflieger ran a 19:03 5K to pace the Pioneer boys to an 11th place finish.

GIRLS

1.2.11Olivia Stenzel20:25.61Sevastopol

2.12.11Kylie Newton22:05.02Sevastopol

3.30.12Lizzy Fiscus23:30.05Sevastopol

4.57.10Rachel Wilke25:05.48Sevastopol

5.75.11Mckenzie Wiesner26:06.03Sevastopol

BOYS

1.39.12Jake Pflieger19:03.39Sevastopol

2.49.11Bailey Henrickson19:39.46Sevastopol

3.53.11Sam Abel19:48.24Sevastopol

4.68.11Noah Tomaszewski20:35.68Sevastopol

5.75.11Scott Andreae20:43.79Sevastopol

6.103.10Marcus Hayes23:01.93Sevastopol

Sevastopol football wants to keep the good times going after picking up their first victory last week 46-34 over Wausaukee. The Pioneers will look for their second straight win on Friday night when they travel to Gillett for a conference matchup. The Tigers, like Sevastopol earlier this season, got walloped by Florence last week by a final score of 54-6.

Sevastopol will need a similar performance from Spencer Evenson Friday that they got last week when he rushed for over 200 yards and two touchdowns and returned a kickoff for a touchdown.

The game will be broadcast on 104.1 WRLU and at DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com. Pregame will begin at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7.

Look at the top 10 leaderboard for most cross country races featuring Sevastopol and you'll find junior Olivia Stenzel.

According to times posted to Athletic.net, Stenzel has not finished outside the top 10 in a regular-season meet since her first race ever at the high school level at the Chief Kahquados Invitational held at Gibraltar. Last week she finished in second place at the Bob Burzynski Cross Country Invitational on a hilly course in Valders. While the individual accolades are nice, the Culver's Student-Athlete of the Week says she enjoys being with the entire team.

Stenzel is still trying to figure out her post-high school plans, but in the meanwhile is enjoying her classes including her online American Sign Language course. She and the rest of the Sevastopol Pioneers head to Mishicot Thursday for Jim Bremser Invitational. 

Sevastopol volleyball won two matches on Tuesday night, both in straight sets. The Pioneers defeated Stockbridge 25-7, 25-5 and St. Thomas Aquinas 25-15, 25-12. Mya Ploor led the team with 15 kills while chipping in 5 ace serves. Madi Volkmann had eight kills. Sasha Laaksonen distributed 26 assists and Sam Differt had six ace serves. Sevastopol takes the court again on Saturday in Algoma against the Wolves, Crivitz, Mishicot, Reedsville and Two Rivers.

A thick fog couldn't stop Spencer Evenson from taking over in the second half and leading Sevastopol to a 46-34 victory over Wausaukee on Friday night. The game was broadcasted on 104.1 WRLU and DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com. It was hard for fans and broadcasters to see much of what happened on Friday night as a thick fog rolled onto the Sevastopol football field about a half-hour before the game and stayed the whole way. 

It didn't seem to affect the play on the field all that much and certainly didn't hurt Spencer Evenson. He had touchdown runs of 72 and 12 yards as well as an 85-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, all in the second half. He broke several tackles on the 72-yard run. They needed it since the Pioneers trailed 14-8 at the half after Wausaukee scored a touchdown with 5 seconds left in the second quarter.

On the first play from scrimmage in the second half, Chase Mathis ran for a touchdown from 65 yards out for the Rangers. That was one of his several big runs in the game although he would later suffer a left leg injury.

Sevastopol started off the scoring with an 8-yard touchdown pass from Triston Beauchamp to Logan Beyer in the first quarter. Beyer would also have a 66-yard reception later in the game.

It was a wild back-and-forth second half with Cesar Sandoval clinching the game with under a minute left with an interception, the first of his career. Evenson ended up with 19 carries for 230 yards plus the kickoff return touchdown. He also made several tackles and pass breakups on Wausaukee star receiver Brandon Shigouri.

It was the first win of the season for the Pioneers and they are now 1-4 overall. Sevastopol will take on Gillett next Friday on the road. That game will be heard on 104.1 WRLU and streamed at DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com with the pregame show beginning at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7 PM.

Another week another top-five finish for Sevastopol's Olivia Stenzel.

In the Bob Burzynski Invitational, Stenzel finished 2nd in the hilly 5K course in Valders on the girls' side in 21:20. Teammate Josh Pflieger led the way for the boys' team with a time of 19:32. The boys' team finished in fourth place and the girls' squad came in seventh place.

