I'm Phil Ney with sports Ithaca scored a 17 to three win over Weston and high school baseball
last night. The Bulldogs broke away from a four to lead with a five run fourth inning led by a
two run home run by Micah Salisbury. He was three for four with six RBI's. Sammy Clary had two RBI
and scored four times. Logan Anderson was three for three with two scored and a walk. Devon
was the winning pitcher and West Nelson came on to record a strikeout on the games final out.
Weston's Hunter Coise suffered the loss with relief work from Gavin Cast. The silver Eagles
were playing their third conference game in as many days. Isaac Jennings was three for three.
Logan Bingham had an RBI and walked twice. Colton Newman and Gavin Cast also had hits. Garrett
Granger was one for two with a walk and a run scored following the 17 to three win. Ithaca is
now 18 and one overall. The Ridge and Valley Conference champions are 13 and 0 in the league and
will host River Valley on Saturday morning with a JV game to start at 10 a.m. and varsity to follow.
Weston is 11 and eight. They will host on Alaska Luther coming up on Monday at five in other
action yesterday from the R and V. It was Seneca over. Azika Stuban 11 one kick up who played
outside the league taking on Hillsboro and they defeated the Tigers by a score of 10 eight.
Riverdale fell to Iowa grant by a score of four two on Thursday. Carson Kinion would go two for
four in the game. The chief and so's Cuba City tonight. It is youth night and senior night.
Game time is set for 4 30. Viral Co. Azuna against Westby six two Belmont six one over River Ridge.
Mauston 15 Adams friendship five Baraboo for two over Stoughton as well in area baseball.
On tonight's schedule, Richland Center will host Dodgeville. Keep in mind they've kind of
reversed the order. JV will play at 4 30 varsity to follow it around seven o'clock at the Richland
Center high school baseball fields. Also in action tonight kick a poo will be in action taking
on North Crawford in area baseball. Riverdale is mentioned takes on Cuba City and River Valley in
baseball will be hosting Prairie Dushin while the River Valley soccer team will be in action as well
and they will be a playing against Plattville Lancaster. A heartbreaking loss for the Richland
Center girls softball team last night of the opening round of the tournament. They travel to
Westby where they lost in nine innings by a score of three two. A great effort by the entire
team. Chloe Darling was the pitcher. It was Kaylee Knee going one for two with two walks.
Also Riley Schultz had a hit for the Hornets who took it to the ninth inning but fell to Westby
and sell the Norseman go on to play Prairie Dushin on Tuesday night in the second round of the
WIAA tournament. A few games were completed yesterday. Some were not. The Verokwa and Darlington
game was moved to today at five o'clock. The winner of that game will face River Valley on Tuesday.
Also last night our guy Black Hawk was a nine one winner over Bellville to advance in the tournament
to play Cuba City in division four and Parkview and Wisconsin Heights will be playing that game to
see who plays Mineral Point that game going on later on today. Nassita 16 14 over Montelo
advances to play Auburn Dale and in division five Picatonic of five one over Southwestern
also River Ridge eight nothing winners against Benton Schultzberg will now face Barnavelle in the
second round Tuesday. Alma Center Lincoln 20 to 14 over New Lisbon they will face assumption
in the next round in action from the area last night as well. It was a win for Wisconsin Heights
Barnavelle over Richland Center six nothing. The Hornets held the Speedy Heights team to only one
goal before half time. The Hornets fell apart in the second half and gave up five goals more
injuries. Hornets and inconsistency hurt the team in the second half according to the coaches.
Next up a conference match at Prairie Dushin for the Richland Center soccer girls this evening.
Also it was Readsburg five nothing over Austin. The Brewers prepare to take on the Houston
Astros opening up a nine game road swing. It gets underway tonight. Freddie Peralta at three and
one with a three sixty three ERA will take on Hunter Brown who comes in with a seven seventy nine ERA
in his own four to start the year. You're that game tonight on WRC E FM 107.7 and AM 1450.
The race for grace is this Saturday May 18th. Enjoy the 5K and 10K walk run the quarter mile kids run
and the special firefighters challenge as well. It all starts at Crosca Park on Saturday morning.
The kids one quarter mile race starts at seven forty five the 10K at eight at eight oh five the
five K race eight 10 the one mile race and award ceremony will be held at nine thirty. It's all
for a great cause greater Richland area cancer elimination. You can register in advance at walkwithgrace.com
or the day of the event between six a.m. and seven thirty a.m. in person registration
and pack a tick up will be at the Dr. Killian Meyer building. It's all Saturday the race for grace
help fight cancer Saturday in Richland center at Crosca Park. We're so very glad to have my
Clemens back with us today to talk about sports all of things going on in Wisconsin. Good morning
Mike are you. Good morning Phil in Wisconsin and I've got some breaking news out of Louisville. The
PGA tour is underway today's the second round. Scotty Sheffler is the guy who won the Masters. He's
actually the number one rated golfer in the tournament and in the early morning hours today.
