Good morning, I'm Phil Neve for WRCO Sports. The Richland Center boys basketball team picked up a 61-52 win
over visiting River Valley on Thursday night. The Hornets took a 31-25 lead
and went up by as many as 17 in the second half before the Black Hawks whittled it back to a
nine-point deficit at the end. Richland Center's senior West Bosworth let all game scorers with 19 points
and gave a strong performance, helping to control the boards. Sophomore Jaden Shepp added 14,
including two three pointers. Liam Fingerson totaled 13, Brady Dosh scored eight,
Garrison Y sat at six, and Cutler Palmer had one point, the Hornets were 11 of 18 from the free
throw line. River Valley was led by senior Houston Fatcher with 13, Jackson Fatcher at at 11,
and Lucas Klein scored 10. Sam Poppy had six points. Caleb Brackenberg and Keegan Heiser
each scored five, and Quincy Blakely made a three-pointer, the Black Hawks were 11 of 21 from the line.
River Valley won the JV-1 game 48-40 over the Hornets. With a 61-52 varsity win,
Richland Center is now five and four overall, and one and one in the conference. They will host
Kenosha Indian Trail on Saturday afternoon. The men's alumni games will start at 8 a.m.,
and will lead right into the JV-1 action at 130. Varsity will follow around three.
River Valley is now five and three overall, and one and one in the Southwest Conference.
They will play at Phenomore on Monday night. In other conference action from the Southwest,
Lancaster 59, Dodgeville 55, and Plattville beat Prairie Dushin 71-27.
It was a win for Seneca over Kickapoo 64-51, in the Ridge and Valley, and Ithaca was a winner
against Wazika Stuban at Final 46-35. Devon Eim led Ithaca with all scores and 24 points,
and Cooper Lomis had 21 for the host Hornets. Riverdale boys beat LaFarge 65-45 on Thursday.
Bevan Dennis had 25 points, Owen Blankenship had at 19 for the Chieftains, William Wertz scored 17 for LaFarge.
It was a win for River Ridge over Barnabelle 61-39.
Girls basketball last night. Riverdale improved his 7-3 on the season with a 53-23 win over
LaFarge. They were led by Zuri Dennis' 13 points, which included two-three pointers.
Macy McKay scored 11, and they had 10 girls score overall. The score was 18-8 at the half,
and they went on a nice run at the 14-minute mark of the second half to pull away.
Riverdale with the girls basketball win. Black Hawk 54, Highland 40, Luthor over Cashton 59-37.
Cuba City 61, Belleville 46, Potosi Castfield 58, Judah 39, Wisconsin-Aid Speed Monroe 44-40.
It was Mauston 54, Barrow Booth 35, Spartas 67-44 over GT, and East Dubuque beat Benton 61-39.
Tonight will be on hand in Richland Center High School, as the Hornet Girls play host to Dodgeville
in Southwest Conference Action. Both teams searching for their first conference wins.
Prairie Dushin will be at Landcaster, Platteville at River Valley.
Brookwood travels to a Zika Stuban in Girls Basketball.
DuSoto is at New Lisbon for a boys and girls double header, and Hillsborough visits Westby.
Boys basketball tonight, Riverdale is at Boscombella's Varsity Only, and the game will start
at 6 p.m. Iowa granted Cuba City, mineral point at Phenomore, Southwestern visits Darlington.
Iowa Grand is at Cuba City. Ithaca travels to Waterloox Center, Westby at Hillsborough,
Mauston at Nacusa, Kikapu at Royal, Readsburg at Barrow Booth, Cashton at Seneca,
and Peccatonic at Travels to Shoalsburg. Ithaca Weston Girls wrestlers will be at Mauston this evening.
In bowling scores from the coffee clutch league yesterday, the spare parts had an 1817 series,
three aces, 1792, ILK, a 1723, high game honors, three aces, 708, spare parts,
660, and a 634. Top series, individually, Jean Nix, 501, Pat Adams, 499, Irene,
Klatztovi, a 468. Top game, Jean Nix, 246, Pat Adams, 198, Irene, Klatztovi, a 188.
Dianne Kepler had a 1-2-7 split pickup, and MacaVic with a 4-5, and Jean Nix, a 7-10,
in coffee clutch bowling. Last night, week 17 of 32 in the All-Star
bowling league, the misfits had the top series, 2758, Advanced Pump, and Well, 2745,
Lonesome Dovtavern at 2714 series. High game honors, the misfits, 1077, Pioneer Print Company,
a 979, Lonesome Dovtavern at 974. Top series, it was Chris Pardoon with a 650,
Ethan Haffner, 632, Travis Bushley, a 624. Top individual game, Chris Pardoon, 248,
Jake Morris, 243, Kevin Genthea, 239, and Addison Pardoon, bold as 619, 106, above average.
The box dropped a close one at home, Thursday night, 113, 110, to the Brooklyn Nets.
The visitors built a big lead, a little over three minutes into the second half, 8359,
but Milwaukee came roaring back to make it close. The score was 111, 110,
one a pair of free throws by Zeyer Williams, clinched it with six seconds left.
Yannis Anthony Cumpo produced a double double with 27 points, and 13 rebounds.
Damien Lillard scored 23. Portland visits Pfizer Forum coming up on Saturday.