BOYS

1.17.12Josh Pflieger19:32.59Sevastopol

2.26.12Jake Pflieger19:56.87Sevastopol

3.34.11Bailey Henrickson20:30.54Sevastopol

4.42.11Sam Abel21:15.28Sevastopol

5.44.11Noah Tomaszewski21:25.30Sevastopol

6.47.11Scott Andreae21:36.24Sevastopol

7.76.11Marcus Hayes23:18.10Sevastopol

GIRLS

1.2.11Olivia Stenzel21:19.62Sevastopol

2.11.11Kylie Newton23:14.16Sevastopol

3.56.12Elizabeth Fiscus26:22.41Sevastopol

4.65.10Rachel Wilke27:02.25Sevastopol

5.83.11Mckenzie Wiesner28:59.53Sevastopol

6.90.12Madison Duginski32:37.81Sevastopol

7.93.10Kristin Daubner35:59.34Sevastopol

8.95.10Natalie Zajowski37:17.83Sevastopol

Sevastopol football will look for their first victory of the season on Friday night when they host Wausaukee. Both teams actually come in at 0-4 on the season. The Pioneers are coming off a 60-0 loss to Florence at home while Wausaukee lost at home 46-14 to Suring. Sevastopol hopes to get back some of their injured players like Nicholas West and Dallas Nichols.

You can hear the game live on 104.1 WRLU and at DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com. The pregame will begin at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7.

The Sevastopol girls team rode a pair of top 10 performances to a 4th place team finish at Saturday's Roncalli Invitational.

Juniors Olivia Stenzel and Kylie Newton led the way for the Pioneer girls, each finishing under 23:15 for the 5K course. On the boys' side it was Josh and Jake Pflieger pacing the group with times right around 20 minutes. As a team, the boys finished sixth.

Boys

22 1 #936 Josh Pflieger 12 19:44.62 

26 2 #935 Jake Pflieger 12 20:06.08 

34 3 #939 Scott Andreae 11 20:44.27 

35 4 #938 Sam Abel 11 20:45.82 

37 5 #934 Bailey Henrickson 11 21:01.87 

(39) 6 #937 Noah Tomaszewski 11 21:46.78 

Girls

6 1 #947 Olivia Stenzel 11 22:50.63 

8 2 #943 Kylie Newton 11 23:14.55 

13 3 #942 Lizzy Fiscus 12 23:57.32 

28 4 #945 Rachel Wilke 10 25:59.17 

38 5 #944 Mckenzie Wiesner 11 27:44.83 

(44) 6 #941 Madison Duginski 12 33:20.91 

(45) 7 #940 Kristin Daubner 10 33:54.86

The Pioneers hosted Sturgeon Bay in Packerland volleyball action on Thursday night. Unfortunately for the home squad, the match went to the Clippers in three sets; 17-25, 8-25, 16-25. Bright spots for Sevastopol included Mya  Ploor with six kills. Bailey Rikkola chipped in five ace serves and six digs. Sasha Laaksonen doled out eight assists. The Pioneers take to the court again Thursday against Southern Door.

Sevastopol's best efforts against Florence on Friday night couldn't lead to a victory against the Bobcats. Florence won 60-0 on the Pioneers home field in a game heard on 104.1 WRLU and DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com. 

The Bobcats got off to a quick start, scoring touchdowns with the two-point conversions on all four of their first quarter possessions and led 32-0 after one. Sevastopol couldn't get much going on offense. Florence picked off four Triston Beauchamp passes in the game which came after last week's four touchdown game against Green NEW Lutheran/Oneida Nation. Kaden Schuls and Toby Wheeler were the big playmakers for Florence on offense and on defense. Tommy Giblin, Christian Terhardt and Spencer Evenson were the standouts for Sevastopol on the defensive side of the field.

Sevastopol is now 0-4 overall on the season and 0-3 in the MONLPC. The Pioneers will try to bounce back next Friday night when they host Wausaukee. That game will also be on 104.1 WRLU with the pregame show starting at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7.

Sevastopol has a chance to reverse the fortunes of both teams involved on Friday night at home. The 0-3 Pioneers will take on Florence who come in at 3-0. The Bobcats have outscored their opponents this season by a combined score of 150-14 which included a 54-6 victory over Gibraltar in the season-opener. Sevastopol made a change at quarterback last week against Green Bay NEW Lutheran/Oneida and Tristian Beauchamp took advantage of his opportunity and threw for four touchdowns, three of them to Logan Beyer. Meanwhile, Florence's defense has only allowed two touchdowns all season.

You can hear the game live on 104.1 WRLU and at DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com. The pregame show begins at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7.

Sevastopol's Olivia Stenzel once again posted a top 10 finish at the Freedom Invitational on Saturday.

Stenzel's time of 20:29 on the 5K course was good for fifth overall, though the Pioneers did not have enough runners to score an official team score. Josh Pflieger's time of 19:18 was the top time for the 8th place Pioneer boys team.

