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By Paul Lecker
MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Auburndale freshman pitcher Morgan Griesbach earned second-team honors on the Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association Small Schools All-State Team.
Griesbach finished the season with a 16-2 record, a 1.42 earned run average, and 188 strikeouts in 118 1/3 innings pitched. She also hit .394 with nine doubles, 14 RBI and 26 runs scored, earning Marawood Conference South Division Player of the Year honors.
Auburndale won its first outright Marawood South championship and reached the WIAA State Softball Tournament for the first time, losing in a Division 4 semifinal to Cuba City.
Other Central Wisconsin players named to the Small Schools (Divisions 4 & 5) all-state team were first-team selections Peyton Mancl of Stevens Point Pacelli, who was named Division 5 State Player of the Year, her Pacelli teammate Hannah Trzinski and Wisconsin Rapids Assumption’s Claire Nelson. Pacelli’s Kaylin Yenter was a second-team pick and Assumption junior Anna Schooley was an honorable mention choice.
Stevens Point’s Kaitlyn Klismith and D.C. Everest’s Addison Kluck were first-team selections on the Large Schools (Division 1) all-state team. Stevens Point’s Jordan Roth was a second-team pick and Wausau East’s Claire Coushman earned honorable mention status.
Mosinee had three players named to the Medium Schools (Division 2 & 3) all-state squad. Sophomore Taelyn Jirschele and junior Maggie Woller were named to the first team, and sophomore Ava Busse was an honorable mention pick.
Kaukauna’s Karly Meredith (Division 1), Lakeland’s Staylor Timmerman (Division 2), Katelyn Callahan of Mishicot (Division 3) and Grace Herrem of Fall Creek (Division 4) also earned divisional State Player of the Year accolades.
2024 Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association All-State Team
Large Schools (Division 1)
First Team: Gwen Baker, sr., Milton; Tayler Baker, sr., Sun Prairie East; Paige Bodenheimer, so., Kaukauna; Brooklynn Danielson, jr., Kenosha Bradford; Drew Hinrichs, sr., Watertown; Lauren Jeanblanc, sr., Kenosha Bradford; Kennedy Joachim, sr., New Richmond; Kaitlyn Klismith, jr., Stevens Point; Addison Kluck, jr., D.C. Everest; Malania Luostari, jr., Superior; Lila McNeill, sr., Westosha Central; Karly Meredith, jr., Kaukauna; Luciano Moreno, jr., Sun Prairie West; Hailey Schaumburg, jr., Sussex Hamilton; Jaclyn Showalter, sr., Hartland Arrowhead; Aubrye Strelow, jr., Kenosha Bradford; Sydney Vitangcol, jr., Wisconsin Lutheran; Lauren Voss, so., Hartford.
Second Team: Maddy Balsiger, sr., Germantown; Alona Boydston, sr., Kenosha Indian Trail; Mia Buske, sr., West Bend West; Kennedy Christopher, so., Oak Creek; Taryn Christopher, sr., Kaukauna; Cassie Coffrey, jr., Sun Prairie East; Grace Dolley, jr., West Allis Hale/Central; Gabirelle Fakes, sr., Beaver Dam; Cassidy Gall, sr., Cedarburg; Katie Geydoshek, jr., Green Bay Preble; Berritt Herr, jr., Ashwaubenon; Makenna Johnston, sr., Chippewa Falls; Grace Kramschuster, sr., Sun Prairie East; Jordan Roth, so., Stevens Point; Autumn Sadler, sr., Muskego; Lauren Shepherd, so., Chippewa Falls; Ava Thelen, sr., West Bend West.
Honorable Mention: Brier Blietz, jr., New Richmond; Samantha Brunner, fr., Muskego; Claire Coushman, sr., Wausau East; Jacqueline Cox, jr., Hartland Arrowhead; Maggie Feng, sr., Brookfield Central; Alivia Fischer, so., Hartford; Sam Foytik, fr., Green Bay Preble; Paige Johnson, jr., Superior; Jaydin Kiser, so., Waterford; Meghan Lampos, jr., Westosha Central; Molly Molthen, so., Pulaski; Kayla Preiss, jr., Germantown; Kyleigh Sadler, fr., Muskego; Alex Selear, so., Menomonee Falls; Paige Steinmetz, sr., Chippewa Falls; Morgan Vertz, sr., Pulaski; Anna Wall, so., Tomah; Mackenzie Zimmerman, sr., Middleton.
Medium Schools (Divisions 2 & 3)
First Team: Josie Brudos, so., West Salem; Katelyn Callahan, sr., Mishicot; Hildie Dempsey, jr., Jefferson; Ashlyn Enke, jr., Jefferson; Leah French, jr., Prescott; Taelyn Jirschele, so., Mosinee; Ava Kleinfeldt, sr., Lake Mills; Reese Koepke, sr., Stoughton; Aubrey Maurer, so., Laconia; Kylee Molitor, jr., Reedsburg; Ryann Nutt, sr., New Berlin Eisenhower; Ellie Peterson, jr., Northwestern; Ava Risum, jr., Brodhead; Madi Rowe, jr., Rice Lake; Ella Stewart, sr., Prescott; Saylor Timmerman, jr., Lakeland; Addison Wery, jr., Seymour; Kallie Westphal, jr., Waupun; Maggie Woller, jr., Mosinee.
