This year's All-Area Softball Team is as stacked with as much high-level talent as ever. The First Team is headlined by the Post Bulletin Player of the Year, Winona's Grace Fricke.
Andrew Wilcox (2005) and Bryce Wilcox (2007) both graduated from Century High School, where they played on boys hockey teams that reached the state tournament. The brothers now hope to help Dodge County get back to state as the program's new co-head coaches.
Winona, ranked No. 1 in the state in Class AAA, defeated Kasson-Mantorville 4-1 on Thursday to win the Section 1AAA softball title for the second straight year.
Brody Lamb flourished in the second half of his first full season with the United States Hockey League's Green Bay Gamblers. His strong play at the highest level of junior hockey convinced University of Minnesota coach Bob Motzko to bring the Byron native to campus this fall and join a program coming off a conference championship and a Frozen Four appearance.
William Isaac Shillingford, 31, is charged with second-degree murder-with intent-not premeditated, second-degree murder-without intent-while committing a felony and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.
