KADE RULE, a former Mineral Point High School athlete, finished his first season on the University of Chattanooga (UTC) wrestling team last Thursday. Rule, a freshman at 197 pounds, was in Cleveland, Oh., for the NCAA Division I championships and dropped his first two matches. He opened with a 10-3 loss to twotime all-American Stephan Little from Little Rock (Ark). Little scored three takedowns and fended off multiple deep shots by Rule en route to the win. A 2-0 defeat to Karson Tompkins from Air Force ended Rule’s season in the consolation preliminaries. “I think he needs to obviously get a little bit bigger. He’s pretty small for the weight class, but he wrestles hard and so you see how good he is,” UTC head coach Kyle Ruschell said of Rule. “We all know what he needs to work on over the summer is in his positions and finishing, but some of that’s just the strength. But it’s a great taste of what this actually looks and feels like when you’ve never been here before. That’s a lot of experience for a true freshman to have moving forward in this career.” The Mocs garnered one team point to tie for 57th place. Rule started 11 of 15 dual meets this season, finishing 18-7 overall that included an unblemished record against Southern Conference foes. UTC went 10-5 in duals this season, including a 7-1 mark in SoCon action.
MALLORY LINDSEY, a former Mineral Point High School athlete, played her final game for the UW- Oshkosh women’s basketball team last week. Lindsey, a 5-foot 5-inch senior guard, played four minutes against Denison University (Oh) in the NCAA Division III semifinals in Salem, Va. She missed her only field goal attempt and committed a foul in the waning minutes of the contest where the Titans fell to the Big Red, 82-61. UW-O fell behind 22-7 after the first quarter and was held at bay the rest of the game. The Titans made their second consecutive trip to the semifinal round, having fallen 49-47 to Smith College (Mass) last year. UW-O ends the season with the second-highest season win total in school history, 28-4.
LIAM STUMPF, a former Mineral Point High School athlete, played in one game for the Central Michigan University baseball team last week. Stumpf, a 6-0 redshirt senior pitcher, was on the mound in the series finale against the Toledo Rockets. He tossed 23 pitches to six batters in the ninth inning, allowing two earned runs on three hits to tie the game, 5-5. The Chippewas pushed a run across the plate in the bottom of the 11th to win, 6-5. CMU (9-11, 3-6) plays at rival Eastern Michigan University this weekend then at Michigan State University next Tuesday.