High School Football: Black Hawk/Warren vs Ithaca/Weston

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High School Football: Black Hawk/Warren vs Ithaca/Weston

High School Sports · Fri Oct 30, 2026

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Iowa Grant hosts Pepin Alma and Black Hawk Warren versus Ithaca Weston.

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Marcus McCauley joins us, one of the assistants with the Ithaca Western football team.

Well, you get to the second level.

It's always exciting.

But what do you think has pushed the team to this point in the season so far, Marcus?

You know, we've had some adversity this year, and we fought it while kids have come together.

It's the first year of the program.

you know, kind of just take a day by day, week by week.

And, uh, it's been playing well and we're ready to go for another one tonight.

Yeah.

I thought last week the, the team came out and really established a hit hard against Waterloo.

But I think tonight might be more of a challenge.

This Black Hawk quarantine hits pretty hard too, don't they?

Yeah.

And then size wise, definitely a lot bigger than us, especially up front.

Um,

But as you said, we're pretty physical too.

I like to say we got a few junkyard dogs on our team and they're not going to go down without a fight tonight.

Well, let's talk about the co-op.

I've talked to several players.

They really think it's gone well.

What do you think from the coaching standpoint about the first year with the co-op and football?

Yeah, I think it's going well.

I have really enjoyed it.

You know, I kind of stepped in when the guy that was coaching at Weston last year left to go back home for a job and

I had known Mr. Kelly from wrestling and he's like, you know, I could really use you kind of know the kids already.

So I kind of offered to volunteer and help when I could.

And then that kind of that role kind of jumped up a little bit.

But I've been enjoying it.

I've been have a lot of fun.

The kids have been I've created a lot of relationships with the kids and parents.

And I think amongst each other, they've created a lot of a lot of relationships and friendships the last lifetime.

Well, you've seen that with wrestling.

They were the first to, to co-op in that sport and that's been successful over the years.

Marcus.

Yeah, absolutely.

I tell people all the time, you know, the kids that, uh, so we caught my sophomore year in high school, the kids that I grew up with in that co-op, you know, we're friends now, our kids are friends.

We get together, watch the packer games, you know, and we sit and talk about, can you imagine if we were co-opped in football, you know, 15 years ago.

Um, so I think it's cool that it's finally happened and.

and the success that the programs are having that are co-opped together.

I know you were co-opped before, you were eight player, advantages.

I think everybody, and if you can still wants to play 11 player, right?

Yeah, I think the kids are really enjoying it.

You know, if I had to coach eight man, I'm not sure I'd know what to do, so I'm glad that with this co-op that we're back playing 11 man, and I think everyone else is enjoying it too.

So far, you know, strengths of the team, it seems like you can run the ball pretty well.

And there's a lot of weapons on this team that other teams have to be aware of, right?

Yeah.

I mean, watching film on Blackhawk tonight, they don't, they don't hide anything there.

They give you the formation.

They're going to run right at you.

Um, you know, they'll throw a counter at you and try to sneak a pass in there.

Uh, we're lucky enough, you know, we're kind of the same way.

We're going to try to run it, run it down your throat and, uh, you know, then we have.

Lucky enough to have a weapon like Caden Keller that we control the ball to and, you know, he can, can make some athletic plays out in the open field for

us.

Well, his, uh, no relation, uh, quarterback, um, Jacob Keller, you know, he's a Western athlete, uh, but boy, he's had a good season, not only with the arm, but, uh, his cutback run to score that first touchdown last week.

That was, that was something special, isn't

it?

Yeah.

You get Jacob in the open field and, uh, green grass in front of him.

Not many people are going to catch him.

and it's always kind of funny we joke about it you know first week of practice or we did some seven on seven this summer and who's going to be our quarterback and it was kind of between the two Keller Keller boys and neither one really wanted to do it and then you know we kind of throw through Jacob in that role and he's he's exceeded and I kind of asked him a couple weeks ago I'm like I still want to play receivers like well I kind of want to but I like having the ball in my hands every time so I think it's working out for him and I think he's enjoying it.

No doubt.

So, uh, keys, if you can see a key to a win here tonight for, for Ithaca Weston.

Yeah.

I think our key is going to be, if we can stop them defensively, uh, like I said, they're big and physical upfront.

Uh, if we can get a couple of stops, I think that's going to be the key.

I think our, our offense, like you said, you know, being multi-dimensional, we should be able to move the ball.

Okay.

Um, but if we can stop them defensively, I think that's, that's where the game's going to be one.

You think you can outrun it with your speed on offense?

I'm hoping so.

I'd like to think so.

I think if we get breakthrough of first level, we should be okay.

I know they run lots of times from what I've heard very close gaps with alignment between their feet and everything.

That makes it a little bit of a challenge, doesn't it?

Yeah.

And they got a lot of size and they're just going to wall you down and they got a pretty big physical running back similar to what we faced last week that he gets downhill fast.

So, you know, if we can hit him at the line of scrimmage or behind the line of scrimmage and slow him down to start, I think that'll, that'll benefit us a lot.

Well, it should be a good one.

I've heard lots of people say they were going to be there.

Should be a full house and a great atmosphere tonight, Marcus.

Yeah, I'm, I'm hoping so as a good, good crowd last week and, uh, I hope we can do it again.

Sounds good.

Thanks for telling us and we'll see you tonight.

Yeah, thanks Phil.

Marcus McCauley joining us from the Ithaca Western coaching staff here on WRCO sports.

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Johnny is Ithaca Western Coach, Kyle Kelly.

Coach?

Let's look back to that game, the opening night of the tournament.

Waterloo was a tough opponent.

What made the difference for Ithaca-Weston?

I thought we were able to shut down their running backs just enough time to make it work.

And everybody commented how the game was such a hard hitting game, especially from

from you

guys where do you think that comes from it's just kind of like that team attitude and atmosphere is part of their identity getting ready for this week uh... what do you work on this late in the season always add a couple new wrinkles into what we've done all year long to try to give us a different look let's uh... go over the scouting report a little bit about blackhawk warren what sticks out on that count they're huge uh... i think their average line is like two hundred fifty pounds and under running back about two twenty so they're they're giant and

Are

they similar to anybody else that you've played?

They're like a cash-in or bang-or.

Going over the video

from last week, what do they do well against Cashton to get that win?

Move the ball on the ground very effectively to dive, keep, dive, keep repeatedly.

And Ithaca-Weston, you do a lot of running as well.

Can we expect kind of another quick game?

I would assume, yeah, both teams are probably going to be trying to do their bread and butter.

But never know.

What do you see as keys from Ithaca Weston if you're going to advance to the next level?

Like I said, we're going to have to do everything right and probably get, we need a break or two along the way.

We need something to fall in our lap a bit.

Do you feel that Ithaca Weston is the underdog in this game?

Yeah.

Black Hawk's been there so many times before.

I think that conference they played in such a buzzsaw that they've just overcome a little bit more in the actual games.

They're going to be tough.

Your team, led by your seniors, we saw that leadership again the other night, and they don't want their season to end, so maybe you could

say a word about them again if you would.

Oh yeah, I said they've done an awesome job all year long, so we're going to have to lean on them again once more on Friday night.

Tell me about your coaching staff, because you've got a real good talented coaching staff.

Where is everybody's

area of expertise there among your coaches?

Brett is like a wizard and a half at the defense.

Marcus Mccally also is very this football smart and I think Chad knows like every kind of play information that was ever invented on offense So yeah that they are really really awesome

must have

brought coach Clary out of retirement I'm guessing you're glad to have him back on the staff, aren't you?

I am overjoyed as all can be to have him back on the staff I'm so happy he's helping out like it's awesome that he's up there It makes a world of difference like I'm so happy he decided to come out

And I think he brings back a little bit of that Ithaca

tradition that the kids might not be aware of, right?

Oh, yeah, for sure.

But like I said, he's just a super guy in general.

He's so easy to get along with and so incredibly knowledgeable.

He's just so great to have around.

Talk about what this team has done.

I mean, your school spirit is up

and what they mean to the community, Kyle.

Like I said, it's always packed on Friday.

So you have to realize now what the co-op is.

There's just that many more people there.

There's quite a following, and they're very, very supportive.

So that's really cool.

It's really awesome for the kids to have that many people showing up for a month Friday.

How are you health-wise getting into this next week of the season?

We're still down.

Peyton and Gage are still out.

So other than that, we're healthy.

Sounds good.

Good luck.

Can you get ready for Black Hawk Warren this weekend?

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

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From Ithaca High School.

Hello everyone.

Welcome to tonight's broadcast featuring the Ithaca Weston Bulldogs and also coming in tonight we have from Black Hawk Warren the Warriors and they are coached by Desi Braden.

We are in line for the game to start in a handful of minutes here tonight on WRC radio.

Good stuff coming your way.

Good pregame comments there from Marcus Macaulay and also from head coach Kyle Kelly talking about the Bulldogs.

Let's look at some of the stats as the national anthem singers warm up behind us.

But Bob Podner senior from Black Hawk.

with 12 touchdowns and he has rushed for 766 and also rushing leaders, Dax Paquin, 1360 yards for Blackhawk and Trent Binlingmeyer Sr.

has rushed for 356 on the season.

They are the leaders for the visitors coming in tonight.

Brian Ellen joins me this evening to help do a little spotting and watch the game Brian How do you see this one tonight?

I believe that it'll be a running game tonight the way both teams present themselves The both running teams the clock should run a lot Maybe force one or team or the other to force them into a passing situation

You had a chance to walk

in with Black Hawk as they were walking in through the gate.

There are some rather large players on that team.

Yeah, they're growing big down there.

But it's a little bit of a contrast of styles.

And I think one of the keys for Ithaca Weston, if they can get around the outside.

Yep, I agree.

Ithaca Weston, I think, is going to have to establish a running game by

trying up the middle, but I think they're going to gain more of their yards to the outside.

And then I think they'll open up their passing game.

Jacob Keller, the

quarterback for Ithaca Weston has done a tremendous job.

In fact, he cracked one off for 62 yards last week.

If he can get around the end or get in the open, he does a great job cutting back.

He's another weapon that they have.

Yes.

Yes.

He does an excellent job doing that.

I had their game at Weston.

a couple weeks ago and did a very nice job.

Spencer Nelson, leading rusher for Ithaca Weston, went over a thousand yards recently, 11-21.

Wow.

Coming into the game.

Kaden Keller, leading receiver, 4-45.

And this guy has caught more one-handed catches, I think, than I've seen in a high school game.

And Spencer Nelson, also the leading tackler for Ithaca Weston, a total of 87 tackles.

He anchors that defense very well.

He reads the plays.

Kudos to him.

We'll be back with more in a moment.

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Black Hawk Warren in the end zone right now and getting ready.

The winner of this one will take on Peppin Alma or Iowa Grant.

Those teams meeting tonight at Iowa Grant.

Travis Wilson from bound Wisconsin will update us at halftime.

But one of the things he talked about was the toughness of Peppin Alma.

And that could be a really decent game over there.

That sounds like it.

Did you see Iowa Grant this year when you're refing?

No, I didn't.

I didn't have Iowa Grant.

I've heard good things about them in their quarterback and, uh,

for the large part, a passing team.

Yeah, I heard he was a one man wrecking crew.

Yes.

Yes.

So we'll see what, uh, what happens with that game tonight.

We'll be trying to keep you updated there.

Mr. Fabulous productions, Tim feedback of the studios to keep us going on that one as well.

If they go, Weston and the black co-op war on warriors, they have met a few times over the years.

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While all the pomp and circumstances are over and we are set for game time here tonight

Lots of talking during the week and kind of, you know, sorting things out on paper.

Ryan, as you get ready for the game, this is, this is, you know, you throw the paper aside.

This, this is football

now.

It is definitely a game time and you got to play your best because the one that usually makes the most mistakes is going to end up on the losing side of the scoreboard.

Very true.

And that was one of the things that last week in the game against cash, and we were getting the scores.

pretty regularly from up there.

And, uh, it was just a back and forth game.

And I understand that Cashton turned the ball over a little bit and also miss some extra

points, miss some extra points.

That's huge and lost by four.

So that, uh, that can turn it against you.

That's for sure.

So Black Hawk Warren will be in the white uniforms with the red lettering.

I know you can't see that on the radio, but we'll describe it for you.

And the Bulldogs in the purple with the white lettering and Black Hawk Warren chose to

Take the kick off or give it to Ithaca here in the opening half of football.

Now there's no advantage to win tonight.

The flag is playing about as still as it can be.

Officials for

tonight's game are Tim Lee, Henry Bray, Vernon Danes, Jason Roode and Brandon Lee.

And they are set to blow the whistle and get this one.

We hope you enjoy it.

Started here on WRCO radio.

Here we go.

Black Hawk Warren.

They're down in the three point stance and they're going to give a kick off.

It's going to roll across the ground, stays in bounds, picked up at the 20 yard line by Ithaca Weston and a return just briefly for Thompson on the far side.

Looks like about the 35 yard line.

Yep.

And so he is brought down Quintus Banker, I should say the return man.

So that's where it will start for Ithaca Weston as if it was kicked out of bounds almost kind of in that same vicinity.

the quarterback is jacob keller joined in the backfield by the likes of spencer nelson will see great running backland and walmer who's had a good year as well and keller one of the wide receivers and banker and then a running play up the gut to spencer nelson and he gets a couple of yards good run by

Line includes Braxton fowl Isaiah Fargent read Wabchell Mason Van Coulter Hayden burns in Ben Otto Won't be second on ends seven way it looks okay 35 yard line they start right around the 37 now just underway from Ithaca Weston on WRCO and Black Hawk Warren digging in man coverage on the far side of the field two men wide

for Ithaca Weston awaiting a snap handoff Nelson runs off right tackle for only about a yard or so.

So he is going to be brought down and he'll bring up third down about four yards.

Yep.

Look like that third and four tackle made by 77 Brandon McCoy and some of these guys with good size Brandon six two three thirty seven.

Yep.

He's going to anchor that metal.

Third down play coming up for Ithaca Weston.

Big part of the night here.

Let's see how they do on the conversion.