Elsewhere in the NBA, it was a win for Indiana over Miami, 128, 115, Boston 118, Minnesota 115,
Oklahoma City over the Clippers, 116, 98, Golden State 139 Philadelphia 105, the Lakers over
Portland 114 to 106. The Badgers open the 2025 portion of their schedule
with a Friday home game against the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa carries a 10-3 overall record,
and has split two big 10 conference games. The Hawkeyes are second in the country,
scoring nearly 90 points a game. Sophomore Owen Freeman, average is just over 17,
and senior Peyton Sanford comes in at 16.5. Tip off is set for 6 o'clock tonight at the
Cole Center. You're the game on WRC, EFM 107.7, and AM 14.50. Last night Perdue, a winner against
Minnesota 81-61, and Illinois 177 over Oregon. College football, Notre Dame got the win against
Georgia 23-10, and it was Mississippi 52-20 over Duke.
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Philany has a look at the area's local sporting events for this evening.
Among the area events, Ithaca Weston is at Boston for girls wrestling tournament action
tonight.
Boys Basketball Riverdale is at Moscow Bell, that's a varsity only event and the game
gets underway at six o'clock.
Iowa Grant at Cuba City, mineral point plays at Phenomore and Southwestern at Darlington.
Ithaca is at one o'clock center in boys basketball.
Westby at Hillsboro, Austin at Nacusa, Kikapu is its royal.
Readsburg at Barrowboo, Cashton at Seneca, and Pecatonica at Scholesberg.
In girls basketball, Hillsboro at Westby, DeSoto at New Lisbon for both boys and girls,
Brookwood at Wazika Stuban, and in the Southwest Conference, Plattville at River Valley, Prairie
to Sheen is at Lancaster, Dodgeville is at Richland Center, where Hornet coach Jeremy
Kui says his team has been improving game by game.
The one thing that we love to see as the coaches is the girls been going out there and fighting.
In the one thing we talk about on, you know, especially the defensive end of the court is,
you know, defensive and attitude and that's something that we can bring every single night
even if our shop might be off for the night.
So while we've been working into our offense and getting that dialed in, what I'd love
to see is the effort that the girls are putting on the court every night.
Here the action tonight on WRCO FM 100.9 and WRCO.com, Dodgeville at Richland Center
in area girls basketball.
I'm Filney.
And tomorrow in high school basketball action, the Richland Center Hornet's boys will be
hosting Kenosha Indian Trail in the afternoon.
And before that game, the men's alumni game will start at 8 a.m. at the high school.
So it'll be the alumni game going on tomorrow and that will lead right into the JV1 action
at 130 and then the varsity will follow at around 3 p.m.
The Bucks dropped a close one at home last night, 113 to 110 to the Brooklyn Nets.
The visitors built a big lead a little over 3 minutes into the second half.
They had the score of 83 to 59, but Milwaukee came rolling back and made it close.
The score was 111 to 110 when a pair of free throws by Zair Williams clinched it with
6 seconds left.
Janisantut Kupo produced a double double with 27 points and 13 rebounds, Damian Lillard
scored 23, Portland visits the Pfizer forum tomorrow.
College hockey in January means ice skates and win at least for this weekend.
Wisconsin's men's and women's hockey teams skate outdoors tomorrow as part of the frozen
confines big 10 hockey series.
The men will be trying to earn a split in their series with Michigan State after a 4-3
lost on Thursday night.
The women blanked Ohio State 6 to nothing last night and will be going for the sweep at
Chicago's Wrigley Field.
This is the first outdoor hockey game for the men in nearly 12 years and for the women
since 2010.
Luke Getsy is returning to the roots and helping the Green Bay Packers after getting fired
as the Las Vegas Raiders offensive coordinator earlier this season.
Getsy had worked on Green Bay staff from 2014 to 17 and again from 2019 through 21.
He was the Packers quarterbacks coach on Matt Leflore's staff when Aaron Rogers won
back to back MVP awards back in 2020 and 2021.
He's now he's helping out from a different perspective by monitoring the Packers' defense.
Getsy attended Green Bay's practice today as the playoff bound Packers prepare for their
regular season finale with the Chicago Bears.
Three Packers have been named to the NFC roster for the 2025 Pro Bowl.
The game will take place on February 2nd in Orlando.
Green Bay players participating in the annual game will be running back Josh Jacobs, defensive
and Roshan Gary and safety Xavier McKinney.
For the first time since he was a rookie starter in 2018, Kansas City Chief's quarterback
Matt Patrick Mahomes isn't included.
His favorite target, future Hall of Fame titan Travis Kelsey is.
A teenage pitcher for the Brewers has been picked by the CBS Sports as a breakout candidate
for the 2025 season.
New Jersey native Bryce McAjee was a second round pick, scouts say the 6 foot 4 210 pound
right handed, has a mid 90s fastball and above average secondary pitches, but he sometimes
has command struggles.
He will be assigned to the minors next spring.
And in the first round of the college football playoff, the teams seated 5 and 8 will all
1.
In the second round, they all 1 again.
The moral of the story is, who knows other than something doesn't totally add up when
not a single one of the top four teams, all of which received buys advanced to the college
football final 4.
The semifinals are set next Thursday in the orange bowl.
It will be number 6 Penn State versus number 7 Notre Dame.
Then Friday in the cotton bowl, it will be number 5 Texas versus number 8 Ohio State.
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