It looks like there's a little bit of rain going on down there. Paleo there's a car actually just
outside the the golf course and as he's pulling in he thinks that he's dealing with security
and so he starts trying to drive around some of these white cars with flashing lights
and they get away and it's and it's police and they pull them over and arrest them
and put them in the back of a car for about 20 minutes. He could be here from some of the golfers
waiting in line to get in like hey hey help me and he was detained for 20 minutes because before
I think the cops actually were able to confirm or identify that he was he was Scotty Sheffler.
You know it's like I wonder if one of those cops said like you know come on and he's like hey
don't you know I'm Scotty Sheffler. Yeah I'm Arnold Palmer. Get in the car.
No respect at all man. Yeah that was a bit of a so that's actually
delaying the second round down there in Louisville today. The bucks came to an end when their
season came to an fairly quickly as we thought it would with all the injuries so now a lot of
question marks Mike here in the off season. Yeah you know if you take this thing back you know
to 50,000 feet you just have to say honestly are you just going to run it back with that roster
that you had you know and first of all it's kind of the style of play I mean the NBA tends to get
more physical than it should I mean you see these guys on their backs all the time fighting
in the paint you know people talked about how the pistons were 30 years ago playing against Michael
Jordan and the bulls but you know Janice outs his April 9th and then he admitted after the
season was over he wouldn't he would still not be back that's how bad the calf injury was for him
and Damien Lohler had you know a couple of the different injuries including an Achilles
who was bothering him and me but then Chris Middleton you know here's a guy who has missed most
of the season most of the time that Doc Rivers was there with one ankle then another ankle injury
and you know some of these guys are getting old and you look at some of these guys these teams that
have advanced to the second and third rounds you know the bucks are suddenly kind of a slow looking
team and I wonder if John Horses is going to have to have to say you know they just sign Milton
what if they're going to have to seriously think about it they can get one more younger speedy
shooter in there Patrick Beverly as a guy they picked up and you know it was fun to watch as a
defensive player but what a knucklehead I mean in a final game down in Indianapolis some woman some
of the fans are behind the bucks bench were yelling hey got your tickets to Cancun yet and so
Beverly takes a ball with a couple minutes left to play and and with just whips it and hits it
right in the side of the face and the ball bounces off for her and some fan like is he kidding or
so he kind of tosses the ball back to it and then Patrick throws it at another Pacer's fan down
there he's going to be suspended for four games for being a knucklehead so I think John Horses
going to have his hands full of but maybe we do need to make some roster changes if we think
we're going to get to the promised land with Damien and Janus next year yeah they won't get
through holiday back he signed he resigned and re-upped or whatever the case might be with Boston
yeah yeah and a lot of people wonder if that was you know a mistake I don't know I mean they
you know at the at a crucial time when they needed that shooter when Janus went down
ironically a year ago at the same time he did not come through during the series against the Miami
Heat so that's probably the reason they they made that decision good player but he's on a great
team that's got depth sharp coach and you know they continue on in the postseason you know the
green bay hiring a talk show host Doug Gottlieb you know that probably would have been under the radar
but he's a pretty big name so that's pretty big news isn't it yeah you know Doug has been around
basketball his whole life as a matter of fact I'm a freshman at UWM and he's about a four or five
year old kid his dad was the coach of the UWM Panthers down in Milwaukee and that's where I
went to school as a matter of fact you know my next door neighbors and dorms were all the basketball
players they're on scholarship and it was a great exposure for me at 18 to see what those
guys were like you know and how sometimes in the cafeteria you might hear them you know complete
about they would have some inside jokes or inside stories and then you'd say you know well what
was that all about and then they might tell you what happened at practice that you know this is not
for for air but you know you learned all that kind of stuff well anyways you know his dad was a
hard working coach for about five years down there UWM Doug I know he's done some scouting there's
a guy that I work with named Peter Brown as a national talk shows just like Scott or just like Doug
and you know this guy both these guys work together they would scout teams I mean they're they're
really smart they they understand the sport and they fill out scouting reports for various agencies
all that while they're doing your own prep for the shows but Doug has been a successful radio sports
talk show host first on CVS and most recently on Fox Sports Radio he says he's going to continue
to do that show from Green Bay and coach the team I don't know how you do that man it's so
competitive or the recruiting guy to do and everything like that but he's articulate he knows
the sport but if he truly understands how he's going to teach fundamentals to kids coming up to
UW Green Bay that remains to be seen what about the Packers they've been having some OTAs here
recently yeah they're coming up next week actually and I'll be there to cover all those this
is the military workouts but I think Jordan love and all the guys are going to show up this young
group that you know works together and what probably you know people are going to say you know
well how do the first round draft picks you know I was just a kid that they drafted in the first
to maybe be the next left tackle look and you know I'm gonna have really says I'm probably