Jacob Keller coming in with a play from the near side and Ithaca Weston is in the huddle and now will break committee third down and less than five here for Ithaca Weston need to get to the 41 for a first down awaiting a snap from center out of the shotgun Keller throws caught behind the line of scrimmage and Kate and Keller breaks away from a couple first down 50 to the 49 of block off Warren had nice game there

But down by 59 Jonathan Heller of Black Hawk Warren So first down sticks yeah, and I think came Keller is a great man to have the ball in his hands to try to get it in his hands as much as you can He's got good speed once he gets it Play comes in for the near side first down and 10 for Ithaca Western Ball just across the 50 49 yard line area of Black Hawk Warren rests on the near hash mark

The line is set.

Colorado, the shotgun runs to the right side, taking a man with him to block.

And he's looking, looking and now throws at the last minute.

Nope.

He's going to be brought down now and complete.

He got to throw off right on the far side, right in front of the Blackhawk Warren sideline.

So incomplete past that good coverage by a Blackhawk must have been backfield led by number 12 Brodie Argel in that defensive secondary.

And it brings up second down and 10 yards to go.

If they go west and doing a little soul searching on that one Lake Dray was in on that play as well in the backfield.

They used him as a blocking back Two men come to the nearest side Kate and Keller is out split out along with Liam Rohn Awaiting the snap under shot gun and no he's gonna take it under center handoff to Nelson bashes to

46.

Yep Nelson for about three

Tackle again by big number 77 Brandon McCoy and it's third down and about seven make it six yards to go Ithaca Weston kind of hammered away one of the keys.

I think Brian is just to Control the clock control

the clock.

Yeah, I believe this game will be a fast game.

It's gonna be played up the middle of the field

So the play comes in Ithaca Weston trying to convert on third down

For a second time on this drive that started at their own 31 yard line.

So it's third down They get six yards to go just outside the 45 yard line.

Here comes the handout No, he's gonna keep it himself Keller hit in the backfield and brought for a big loss by number 12 Brodie Argel.

Yeah, he's left that one out defensive end stayed home

So fourth down and about eight for Ithaca Weston and I would assume that they will punt the ball away

loss of two on the play.

Black Hawk Warren will send a man back deep to receive it.

Actually two men back.

Kate and Keller out to do the honors.

If Ithaca Weston does go through with it, and I presume they will.

They need to get to the 39 for a first down.

Fourth down and seven.

They've got the punting crew out.

There's the snap and Kate and keeps it on the ground.

It's a

Real floater is going to keep running and rolling and it's going to be down by ethical Western right around.

Did he get it?

Nope.

It touched back touch back.

He quite just couldn't quite stop it.

Sprinting downfield

was Quintus Banker and he went into the end zone.

Yep.

Just a yard short of keeping that on the one yard line.

It was, he was there.

You see that happen in the pros sometimes too, where they, they just down at the one yard line.

That's what he was trying to do.

Yep.

I think he actually touched the end line.

the goal line and that's what caused the touch back.

So this is out of the 20 yard line for Black Hawk Warren, their own 20 yard line as we get it going here.

821 remaining in the opening quarter.

No score at Ithaca.

Ithaca Weston digging in on the defensive side.

The Warriors on offense.

First in 10, the handoff running play, not much in the backfield.

Oh, Bulldogs in the nice job they thrown for a long.

Yeah, number 37, the ball carrier.

He's been the man, Dex, Paquin.

Who has had 1,300 and some yards lost a three on the play lost took three from his grand total this year Throughout the night Marcy strikeout Alzheimer's scoreboard from the flip phone tonight River Ridge leading spring Valley 7-0 in the first quarter 750 remaining in the opening quarter here No score second down at about 13 yards to go for Black Hawk Warren They'll run on the left side not much again.

That's big when he will get

Head maybe the original line is clearance Brian.

Yep.

Maybe a gain of two there Third down 11.

Mark had just outside the 20 yard line.

So good defense by Ithaca Weston Up the middle Ben Otto and Hayden Burns and a host of friends Making that stop So Ithaca Weston holding its own along the line One man wide right one man wide left for the Warriors on third down to body 11

Awaiting the snap from center and here is partner.

He's rolling out to his right.

They're coming after him He throws it it is incomplete to pick when great play on the defense Brian.

Yeah number five Liam Rowan was back there.

He was giving a lot of pressure.

He had to get rid of it So hurry play results in a fourth down on 11 yards to go Well so far I would say if it the Weston is holding its own in the line, right?

Yeah, look very good start very good start for IW

So it's going to be a punt for Black Hawk Warren and Ithaca Weston also will have two men back to receive this punt.

They're back around their own 45 yard line.

There's the snap punter steps in and line drives.

This one a bounder right around the 45 now rolling into Ithaca Western territory to the 45 yard line.

And that's where it will be.

So second possession, pretty good field shape for Ithaca Western.

That was a wounded quail on the punt kind of was yep right around the 45 yard line And so that's where Ithaca Weston will take over for its second possession Had a first down on the opening drive and then wound up punting the ball Kate and Keller split out to the near side and Jacob Keller awaiting the snap from center There it is hand off and coming this way the running back is going to be stacked up and dropped that was Walmart got across the 46

Maybe a gain of one on the play Stopped again By Brandon McCoy and also number 12 Brody Argel and number 11 Trent Bittlingmeyer second down and nine Play comes in from the sidelines here, Ithaca Weston on the near side of the field and great crowd on hand I knew there would be

yep Yep, always pack them in here and then we get it's good and West enjoying a team.

You know, you're gonna have a crowd

Yep.

A lot of people down for the Western area.

So I talked to a lot of them last week as well when they were here.

Still nice to not have the park as I'm yet.

Handoff for Nelson.

Not much.

He is stacked up right at the line of scrimmage.

Maybe got a yard, Brian.

Yeah.

Very short gain.

Yep.

Oh, yard.

Third down and eight tackle made there by Argel again.

Third down for Ithaca Weston and they'll bring the play in for the near side again.

These quarters move pretty fast when the teams are

Keep it on the ground.

Yep.

We're already halfway through.

So you have to go Weston to the line.

Potosi, Cassville, and Mandovi are tied at seven.

That's a high scoring first quarter.

Third down.

IW out of the shotgun.

Jacob Keller, rolling to the far side.

They're coming after him.

He throws down the run.

Did he is caught?

Did he get it?

Kate and Kelly are catch.

Got a catch.

He did at the 44 gate of nine yards.

I don't know.

He got his hands underneath that, but he did.

So a first down conversion.

Kate and Keller very prolific.

Yeah, it's catcher.

Yeah So that'll make it a first and 10 Ifica West that is inside the 45 yard line of Black Hawk Warren

Yeah, Kate and thought he could get up and go with it was a pro as he could have.

Yeah, that's right.

Got

to be touched in the pros So the play in from coach Kelly and company on the sidelines and if it go West into the football

Five minutes, five seconds remaining in the opening quarters, scoreless.

You have to go west in Black Hawk, Warren territory, getting set to snap the football.

We

have a whistle.

We haven't had very many offsides.

Offsides against

the defense.

You know, that's not as common, right?

Nope.

Nope.

Lined up right away.

So they'll move it against Black Hawk, Warren to the 40, 39 yard line area.

Yep.

Five yard penalty

and best part of it.

You repeat first down.

First and five so this might you know this might be the area where you could gamble a little

bit.

Yep.

Yep.

You're could use a body Playing your playbook here to you know to trickle maybe Dan Rice might have used the

hook and ladder here.

Yeah, maybe ball on the far hash mark first and five

From the 40 yard line of Black Hawk Warren awaiting the snap Keller out of the shotgun looking steps up in the pocket whips it down the far sideline It's up in the air in complete knocked away at the last

coverage

Pat was there intended for Keller and Brody Argo broke it up number 12 Yeah, he was just step-for-step with Kaden very good coverage pass was there age with the film

That people have you know with huddle and everything else.

I'm sure all week long.

They're like Argo.

You're on Keller and I'm sure he's been working on that all week out.

Yeah So we got second down in five So now you go back to the basics, maybe and yeah, like maybe a Spencer Nelson run or something like that Spencer's had a little bit of tough sledding here early on.

He's another guy I'm sure they've keyed on all week in practice watch

That's number eight awaiting a snap from center.

There it is handoff go on to number eight and he puts the shoulder down gets about three

yards Yeah, I'm guessing he got about three.

It should be third down to

Tackled by Brandon McCoy and also by Brian de la Cruz New glare is seven nothing or clenching first quarter of that one tonight and playoff football Kate and Keller back in the fold for Ithaca Weston on third and two yards to go

Black Hawk war on territory 37 yard line And you think a Weston they've

got the oh, we got some confusion here It looks like IW is gonna take a timeout well the center went up to

snap the ball right and Yeah, he didn't take his hand.

Did he was he worried that I think the time clock was run out to play clock

So they stop play and tell Mason Van Coulter, I don't need to snap it.

I thought maybe it was some new fangled fancy play, you know, we'll stay

in the huddle Mason,

you you snap it.

And I don't love that when I played center,

you

know, get all the focus on me.

Well, there was a lot of focus on you.

There was.

Yeah, they knew that they could get through the line.

Just go up the middle.

Follow me, boys.

Time out on the field.

We'll be back in 30 seconds.

Scarlett's here in the opening quarter.

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Yeah, they go west and tries to run a play.

It looks like a flag on the play, Brian.

Did you catch what it

was?

Yeah, it's a legal shift against the offense.

So that'll back it off five yards and come back and replay third down.

I think so.

Yeah.

So it's going to be third and a little bit more difficult.

Ball Mac mark Mac of the 41 yard line of the Warriors hit the go Weston in their territory No score in the ball game and again the clock running once again

Yeah, you can have two backs in the backfield in motion at the same time But once alignment and a back go, you know move then it's You know the penalty

comes They break cuddle van Colter up to snap the ball and the rest of the line around him get to go Weston close in tight

Nobody split out.

We've got a shotgun.

Nope.

Keller under center takes it, runs into his own back, tries to run to the near side, caught and then stood up and then pushed over the pile, tackled roughly there at the end by Argel and it's fourth down.

So that'll be right at the near hash mark, fourth and about seven.

So he didn't, didn't go all that smoothly.

And Keller ran into his back, ran to his

back and then he did hit the growing heart.

fell over a Blackhawk player that was on the ground and he really hit the ground hard.

To med back deep to receive this punt from Ithaca Weston Black Hawk Warren back around the ten yard line And the punter is Kate and Keller awaiting the snap its low bounces He picks it up and now gets it off just barely it angles to the air side stays in bounds keeps rolling if it go Weston will down it nine yard line at the nine yard line That almost went out of bounds.

They got it right there at the nine and that's where it'll take over for Black Hawk Warren nice pun Again, he barely got that off.

Yes

That punt looked like a loaf of bread.

Nine yard line of Black Hawk Warren.

So they're back up against the wall and so far I think a Western is kind of winning a field position battle.

Yeah, the penalty penalty really hurt IW there and then you burn a timeout and then you get a penalty.

It's just a couple of bad things happen for them there.

Hopefully the defense comes through here and keep them deep.

First down

in 10 from the nine yard line Black Hawk Warren, the Warriors representing

the six rivers conference.

He always tough.

I always compare it to kind of the old school blue collar conference awaiting the snap from center of the quarterback partner takes it and now pitch coming up in a short side of the field and nowhere to go for Paquen.

He has bumped out of bounds.

He got more than I thought, but we got across the 10 to around the 12 yard line.

Yep.

Game of three on the play.

Dax Paquen junior running back listed at 212 and six foot.

He's a tough one to bring down.

And you think a westerner's kind of bump shoulders with him and escorted him out Second down play coming up for black Hawk Warren went out of bounds so it stops the clock with 222 and whistles sound do we have an equipment problem?

Looks like number 11 Bittlingmeyer.

He's gonna stay in the game.

Yeah Just some equipment issues there don't know what it was for black Hawk Corrected it quickly

All right, here we go second down play for Black Hawk Warren Ball on the near hash mark and the clock will start with the snap of the ball There's the snap hodner hands off running backpaked when comes over the pack He's got a little running room.

He has the first down dragon and plowing a few all the way to the 28 yard line.

That was a good run Tackled by number two Quentus banker

And number 50 is there Braxton foul first down warriors So that was a good blue collar.

Yeah, it's a 16-yard game way

up there Just like he hooked a total to a couple of tacklers and took them with him They're gonna huddle up and get back to the line of scrimmage here under two minutes remaining in a quick moving first quarter

Hey, you definitely don't want him getting up in the open it takes two or three guys get him down

Man to the near side that is Euler awaiting the snap from center now They're going to switch positions kind of go with an offset line that looks like a little bit a couple of guys on the far side awaiting the snap from center is the quarterback They're going to run behind that line

in the low

nice play by Ithaca Weston bringing down number nine Janaki Janaki getting his first carry and several in the defensive Backfield there Rob shell coming in he was one of the first guys there

Van Otto as well.

Loss of one on the play.

Nice play by the defense.

Second down 11.

Clock down to a minute 15 in the quarter.

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That's in the first quarter of football action tonight.

Second round of the WIAA playoffs.

Podner is set man in motion going to the far side.

There's the snap from center handoff and there's the pick win and he gets over the pile and then rolls for a couple of more to the 34 yard line.

Game

of ball five on the play.

Yeah, he's just

Blue collar guy, isn't he?

Yeah.

I think a Western actually gained almost six yards on the play.

Tackle made by Liam Rohn and company Spencer Nelson.

And we're down to 40 seconds, just like that here in the opening quarter.

He's really broad shoulder.

Young man is thick.

Well, right between the hash and now getting set two men wide to the left side, 25 seconds in the quarter, quarterback, partner.

Undercenter and then takes the snap fakes they end up runs it himself can caught in the backfield and drop.

Yep.

Nope quarterback keeper Nowhere to go for him.

Ithaca Weston makes this stop again great defense Liam Rohn leading the way and 77 that was Otto look like a ball loss of three on the play Hayden

Turnes is over there as well.

Final play of the opening quarter and we are scarless.

Fourth down for Black Hawk 1 when we start the second quarter.

