I've filled me with sports. The Ithaca boys basketball team hosted Southwestern in a non-conference
battle last night and the Wildcats came back to win 62-56. Ithaca led the majority of minutes
after jumping ahead 13-12. They were up 37-31 at halftime and led by 9-3 times in the second half
before the Wildcats made a comeback. Leading 56-48 with 4-29 left, Ithaca would not score another point.
Against a physical defense and Southwestern finished the game on a 14-nothing run.
The Bulldogs were coming off a two-point overtime loss to North Crawford Tuesday night
and the Wildcats were fresh from a 103-point scoring night against Iowa Grant on Tuesday.
Aiden Kellerher led the with 17 points for the Wildcats and Jack Rundee added 10.
The team was 11-24 from the line. Ithaca was paced by Devon Eim, who knocked down 19
and Sammy Clary with 17, including three of the team's 6-3 pointers. Cody Burns and West Nelson
each had seven, Casey Palmer in four, Houston bowl in two. The Bulldogs were two for seven from
the line. Southwestern won the JV game 51-30 against Ithaca. Following the 62-56 varsity win,
both teams have conference games tonight. The Bulldogs now two and three on the season will play at
Weston. Southwestern is four and one and will host Riverdale.
Elsewhere in Boys Basketball, Verolqua, Over Black River Falls, 63-57, Arcadia 62,
Westby 57. It was LaCrosse Logan over Mauston, 61-44, LaCrosse Central Beach,
Sock Prairie, 60-48. It was a win from an overall point over Riverdale last night, 78-25.
The Riverdale Chiefs led by Alighoplin's 10 points, followed by Macy McKay with six and
Bailey Harris four. The Chiefs will travel to Cuba City next Tuesday night. In other action from
the SWAL, it was a game for Cuba City over Iowa grant 78-30 in the Southwest Conference
Lancaster 64-21 over Richland Center, Prairie Dushin 63, River Valley 16,
Plattville 65-35, over Dodgeville. Phenomore was a winner against Boscabel 59-54.
Kickaboo 63-58 over to Soto, Ithaca lost to Azika Stuban 58-26. North Crawford 46-18,
over LaFarge, Bangor 67-43 against Cashton, Brookwood 42-33 against Waniwak Center,
a win last night as well for Darling Sin over Southwestern 62-41.
On the schedule tonight in Boys Basketball, mostly boys games in the area,
Cashton and Ducita, New Lisbon at Royal Hillsboro at Waniwak Center, also tonight
Wozika Stuban at Ducido, LaFarge at Kickaboo, North Crawford at Seneca, Ithaca at Weston,
Lodi at Wisconsin Heights, Riverdale's at Southwestern, Mineral Point at Darlington,
Iowa grant at Boscabel, Dodgeville visits Prairie Dushin, River Valley at Landcaster,
Richland Center, and Plattville. The Hornets are coming off a win against Wisconsin Heights on
Monday night. Here's Coach Brian Pulse. Like the improvement, we're not shooting the ball the
greatest from outside the paint, so we're talking about what's our shot selection there,
and I think it's been okay. We just have been a little unlucky in missing some of those open
jumpers. So those are the things that we were talking about coming out of the ice game.
I asked Brian about Plattville. Plattville still returns quite a bit from a very good
sectional final team last year. The Conference MVP is back, Lucas Ludlam is a
guard player for them. He's a fantastic player. They have another all-conference player coming back.
They did lose a lot of their size. They're going to want to play really fast. They're going to
pick us up full court. They're going to mix it up between a full court man, full court run,
and jump. So we've been talking about and working on how we handle that. It's going to be a big
key in the game if we can, if we can over the course of the entire game, handle that pressure
and be able to get into a half court. That's going to determine where we're at coming down the
stretch there in the second half. So we've got to withstand that. They're going to want to run
in transition. So we've got to be ready for that transition defense. Overall, they're
going to throw a number of kids at us, just kind of waves, and we've got to be able to play
at our pace and not let them speed us up. So definitely, one more practice before to prepare,
and those are the things we're working on. Here are the games tonight on WRC Radio,
Richland Center at Plattville Boys Basketball. Wrestling action last night, it was Belmont
Plattville over Riverdale 45-31. Riverdale defeated Riveridge on the mat, 48-23. Belmont Plattville 71-6
over Riveridge. In wrestling action going on tonight, the Richland Center girls will be at
Watakee, and there'll be a JV portion at Middleton as well. Richland Center boys are at Tomah
tomorrow, River Valley with girls wrestlers at Woodside Complex tonight, and they'll be at
Watakee High School tomorrow. The Riverdale boys will be at Whitewater tomorrow, and the
Ithico Weston teams. In fact, the girls wrestlers go to Wisconsin Dells, Woodside Complex tonight,
and tomorrow, Ithico Weston is at LaCrosse Logan. Bully Scores from the Coffee Clutch League,
Series High 3 ACES 1799, Spare Parts 1696, ILK 1613, 3 ACES 646, and 6009, Spare Parts 591.
Top Series Judy Skelly 460, DN Kepler 457, Cheryl McNerlin 451.
Barbara Burns with the Top Game 190, DN Kepler 189, Judy Skelly 172, Judy at a 310 split pickup
in the Coffee Clutch bowling league. Merchants league this week, Garner Farms 2991,
Premier Co-op 2878, Bubbling Springs 2819, Garner Farms with the Top Game 1089 and 1011,
Premier Co-op 898, Individual Top Series, Jason Garner 749, Eli Cannon 715, Greg Shepp and
Jeff Seckman with 694s, The Top Game, Jason Garner 279 and 269, and Jeff Seckman with a 268,
and Eli Cannon with a 263 game, Warwick Wolf a 257 in the Merchants League. And from last
night's All Star League, the Missfits 2937, Julie Karen State Farm 2936, Advanced Pump and
Well 2853, the Missfits with a 1052, Julie Karen State Farm, a 1004, and it was Advanced Pump
and Well with a 1003, Top Series Jason Garner 708, Travis Bushley 702, Chris Pardoon and Ken Nick
Senior with 660s, Top Game, Jason Garner 276, Elijah Cannon 257, Chris Pardoon with a 255,
Additional Highlights, Jesse Morris with a 560 series, 119 over average, Bodie Hillishim with a 484,
118 over average, Rich McConkey bold a 425, 101 over average, and Jordan Slaney with a 655, 97 over
average in the All Star League. The bucks take on the Atlanta Hawks tomorrow in the semi-finals
of the NBA Cup in season tournament, and also the Badger Men's Basketball team getting set for
action as they will be playing tomorrow against the Butler Bulldogs. You're listening to sports
on a Friday from WRCO.
