The home talent baseball playoff picture is getting a little clearer, the Western section
champions will be announced after this Sunday's games in semi-final action yesterday in the
north.
Salk Prairie got the win against Redsburg 11-8, Ashton was a 5-4 winner against Middleton.
In the West Pinebluff, Mount Horror pulled the upset over Dodgeville, 72 and Verona held
off Bellville 7-6.
In the southeast, Evansville was a 6-3 winner over Cambridge and Fort Atkinson beat Utica
5-3.
In the East, Monona was a winner against a forest 5-3 and Sun Prairie was a winner against
Montello at Final Score of 5-0.
That sets up the section championships this weekend.
Salk Prairie will host Ashton in the north.
It will be Monona hosting Sun Prairie in the East.
Verona will host Pinebluff, Mount Horror in the West and the southeast section will be
decided between Evansville when they play at Fort Atkinson on Sunday.
A home talent baseball all-star game was played on Friday night.
The West All-Stars outlasted the north, 15-12 at a packed Salk City ballpark.
Jake Zeal of Sholesburg, Benton had a soul hole run for the West in the second.
Jameson Johnson of Blanchardville's Blitz was two for three with a double and Josh Cartwright
of the Muscatay Mudcats had two singles in four trips.
Sean Riley of Dodgeville's Knights, Aiden Helversson of Ridgeway's Cardinals, and Tanner
Johnson of the Argyle Bevers, Tray Gordon of Hollandale's Rockies, and Kay Janet Check
of Wyoda and Mason Atkins of Muscatay all had solo hits for the West.
Chandler Ames of Hollandale pitched two scoreless innings for the West.
And also it was Eli Zimmerman of Argyle Pitching One.
American Legion baseball continues on with state tournament action this week, yesterday
Westby season ended with a loss in the tournament two to one to Stratford in the one o'clock
game.
Still playing from the area from the West, the Verokwa, they are undefeated so far in
the tournament they will be taking on the next opponent, either little shoot or Fondelac
coming up at five o'clock this afternoon in the next round of the American Legion baseball
tournament.
The Class A state championships held at Oceo, Wisconsin.
Sundays four three loss means the Brewers lost two of three games to the Washington Nationals
over the weekend, a bases clearing triple in the sixth inning by Rookie James Wood was
the decider, homie Milner took the loss in relief and Gary Sanchez hit his eighth home
run.
The Nationals won the season series by taking four out of six games.
The first time they have accomplished that since 2015, manager Pat Murphy talked about
the team and its recent struggles.
This is a young team that is going through it, man.
You can say how bad you think the record of the Nationals is, those guys are playing
free.
They play us tough, you know, they did the same thing to us in Milwaukee, you know, they
played really good and they played free and we're young and vulnerable and yeah, go through
it a little bit.
Elsewhere, it was San Francisco beating the Reds, eight two, Miami shut out Atlanta, seven
nothing, Arizona six, Pittsburgh five, San Diego ten two over Colorado and the Cubs took
St. Louis six two.
In inter league play that adjures three Oakland two, Philadelphia six nothing over Seattle,
the Angels beat the Mets three two in the American league, Kansas City three Detroit two, Tampa
Bay one nothing over Houston, Baltimore nine Cleveland five, the Yankees four three over
Toronto and Boston beat Texas seven two.
The wolf full of Chicago white socks have lost their 20th consecutive game.
The major's longest skid in 36 years and one short of the American league record as Chris
Flexin was chased early in a 13 to seven defeat against the twins Royce Lewis hit a three
round home run off flexin in a six run second inning that gave Minnesota an eight nothing
cushion.
The white socks rallied and cut it to 10 seven in the eighth, but could not get any
closer and fell to 27 and 87 this season Chicago's franchise record losing streak is the longest
in the big leagues since the Baltimore Orioles dropped 21 games in a row.
The American league mark to begin the 1988 season this year's Packers family night crowd
hop 60,000 again inside Lambo field quarterback Jordan love through four scoring passes during
the practice.
But the offense struggled inside the red zone.
The defense continued to dominate the offensive line and edge Russia Rashan Gary looked
poise for a good season.
Both kickers were strong.
The opening game is now 25 days away and less than a week away from the very first preseason
game on Saturday.
Here is coach Matt Leflore.
Everybody have fun out there?
What an atmosphere man.
It just it never gets old going in the Lambo and you know for some of our new guys like
a guy like X or Josh Jacobs and obviously all the rookies I don't think these guys have
experienced something like this so I think it was definitely a special night for them.
Leflore says it is unique to the Packers there's always a good and bad to it you know certainly
I thought there was some first of all it was a very vanilla playbook I would say on
both sides so we're just want our guys to go out there and play fast compete so what they
can do but it'll be similar probably to how we approach the preseason you don't want
to show two months.
Badger's coaches say freshman running Mac Derri and Dupri is impressing them in practices
even though Chez Malussi and Tui Walker are expected to get most of the touches this season.
Dupri has shown solid past receiving skills and quick footwork with the ability to break
tackles.
Assistant coach Kenny Gaiton says Dupri is a different breed saying you know something
is about to happen when the 5 9 220 pounder has the ball in his hands.
No Allials won the Olympic 100 meters by 500th of a second Sunday waiting some 30 seconds
after the finish of a very close sprint to find out he had beaten Cushain Thompson of
Jamaica.
The word photo popped up on the scoreboard after Liles and Thompson dashed to the finish
line.
The United States closed out Olympic swimming with a wide range of emotions.
The Americans set two world records on the final night winning the gold medal count over
rival Australia and easing the sting of the first loss ever in the men's 4x100 meter
relay.
Scotty Sheffler is the best player in golf and has an Olympic gold medal to show for
it.
The world's number one player stormed from behind with a 62 for a one shot victory over
Tommy Fleetwood.
I'm Philney.
That's an update on sports for a Monday morning.