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Fourth down for black Hawk Warren coming back out of the timeout filming joined by the legend of 82 mr. Brian elvin and its second quarter action Brian and I were teammates back in the day Steve Fuller was you know pretty good though back.

Yes.

Yep.

He was on my back up.

Did you hear that scene?

Punt is gonna bounce on the near side and Keller gets away from it It rolls 30 and then inside to around the 27 yard line not

about yeah

I think he's going to mark it at the 26.

Unofficial, unofficial stats for the rushing.

IW has 13 yards of rushing, and Blackhawk has 20.

So not a lot, really.

And Caden Keller has

19 yards receiving.

Each team has had a first down here or there.

We played between the 20s for the most part.

Actually, more between the 40s or the 30s, but both teams have played and had a couple of first downs, but nobody's been able to break anything yet.

Yep.

Three negative plays between both teams.

So Ithaca Western starts at its own 26 to open the second quarter.

No score in the ball game here at Ithaca.

Big crowd.

A lot of them wearing Halloween costumes.

You and I didn't, but nobody would notice who we did probably.

You get into Halloween once in a while.

I've seen you dress up from time to time.

Yeah, it happens.

Yep Especially important on the radio Keller under center for first down first and ten There's the handoff Nelson cradles the ball as he plows to the 30 to the 31 Spencer, I like how he just He really double hands that ball.

Yeah, he's getting into I'm really heavy pressure.

Yep.

He gained four yards on the play second on and six So ethical Weston

with the ball right around the 30 yard line.

Their own.

Yeah, he protects ball really well.

You got to.

Oh, that is so key.

They call it the peanut punch going back to Charles Tillman of the Bears who started that whole punch and thing.

Now you see it every single week where teams are punching that ball trying to get it loose.

Second down and six yards and there we go.

Looks like encroachment.

Black Hawk Warren.

Black Hawk Warren.

That's the second time their defense has done that.

Yeah.

Helping out Ithaca Weston.

I guess they're just anticipating and trying

to get in there.

Yeah, so that brings it down to less than a yard.

It's second down and less than a yard.

Coming from the sidelines quarterback Keller into the huddle and Ithaca Weston up to the football just shy of the 35 yard line.

Second down and short yardage.

Everybody in tight.

Jacob Keller now under center.

Long snap count now runs it himself coming out on the boot leg looking to throw throws it near side in traffic in complete Pat it out of bounds that it was number five the intended receiver Liam wrong Kate and Keller in the vicinity Pretty well defended as well.

Yeah, there wasn't much there.

He had two defenders and two receivers all in the same area So the third down and one

middling Meyer back there along with partner on the defensive coverage

Third in the yard, I think, was there a flag on the plate?

No, I guess not.

No, I didn't see one.

The way I think Alesson was backing up, I thought they were kind of going backwards, but they're just going back further to huddle.

And now with a third down and again, less than a yard, we'll try to get serious on this one.

Got to crack the 35 yard line for a first down to keep possession of the football.

There's the snap.

Handoff, Nelson plows

for a couple

of

yards and Scott, the first down.

Spencer stopped by number 77 game in the McCoy.

Yeah game of about three there Phil.

All right First down gets the clock going and if they go Western with a football by the way this game is going I can't see it being a high-scoring game No, not right now, but you never know every time I ever say that then all of a sudden, you know, the final is Some crazy number.

Yeah, the Black Hawk cash in game has surprised me a lot more and you know Yeah, that's a high-scoring game 3632.

I believe you and I both were surprised in that one

And how about when Black Hawk played Iowa Grant this year?

That score was 56-32 Iowa Grant.

That's a lot of points.

First down, and Ithaca Weston takes the snap.

Handoff running play, and Walmart trying to break the corner.

Now we have a flag.

Flag flies right in the backfield.

We have holding against the Bulldogs at IW.

Okay.

That'll

back it off.

Those penalties are you know the five yarders are one thing but the ten yarders Make it a lot tougher and you're gonna be looking at first in 20.

Yep

The way this game is going 20 yards a long way right now.

It's a whole quarter worth of offense exactly

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Yeah, about three on the play, Phil.

It'll be brought down by 66 Aiden Mosley of Black Hawk Warren.

Yeah, they'll be about second and 17.

All right.

So Ithaca Western trying to keep on keeping on here.

As you mentioned, Brian, no, no win to report on this one tonight.

No, would not affect the past.

We haven't seen a lot of passing here tonight.

Certainly Jacob Keller very capable of that.

We'll see what happens Here comes the snap out of the shotgun and he is back to pass and he steps up throws it complete near side and stepping into it as Nelson turns up field yes to the 50 nice

shy of a first down one

Yeah, he got a little extra on his own there ball 11 yards on the play both partner of Black Hawk Warren makes the tackle and the ball is near midfield and third down and short third and three

So they got a lot of it back there.

Yeah, and that was set up.

Well, you know the pocket wasn't too bad and Nelson able to get free And Spencer that

was a very good pass

right on the

money.

Yeah Spencer's not been able to run the ball very much tonight here Well, but maybe they can get him out and get it do some other way get in his hands Keller

Split out wide to the left side, third down and three.

Hand off, there's Nelson and he bolts through for a first down.

He bolted for about three yards.

To the 49 yard line, Ithaca-Weston.

Actually, four yards, Phil.

Following the block there of number 70.

That is Hayden Burns.

West Salem leading Aquinas 21 nothing that is in the second quarter of that one We are scoreless here in Ithaca with 833 remaining in the opening quarter

You know this the line on both sides of the ball fill, you know how tough it is in there and they're both playing extremely well now they are

and You know, I'm guessing that black Hawk Warren has a little bit of a size advantage, but if you go west and holding its own

First and 10 handoff and for a running play right at the 50 they are stacked up maybe a yard gain I

believe it was never

yep number

34 Walmer off the bottom of the pile gained of one on the play

Just across the If it go Weston with 750 remaining now just getting into Black Hawk Warren territory

Some of the stats that Ithaca Weston had pretty impressive this year.

They've had a good year They're coming into the game 24 of 46 in the passing game He has completed a couple of really good ones tonight second down and nine For Ithaca Weston ball at the 49 yard line of Black Hawk Warren.

There's the snap Keller back steps up whips one near side He's got Kate and Keller up in the air and he can't hold it in at the 25 yard line.

Oh, that was a good effort

Pretty well defended by catchpaw number six.

It was.

Yeah, he turned turned in.

I think you'd like to have it back.

Yeah.

Keller was open.

And I think, you know, just the past was just a tad late, you know, getting there

brings up third down and nine yards to go.

But Jacob Keller showing a good arm.

Oh, a beautiful spiral there.

I saw that back in the first game of the season.

Kurt Thompson and I were there at Riverdale, but, um, and that was a really good ball game.

But, uh,

Kate and Caller made a couple of catches in that game that you might see on Saturday during the college game.

One handed and then fully extended.

Ethica Weston with a third down and nine from the 49 of the Warriors.

Back to throw is Jacob.

Gonna whip one again way down the sideline and over the shoulder grab.

Ethica Weston, catch number 14.

It is nearly a touchdown.

It looks like Carter Plemer halts it in and it's inside the five yard line.

What a catch.

What

a throw.

So first and goal that might be the thing that broke it for Ithaca Weston getting that deep pass there Boy, what a throw and what a catch

balls on the four yard line.

That

was a 46 yard pass.

Oh my goodness Yeah, we're kind of looking at an angle.

I couldn't tell I knew he didn't get to the goal line But very very close proximity now and doable Caden Keller splits out wide to the left and again

Van Coulter set to snap the ball Jacob Keller under center handoff running play left tackle not much Nelson look like He is stacked up and brought back down Looks like very little of any game, right?

I don't think so the stick never moved 645 remaining in this opening half of football no score Ithaca Weston trying to change that right here play comes in from the near side, but

I think a Weston has obviously found that the passing game might be the way to go here And we kind of assumed that it might be coming into the game It took a Weston up to the line one man split out wide to the left side And here goes the quarterback trying to break it himself gets the wrong one man spun around He is gonna be stacked up and

back up and lost on the play back

around the six it looks like So nowhere to go loss of two well played well played by the defense

Takes it down to 6 0 5 remaining here in the opening half.

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Blackhawks defensive end on that side.

He stayed home.

He didn't bite.

He made a really good play.

Third down from the six yard line third and goal.

Ithaca Weston.

Trying to punch in six tough yards.

There's the snap out of the shotgun.

Going to throw it near side over shot Spencer Nelson right around the five yard line.

Fourth down.

Well, what do you do here?

I knew they do have a good kicker, but probably not thinking about that right now.

I'm thinking there will probably go for it.

I know it's good field goal opportunity, but it is on the left hash.

Yeah, it's tough.

It's not in the middle of the field.

No,

the pros are a little different on that.

Yeah, I

believe we're gonna take a timeout IW is taking a timeout to think about it

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All right, here we go short time out both teams heading back to the field fourth down and goal from the six yard line of black Hawk Warren Oh, they're going for it.

Absolutely kickers not out there So ball in the far hash mark and Keller will take it from under center.

There's the snap pitch Spencer Nelson trying to break the corner He's gonna throw it on down the goal line picked off by black Hawk Warren right around the three Oh, he had a man in the end zone

open as well

Just under through it low and Black Hawk Warren player was in the right spot the right time Trent Bittlingmeyer

picks it off and a missed opportunity there for Ithaca Weston with 521 remaining here in the quarter.

That was a half-back option pass

So it takes it back for Black Hawk Warren for their third possession.

They'll start at their own six yard line.

Just happy to have the ball back.

Yeah They'll huddle in the end zone and

And IW is glad it didn't get a pick six out of

that.

Yeah, absolutely.

He had a little green grass down the sidelines, but they were able to make the tackle right away.

Awaiting the snap from center.

His partner looks it over.

There's the snap now running himself.

Going to the far side, cutting around the right corner.

A little success there.

Steps one man breaks it for about a 10 yard run and maybe

more.

It looks like it's the first down.

Yep.

Sticks will move.

Ball is marked right around the

16 right around the 15 16 yard line area Who carried that fell that was the quarterback.

Okay, that was partner.

Okay, who runs the ball quite well look like gain of 11 So they'll break huddle and head to the football first in 10 for Black Hawk Warren under five minutes remaining here in the opening half scoreless at Ithaca in WIAA football

There's the snap from center handoff running play that is Paquin getting around the right side bumped out of bounds by Ithaca Weston close to a first out

They're stopping the clock because it went out of bounds, but I think it's just shy

Dax Paquin good running back and again looks like a gain of eight on the play Blue collars his way second down and about two yards to go for black Hawk Warren with the go Western driving all the way to the

four yard line on that big pass play from Keller to Keller.

I W,

I W just don't want to sit on the run and get beat here on a pass.

Right.

And also I should mention the good catch by Carter.

Plemer.

So we've had a couple of really big plays tonight through the air.

Black Hawk Warren trying to reciprocate.

They're going to have a running back.

Paik when he gets the first down.

Yeah.

Game of about three on the play, Phil over the pile there.

Brought down by ethical Western Spencer Nelson Coming up that middle linebacker spot makes the stop first and ten for Black Hawk Warren 430 remaining in the scoreless first half of action here tonight and Black Hawk Warren to the football first in ten Got a man out wide side here on the home side of the field

There's this nap from center quarterback hands off.

There's Paquin.

Look out.

He breaks one.

He's got few yards to the 45 50 45 of Ithaca Weston still going brought down at the 30 30 on a touchdown saving catch tackle there by Caden Keller Big run Yeah, he's he's just kind of a run for pay dirt and waiting to happen about every single time He's got some pretty good.

Yeah, they are yeah when he got in the open field

Takes it down to four minutes He must have stayed in

he doubled.

Yeah, it stayed in balance.

He doubled his output there about 35 yard

gain I got big one 350 remaining in the opening half ball is marked at the 30 yard line of Ithaca Weston now Black Hawk Warriors are running downhill now for the first time awaiting snap from center and the handoff gone for again.

Take one left side.

He gets about five yards to the 25

Tackle maybe five yards, Ithaca Weston man getting up slowly that is number 70 Hayden Burns.

I think Hayden made the tackle and Running back like that can punish you when you tackle him.

That's for sure Second down and five yards to go for black Hawk Warren in Ithaca Western territory 310 remaining in the opening half scoreless here at We're gonna send one man wide to the near side that stuff occur

Odder under center three men in the backfield.

There's the snap from center handoff going to number 12 He's it is going to be on the ground.

I think black Hawk.

We're back.

Yeah, black Hawk Warren

got it.

He he fumbled it and retreated it Brody our goal and that is enough for a first down So the sticks move again inside the 20-yard line a bit to go Weston at around the 17

So that was a trick trick play there.

He hadn't had it all day.

He had not know Everybody expecting it to be Paquin and they go with Argel under center again his partner awaiting the snap from center There is this nap handoff Paquin going off right tackle and hugged by a couple of guys and brought down He did get a couple of yards ahead to around the 15 yard line gain of two on the play Tackle made by Isaiah Fargent

and company and Braxton foul and Spencer Nelson second down play and about eight yards to go for Black Hawk Warren inside the Ithaca Western 20 right around the 15 yard line And they're up they have those close gaps between the linemen feet and three men in the backfield are waiting to snap and the quarterback is going to hand off first man through bowls his way to the right cutting back to around the 11 yard line

Tackled made by several Weston players, including Braxton fowl number 50 third down play

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Third down and three for black Hawk Warren 115 remaining in the opening half awaiting the snap from center.

The line is set There is the snap from oh, he is going to be called for a flag.

I think illegal motion

legal motion now against black Hawk That'll be a five-yard penalty repeat third down

It takes it back Potter the quarterback was trying to signal if you notice that with his foot he was kind of bringing it back and then I think somebody

in the backfield, maybe jumped, flinched or something.

Yeah.

It'll be third down and eight.

Sometimes you can draw your own guy off.

Yeah.

Doing those kind of things.

Third down and nine yards to go now.

Um, it looks like third, nine or around eight, 50 seconds remaining in the half man in motion from the far side.

Partner takes the snap quarterback going to keep it himself trying to get around the end.

And he is stacked up by either go Weston and he is brought down for a loss of a couple.

