Today is Wednesday, October 7, 2026
By John J. Schimming
This past weekend the Quad County League had their 12U softball tournament in East Troy. The Whitewater Toppers team closed out the season in fashion taking second place in the silver bracket. The girls won their first two games of the tournament 16-8 and 12-7 on Saturday. The team came back on Sunday morning to take on East Troy for the championship game, however, had to settle for second place.
The coaching staff was very happy with the girls’ performance, especially during the second half of the season. The girls started the season 0-7 however the staff continued to see improvement and just told the girls they were getting better and the wins will come. This came true as the team finished the season 7-2 to close out the season with an overall record of 7-9. The girls learned great fundamental softball throughout the year to help them prepare for upcoming years.
Coach Schimming would like to thank the girls and parents for a great year. It was a very enjoyable time working with the girls. Thank you also to Jim Gosh and Josh Kubicz with their coaching expertise this year. It was great working with these two gentlemen as well.
Article by Ron Sdano
Alyssa Schumacher recently was named to the WFSCA All-State Second Team for softball. The sophomore catcher hit .551 this spring which places her third on the Whitewater softball all-time list for batting average. Schumacher passed Michelle Haines .549 (1984) to move into third place. Anna Lisa Lawton .558 (1991) holds the record with Missy Fojtik .554 (1983) in second.
Alyssa was also named to the All-District First Team as well as being placed on the Janesville Gazette’s All-Area Team.
Alyssa is the daughter of Mike and Shannon Schumacher
WHS Graduate (2016) Julian Sonn completed his freshman season on MSOE’s (Milwaukee School of Engineering) baseball team – an injury red-shirted him his academic freshman year. Playing in the NACC conference, Julian was First Team selection playing first base.
Sonn’s statistics for the 2018 season:
Batting Average- .339, Runs – 26, Hits – 57, Doubles – 11, Triple – 1, Home Runs – 3, and led the conference with 42 rbi’s.
Reese Brantmeier (3rd from right in back row) pictured with her Team USA teammates.
Reese Brantmeier, a 13-year-old 8th grader at Whitewater Middle School, and daughter of Scott and Becky Brantmeier of Whitewater, was recently chosen as one of 6 top juniors to represent the U.S. in the qualifying rounds of Junior Davis and Fed Cup by BNP Paribas (16-and-under) and World Junior Tennis (14-and-under), the world’s premier junior team competitions. The events were played April 26-28 in Mexico City.
The North/Central American and Caribbean Final Qualifying rounds consisted of three days of round-robin play, with each matchup consisting of two singles matches and one doubles match. Reese won all her singles and doubles matches to contribute to the Win for the USA team!
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