really watching the new defensive coaching staff more closely this first week just to see
how they handle things and what kind of different drills that they're doing because you know they
got rid of Joe Barry and they brought in this Jeff Hathley who's been a head coach at Boston
college the last couple years but he's got a totally different philosophy about the defense
is run from the back end which is why they beefed up the safety position Xavier McKinney boy you
know that everybody's raven about this guy 24 years old they picked up their free agency they made
them the highest paid safety in free agency this past spring and they just they love the guy's
attitude they call them X name is Xavier but they call them X already and so yeah we'll be
excited to see what that guy looks like in the field as well the other thing is green base I
mean they're already talking they have to the planning for the hosting the draft next year
250,000 people you know like double the population the city and you know they don't have enough
hotel rooms and when I talked to Mark Murphy a couple weeks ago on the tailgate tour he said no
it's it's true we're we're looking into like some cruise ships pulling up to the bay in the bay
just to you know hopefully the accommodations to get the extra hotel rooms they need for all the
people they anticipate they're are going to show up to the the draft next year and so that means
you know some people are going to be you know waking up and you know they go into the buffet and
planes and shuffle board and head it out to the draft people I'm sure will be vacating their
houses and renting them out and doing all kinds of creative things to make some money maybe oh yeah
yeah you know and that'll be that would be an interesting story over the next year's holiday
but I you know I've got there's two friends of mine Lance Allen Stephanie Sutton they do sports
TV and Milwaukee they went to cover that one in Detroit and I need to catch up with them and
just ask them so because honestly I don't understand Phil the draw I mean like in Detroit you
know you'd have to get on the expressway pull up get on some shuttle bus go downtown to the plaza
around the quarter from Ford Field and walk into you know several blocks with 200,000 people
standing there in their fan year to watch 13 of the 32 teams only 13 players showed up to the
Detroit to walk across the stage and hug Roger and I you know really that's I'd rather watch it
on TV I said yeah I don't I don't get it I don't get the draw I really don't so I'm going to ask
what just besides being a you know fandom and showed up in your jerseys and everything I
and yelling and screaming and shouting and you know partying you know what's what is the attraction
because I don't quite get it yeah might be out of our demographic a little bit their age right
but yeah but the brothers are in first place doing well that's that's a real top story how Pat Murphy
pulling this off might you know it I think he's working closely with Matt Arnold it's a
better fact I we so Murphy let's usually counsel would do his pregame press conference
you know that's where you talk about moves the team is making maybe just talk some baseball after
the games they were just want to keep it quick and talk specifically on what happened the game
he just covered but Murphy doesn't miss an office and we're in his office Monday before they
started the series against the pirates and somebody brought up this thing that he'd said in a speech
about lifesavers he's got this theory this is what makes Murphy so great because you know council
is very analytical you know kind of a math guy smart smart it can be Murphy's a lot more of a
down-to-earth people person he says you know these baseball teams are like a like a package of
lifesavers you open it up with everyone who grabs the red one first I like the orange players
like the B plus players the guys who you know get overloaded your past up from the elite athletes
and the guys who I want guys are going to try hard every day and that's what this roster is made
up of guys like this South Freelich who the other day you know young hungry aggressive 24-years-old
sharpest can be lays down a perfect bunch to be sort of an icebreaker and so not only did he
advance the runner from first to second he managed to get the first space now he's got two
men on base and William Contreras one of the hottest batters in the league right now he hits a
three-run home run to get things started on the way to attend to two wins five guys with home runs
that these guys are hungry and they're playing for them and and and they're trying to figure out
which ones of the guys that stick like Joey or keys at third base who he said no I think this guy's
great he's great it's third base second base he's a good hitter he says every time though he swings
at a curveball in the dirt I want to taser him that's what Murphy said I don't think that's legal
but no but I mean he's Murphy is a hoot man he's really a hoot good that's good to hear you know
and I think he's kind of been waiting in the wings maybe he had more to do with the brewer's
success last few years than we think right I he's no question about it I asked man I'll say you
know I was kind of thought the Murph you know he didn't talk much because he didn't want to get
out out of the head of the skipper you know council did all the talking but if you get Murphy
out to the side a little bit he'd tell you know this is a really good kid like no I'm sorry you know
hey here's one of his background this guy I think or or you'd ask about somebody else and he'd
roll his eyes you know like a guy's a prima dot on you know like maybe Corbin Burns you know so
he the personalities were very important to him and now here he gets his chance and if there was
going to be a move from council this is actually you know it was a great fit in house the guy
is a teacher knows how to work with young players kind of likes those guys you know at that age
and so far it's look pretty sharp but I think he's been a pretty good game manager so far wonderful
Mike good to have you back this week we'll talk to you next week thank you Phil talk to you
from Green Bay you bet Mike Clemens joining us for sports on WRC oh