It looks like they haven't.

move so I don't think no gain on the play

Ben Otto is there and several of his friends Hayden Burns timeout taken by Black Hawk Lauren 32 seconds remaining and we're going to keep it here this is a fourth down isn't it yes fourth down so fourth down and it's interesting both teams kind of in similar situations you drive deep into the others territory and then your face with a fourth down and you got to try to convert here

So we'll see what

the quarterback keep that one that time.

So, um, or is that a

handoff?

That was a handoff.

And I think it was, I think it was partner again.

Okay.

Or not, I'm sorry, not partner.

The, uh, the big guy, Penguin.

Um, so anyway, fourth down and about nine yards to go and play resumes.

And interesting, I talked to them this week, they said they had added a few wrinkles and I wonder if that half back option that was intercepted may have been one of the plays they put in.

Spencer got hit, he was rolling out and got hit by a defender and then he lost his balance and then when he threw it.

He

threw a little

short.

So here we go.

Big play here in the first half, maybe the biggest fourth down or about nine yards to go.

That's at the 16 yard line of it.

Go Weston quarterback.

Podder rolling to the right side.

He's got a little time and then whips it toward the middle.

It's up in the air tipped around.

Who has it?

Touchdown.

Black Hawk Warren.

How did they get that away

from the defenders?

I do not

know.

Joe catchpaw hauls it in.

The Weston was all bottled up inside there somehow.

The receiver got it.

Coach Maxwell looks at the sideline and just throws his hand up.

It's like how did he get that one in there?

That was impressive So a six-nothing lead for black Hawk Warren goes as a 16-yard score and Podner throwing again to catch ball I don't think we've called his name a lot tonight in the right place in the right time They'll go for two with 24 seconds remaining here in the first half So the quarterback

Will take the snap from under center on the two-point conversion man in motion cutting to the left side There's the handoff penguin untouched in for the two-point conversion So eight nothing black Hawk Warren takes the jump 24 seconds remaining in the first half playoff football tonight from WRCO WRCO comm

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Black Hawk Warren scoring drive after taking over at their six yard line.

That was an impressive drive

That one big gainer

They will kick off with 24 seconds remaining in the first half up by a score of eight nothing Here's the ball staying on the ground picked up by Ithaca West and they slip at the 35 and now a little bit of return and Getting it out.

It is going to be lost and on the ground.

I think black Hawk Warren got it back

Well the return man kind of carrying that out there in one hand

and

it got slapped away and Black Hawk Warren takes over on a fumble by Ithaca Weston with 16 seconds in the quarter That ball will be right around the 47 yard line their own and we'll see what they do They got a chance to maybe gamble a little bit I think they

have two timeouts so I saw they can air it out here

They'll break committee and head to the football if they go Weston back in the defensive secondary they've got man coverage on the near side and Looking it over is the quarterback bowl podner Podner under center awaiting a snap.

There it is handoff running play Pequen slips to the backfield and they make sure he stays down No gain and play So that'll take it to eight seconds and I think they're gonna be content with an eight nothing lead here and in this game.

I would be too

Just as I say that they take a timeout with 2.6 seconds remaining So black Hawk Warren go into the sidelines and one possible one more play coming up here from the raised do-it-best center and Rockwell automation Sports desk eight nothing black Hawk Warren.

It's been a good game.

That's for sure.

Yes

Very fast game almost all the games I've covered for Ithaca Western this year have been like that

Very quickly and then, you know, you go to another game that's maybe regular length and it seems like why this game is never going to end.

You know,

I was doing the rough enough playoff game of Platteville at halftime.

You, you were doing the broadcast here and it was, uh, seven minutes going to third quarter.

We just reached halftime.

Okay.

Right.

That's a beautiful place down there at Platteville, isn't it?

Wonderful.

Don't believe it.

Like a college stadium.

They used to play at the college, but now they have their own second down play, second and 10.

Right around the 48 iron Black Hawk Warren, maybe the final play of the first half.

Podner gonna air it out.

He's got a whole bunch of wide receivers heading up field and now he rolls to the near side.

Podner gonna stop and gonna throw it across the field.

He's got a man at the 35.

It's caught and he is brought down at the 36.

Now be halftime.

Brody Argo with the catch.

brought down by Jacob Keller and that will do it.

Eight nothing.

Black Hawk, Warren Leeds, Ithaca-Weston during a well-played first half.

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Tomorrow is the annual Cross Country Meet.

Lots of teams represented in the area, including Richland Center Ithaca.

Here is head coach Eric Mindum.

Margaret Lawless and Owen Dreyer make it to state and Eric, how are they looking in practice?

I think they look really strong.

Margaret's kind of been dealing with some foot stuff on and off throughout the year, but she's been handling that really well.

Owen seems to be really strong and I think we're going to get there Saturday and expecting them to run really well.

You don't have a team there this year, but you'll have a team of people backing them, won't you?

We will.

We will have a community of support.

Their teammates will be there cheering them on, the coaches.

And yeah, we wish we had a team there, but we know they're going to represent us well.

How do their times look for what you've seen with the other athletes coming in from around the state, Eric?

Yeah, they stack up really well.

Owen's right in that top 10 mix, and that's what it's going to take to get a medal.

So we're hoping he can kind of follow through on that, maybe even pick off a few people in front of them.

Uh, Margaret's, you know, maybe low twenties based on season best times, but the way she's been running in October, uh, we wouldn't put that out of the question that she could finish in that top 10 too.

So I like both of their chances to have really good races up there.

Oh, and of course that state last year, I think he

learned a lot

from

that.

I think you're optimistic he can finish strong this year.

I think so.

I think we managed the workload a little bit better this year.

He's running smarter.

He was able to pick his moments.

When does it matter?

When can we kind of save a little bit maybe for the next race?

So I think it's going to be a completely different outcome this year.

And to his credit, he gave everything he had last year.

And we know it's going to be the same thing this year, but a better outcome.

Eric

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Travis Wilson from bound, Wisconsin is our guest Travis weekend number two of high school football and it looks like some great games coming up this week.

What do you think about some of the top games in the area?

Well, in the area, um, let's see, I mean, Darlington, you know, down in the, the swall, uh, they'll take on Winnebago Lutheran, Winnebago Lutheran is a solid team out of the flyway, but you know, the way Darlington has been playing, I just don't see a ton of, um, potential there for, for an upset.

Um, in terms of our SWC teams didn't, didn't fare too well, unfortunately for the, uh, for the SWC.

So not, uh, not a lot going on there.

Um, you know, really the, the only game locally, and, and I was looking at this the other day because our Reedsburg game is on Saturday.

So I was like, Oh, I'll go to a game on Friday night and there's one game within an hour of Reedsburg and that's the Ithaca game.

So obviously that's going to be a big one.

It's going to be a tough one, um, for, uh, for Ithaca Weston.

welcoming in Black Hawk Warren, a team that, you know, has been one of the better teams in Division 7 for, you know, better part of a decade or more.

They're not a normal five seed.

Obviously they went on the road and be cashed in level one.

So I think that's got a chance to be a really, really good game.

It's a really tough one for Ithaca Weston.

You know, as a one seed undefeated, that's not necessarily the kind of five seed that you want to see.

No doubt about it.

Um, actually looking at the cashed in game last week, it sounded like cashed and kind of gifted them some points and things like that.

So, uh, I guess maybe there's a little bit of hope for Ithaca West in there that because they beat cashed in and cashed in, maybe could've or should've won that game

Travis.

Yeah.

And it's not like, um, you know, Black Hawk has been a powerhouse this year.

I mean, there are five seed for a reason.

Uh, they've got some, you know, got some losses on the schedule this year.

They've got four losses during the regular season, which is

not what we have come to expect.

But, you know, they lost a close one in a crossover, excuse me, in a conference game to the Toasty Castle.

They lost a close one to River Ridge.

They lost to Iowa Grant.

And then they lost to Stockton, Illinois, who's, I believe, a defending champion or defending runner-up in Illinois, way back in the early part of the non-conference schedule.

So they played certainly a tough schedule.

They haven't been able to get past some of those better teams on the schedule until last week against Cashton.

potential is there, but they've also struggled a little bit this year, obviously.

And Iowa Grant, you mentioned them as well.

I mean, this is a really tough half-sectional, isn't it?

It is.

You've got, again, if it is the top seed, you've got Iowa Grant as the two seed, and then a team I really like, Peppin' Alma as the three seed.

They've only got one loss this year, and that's to Cochrane Fountain City, who we talked about a couple times.

Peppin' Alma has been deep into the playoffs quite often, and then Cashton, a really good team.

Uh, that went out level one, Black Hawk Warren, who's advanced in Bangor was a six seed.

So absolutely.

That was a really strong group in division seven, probably the, the deepest, um, in, in best grouping of any of the, uh, the four brackets and D seven.

Another six rivers team River Ridge still alive and something about that six rivers.

I don't know if they still have a lot of farm kids in that area, but it seems like the six rivers is pretty consistently tough, isn't it?

It is.

And.

They get, River Ridge gets Spring Valley this week, who's a really good team.

Two losses on the year.

They finished second in the Dunn-St.

Corey Conference.

Another team that's got quite a bit of pole season experience.

They haven't quite been able to get over the hump to a state championship team for a while now, but they're pretty consistently into level two, level three.

And so it's going to be a tough match up for River Ridge, who a few weeks ago, anyway, announced that they will be

Excuse me, moving to a player when the next cycle of realignment moves around.

So, uh, definitely some changes coming from River Ridge, but for this week, they've certainly got a chance to continue on.

Um, should be a good one there.

How about another team from that area?

Potosi Castfield still alive in division five, but they've got a tough one against Mandovi, don't they?

Yeah, they do.

Um, Mandovi is, uh, my pick to win state in division six.

And of course, Potosi Castle is elevated from Division 7 to Division 6 because of the success factor.

So a good win over Mineral Point, though.

I mean, man, that was one of the best games in the first week of the playoffs.

26-24 on the road at a Mineral Point team that is really, really good.

Comes out of the swall, obviously.

But it's going to be a tough test for Potosi Castle.

They've got a deep team.

They've got a really good team.

Mandovi has kind of been at a different level for much of the year.

They do have one loss this year.

So, I mean, they're absolutely gettable, but that's a really strong team that has been together for a while.

Their core group is just a bunch of juniors for the most part.

Their quarterback, Bodhi Faulkner, is a three-year starter as a junior already.

They've got a really good group of juniors that, again, have been together for a while.

That's, uh, that's going to be a tough one for Potosi gas.

Well,

good, but city's still alive in the bottom part of that bracket against Kenosha, St.

Joseph.

They have a chance this week.

Um, yeah, I think, you know, Kenosha, St.

Joseph is the champion in, excuse me, the defending champions in division seven and they also, um, were elevated to division six this year.

They lost a lot from last year.

Uh, and they really rely heavily on Christopher Tennessee, uh, who's a really dynamic athlete.

We saw him.

in the state championship team last year.

And, you know, he plays kind of all over for him.

He plays a quarterback.

He runs the ball a lot.

Again, a really dynamic athlete that they rely on heavily.

Really good defensive player as well.

So it's not totally a one man show, but if Cuba City can find a way to keep him in check, obviously that's going to be a huge part of what they're going to want to do.

Darlington still alive in division five.

Will they get a challenge from Winnebago Lutheran?

I wouldn't think so.

Um, Winnebago Lutheran plays solid competition in the flyway.

You know, they're playing the Myra in Mayville and St.

Mary Springs.

Um, but Darlington, I just think is at a different level than most everyone else.

Um, you know, you might look at that, uh, level one score against dodgeville and kind of wonder a little bit.

It was 35 to 14.

I would have thought that it would have been a little more lopsided, but

It was 35 nothing at halftime.

So it was a running clock to start the second half running clock, um, you know, the entire second half and dodge will score two fourth quarter touchdowns.

I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing darling or Donaldson had, you know, some of their, their backups in, um, and you know, could have been a lot worse, obviously, but, uh, I, I don't expect Darlington to have too much trouble in this one.

Evansville a team that knocked off Platteville, uh, live in division four and Lake Mills, uh, their number one seed I see in division four.

Yeah, Lake Mills has a lot of explosiveness, especially in their passing game.

Tyler Waleen recently broke the all-time passing record for career in the state of Wisconsin, went over 100, and they've got a lot of good weapons on the perimeter.

So they're going to present a lot of challenges to Evansville.

Evansville is a big physical team, but Lake Mills, I think, is in a good spot to move on.

And how about your Reedsburg team playing on Saturday?

What do you know about your opponent?

Yeah, we're the only excuse me.

I think there's one other Saturday game among the eight player games, but Yeah, one of the few games moved to Saturday Not ideal not what we would prefer you know high school football coaches especially our Creatures of habit would much rather stay on a normal schedule for our the entire week of practice for a Friday night game

So we'll just have to make sure that the guys stay locked in and ready to go.

But New Berlin Eisenhower is a team that has some common opponents with us this year.

We beat New Berlin West way back in week one and New Berlin West beat Eisenhower later in the season.

So they do a lot of things offensively that can cause some problems.

They do a lot of shifting and motioning before the snap and try to get out of position.

But if we take care of business and stay locked in, I think we'll be fine.

Why was the game moved to Saturday?

Well, in any level of the playoffs, if the travel distance between the two teams one way is more than 120 miles, the default actually is a Saturday game.

And then if both schools agree, then the game can be played on Friday.

And in every other instance, in almost every instance the last six, eight, 10 years, everybody wants to play on Friday.

It's just the normal routine.

It's the normal schedule.

You know, there's no school the next day, so you don't have to worry about getting too far or being too far away.

I mean, even in level one, there was teams that had three, four, five hour trips and still played on Friday.

Why New Berlin Eisenhower wanted to play on Saturday did not want to play on Friday.

I'm not 100% sure.

It's 128 miles from New Berlin to Reedsburg.

So just at that threshold where if both teams did not agree, it's on Friday on Saturday.

And so that's what we're going to go for.

Interesting.

Well, uh, some of the middle school basketball teams are already underway.

It won't be long.

The high school teams will be following and teams are out of the playoffs.

I'm sure they're already open gymming for winter sports right now, Travis.

Oh, there's open gyms already regardless of whether you're in the playoffs or not.

