After considering several season schedule suggestoins, the WIAA Board of Control voted to maintain fall interscholastic opportunities with a delayed start, as well as an alternate opportunity for schools unable to start and administer the traditional fall season, at its virtual special meeting last week._ Several days ago,_ the Board approved conducting the fall sports season with a delayed start. The sports of girls golf, girls tennis, girls swimming and diving, and boys and girls cross country will be permitted to begin practice Monday, Aug. 17. The earliest practice date for the sports of football, boys soccer, and boys and girls volleyball is Monday, Sept. 7. Stay tuned for further details._ The end of the fall sports seasons remained unchanged, but the Board indicated the season may or may not have a traditional tournament series. The length and beginning of the tournament series will be determined in the coming days. In addition, the winter and spring season calendars were not altered. Additionally, another component of the Board’s decision provides schools, which are unable to start fall sports in 2020, an opportunity in the spring to conduct their fall seasons. The Board directed the executive staff to develop details and calendars for an alternative threesport season in the second semester of the 2020-21 school year to be presented at a later date. The alternate three-sport season plan was derived from a proposal submitted to the WIAA executive staff by school district administrators from the southwest area of the state._ Many spring coaches around the state have objected to the proposal to move fall sports to the spring._ With the hoped for September Commencement of volleyball and football, look for updated schedules to be posted soon on the Prescott School District website._ Tentative plans are for both teams to focus primarily on conference opponents._ Remember, New Richmond no longer will be a part of the Cardinals football schedule as the Tigers have been moved to the Big Rivers conference as has Superior. And the River Falls Wildcats will play in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Mike Brookshaw’s two out, two run single in the top of the 9th gave the Prescott Pirates an 8-7 victory over the Hudson River Rats on Saturday._ Trailing 7-2 heading into the 9th, the Pirates took advantage of the River Rats pitching wildness to close the gap to 7-6. With runners on 1st and 3rd and two outs, Hudson opted to intentionally walk Peter Brookshaw, setting the stage for Mike Brookshaw’s gamewinning

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single._ Dylan Gausman picked up the win in relief of Eric Munson as the Pirates improved to 4-2 in St. Croix Valley League play._ Sunday’s game with Plum City was rained out and will be rescheduled for a later date._ The Pirates play at home this Saturday where they host the Bay City Bombers and will be the final regular season game of the season._ Add Winona State to the list of schools hoping to bring flashy Prescott guard Isabella Lenz to their campus in the fall of 2021._ Lenz finished in the top 10 in scoring in the state of Wisconsin and will enter her senior year with 1,371 points, trailing only Kaycee Charette as Prescott’s all time leading scorer.__ “The Washington Football Team.” It’s quite a switch from using a racial slur (according to Webster’s Dictionary) for a team nickname/logo to a team name with no connection to any kind of imagery._ One could argue there is a lot of history to choose from in the national capitol if the franchise seeks to connect the storied past of the city to the team.__ From the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources… The 2021 Wisconsin State Park admission sticker will for the first time feature a winter image designed by Emma Džurbanová, a junior foreign exchange student from the Czech Republic at Rice Lake High School. The winning design will be printed on state park and forest annual vehicle admission stickers and will be displayed on more than 300,000 vehicles. This is the 30th year the Wisconsin state park and forest annual vehicle admission stickers has been designed by a high school student whose artwork is chosen through a statewide contest.