Pepin/Alma dominates All-DC grid team
The Pepin/Alma football team made up nearly 40 percent of the All-Dairyland Conference First Team slots.
When the all-conference teams were announced last week, the Eagles had 11 players taking up 28 first-team positions. That included the only two unanimous selections in wide receiver Evan Olson and running back Demetrius Bergmann. Other first-team picks included Ashton Radatz at offensive and defensive line; Breckin Hullopeter and Grant Hoffer, offensive line; Madox Stewart, quarterback and linebacker; Mason Westberg, tight end/full back; Jackson Riesgraf, linebacker; Jameson Riesgraf, defensive end and Cainnin Mann, defensive back.
The Eagles stormed through the Dairyland Conference, going undefeated in the regular season before losing to Bangor in Level Two of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Playoffs in Division Seven.
Blair-Taylor was part of a three-way tie for second place in the DC, going 5-2 along with Cochrane-Fountain City and Melrose-Mindoro. Eleva-Strum was fifth in the DC with a 3-4 record while Whitehall was 2-5; Augusta, 1-6 and Independence/Gilmanton, 0-7.
B-T had one player earn first-team honors on offense, lineman Matthew Nehring. Defensively, Ben Lien was a first-team pick at linebacker and Tavian Shramek was at defensive back.
Shramek also earned second-team honors at quarterback. Jackson Shramek was the second-team running back and Ehtan Kniseley was second-team utility player. DaVonne Turner earned second-team honors at defensive end.
Brandon Sylla was the only Independence/Gilmanton player honored earning second team at wide receiver and punter.
No Whitehall players were picked on the first or second team.
The rest of the first team offense consisted of, Sam Schmitt, C-FC and Jeremy Stevens, E-S, offensive line; Drew Wicka, C-FC, wide receiver; Jackson Blaken, Mel-Min, running back; Alex Anderson, Eleva-Strum and Brayden Lockington, Mel-Min, utility and Grayden Barum, C-FC, kicker.
Additional members of the second-team offense included Cooper Subjek, Eric Herzberg and Isaiah Erickson, all of Mel-Min, and Landen Nordeen, E-S, offensive line; Landen Halverson, C-FC, wide receiver; Ryan Julson, E-S, defensive back; Mitch Berg, Mel-Min, TE/FB and Ethan Her, Mel-Min, kicker.
The first team defense included Sam Schmitt, C-FC, defensive line; Lockington, Mel-Min, linebacker; Joe Shong, Augusta, defensive end; Wicka, C-FC, defensive back; Anderson, E-S, utility and Barum, C-FC, punter.
Second team members included Brayden Olson, E-S, defensive line; Halverson, C-FC; BLaken, Mel-Min and Reede Brown, E-S, linebacker; Herzberg, Mel-Min, defensive end; Ty Fjelstad, E-S and Gavin Rich, C-FC, defensive back and Ty Popp, C-FC, utility.