Um, that pretty much every school I'm aware of, uh, people are starting to get ready for that, that winter sports season.

As you said, middle school gets going a little bit earlier even.

So we're going to be into, uh, into those winter sports before we know it.

And he changes anything new down from the WIA these days.

Well, the big one this year for basketball is that you can play with a shot clock in non-conference games if it's available and if both teams agree to play with it.

Richland Center, I believe, just are looking at to maybe they approved even installing shot clocks in Richland Center.

And so there could be some non-conference games in Richland Center this year.

played with the shot clock.

We'll see some around the state.

We'll see some at a few high schools that have those.

We'll see some in winter and holiday tournaments as well that are played at neutral sites or at college facilities that have a shot clock.

So a limited implementation of the shot clock for this year.

And then next spring at the annual meeting in April, the WIA member schools will vote on a full implementation

a requirement for all games to be played with a shot clock.

So a little bit of a trickle for this year and then we'll see what happens.

And in terms of the WIA leadership guy that you and I worked with for years, Todd Clark will be retiring early next year.

Yeah, Todd Clark is moving on, a long time communications director for the WIAA.

Jim Strick is stepping in and taking over that role.

I've had a chance to know and work with Jim for a long time.

He was at Nina High School and I worked with the Fox Valley Association and their

communication for all and will do an outstanding job.

He was a PA announcer at a number of state tournament events over the years.

So Jim, very familiar to a lot of the people in the media world.

Sounds good.

Travis, thanks for your expertise.

Good luck this week to your team on Saturday, and we'll talk to you again during the third week of the playoffs next week.

Sounds good.

Thanks, Phil.

Travis Wilson of Bound, Wisconsin here on WRCO

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This is Tim Thied for WRCOSports with update on the score right now.

And currently right now at the halftime, it's Ithaca, Weston, trailing Blackhawk Warren, eight to nothing.

Also Iowa Grants, leading Peppin' Elba, 24 to nothing.

Also in Division 7, River Ridge is leading Spring Valley, seven to nothing.

In Division 6, it is Mondovi, leading Potosi-Cassville at the halftime, 22 to 13.

Also at the halftime, Bondiwell is leading Belleville, 21 to 14.

In Division 5, Darlington's leading Winnebago Lutheran, 28-0.

New Glarus over Chilton, 35-0.

Also in Division 4, it's West Salem leading Aquinas, 28-21.

And also in Division 3, Lacrosse Logan leads Montfort Barnabeld.

And in 8-player football, Belmont leads Oakfield, 36-0.

We'll send it back to Phil and Brian right after this.

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It is 8-0 in favor of Black Hawk Warren at halftime.

Their only score coming on a pass play that wound up going inside of about three different defenders somehow got through it.

Might have even hit a couple of hands and caught by Joe Ketchbaw for the touchdown.

Got to give him credit for threading it through there.

It looked like a Rogers Rogers

pass play.

Almost.

Yeah, down in the end zone area.

Brian Elvin is with me.

Brian, you were crunching some numbers for the first half.

Could you share those with us?

Well, Spencer Nelson leads Ithaca rushing wise, 10 carries for 27 yards.

And Dax Pequen, he has 13 carries for 80 yards, passing King Keller's two catches for 19.

Joe Ketch Paul has two catches for 29 yards.

Certainly that big play for Pequen.

He's had some runs, but he had one that was pretty significant.

Yeah, 35 yard.

So Ithaca-Weston will kick off to start the second half trailing eight nothing here in the ball game.

And they had a couple of big plays.

The good catch by Plemer that took it down and eventually to the four yard line, but they couldn't punch it in.

Here we go.

There's the kickoff for the second half caught on the run around the 27 yard line by one He's going to the left side trying to break the corner a little running room and now we're a bear hug right around the 44 yard line and brought down So trainer with the return and treat Trent did like linear the catch or the tackle by Carter pleamer That is where black Hawk will take over pretty good field position to start

Yep, row 44 44 yard line.

So partner the quarterback joined in the backfield again by Hyman and Paquin and they're up to the football if it a Western digging in along the line and the whistles sound and official timeout Got an injured player.

It looks like there wasn't even a play other than specialty.

He

must got hurt on the kickoff Trent middling mire

comes out

Didn't

you say he

was he was on

that return.

Yeah, okay I'm guessing we're gonna see a heavy dose of number 37

I'm thinking

so

and then time out as Lindsay Tollexen from sports medicine is Ushered to the other side of the field before play can resume she'll go check on the young man that was a little bit lame going to the outside All right Lion is set and partner set to go from under center

There's the snap fake handoff.

He's gonna

hand off the car.

There's the counter and they've got a little running room and maybe more down the sideline Take when running away from everybody.

He's stiff arms another Keller rushes him out of bounds around the five yard line Wow, I'll be the go Westin Wow He just when he got through and again, he's got some downhill speed stiff armed one guy and had a big big run

And now sets it up nicely for Black Hawk Warren on their first possession of the second half

Yeah, got caught on a trap and a counter there

like Elvis Presley suspicious minds caught in a trap First to go on the nine first and goal.

Yep, and Black Hawk Warren huddling it up here on the near hash mark They will head to the football one man to the near side.

That's catch ball Under center is bullpodner the quarterback

There's this nap from center handoff again Paquin pushing his way Rumblin and Rumblin down to the goal line and he's got a score Paquin taking over here on two plays to start the second half your touchdown run So Dax Paquin they were able to contain him pretty well in the first half but all of a sudden man, he's rolling and Rumblin So a four-yard TD

And the extra point try coming up already 14 to nothing in favor of Black Hawk Warren here in the third quarter They score less than a minute into the quarter and now we'll go for the two-point conversion as they did last time and they went with Pequen on the run Awaiting a snap from center his partner and he's gonna try to keep her yeah, and he's down around the goal line Did he get in no signal yet?

He did he did got in for two points

So that'll do it for that drive and it's a 16-nothing lead for Black Hawk Warren.

Oh, Podner crashes across.

So a 16-nothing lead will go to break and come back with more in a moment.

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All right, and that's set it up for his own touchdown Here goes the kick and that's gonna be a line drive caught around the 39 yard line and Ithaca Western will get a return nice return 50 to the 47 yard line of Black Hawk Warren Not a long return because it was a short kick.

Yeah

Spencer Nelson returns it.

He gets up a little bit late That's where Ithaca Western will take over for its first possession of the second half 48 yard line

Boy, that was there and no idea.

So many teams.

Brian will try to, you know, do some fancy things with, with kicking, you know, or just purposely kick it out of bounds and whatnot.

Um, and that time, I don't know if they were intending to or not, but Nelson made the catch and made a little something happen there.

First intense shotgun snap.

Keller throws near site.

Caden Keller catches.

He's into black walk, war on Torritory, a little bit deeper out of bounds around the 37 yard line.

She looks like I bought a gain of 10 on the play.

I believe it's really close.

They're going to officially they're going to look at it.

They're singling first down.

Yeah,

they are.

That's a nice start for Ithaca Weston.

So first in 10 for Ithaca Weston trailing 16 nothing here in the football game.

Blake comes in from the near side.

Yeah, I believe IW is going to have to use her team speed there now to

Well get get some plays going here.

We figure that's where that's where they would be strong tonight Maybe have an edge.

There's a snapshot gun Jacob Keller back to throw moves to the right side.

He's gonna arrow it out Caden Keller up in there It's tipped around and then caught and an interception and we have a flag.

We have a flag

Caden Keller almost came down with it celebrating with the catches hymen It's gonna be pass interference way.

It looks against Black Hawk

So that is a good call for Ithaca Weston anyway, and the officials will talk about it But Jacob Keller just threw it confidently down past

pass interference It's not like the pros we'd get get it down there at the fire guard line Yeah, that'd be better.

Yeah, but it will be a first down.

Yeah, it will be a first down It's from the line of scrimmage

Officials are

sorting that out right now.

So it should be on a 38 yard line and.

From the spot of the foul from the

spot.

Well, it's a 15 yard penalty in high school.

So from the 38 down to around the 2028.

Well, yeah, it's it should be a 15 yard pound to the 23.

They kept going.

They're right.

You're right.

23 yard line first and 10 for Ithaca Weston.

There's a snap Jacob Keller hands off Spencer Nelson cut around the left side spinning his way moving and grooving and he's got a first down Spencer running hard nice run to around the 10 yard line Tackle me on

a 13 yard gain on the play so

Jonathan Heller pulls him down sticks move on again And he did get just inside the 10 yard line first and goal

10-53 remaining in the third quarter ethical Weston trying to respond to that opening score of the half by Black Hawk Warren Spencer Nelson goes wide to the right side Also, Liam Rowan wide to the left side.

There's the snap of the hands and here is Jacob Keller rolling rolling throwing He's got a man.

It's caught like Kate and Keller for touchdown.

Oh nice job by both Kellers

Caden worked himself wide open, Jacob ran to the far side and throw it and Ithaca Weston is on the board.

Boy, nice plays.

And a good response by Ithaca Weston.

They needed that.

They did.

And you know, they just didn't seem like they had a lot of energy coming out of the half.

And now they've got the touchdown.

The fans are kind of back into it a little bit.

Yep.

They got punched in the mouth and they responded while going for two.

All right.

There's the snap from center and Keller hands off fumble the ball is going to be On the ground Ithaca Weston it's still alive and down around the goal line.

They're close.

No, it's picked up by Walmer And they didn't get in didn't get in no almost created something special there Keller to Keller and a score that makes it a 10 point game 16 6 10 30 remaining in the third quarter high school playoff football from WRCO sports

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So that's where Black Hawk will take over.

But an important score for Ithaca-Weston.

They kind of feel like maybe they're back into it a little bit now.

Even though there's still 10 points down.

I'm sure it's going to be a grinding game for Black Hawk going to keep it on the ground, run some time.

And I'm guessing Mr.

Paikwin will get a few more calls in this one.

First in 10.

In the round the 36 of Black Hawk war in their home 12 ball goes to the left side and going for a couple of yards Leaning in nothing for our goal good coverage by the Ithaca Western defense.

That was Walmart on the tackle gain of two So they will mark that there all around the 39 yard line Black Hawk war and 10 point lead here again They don't have to do anything fancy do what they do and keep it on the ground.

I'm sure

she

mentioned

If they keep it on the ground and then they get it's gonna bite and then send somebody deep

Catch ball off to the nearest side everybody else in tight for black walk war on it to go Weston defense digging in there's the snap handoff running play and up the gut to around the 44 yard line Gain of about four or five.

Yep Wapshell on the talk tackle for if it go Weston a lot of these guys go both ways

Reed Wabshult, six three junior for Ithaca Weston.

Third down at about four yards to go from the 43 yard line.

Did you go to the brewer parade today, Brian?

No, would have been fun though.

Yeah, what a ball to the.

Bar side and ready to go from the far hash mark third down and four yards to go for black Hawk Warren There's the snap fake handoff quarterback goes in that counter and here is pick one and bumps his way keeps going like a freight train first down into around the 44 Down to the 40 yard line when all is said and I have a teen yard gain on the play boy.

He just Punishes when he runs and the sticks will move on

You can see why he's run for over 1300 yards this year

unofficially.

I have him down for 150 yards Oh, it's you.

It's got to be official, right?

Close anyway close First in 10 for Black Hawk Warren 840 remaining in the third quarter 16 6 their advantage here over hosting Ithaca Weston Number one seed Ithaca Weston getting home games in these playoffs

One man wide to the nearest side.

That's catch spot normal spot for him if they go Weston in tight showing blitz Here goes the quarterback and he is brought down right around the line of scrimmage for no game Wow Well played by number five that is Liam Rowan It's almost like Liam knew the play or something makes a nice tackle second and ten for Black Hawk Warren

River Ridge leading spring valley.

That is 14 nothing.

That is in the third quarter of action tonight.

We'll get some more scores.

Iowa grant 30 to nothing over pep and Alma at halftime.

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, that's maybe a little more lopsided than we thought.

Second down play awaiting a snap there it is.

It's

fumbled and picked up by

Ithaca Weston number 70

did they get it back?

They did what happened?

Ball got popped up in the air and number 70 Hayden Burns got a chance for some lineman glory right there All right, that's a break IW needed Hayden Burns Fumble recovery and just like that Ithaca Weston with the football right around the 49 yard line their own

as they will take over there.

16-6, Black Hawk Warren, 7-37 remaining in the third quarter.

Here at Good Old Eye Tech, Ithaca Weston trying to get back.

Now waiting to snap is Keller, throws it behind the line of scrimmage, caught by Caden Keller, upfield to the 50.

Into Black Hawk Warren territory, he's going to step out of

bounds.

Right around the 46.

And then we got a

flag.

Somebody hit him late from Black Hawk Warren.

Yep, there's going to be a personal fall against Black Hawk.

So the ball will keep on keeping on here for black Hawk Warren on the late hit

be a six yard pass play

good catch there on the far side and Ithaca Weston gonna move those chains again So they've got the one

personal fall against black Hawk

Ithaca Weston with the women go their way and here goes the step

off now be a 15-yard penalty

Takes it down to around the 30 yard line of black Hawk Warren

After the play is assessed so Ithaca Weston huddling way back around the 50 they got a sprint to the football and get up there The chain gang's got to catch up to

yep.

They're going going no huddle

Under center is Jacob Keller.

There's the snap from Van Kolder handoff to Spencer Nelson flag flies.

He's got about a two-yard gain We

have

a flag out hold that isn't good Coming back ten yards for Ithaca Weston

Other scores, Bondoel 28-14 over Belleville tonight.

Lacrosse Logan leading Monterey Barnabelle 21-6 in second round playoff action.

So there was a gain of one on the play, but with the penalty, where the flag happened, it brings it back 10 yards.

So it's at the 41 of Black Hawk Warren, Ithaca Weston with a first down.

Burston 20, playoff.

Football coming your way tonight will play off volleyball tomorrow River Valley at Marshall taking on Cambridge four o'clock start time for that sectional final the winner goes to state in volleyball There's this nap to Jacob Keller throws Caden catches behind the line of scrimmage follows a block and he gets to another five yards or so down around the 35 Gain of about six on the play brought down by number fifth

59 Jonathan Heller So they got a little of the back right.

Yep Second down and 15

If they go west and chipping away here and trying to keep it going downhill Against Black Hawk Warren 634 remaining.