Second Team: Rylee Spindler, sr., Altoona; Kiran Sanford, jr., Mishicot; Sophia Leitzen, sr., Brodhead; Ava Anderson, jr., Rice Lake; Makena Kirsenlohr, so., Adams-Friendship; Olivia Ullman, sr., Denmark; Breleigh Mengel, jr., Jefferson; Halene DeJager, jr., Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau; Emily Kalina, jr., Rice Lake; Scout Stromberg, sr., Tomahawk; Ellery Stoltz, jr., New Berlin Eisenhower; Hayden Schabel, sr., Mayville; Addison Maurer, sr., Laconia; Ashley Theisen, jr., Clinton; Megan Johnson, jr., West Salem; Emma Wennersten, jr., Northwestern; Ellie Winkelman, fr., New London; Addison Braun, so., Waupun; Allie Schwirtz, jr., Mayville.
Honorable Mention: Kamdyn Davis, sr., Beloit Turner; Ashley Bonin, sr., New Berlin Eisenhower; Annalie Lindgren, fr., Spooner; Maddy Heonig, so., Beloit Turner; Lily Doerr, so., Lake Mills; Savannah Radtke, jr., Lake Mills; Trista Gassner, so., Lomira; Cora Stodola, sr., Mishicot; Peyton VandeLoo, jr., Freedom; Olivia Witkowski, jr., Weyauwega-Fremont; Ava Busse, so., Mosinee; Riley Weaver, so., Adams-Friendship; Jayse Holman, jr., Mount Horeb; Scout Hall, sr., Prairie du Chien; Tatum Drazkowski, fr., Arcadia; Signe Roesler, sr., West Salem; Emma Bohn, jr., Laconia; Shaeyln Krashnewski, fr., Denmark.
Small Schools (Divisions 4 & 5)
First Team: Emma Baumann, so., Waterloo; Breonna Buechel, jr., Horicon; Jenna Finncutter, sr., Johnson Creek; Payton Gile, jr., Cuba City; Eliza Gordon, fr., Barneveld; Gretta Grassel, sr., Boscobel; Grace Herrem, jr., Fall Creek; Brenna Huebner, sr., Waterloo; Sophia Johnson, sr., Fall Creek; Jenna James, sr., Fennimore; Aly Lamonska, sr., Oakfield; Peyton Mancl, jr., Stevens Point Pacelli; Whitney Myers, jr., Grantsburg; Claire Nelson, jr., Wisconsin Rapids Assumption; Piper Olson, so., Grantsburg; Alyvia Robinson, sr., Oakfield; Megan Schafer, sr., Grantsburg; Hannah Trzinski, sr., Stevens Point Pacelli.
Second Team: Madelyn Abler, jr., Random Lake; Courtney Den Ruyter, sr., Coleman; Mya Dernbach, so., Almond-Bancroft; Alana Durtschi, sr., Juda-Albany; Saveea Freeland, sr., Cambridge; Morgan Griesbach, fr., Auburndale; Bronwyn Halverson, sr., Highland; Michelyn Hansen, jr., Hillsboro; Jayla Harter, sr., Random Lake; Maddy Kabat, so., Mineral Point; Gracie Konkol, jr., Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs; Cyri Reinwald, jr., Horicon; Katie Ruf, sr., Chippewa Falls McDonell; Candance Skattebo, sr., Shell Lake; Brynn Sikora, so., Colfax; Ally Wall, sr., Wauzeka-Steuben; Morgan Wirtz, sr., Chippewa Falls McDonell; Kaylin Yenter, jr., Stevens Point Pacelli.
Honorable Mention: Ruby Bartholomew, fr., Eleva-Strum; Brooklyn Berens, so., Iola-Scandinavia; Avary Briggs, jr., Burlington Catholic Central; Kayahn Furrer, so., Fennimore; Lizzie Gibbs, sr., Horicon; Marissa Kottke, sr., Oakfield; Addy McNett, so., Belmont; Lilly Michek, sr., Highland; Kaylie Moore, so., Grantsburg; Reagon Proud, sr., Oshkosh Lourdes; Elena Raffesberger, jr., Fall Creek; Addy Schauff, so., Cuba City; Anna Schooley, jr., Wisconsin Rapids Assumption; Hailee Thompson, sr., Bonduel; Kennedy Tumm, jr., Fall Creek; Rilei Weeks, jr., Cadott; Macie Zimmerman, so., Algoma.
Players of the Year
Division 1: Karly Meredith, jr., Kaukauna
Division 2: Saylor Timmerman, jr., Lakeland
Division 3: Katelyn Callahan, sr., Mishicot
Division 4: Grace Herrem, jr., Fall Creek
Division 5: Peyton Mancl, jr., Stevens Point Pacelli
Coach of the Year
John P. Ruffolo, Kenosha Bradford