BOYS

35, Josh Pflieger 19:18.9

37, Bailey Henrickson 19:22.1

40, Jake Pflieger 19:32.3

52, Scott Andreae 20:10.1

59, Sam Abel 20:33

GIRLS

5, Olivia Stenzel 20:29.2

24, Kylie Newton 22:56

40, Lizzy Fiscus 23:58

77, Mckenzie Wiesner 27:21.6

Sevastopol's offense came alive in the first half of their game against Green Bay NEW Lutheran/Oneida. Unfortunately, the Pioneers issues stopping the run continued and they fell 58-32 on the road in a game heard on 104.1 WRLU and DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com.

Sevastopol scored a touchdown on the opening drive of the game and then got their other points on big plays. Tristian Beauchamp threw two long touchdown passes to Logan Beyer and one to Spencer Evenson. The junior running back and defensive back also returned a punt for a touchdown in the game.

NEW/Oneida broke the game open in the first half when they were leading 34-26. Peyton Ponfil intercepted a Beauchamp pass and returned it to the 10 yard line of Sevastopol. They would capitalize and the Pioneers would never get within one score the rest of the game.

It was a 50-26 score at the half and the defenses picked up their play in the second half as NEW/Oneida outscored Sevastopol 8-6.

Sevastopol's next game will be at home against Florence next Friday night. The pregame show will begin at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7 on 104.1 WRLU and DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com.

Sevastopol football will try to recover from last week's 48-6 loss to Algoma in the home-opener when they travel to Green Bay NEW Lutheran/Oneida at Oneida Nation High School on Friday night. Both teams come in at 0-2 and both have suffered losses to Algoma. NEW/Oneida opened up the season with a 32-0 loss to the Wolves. Jack De Young, Spencer Evenson, Arthur Hocevar and company will try to improve to 1-1 in the conference and pick up a victory.

The game will be broadcasted live on 104.1 WRLU and streamed at DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com. The pregame show will begin at 6:30 PM and kickoff at 7.

Packerland Conference play opens with the Pioneers traveling to Algoma. Sevastopol is 1-5 on the year. Of those five losses, four have been two-set sweeps. Sevastopol worked hard in the offseason to prepare for the year including team camp featuring the Lakeland College coaching staff. That work has yet to translate to the court in 2019 but volleyball has a tricky schedule. Practice officially begins just one week before matches start. That means that some programs hit their stride earlier than others. Sevastopol and Algoma have had no common opponents this year. First set starts Thursday at 7 PM.

Sevastopol went just south of its district lines to grab its next head baseball coach.

In a message sent to Sturgeon Bay baseball players sent on Saturday, Kent Berkley told his former team that he had accepted the head baseball coach position at Sevastopol. Under the tutelage of head baseball coach John Berns, Berkley served as a hitting coach for the Clippers. Sturgeon Bay had two Packerland championships and a number of all-conference players during Berkley's short time with the program.

Berkley could not be reached via phone, but you can read the full message he sent to players, families, and supporters below.

"Having already written a note of gratitude to Coach Berns, Coach Andre and AD Meikle, this note is directed to the student-athletes and parents of Sturgeon Bay High School. I have accepted the position of Head Baseball Coach at Sevastopol High School for the 2020 season. I want to express how much I enjoyed working with each of you in the SBHS baseball program. Having the opportunity to teach the greatest game ever conceived to so many fine young men these past two seasons has been a great joy and gift for me. I tip my cap to the parents for nurturing and developing this group of young men who exhibited good character and spirit. Although I have been coaching baseball for decades, I make it a goal to continue learning new approaches for teaching the game. Good coaches steal from each other and I have learned valuable lessons from Coaches Berns and Andre. I have also learned a great deal from each player. I am always trying to find the best way to frame and communicate teaching points and the feedback you players provided has been extremely helpful in making me a better coach. Thank you -- I will miss working with you and seeing you on a regular basis. My parting advice to each player is to take advantage of every learning opportunity that presents itself to you. Remember that the time to prepare isn’t after you have been given the opportunity, it is long before the opportunity arises. So, work hard this off season and report to baseball practice ready to go. Listen carefully to Coach Berns and Coach Andre. They know the game and have proven track records of success. You also have a returning team captain in Jake Schneider who is an exemplary player, leader and competitor. The program is in good hands. My desire to work again as a head coach in no way diminishes how fond I am of SBHS. It has been a great place to work and a great place to send my son for an education. Luckily, we live in a small community and I will have the pleasure of seeing you all at school events and at other happenings in the community. In addition, Coach Berns and I plan to stay in touch regularly and to collaborate on some joint events to promote baseball in the community so I will likely see you in those venues also. Best to you all. Coach Kent Berkley"