We've got Lindsay Tolickson coming back across

stop each into play letting a trainer get back crossed

Third quarter action 10-point game here

Led by the visiting Warriors Line is set.

There's the snap fake pitch Keller gonna roll with the boot leg on the far side slips now throws He's got a man Caden Keller.

It's under thrown right around the 20.

Yeah, Jacob slipped a little

bit slipped and then he had to regain his footing and didn't have quite enough Oomph on it to get to Caden Keller

Third down and 15 for Ithaca Weston the ball boys getting some good action and

Keeping that ball dry

tonight.

The grass is definitely wet and you know, you lose your footing like that.

It's easy to do.

Third down play, Ithaca Weston up ball at the 35 of Black Hawk Warren and now they're up to the line.

One man to the near side.

That's Rowan back to throw his Keller steps up in the pocket He's gonna whip one on the far side wide open man.

Kate and Keller.

He's gonna walk into the zone Touchdown if the galastin five yards what a nice throw by Jacob Kate and Keller could not have been more wide open The only thing I worried about was maybe he was open way too long He had time to think about it.

Yep.

All of a sudden it is 16 to 12 The Keller to Keller combination strikes again

That was a crazy play

35 yard TD and now the extra point try coming up if they go Weston will try to get within two points This score comes with 602 remaining in the third Jacob Keller waiting the step takes it hands off.

They're gonna go with an option Here's Caden Keller throwing down toward the goal line.

It is gonna be incomplete incomplete

Kayden Keller throwing toward Nelson and it goes in complete and that will end it for this drive But a nice touchdown for Ithaca West and they've got two in this half 1612 Black Hawk war and we have ourselves a football game we do here on WRC or radio sports

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number five cadence

So that's where they will start and now with a 16-12 lead the ball back in their hands so each team with a couple of scores here and pretty quick succession By 55 remaining in the third we talked about it being a defensive slugfest and then

All of a sudden we're seeing offense, right?

Yep.

First and 10 at the 36 for Black Hawk.

Their own 36 up to the football and ready to go.

The Warriors are there.

Bulldogs digging in 1612 in favor of the visitors.

Black Hawk Warren handoff.

There's Paquin dragging a couple of guys and going for about seven or eight yards and brought

down.

He ain't about nine, Phil.

That guy just is unbelievable.

Man, he's like a plow horse.

You know, I mean, he's got guys behind him.

He's just dragging them along and now we're going to have an injury.

I think is that Pequen?

He's somebody down on the play.

It's him and probably

I'm guessing a cramp in this situation.

Either he had so many guys trying to tackle it could be a leg injury.

So they've got Lindsay Tolickson out to check on him.

Dax, Pequen.

the big running back for

looks like an ankle possibly.

So the injury time is in 540 remaining in the third quarter, 16 to 12 in favor of Ithaca Weston over in favor of Black Hawk Warren over Ithaca Weston and the ball marked just about a yard short after that amazing run by Paquin.

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We'll also name the Duncan rewards turning point of the game.

I don't think we've seen the turning point of this one yet.

No, I haven't.

So we got this time out here for the century.

Did you stay up and watch the brewers all late?

Um,

truth of the 12 anyone.

No, I did not.

Now, Paquin is up.

He's going to walk off under his own power.

The World Series winner game though.

I went to bed for a little while and June woke me up and said, you better watch this.

So I got to see the end of the post game show.

He's going off pretty gingerly.

Yeah, he is.

And this is a big loss.

If he's unable to return to this point, it doesn't look real good for you.

No, it doesn't.

So Paquin walked off by the coaches and really slow.

Take when the leading rusher tonight including that nine yard run So the ball is marked just across the 45 yard line the Warriors own

Yeah, I have them down for 159 yards Wow game that just on the ground or is that just

on the ground?

No, no passes.

No All right second down in short yardage Podner under center line is set man in motion now and

Here's the snap handoff left side.

They're going to get a first down across to around the midfield line

game of about five yards on the play

Tackle made by Ithaca Weston's number 70 Hayden Burns and company and the sticks will move on First in 10 Black Hawk Warren leading by four points in this game A lot of games tonight are not close.

We may have we may have one of the better ones in the area, right?

Yeah, it looks like it's

River Ridge leading 14-nothing over Spring Valley.

That's fairly close.

First and 10 ball around the midfield stripe.

Lyon is set.

And here's the snap to Podner.

Running playoff left tackle.

They are going to be stopped.

Maybe got ahead for a yard.

And into Ithaca-Weston territory of 49.

Carried by Bo Janicki.

Bo Janicki, oh.

Gain of one on the play.

Checking down nine.

Looks like Burns and Nelson on the tackle for Ithaca-Weston.

440 remaining in the third quarter, 16-12, Black Hawk, Warren leading.

Weekend number three of playoff football next week.

You have to win four levels to get to Camp Randall in case you're wondering.

Second down play, second down right around the midfield line.

There's the snap, partner hands up, left play.

They're going to go for a yard again to around the 48 yard line.

No gain on the play.

Odie Argel is going to be brought down.

I'll give him a yard or two.

Did they give him a yard?

Yeah.

It looks like.

Okay.

Third down and eight, we'll call it, but a very stingy, ethical, yes.

They gave him a yard and Black Hawk Warren likes to run obviously off left tackle.

They've been kind of concentrating on that right now.

That's when they set you up for that counter coming back the other way.

And

they

did that with Pequen several times

tonight.

Left, left, left.

And all of a sudden here comes

So we'll see what they do on third down without him in there Third down and about eight yards to go ball just across the midfield stripe.

The line is set for black Hawk Warren Long snap count there it is quarterback straight back in the pocket They're gonna push him back to the right side nowhere to go now.

He's gonna throw it in desperation It's gonna be intercepted by either go Weston down to the knees number 54 great crap there by Isaiah Farjan.

How about it?

Isaiah Fargent hauls it in and Ithaka Weston has the football back and Brian the

momentum has swung their way.

Yes it has.

Now the idea of he just needs to stay focused here and have a nice drive and and take the lead.

Third possession

of the half so Hayden Burns fumble recovery and Isaiah Fargent interception and Ithaka Weston back in business.

Ball marked at their own 33.

There's the handoff.

Spencer Nelson cutting left side.

Now counters his way, pushes his way to around the 35.

Brought down.

Gained him about four.

A

little

more net.

Gained about

six way it looks.

They're gonna mark it.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

Just got across the 40 to the 41.

Although the stick doesn't groove with where the ball is, does it?

We're

kind of looking at an angle.

Yeah,

this this angle is kind of tough for us to see or for me to see Second and four.

Yep.

You're right ball on the near hash mark to 49 remaining in the third quarter Black Hawk Warren leading 16 to 12 in high school football playoff action shot.

Oh, yeah,

you've got a flag.

We have a

false start against IW

So it'll take it back five yards and Ithaca Weston will be in the huddle

And we'll see if they keep the same play.

Yeah.

It repeats second down.

So it'll be second down and nine

penalty is laid down.

Good crew tonight, officiating this one.

They've been a lot of games.

Used to interview Vernon Danes all the time when he was head basketball coach of Roku.

Second down play, second and nine, 228 remaining in the third quarter.

Ithaca Weston trailing by four waiting to snap there It is Jacob Keller running on the quarterback on the option on the far side and brought down behind the line to spin Good read It was four on the play black Hawk Warren's bow Janaki and company making the nice play coming up and Caden Stoffecker as well number five and it's third down and 11 for Ithaca Weston Trying to take advantage of that interception.

Yep.

They got a

Just settle down and get a first down here.

Hopefully

my guess is the play will be a pass.

My guess they'll be looking to Caden Keller.

That's been successful tonight, right?

Well, I'm kind of surprised.

I figured Jacob would be able to get around the outside, but their defensive ends are doing a tremendous job for Black Hawk.

Also back into the game is number 14, Carter Plamer.

He had a big catch earlier.

Third down on 11 back to throw.

They're going to get it.

Caden Keller catches behind the line of scrimmage, trying to do it to it in the near side.

Sipfarm's one won't get around the other and not much of a gain, if any, on that one.

No gain.

Well, loss on the play.

Bojaniki on the tackle.

Fourth down and 13.

Loss of two on the play.

Wow.

So nothing going for Ithaca West on this drive and they're going to have to punt it away.

Clock running with just over a minute remaining in the third quarter 16-12.

Yep,

penalty hurt there.

Yeah, it really did snap from center caught and now here's a line driver by Caden Keller Gonna be picked up on the road block off They've got a return to the 50 and then hit and stacked up what a tackle there by Liam Rowan

Number five on return

Nice play by Liam Rowan and

The run by Stoffecker Stoffecker stopped right there at the 50 So back it goes to Black Hawk

one 40 their own 49 yard line

Third possession of the half 16 to 12 they leave 48 seconds remaining in the third quarter High school football playoff action coming your way tonight.

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Belmont leading Oakfield, 42 to nothing in that game.

That's what I mean.

A lot of games are a little bit lopsided and out of control.

Not this one.

First down, handoff or a lot of play.

Not much.

We're going to get across the 50, maybe to the 49.

Maybe a three yard gain on the play.

A little extra effort therapy.

Number nine.

Bo Janicki on the run.

Good sportsmanship.

I think Oueston helping everybody

out.

Two yards on the play.

Down to 28 seconds remaining here in the third quarter 16 to 12 in favor of Black Hawk Warren I'd be surprised if they

run a play here, but

looks like they're gonna.

Yeah, I think they are two men wide to the near side for the Warriors Under center they do But under center most of the time there's the snap of nine seconds for

her

left side He's got a first down and then pushed out of bounds right around the 35 yard line of it to go Western

So a good run.

Oh,

I think we got a flag too.

We did at the end.

One second left in the quarter.

And that might be against it to go Weston.

Probably a personal foul.

Maybe a late hit on bounds.

Been on the far side.

It couldn't tell face mask.

Yeah.

Oh, a five yard face mask.

Oh, that could have been worse.

Right.

So that's added on to the

end of the run down to the 30 then.

So they're marking it there and it looks like they will get one more playoff in the third quarter.

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Fourth quarter getting set to get underway here at the finally confines of Ithaca Ithaca Weston doing battle here tonight And it's time for us to get into the fourth quarter exciting time of the game down the stretch for Point lead for black Hawk Warren snap from center They almost fumbled at the quarterback has wrapped up and dropped for a big loss

loss of five on the play I

think I went dead Ben Otto with the play Ben Otto on the far side makes the play

And you can't hear me Brian.

Can I hear you?

Do I have a line?

Do I have a line?

They're gonna be second down at about 14 yards to go for a first down.

So Black Hawk Warren going back the other way.

And they're running off another big lineman who might have been shaken up by the play Wyatt Hill.

They're back in the huddle right now.

Again, a big loss is Dax Paquin who went out of the game with injury just a little bit ago.

I think I'm life.

Yeah, you're on So hustling to the line they've got the count going by the back line judge So black Hawk Warren has to hustle to get this one off Awaiting the snap there it is hand up.

Nope quarterbacks gonna run it himself throws out in the far flat caught by the receiver Turns down field and he's got it to the 20-yard line of Ithaca Weston look like about a 10-yard gain on the play you're right caught by Bidlingmeyer number 11 on the play

So that will bring up a third down and short from that mistaken or about three I Got a little bit of it back there They haven't been real prolific passing all year, but they pass when they need to and that worked trying to keep the drive alive

16-12 they lead 10 and a half to play in the football game Black Hawk Warren with the ball third down There is this snap quarterback rolling to the right side and shifting and he's brought down what a play by the defense good play that was Mr. Walmer back there to make the stop

fourth down big huge play gloss of

one on the play Landon Walmer back to make the hit fourth down and four for Black Hawk Warren nice play by the defense Open field tackle Bob Duel leading

Belleville 34 14 in the fourth quarter Mondo be also up on pitose Casville 29 13 that's in the third quarter We're in the fourth 16 12 black Hawk Warren.

This is one of the plays of the game is

it is it?

You know you want to stop the run, but you know stay home defensive ends and you know you got to make the play here

So here we go awaiting a snap from center

Here's the quarterback fourth and four.

There's the snap fake handoff pick ones back in there.

He's got the ball and he's brought down the line of scrimmage

Loss of three on the plane the Bulldogs have

the ball.

Oh my god.

Yeah, nice stop number 70 Hayden burns making the tackle.

All right Nice play by the defense for the first time tonight Black Hawk Warren turns it over on downs That was huge play for IW to

stop that

So they will have it for their fourth possession of the half down at the 28 yard line their own Mark that time down Phil.

That's could be the play of the game right there 930 remaining in the football game Burns and company leading the way Lindsay Tolickson getting your steps in tonight coming back from the far sideline Paik went back in for that run so after being pretty much Helped off the field barely under his own power.

He's back in there running the ball

But Ithaca Weston able to stop him shotgun snap Jacob Keller gets a block now is gonna arrow on their side Kate and Keller and incomplete It was just over the outstretched hands of the defender number three bull podner But a second down in ten if you go west and going aggressive there, right?

Yeah, but the defense they stayed home and had two defenders back there

And Ray comes in from the or Blake Gray Ben's probably not eligible Blake Gray into the ballgame

old Ben or young Ben.

Yeah Ben bizer.

Yeah,

he's got I don't think he has an eligibility left Second down in 10.

There's the snap from Santa rolling to the near side Keller on the run looking looking and then he throws it away as he goes out of bounds Good coverage by Black Hawk Warren all the way and I should out of bounds by Cole Dunleavy Third down in 10

No flag on the play and Yeah, so Ithaca Weston now with a big play coming up.

Here's a good game Aquinas leading West Salem 2928 third quarter Wow Playoff football a slugfest there tonight Third down and 10 for IW heading to the football and Then we're gonna have a whistle and a timeout coach Kelly is gonna use a timeout for Ithaca Weston

16, 12, big third down coming up after this quick timeout.

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back to Ithaca Weston 918 remaining in the football game and a big call coming up here for Coach Kelly and the offense.

