By Cripe Olson

Head Coach Nick Johnson and the Prescott Cardinal girls’ softball team enter the final week of the regular season as the #6 ranked team in Division III in the latest Wisconsin Softball Coaches Association Poll. Undefeated Baldwin-Woodville, the Middle Border Conference leader, is the #2 ranked team in Division II. Prescott can earn a share of the conference title when they travel to Baldwin this week in the regular season finale.__ Peter Brookshaw tripled and scored twice as North Dakota State defeated Nevada 6-1 in the NCAA Division 1 Stanford Regional Tournament. It was the first NCAA tournament win for the Bison and gave them 42 wins on the season – a school record._Unfortunately, the Bison’s season came to a close on Sunday as they fell to the Anteaters of the University of California-Irvine._Brookshaw will soon to heading to St. Cloud to play for The Rox of the Northwoods League.__ Nominations for the Prescott Hall of Fame are due July 1. Nomination forms are available in the Prescott High School office or by contacting HOF Committee Chair Tanya Sponholz at [email protected] or Vice Chair Dave Hovel. The 2021 Hall of Fame Banquet is scheduled for this coming October. _Stay tuned for further information. _ The Prescott Baseball Club/CAB Company/Pirates are looking for a used 18 to 20 horsepower tractor for field maintenance purposes at Firehall Field._Anyone with information about the aforementioned can contact Jeff Ryan or Dallas Eggers.__ Hats off to baseball concession stand volunteer Tracey Budworth._The Prescott High School English teacher and tireless Cardinal athletic booster has been the proverbial straw stirring the concession stand drink this season. Well done. And speaking of boosters, former Prescott High School alumni and 1,000-point basketball club member Randy Hansen continues to donate his time mowing the infield at Firehall Field._ Hansen’s prowess as a self-taught groundskeeper has visiting teams oohing and aahhing whenever they set foot inside the fence at the varsity field._A standing ovation to you Mr. Hansen.

The Prescott Cardinal coaching staff and players hosted a two-day baseball clinic this week for youngsters at Firehall Field.__ The Wisconsin Sports Network has reported that Prescott High School alumnus and former All Conference basketball player Tristan Kittilson has resigned as Glenwood City Head Basketball Coach. And Randy Jordan has resigned his position as St. Croix Central Boys Basketball Coach._ The Middle Border All Conference selection meeting will be held this week at New Richmond High School. It will be the last time the Tigers will be voting members of the Middle Border Conference as the Black and Orange enter the Big Rivers Conference for all sports next season._ Local trout aficionado and long-time WIAA official Dan Hoffman has reported considerable success at St. Croix, Pierce, Dunn, and Pepin County trout streams._The retired River Falls biology teacher hooked a Tiger trout on a local stream recently that measured around 14 inches._The somewhat rare fish is a sterile, intergeneric hybrid of the brown trout and the brook trout._ When asked specifically where he landed the fish Hoffman’s only reply was “an area trout stream.”

In Prescott’s 10-9 victory over St. Croix Central last week, not only did Austin Fox club his second homerun of the season, but he also scored five runs. The last time a Cardinal player scored five times in a game was back Bill Brookshaw, who accomplished the feat back in 2012. Another All State, Alex Ross did the same back in 2004._ Headshaker of the week: Last a week the coaching staff of a Middle Border Conference school emerged from the team bus wearing T-shirts, shorts, and sandals._What a first impression they gave. It was a headshaker._