I'm Filney with sports. The Ithaca girls basketball team won its home opener 51 30 over
one Ewok center last night. It was the first win for the Lady Bulldogs after two losses last
week during the first week of the season. The wolves fell to one and two with the loss.
Ithaca sophomore JC Maxwell at Allscores with 23 15 of those in the first half.
Senior Tristan Peterson added nine sophomore Maley Plymer scored eight senior Maggie Kirschner
had five points including the team's only three point basket. Senior Holly King total two
baskets for four points and sophomore Kelsey Coleman had two points. The team shot four for seven
from the free throw line. For the Ewok center wolves senior Olivia Olsen and freshman Kendall
Row each had 10 points. Freshman Brynn Burns added eight including the team's only three pointer
and senior Addison Benish had two. The wolves were two for two from the free throw line.
Following Ithaca's 51 30 win they will prepare for the Ridge and Valley Conference opener on
Friday December 6th when they travel to Seneca. Wondering what center will open league play next week
against Royal. Kikapoo was a winner in a non-conference game 60 to 45 over Cashton leading the Panthers
Jaden Snagel with 16 Gwen Fredrickson added 11 Michaela Kaufman 10 Kennedy Brown paced Cashton
with 13 points. In other girls games new Lisbon over LaFarge Youth Initiative 53 40 Westby
got the win against Brookwood 40 to 36 River Ridge 46 Fenimore 23 it was Kikapoo 60 and Cashton 45
Prairie Dushine 51 Mount Horug 22 Highland 53 Iowa Grant 32 Southwestern 49 33 over Benton
and Barnabelle 43 34 over Darlington. There's plenty of basketball tonight. In fact girls basketball games
include Richland Center at Wisconsin Heights Belmont at Cuba City Lancaster at Darlington
Shoalsburg Dodgeville North Crawford travels to Riverdale this evening.
Verokwett Cashton Sparta at Barrowboo Dysoto at La Crescent it's Lodi taking on Wisconsin Dells
and River Valley travels to Potosi Casville for a non-conference game. Boys basketball teams in
the state can open up as early as this evening. Westby will be at Austin Ithaca opens up for
first year head coach Aaron Hipsch the bulldogs are at Royal. Weston is at Waniwak Center and
LaFarge visits Brookwood Riverdale travels to Seneca, Cashton at Kikapoo, Wisconsin Dells at
Portage River Valley is at Mount Horug as well Southwestern Hossar Gile also its landcaster at
Barnabelle Iowa Grant at Belmont Shoalsburg at Boscow Bell River Ridge at Fenimore and Richland
Center opens up with a home game against Verokwapp the Hornets scrimmage last Friday night
and I talked to coach Brian Pohl's about how it went. We got off the bus and we played
home on and there they're a big physical team and we really exerted ourselves and then
you we played the second one right away against Westby and they had just gotten off the bus
they were fresh and so that that really was you know it was a big factor in just how we perceived
how that went and so playing fatigue was a great lesson out of it and I think that you know we're
going to really benefit early on from from being able to play that. The Hornets as they start the
new season have some experience back from last year's team. We have really except for one senior
from last year everyone back all five starters you know we won one injury that that will also
affect us this year but you know so so much experience coming back and still you know some some
young experience. Jaden Shep's going to be the starting point guard again as a sophomore you know
probably two juniors two seniors you know similar to how we started things last year so still
not a really senior dominated team but definitely have a great group of seniors who've had a lot
of experience and and now that everyone has had that year together we're we're really looking to
have a nice step forward this season. Can I ask Coach Paul's about tonight's opponent Varroqua?
Well they they do have some some talent coming back you know three starters from last year
I think the the thing about Varroqua is that they don't have as much depth as coming back you know
you look at us we just talked about that you know we we've got all five starters coming back and
you know we've got two or three guys that that have experience coming off our bench that's not
going to be the case for Varroqua but at the top you know McDowell's a guard he he was injured
last year in our tournament game he hurt his knee but he's coming back as a senior he's going to
have a great year he's a really really good player they got a couple of of kids on the inside coming
back six four and then just a really strong a forward senior that that played a good role for them
last year so this is going to be a really good test I think it's probably too fairly evenly matched
teams and we played each other you know twice last year so I think we know each other pretty well
really interested after our good week of practice last week I'm excited to actually see what we
look like in this first game Richland center host Varroqua will have it for you on the radio
tonight our vites Nick power sports pregame show begins around 715 major bowling league last night
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the major bowling league improved defense is getting a lot of the credit for the box recent surge
the team has won six times in its last seven games opponents are shooting just under 43 percent
in those games the improvement can be dated back to coach doc rivers decision to inject some hustle
and energy by leaning on the young players on the roster the box bench has been a positive as
well they'll be hosting Miami coming up this evening fresh off a 38 10 win over the 49ers the
Packers could be facing something similar to the 49ers when they'll be missing a couple of key
players possibly on Thursday night against the dolphins a concussion will keep Romeo dobs on
the sideline green base first injury report of the week reveals the quarterback Jair Alexander
and linebacker Edger and Cooper aren't taking part in practice there are questions about the
health of linebacker Isaiah McDuffie the dolphins have looked impressive as they get set for the
battle against green bay at Lambo field that is going to cap off the Thanksgiving feast of games
on Thursday evening last night Lamar Jackson threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score
Derek Henry rushed for 140 yards and Baltimore coach John Harbaugh improved to three in
all against his brother as the Ravens beat Jim Harbaugh's Los Angeles Chargers 30 to 23 it was the
first match up between the Harbaugh's since Super Bowl 47 in February of 2013 the manager of
football team prepares for the battle for Paul Bunyan's acts it's a Friday morning kickoff this
week in Camp Randall Stadium the Bancher's had defensive lapses and coach Luke fickle addressed
that when we've had our lapses that's where it's been that's why I said it's it might be hard to
pinpoint like it's not some schematic thing it's a little bit easier once you watch to say okay
guys we guys got to get back to the basics of what we do and making sure we're leveraging a football
we're tackling and playing more sound I mean in square so you know sounds like a simple thing but
that doesn't always make it the easiest thing to correct up and he says the players have to get
fired up for these border battles and rivalries in the big 10 we've got guys within this program we've
got guys that it's meant the world to them they've bled it whether it is Casey you know I mean there's
a lot of guys that you know are new here that if they don't understand shame on them because we
talked about in fall camp we talked about in spring football I'm not one of those that think that
because somebody comes in and gives him a raw raw speech that all of a sudden things are going to
change you know it means it held a lot more when it comes from Aaron wit or somebody within your
own program pregame time Friday morning at 9 a.m. on WRC EFM 107.7 and AM 1450 a three win week push
the badgers up for spots in the associated press basketball pole to number 15 Wisconsin's first
appearance in the pole was at 19 last week Marquette did even better jumping from number 15 to
number 10 after grabbing an upset win over Purdue I'm Philney with sports.