Third down from their own 28 yard line.

1612 Blackhawk Warren.

All right, the line is set shotgun snap Keller back good block throws it near side He's got a man Spencer Nelson grabs it first down 50

yard line a 20 on yard pass completion

Knocked out of bounds by number 11 Trent Bittlingmeyer and either go Weston moves the chains What a catch by Nelson again want to throw by Jacob Keller he can

right between two defenders.

He just feathers it in there doesn't he?

Great kid.

What a nice play for the sophomore quarterback

to stay focused as a receiver going through two defenders

If they go Weston with a little momentum trying to take the lead down the stretch in this one ball near the 50 There's this nap to Jacob Keller handoff Spencer Nelson left tackle plow on his way for some extra

yardage Six yards

to the 44.

All right Good run and if they go Weston kind of doing what Black Hawk Warren does just kind of push the pile and try to wear them down

Following some good blocking over there.

Yep.

He's

second down

and four

lying doing a good job van Colter over there and Isaiah Farjan.

That's his side.

Nice play and ready to go now.

Wapshell as well on that left side.

There's the snap.

Handoff, Spencer Nelson up the gut spins around.

Not much there.

No gain there.

They're going to bring him down hit by several of the Black Hawk Warren players led by 51 Javan Steets.

States with the tackle third down about four yards ago for Ithaca Weston there in the 43 yard line area of Black Hawk Warren just under eight minutes remaining Ithaca Western trailing by four

I'm guessing we're in four down territory.

Oh, absolutely

eight minutes ago

Van Coulter up to the line, two men near side, Dre and Caden Keller.

Keller in motion now going to the far side of the field.

There's the snap, handoff Nelson.

There's a flag and

a first

down, but it's probably coming

back.

Yeah, you could see that when the man went in motion and then

the lineman move,

lineman moved.

Yeah.

So that'll be explained to coach Kelly.

That would have been a first down.

So

they explained it to the lineman wasn't set.

And when the running back went motion

stops the clock with 737 remaining Then we'll be on the air tomorrow around 340 with sectional championship volleyball.

It's been a while since I've called one of those So the shift illegal shift is called on the ethical Western

and you got appreciate a coach that stays calm and let's official explain what happened.

Yeah, and this is a good crew.

I mean the

Didn't they do the eight man state championship game?

Yeah,

I think I think they've done it twice Brian.

So I mean, we have a good crew here.

So Tim Lee is a good referee in the back third down play

third and eight yards to go.

Ball at the 47 yard line of Black Hawk Warren.

There's the snap out of the shotgun.

Keller stepping up in the face of danger caught.

Over the middle and the Spencer Nelson first down inside the 35 to the 33.

Oh my goodness 15 yards Jacob Keller took a little bit of a shot.

Yes when he got rid of that ball and Spencer Nelson up in the air Brings it down and wills the football to himself 7 10 remaining and the chains move huge huge first down there 16 12 Black Hawk Warren leading Ithaca Weston trying to drive for a go-ahead score here

This is where your conditioning back in August and you know everything you've done through the year kind of hopefully pays off, right?

Yep, everybody's sucking air out there in the fourth quarter.

They've been working hard ready to go There's the snap Jacob Keller tying to take it himself follows a block from Walmer gets a little bit of room, but not

much Jacob didn't have much to go there the defense really on the right side really made a nice play there to

go give him two or three three yards

31 yard line of black Hawk Warren 628 remaining clock running as he stayed in bounds If they go west and back in the huddle fans are staying sort of subdued, you know Kind of waiting to erupt here Nervous times.

That's for sure You don't know how many more times we'll get the ball back, right?

Second down about seven yards to go handoff to Spencer Nelson plows off the left tackle for a yard or two

Got inside the 30 to around the 28 yard line Gained about a yard is all there So Ithaca Westin kind of meticulously going at it here trying to find the range Blamer and Keller talking to coach Kelly Looks like Dre's gonna stay in the game And now back into the huddle is Jacob Keller third down and five yards to go from the 29 of Black Hawk Warren

Clock rotating down 5 30 to play tonight four-point lead for the visiting Warriors Jacob Keller under center van Colter set to snap the ball.

There's a pitch play Dre trying to break the corner.

He's got a little he's got some speed 20 15 inside Nithika Weston That's the first time he's gotten the ball isn't it Brian Blake Dre with a run and Like 25 yards there on the play.

How about that?

He's the speedy guy and the sticks move on for Ithaca Weston running downhill trying to take the lead Huge play out of bounds around the 11-yard line first and 10 for IW 16-12 Black Hawk Warren in the lead Jacob Keller back in from the sideline and now into the huddle

That time Black Hawk was pike Ian on Nelson and now it was a good plan to go to

Dray there,

we know from earlier experience.

So this is where black Hawk Warren's defense really but Is up there's the snap handoff it Spencer Nelson rolls left not much to the 10 maybe the nine Maybe two yards.

Yep.

I think so They'll unpile He stayed in bounds so the clock continues to run down to five minutes now Thought I heard a whistle They're gonna run back in I thought maybe somebody was taking time out, but no

I

didn't hear that

Could have been somebody whistling at you Brian.

I don't

know.

Oh, yeah, there's a lot of girls that do that.

Yeah second down and nine Ithaca Western with a ball at the eight yard line snap from center Jacob Keller rolling to the near side He's looking to run now stops to throw throws it.

It's incomplete batted away right around the four yard line Intended there for Nelson, I believe So that'll bring up a third down

If they go west in it at some point may have to we're gonna throw may have to look to the end zone Yeah,

I could not see that play at this angle

Stops the clock with 434 to go Third down play from just inside the ten yard line of black Hawk Warren Way this is gone.

You might even say this is the ballgame here 434

to go.

I went be a surprise.

We've seen maybe number 33 here

Dray in the backfield Keller out of the shotgun Dray stayed into block Keller looking to the end zone to throw throws it caught down around the goal line Down around the goal line.

It's close.

He is at the pylon number five with the catch Liam Rowan touchdown.

It is a touchdown yard Liam Rowan makes the grab an integral Weston takes the lead 18 16 425 to go

Great protection again.

Now they kept Ray in the block and some other guys the pocket was there and Jacob Keller used it.

Well So

we're going it looks like we're gonna kick the extra point here the plumber

boy that would put them up by three then I Guess three or whatever.

Let's see what

happens Carter play murder.

Maybe they will fake it.

No, I think you need to get the three because it you know a field goal beach, uh,

They're

pretty sure kickers.

Yeah,

he's a good kicker.

Plemer looking down the holder is the quarterback.

Keller awaiting a snap from center.

Long snap count.

There it is.

High snap.

Placement is made.

Oh, it got blocked.

It's blocked.

No good.

18-16.

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425 to go, we'll be right back, 18-16.

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With a kick black Hawk Warren with a return they're going to get a few yards on it out to around the 35 36 yard

line

right at the 35 I think so return by number three bowl partner the quarterback returning kicks and that is where black Hawk Warren will try to mount a drive to take the lead with 417 to go they take over for their fourth possession of the football game second half here

And we'll see what happens if it go Weston has made some stunning plays on defense here in this game and Getting back into the huddle right now now breaking it out to the line if it go Weston digging in on defense first in ten for the Black Hawk Warren Warriors Here we go waiting a snap from center is the quarterback and there it is and

Hand off and then lost in the backfield and then all is yeah, it looked like it was fumbled there for a moment Nice play by the Ithaca Western defense and the quarterback is brought down two yards behind the line of scrimmage Wow Nice play all the way lost the two on the play coming up through the middle Quintus Banker was in there several others nice play by Liam Rohn and also Landon Walmer boy just really stunning plays up the middle there

Second down in 12 yards to go clock running 345 to go if they go west and leading this game by two points They have scored in this second half three touchdowns To one touchdown for black clock warren and they're gonna use a timeout at time out Phil.

Can you hear me?

I can hear you.

All

right.

Okay.

What's going on?

You just

seems

like I might

get your hearing check.

There's something.

Yeah, there you go.

This is a test of the Brian Elvin system

Time out on the field 3 34 to go 18 16 if the go-weston has come back to lead.

We'll keep it here for this one It's hard to imagine.

There's a better game somewhere else.

No

there isn't I can't believe it, you know, it's going right down to the wire IW just needs to stay stay focused, you know and stay where they're supposed to be and Make plays and so

far the defense did on that play

And I'm guessing somewhere along the line, Blackhawk warrant is going to have to go through the air again, which they've done pretty well when they've done that.

Not really the long passes, but they do have a touchdown pass.

And Dax Paquin is not in the ballgame for Blackhawk.

Yeah, he was briefly after the injury.

Second down and 12 yards to go.

They're back at their own 32 yard line.

Awaiting a snap from center, there it is.

Hand off, running play going to the right side.

They've got a little room for about four yards, maybe more to the 41 yard line.

Looks like a ball game of six there, Phil.

Ball carrier was Beau Jameke.

Tackle made by Quintus Banker and some of his friends.

Third down at about four yards to go for Black Hawk War on 314 to go in the ball game.

Here they go, Weston, trying to hold them at bay here.

Iowa Grant leading Pepin Alma 38 nothing Travis Wilson thought that might be a closer game than that But Iowa Grant doing it to it tonight third play third and five.

There's the snap and the running quarterback on the right side They've got to try to spread it out a little bit.

He's got a little room puts the shoulder down up to around the 48 maybe a first down.

Yeah, he's got the

first down Gain of about seven on the play sticks will move

See where they mark him out.

He didn't quite get to midfield.

So it's at the 48 yard line black Hawk Warren's 48 First and 10 to 50 to go man alive hang on to your radios here for both sides 18 16 2-point lead for Ithaca Weston here in playoff football and WRCO FM 100.9 in Richland Center, Wisconsin Bill me along with Brian Elvin and Tim feed back of the studios and a first down play for black Hawk Warren

Ball marked at their 48 yard line Looking it over his bow podner of the quarterback.

The line is set There's the snap and he's gonna go back to throw stumbles a little bit now rolls to the right side throws and it is incomplete about ten yards short of the intended receiver That was middling in complete pass.

Yep first and ten makes it second and ten.

Oh, it's a little slow getting up Might have got

Little bit of a hit at the end, uh, right as he threw that ball.

I know Jacob Keller has been really standing in there and has been pretty rough and tumble tonight as well.

So these, these guys can hit.

Yes.

Another hard hitting game.

River Ridge final.

They have defeated spring Valley tonight, 21 seven River Ridge showing that six rivers conference strong.

Always, always just

crazy at conference.

River Ridge has, you know, basically gone to made a state run at five and four to start the playoffs before they're just a,

Great team great conference.

Here we go second down from the 48 yard line of black Hawk Warren There's the snap back to throw bow podner could be a screen it is caught in the middle They've got a little running room and then caught from the other after about a nine-yard gain He

was short of the first down I believe the ball

carrier.

Yeah Tackled by number 70 Hayden Burns game of nine on the play So yeah, you could see it coming from up here if you go Weston

Everybody kind of biting on that screen and then they threw over the middle.

Luckily, Ithaca-Weston able to stop at 2.15 to go.

Third down from the 43 of Ithaca-Weston.

Third down at about two.

There's the snap running play up the gut.

Number nine.

And

he's the first down runner.

That is Janaki.

And Janaki moves the chains.

It's at the 40 of Ithaca-Weston.

Blackhawk Warren trying to drive for a game winning touchdown here tonight.

I think they have two timeouts left.

18-16 score here in the fourth quarter.

Now less than two minutes.

Black Hawk Warren to the football.

Ithaca Weston digging in here.

IW needs a big defensive play or two or three.

First down, man in motion for the near side.

Bo Podner looks it over.

And somebody moved let's see there's gonna be a false start false start on them.

Yep on black walk Warren five yard penalty Moves it back to the 45 yard line of Ithaca Western

No, no the referees are telling the coach They have an option.

I thought but maybe not they got the clock going.

They got the clock going eight They have the option to have the clock stop or not the defense says of course IW wants the clock to run

45 yard line of Ithago Weston first and 15 a minute 20 to go in the ballgame 2-point lead for IW there is the quarterback going back to throw partner rolling near side They're coming after him.

He's got a man.

It's caught down around the 25 yard line and bones and he's gonna stay in bounds Canaan Keller brings him down first down at 25 catch by biddling Meyer a minute five.

Oh my

18-16.

Ithaca Weston holding on to a two-point lead.

Black Hawk Warren is at the 25-yard line of Ithaca Weston and their hustling guys in.

We've got less than a minute.

Less than a minute to play and they're finally, I think, going to use a timeout.

Black Hawk timeout.

They took a little bit more maybe than they should have.

They take a timeout.

52 seconds remaining in the football game.

We should stay here.

Don't think I think we will first in 10.

This game has been moving along very quickly.

Yeah.

I remember in 2014 was a nail biter here and Black Hawk did the Statue of Liberty played and get a touchdown.

That's right.

That was a close game.

Yeah.

Lost

right

at the end.

Very, very close.

A couple of close calls there as I remember that game.

Down the stretch, but you'll have that when there's just so little Representing you know between the two teams these two teams evenly matched no doubt about it And we thought it would be Black Hawk Warren has had quite a bit of success and the six River teams have against scenic bluffs in Ridge and Valley So if they go west and try to represent and they have tonight, but they got to try to nail down a win here

Black Hawk Warren with a football at the 25 yard line 52 seconds to go two-point lead for Ithaca Weston 1816 I would think it'd be a pass play but I could be wrong partner under center He's rolling.

He's going to the right

side through screen back left here is a

catch on the near side 20 down to around

the 19 nice

play

good

play That was Quintus banker pulling all five yards the ball carrier and the clocks keep moving

That was Brody Argel with the catch.

35 seconds to play, second down, about five yards to go for Black Hawk Warren.

30 seconds.

Ball is marked at the 20 yard line of Ithaca Weston.

There's the snap, rolling to the right side of the quarterback.

Partner throws on the run, caught down around the 10 yard line.

It's gonna be a first down, caught

by

Stoffaker.

17 seconds to play in the ball game.

And awaiting the snap from center, there's a timeout.

They'll use a timeout.

And wow, that'll give everybody a chance to catch their breath.

