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August 2016

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Middleton's defense could be deadly

Submitted by MTT News on Wed, 08/17/2016 - 19:24

Tom Cabalka loves linebackers.

They are often tackling machines that can also cover, blitz, fill holes and lead a football team.

Give Cabalka three gifted linebackers and Middleton’s longtime defensive coordinator will usually produce a first-rate unit.

The 2016 season could be the latest example of that.

Cabalka has a trio of linebackers that could rank among the better groups he’s had at Middleton. And as the Cardinals prepare for their 2016 opener at Madison Memorial Friday, Cabalka is extremely optimistic about his defense — and his linebackers.

“I think this is really going to be a good group,” the normally understated Cabalka said of his linebackers. “We should be able to do a lot of things with these guys.”

Middleton’s defense, always a strength under Cabalka, should be extremely stout again in 2016. But the linebacking group has the ability to become both playmakers and difference-makers.

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A conversation with Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser

Submitted by MTT News on Wed, 08/17/2016 - 09:40

2015-2016 Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser is a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literatures. She is the author of three collections of poetry:  Apprenticed to Justice, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Trailing You. Blaeser is Anishinaabe, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and grew up on the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. She is the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. She is currently at work on a collection of “Picto-Poems,” which combines her photographs and poetry.

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Thomas, MHS golfers start strong

Submitted by MTT News on Mon, 08/15/2016 - 09:18

One year ago, Middleton and Hartland Arrowhead battled until the final putt of the season before the Cardinals edged the Warhawks for the state championship.

Early indications are 2016 could feature more of the same dramatics.

At the season-opening, 21-team WPGA/Madison Edgewood Invite held last Friday at Yahara Hills, Arrowhead shot a 312 and edged Middleton by one shot for the title.

Kettle Moraine was a distant third at 323, while Franklin (324) and Milton (326) rounded out the top five.

Last season, the Cardinals shot 321 at this same event, then won the state title two months later. So everyone on Middleton’s side was excited by the sensational start to the new year.

“I am so proud of the girls,” Middleton coach Becky Halverson said. “This is going to be another exciting season.”

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MHS football gets boost from Lyles

Submitted by MTT News on Tue, 08/09/2016 - 21:20

Middleton’s football team camp was in full swing late last month when the new kid in town made his presence immediately felt.

Highly acclaimed offensive linemen Kayden Lyles, who transferred to MHS this summer and will play his senior season with the Cardinals, watched as a teammate failed to finish a drill. Lyles, a 6-foot-4, 320-pound mountain of man, didn’t like what he saw and pulled out his own personal sheriff’s badge.

“He just told the kid, ‘Drop and give me five,’ ” Middleton offensive coordinator Jason Pertzborn said of Lyles. “He’s used to winning and doing things a certain way.

“It’s hard to get a kid who’s been in our program for four years to do that kind of stuff. But Kayden’s already grabbed a leadership role and he showed it right there.”

Now, the Cardinals can’t wait to see what Lyles shows on the field.

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MHS golfers take aim at repeat

Submitted by MTT News on Tue, 08/09/2016 - 21:11

It was a euphoric, memorable, glorious two days that will be burned in their brains for the rest of time.

Middleton’s girls golf team, which had knocked on the door of a state title in 2013 and ’14, broke it down last season. The Cardinals rallied on the final day and nipped Hartland Arrowhead for the second WIAA Division 1 state championship in school history.

Now, despite the loss of state Player of the Year Loren Skibba, Middleton enters 2016 among the favorites to repeat as state champions.

The Cardinals bring back four of their top five golfers and appear to have the foundation to make another run at a gold ball. Middleton begins its season Friday at the Madison Edgewood Invite at Yahara Hills.

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