Brian, this is down in the scary territory where they threw that ball that three defenders from Ithaca

Weston

couldn't stop it

and went right

between them and it was caught for a touchdown.

So they've got with the passing, maybe two or three plays yet to go in the game here unless something transpires like a defensive play at quarterback sack or something like that.

Is this their last time?

I believe it is.

I think it is.

So

The scenario is this 18 16 Ithaca Weston with the lead and Black Hawk Warren has the ball on the Ithaca Weston 12 yard line first and 10 at the 12 with 17.8 seconds remaining in

this one and If your defense you don't want to get burned take the penalty it's you know It's just a 10-yard penalty or 15-yard penalty, but in sight here to be half the distance

for the quarterback will operate out of the shotgun

First in 10 from the 12 yard line of Ithaca Weston.

There's the snap back to throw fakes the handoff throws to the far sideline and overthrew his man out of bounds.

He was wide open to pass intended for Janicki and that stops the clock 12.7 seconds remaining.

So it took a little time off and second down in 10 from the 12 yard line of Ithaca Weston.

This is kind of like a sandlot football.

You're back there playing pass defense and

Trying to not let him score here.

Well,

I don't know if black has a field goal kicker or not

But yeah, I don't know either but that's another consideration here in this one Podner they've gone for the two-pointers both times Podner moves.

I think he moved early didn't he anyway?

He's back to throw looking over the middle and it's gonna be intercepted intercepted by intercepted by number one Caden Keller gets the interception with five seconds to go if it go Western's gonna hold on for the victory here tonight

Kate and Keller slipping out of the back of the end zone makes the grab Yeah, and all we have now is victory formation formation.

I gotta do is take a knee if they go Weston holding on to a two-point lead with 5.1 seconds remaining in the football game Fans have come to life here again.

Oh, it's really rocking down there.

I think everybody was holding their breath.

Nobody was breathing

First in ten Ithaca Western ball is at the eight yard line That's where Keller returned it to awaiting the snap is Keller Jacob Keller takes a knee and that's it This one belongs to Ithaca Western the Bulldogs advance.

They're going to the third round now about it Some of the fans rushing out to the field what a win over Black Hawk Warren tonight comeback win 1816 the final

And this season for Ithaca-Weston continues.

Hugs all around.

Oh my goodness.

What a start for a co-op team.

No doubt about it.

Going to the third level.

Appears they'll be playing host to Iowa Grant next weekend here at Ithaca Schools.

This is a quality win.

Oh my goodness.

18-16, the final score.

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Welcome back to our action here on W-R-C-O radio.

Good to have you along for a high school football at W-R-C-O radio.

Our game coming to you live tonight from Richmond Center.

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Good to have you along with us tonight as we broadcast live from here and getting you the opportunity to witness

It's been a very, very exciting game here tonight at the friendly confines of Ithaca.

Again we had a little bit of technical difficulties.

I think we got too excited and threw stuff around here at the end.

Equipment dropping on the floor and everything here people celebrating in the booth, but we're back now and the post game show sponsored by Jelenik plumbing and heating boy Oh boy, so let's recap the scoring as we have the opportunity It was the first score of the night.

It was a 16-yard run Bo padner actually I should say with a touchdown pass 16-yard pass to Joe catchpaw the Dax Paquin two-point run made it eight to nothing

Also, it was a 16-nothing lead when they would score on their opening drive for the first half.

It was Dax Paquin with a four-yard touchdown.

Bo Podner's run made it 16-nothing.

Also, Ithago Western able to answer on the Keller-to-Keller connection.

It was Caden Keller to Jacob Keller making it a nine yard pass, 16-6 the score.

Ithaca Weston would get another touchdown and it was Keller with a 35 yarder to Keller on that one getting the score and Ithaca Weston getting the touchdown on the end to eventually win it on the Keller pass to Liam Rohn, eight yard score and Ithaca Weston goes ahead by two.

All right, we've got some guys up in the booth with us here tonight.

We asked for some guesses

and we got guests here tonight.

So let's see, who do we give it to?

Who wants to go first?

Okay, we got a veteran here.

We got Liam Rowan in the studio with us up here.

Liam, congratulations on the win.

How's it feel?

Thank you.

It feels great.

Yeah, what about, what do you think puts you over the top in this one?

Our motivation.

We were doing it for someone and we all came together through the hard times.

You know, that's what we do.

We all come together.

Turning point of the game,

one of the ones we marked was your defense, making the stop with about 9.30 to play and getting the ball back.

How big was that play on

defense?

I'll be honest, I don't really remember it, but I am bright.

But getting the win over Blackhawk, you know it was a tough game coming in.

What did the coach preach to you all

week?

This was the first time we beat them, what we know.

And we came together and we did it.

And the whole community's here.

Our families are down there and we're all brothers.

Absolutely.

Crazy.

Congratulations on the win.

Who do we have next over here?

All right.

Can't see your number.

You're covered up there.

Oh, number four.

Jacob Keller, I should read you.

What a win here tonight.

How does it feel to get the victory?

It feels amazing.

I mean, going down at halftime, being able to come back and rally together really.

It's amazing.

You took some shots of some of the passes you threw tonight.

I mean, I handed it to you.

You really hung in there well.

Were they hitting pretty hard out there?

Yeah.

I just got to trust Kate and Kelly to make that catch, you know.

Throw it out.

And you did a couple of times.

Yeah, some other guys come down with a ball for you.

Liam came up big.

Liam did, yeah.

Spencer came up

big on

some of them routes.

He did.

Everybody.

Absolutely.

Carter.

Carter that big wheel route.

Oh, yeah.

Carter-Plemer.

Nice catch on that one, too.

You weren't able to really establish a running game as much tonight.

No, they were ready for it.

So we had to fully change our game plan and just improvise the best we could.

Did it well?

Yeah, you sure did.

How does it feel, you know, first year of the co-op to come together and have this thing going into the third week?

Feels

great.

I mean, I feel like I play with these guys forever.

I mean, it's a family already.

And I guarantee we're going to keep going and we're going to keep playing as brothers forever.

Nice job.

Thanks a lot, Jacob.

Thank you.

Good to see you in here.

All right, who we got next?

Spencer.

Spencer Nelson.

Man, I had you up here last week.

Was this as hard hitting as the Waterloo game?

Yeah.

I mean, they're just a physical, hard-headed team.

I mean,

That's what we like to play, though.

Yeah, you really do.

And I think you were working the running game.

You just couldn't get free for a lot of yards tonight.

Yeah, we were definitely trying to run the ball.

But I mean, we got to rely on our passing, too.

We got to rely on our quarterback here, so.

And he did a great job for you.

Yeah, for sure.

For sure.

And as far as tackling, man, that Pequen's a tough guy to bring down, isn't

he?

Yeah, he is a big guy to take down.

I got to give it to him.

He runs the ball hard.

He does run the ball hard.

But like we did, we did a lot of gang tackling.

I don't know.

That's just how we kind of fought through that.

So this is a team of destiny.

I mean, you got another game next week.

You don't care who you play, do you?

No.

We don't really care who we play.

We just want to play.

And I don't know.

We just want to play.

It feels great.

And that's the other thing.

You get another week to be with these guys and work out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

For sure.

The living is good.

For

sure.

Congratulations on the win, my friend.

Thank you.

You bet.

Spencer and Nelson joining us.

Who else we got out here that doesn't talk?

All right.

We've got Ben.

How does it feel to get the win, Ben Otto?

Oh, it feels great.

It's really important to me that first year is cold and my senior year that we're going so far and doing so well.

Representing the linemen.

Was

it tough in the trenches tonight?

Yeah, of course.

This is probably the best offensive defensive line that we've faced so far.

Absolutely.

And I think you guys established that well.

I thought at one point when you were down 16 to nothing, maybe the energy was down there.

Was there anything that you can look at where the energy got back up for the team?

Oh, yeah, just definitely just big plays here and there that really helped it come back.

So you get the win.

You play

next week.

How does it feel to still be playing football in November now?

It'll be.

Yeah, it feels great.

This was one of my biggest goals this year.

So great to see it happen.

What side of the ball is your favorite?

My personal favorite is offense.

You had to plow some snow tonight for these guys, didn't you say?

Yeah.

Good job, Ben.

Thanks for coming out, man.

Thank you.

You bet.

And it looks like Kate and Keller is here.

All right, Kate.

Man, how does it feel?

I mean, you had a couple of catches, but how does it feel to get the clinching interception in the end?

I made a huge mistake.

My guy was supposed to guard number 11, made a huge catch and I was really down to myself.

And then my teammate, Jacob Keller, talked me up and said, keep my head high.

And I knew I had to step up as a senior and be a leader and get that interception to seal it.

And you did.

Were you kind of anticipating where he was going with it?

Oh, I kind of actually did my job that time.

I went with him, and the ball was, I don't know if the ball was tipped, it came really weird, but I intercepted it, got it on the end zone, went down, cause I knew it was over then.

Awesome.

Yeah.

And what's your favorite play in the huddle?

Cause you got a couple of them tonight.

I

don't even know if I should give that out.

We'll go, we'll go.

I'll pass the quiche on.

OK.

That's what it was.

And how about this young Keller guy throwing to you, man?

He's

done a good job for you.

I mean, my little brother, I know I'm the better athlete, but my little brother, he comes out and he shows up.

But yeah, my little brother, he's all

right.

He's all right.

Oh, it was awesome tonight.

So celebrate a little bit on this one.

But man, you're going to have another game to

play.

How fun is that?

Oh, it feels amazing.

I mean, it's been since 2015.

Anybody's made to level three.

First time anybody's ever beat Black Hawk.

And I think we're ready to keep going.

I think we're going to make history.

I'll tell you what, you know, we haven't had a lot of success against Six Rivers teams over the years.

You guys are anybody in the Ridge and Valley or Scenic Bluffs.

So you represented well.

How does it feel to represent and get a victory against a

tough team?

Yeah, I mean, everyone always talks crap like the Six Rivers always talks crap about how Scenic Bluffs and Ridge Valley never have any competition.

And it's just glad to see that we took down

one of the top teams in the six rivers and it just feels amazing.

Good win

tonight.

Go celebrate.

Thank you, Phil.

All right, buddy.

Thanks for coming up Bulldogs.

Nice job.

A good group of guys up here have belated elated belated wish from the WRCO studios here.

Ryan Alvin is back here.

He's all twisted up, but he's going to go over some final numbers on the Gelenic Plumbing and Heating postgame show.

Brian, if you would.

Well, unofficially.

Yep.

Got me now.

Yep.

Okay unofficially IW Spencer Nelson was a leading rusher for the game 16 carries for 55 yards and passing Caden Keller had eight receptions for 63 yards and Jacob Keller unofficially these are all unofficial 13 he was 13 for 169 yards passing for Blackhawk

Of course, it was, you know, Dax went down and the third quarter wasn't able to play.

That was a big factor.

He had 19 carries for 155 yards.

Okay.

So when he went down, that definitely gave the advantage to IW, but IW pulled out some plays.

made some great

defense.

Yeah, they really did.

18, 16 come from behind.

So they score 18 unanswered points in this one.

And you mentioned it.

I think, you know, I don't know if you even said it on the air, but it seemed like at halftime, there wasn't a lot of energy there

for the crowd or anybody.

Everybody's like sitting on their hands.

And then, you know, after that first drive, you know, it was, it was like, man, we gotta get going.

And it turned around.

got it done.

Other scores tonight on the Phil Knee flip phone sponsored by Marzies, Strikeout Alzheimer's, LaCrosse, Logan over Mount Horror, Barnabelle 49-27, Darlington 35, Winnebago Lutheran 7, Bondiwell 41-14 over Belleville as well.

And let's see here, Iowa grant 38 nothing over pep and Alma.

That's the important score because Iowa grant will be here next week.

And that's going to be an interesting one because they throw the ball a lot.

Yeah, a lot.

And then when he can't throw, he runs.

So he's a double threat.

Yep.

It'll be a tough one next week.

But right now, I guess that's the furthest things from their mind.

They got over this big one and they get to the third level.

And I don't know the last time I think a Western has been to the third level, Chad could tell us,

um,

I'm thinking it was 2015 they went That was I think they got beat at banger.

Okay level three.

Yeah, I think I think maybe you're right I'm I know I did the game.

It's just years run into years.

I can't remember for sure but third level and They've been at the fourth level the last time was in 2001 I believe when they lost at they lost to Hilbert Hilbert it was at beaver dam I believe ever damn and Hilbert's a lot bigger school now in terms of football divisions

West Salem 36 29 over Aquinas at last word.

New glare is 49 nothing over Chilton as well in football action tonight River Ridge earlier over Spring Valley 21 seven.

Mr. Fabulous will have more of those scores Belmont 48 six over Oakfield tonight in W I a playoff football.

Well, thanks for coming along and keeping us

honest tonight, Brian.

Yeah, but I gotta give the six rivers conference kudos.

Oh, they they are so tough.

Yeah,

my goodness.

Yeah, Peck, you know peck Eric

Potosi Castle bumped up to Division 6, otherwise they'd be in Division 7 yet.

Oh, they're tough.

And I've said that, I respect them because it's still, and I asked somebody down that way, is it a lot of farmer kids yet?

And they said yes, a lot of

farm kids.

That makes a difference.

Blue

collar.

Yeah, blue collar, you know, a lot of kids off the farm.

Oh, it does.

I mean, I'm going back.

It does make a big difference.

They know how to work.

They do.

And so the Ithaca Western knows they beat a

good football team here tonight.

Well, like you and I, we went out

for sports to get out of chores.

Exactly.

That's what I tell kids.

I might not have been that dedicated with an athlete,

but I

didn't want to go home.

Yeah.

Hey, dad would say, go clean out the cafe.

Exactly.

So I knew where I would have more fun.

Well, thanks for coming along tonight, Brian.

Yep.

Coming up the fabulous post-postgame show with Mr. Fabulous Tim Thied Productions.

Thank you for joining us tonight.

Once again, the final Ithaca West End with an amazing 18-16 win over Black Hawk Warren, one that they won't soon.

forget.

No, they won't.

It was pretty wild here.

Good one at Ithaca West and a fun one to call.

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