I'm Felney for WRCO sports.
River Valley picked up a 52-42 win over Riverdale and area girls basketball Monday night.
It was an on-conference battle between the two teams that continued great improvement
during the season.
The Black Hawks improved a 6-6 on the season after taking a lead for good late in the first
half.
They were up 25-17 at intermission and built a 19-point lead before Riverdale chipped
their way back to within eight in the last minute.
Riverdale fell to 9-4 on the season with the loss.
Black Hawks scoring came from Ella Myers and Brooklyn Stokes, who each totaled 12.
Lexi Divini added 11, Karina Osborne had 8, Mackenzie Woodhouse 4, and Heidi Hegglin total
3 points.
River Valley struggled to the free throw line as they went 8-4-23 for the game.
Riverdale's Kennedy-Couille had all scores with 16.
He made 4-3 pointers and was 4-4 from the line, Zuri Dennis and Macy McKay each had
6.
Allie Goplin put in 5, Mallory Meece 3, Bailey Harris, Kaitlyn Meece and Lily Barr each
had 2.
The chieftains were 9-4-15 from the line.
Riverdale won the JV game 47-32 over River Valley.
Following the 52-42 win, River Valley will travel to Richland Center on Friday night.
When they return to the Southwest Conference, Riverdale will stay busy with a home game against
Waniwak Center tonight and a trip to Darlington on Thursday.
Ithaca got a win at home against Royal 54-44.
Hillsboro over LaFarge, Youth Initiative 56-14.
It was Potosi Castville beating Dodgeville 44-39, Midrall 0.75, Mount Horab 58, Oregon over
Cuba City 71-44.
To Soto 60, Brookwood 42, Wisconsin Heights 48, Judah 39, Edgewood 74, Wisconsin Dells
45.
Boys basketball, Richland Center was a winner, a non-conference Monday night game against
Waseka Stuban 64-35.
The Hornets will travel to Lancaster for a conference game on Thursday night.
Highland 95, Peccatonic of 59, Royal 56, Nesita 19.
River Ridge 66, Belmont 39, Verrocua over Brookwood 71-36, Judah beat Black Hawk 67-51,
Potosi 60, Scholesberg 33, Benton 65, Castville 38, Monroe 69, New Glarris 58, and Barnavelle
over Monticello 64-23.
There are games in the area tonight.
First of all, the boys' schedule, Kikapu plays at Ithaca.
To Soto at North Crawford, Waseka Stuban at Weston, LaFarge at Seneca, McFarland at
Readsburg.
Iowa Grant at Mineral Point, Riverdale at Darlington, Boscuebell at Cuba City, East
Dubuque visits Lancaster.
Edgewood at Barrowboo, River Valley at Wisconsin Dells, the Westby boys at West Salem, its Brookwood
at Royal, Hillsborough at Nesita, New Lisbon at Cacheden, Wisconsin Heights at Madison
Country Day.
During girls' basketball, Cambridge at Wisconsin Heights tonight, Barrowboo at Point
at, Darlington at Plattville, Potosi Castville visits Scholesberg.
Waseka Stuban at River Ridge, Waniwok center at Riverdale.
Girls' basketball also includes Seneca at Hillsborough, Cacheden at Westby, LaFarge at
Verrocua, Southwestern at Lancaster, Belmont at Highland, and Kikapu visits Richland
center.
Kikapu's coach by a long-time coach, Eric Wiegel.
This is gone, you know, kind of how I thought it would go when you look at the players you
have returning and you look at the schedule and you think, yeah, I think we're going to
be pretty good and at ten and three, I would say that's, you know, a pretty solid start
to our season.
We started it a little rough.
We started off one and three, but we did play in that mix, Scholesberg who's very good
and we played Waseka who's very good, but since that game against Waseka in early December
we've been able to run off night in a row.
You're going to be a challenge to maybe a little bit more in the region Valley this
year, aren't you?
Yeah, of course, Waseka's been very good now for about ten years and they are, they continue
to be with, they only have one loss, they lost a Lancaster early.
The up and coming team seems to be the Soto.
They have some very good young players.
The best one being Kylie Venner, she was first team on conference last year as a freshman.
They've only lost three or four games this year, so they're currently in third place
in the region Valley.
Tick-A-Poo is at Richland Center and Girls Basketball this evening.
We'll have the call at FM100.9 and WRCO.com.
Major bowling league action last night, Lonesome Dove Tavern had a 35-14, Vanity Fur grooming
34-77, Cardinal CG 34-71, Vanity Fur grooming a 12-47 game, Lonesome Dove Tavern a 12-21,
Cardinal CG 12-05.
Top series, Todd Gruber with a 679, Ken Nick's Jr. a 662, Ken Nick's Senior 651.
High game honors, Todd Gruber a 268, Chase Keller a 258, Ken Nick's Senior a 257.
Steve Hambold a 560-101 over average, the City Tournament runs next week and there
are a few spots available to enter.
Please contact your league secretary to enter that officially at the Phoenix Center.
Marquette goes for its 6th grade victory in tonight's biggest conference game at DePaul.
The Golden Eagles come in rated 7th in the country.
Cam Jones is the top scorer at 19.7 points per ball game.
DePaul is trying to snap a 4-game losing streak.
The Wisconsin men's basketball team is riding the hot hand of Senior Center Steven Crawl
as it welcomes Ohio State to the cold center this evening.
Tip of a set for 6pm on WRC EFM 107.7 at AM 1450.
Over the last 5 games, Crawl is scoring 16.6 points per outing, hitting 76% from the field,
54% on his 3-pointers and a perfect 13-4-13 from the free-throw line.
The buck-eye is coming to the game with a 10-6 record, Junior Guard Bruce Thornton,
average is almost 18 points per game.
The bucks get back to action tonight.
Yannis Antenacumpo says the team has been horrible against the top teams in the NBA Eastern
Conference.
Milwaukee has no wins after eight contests against the Cavaliers, Celtics, and the Knicks.
The Knicks put a 34-point beat down on the bucks over the weekend, dropping them into
6th place in the standings.
Yannis insists his team is still better now than it was the first time it lost to the Knicks.
Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes and the Rams overwhelm the Vikings, sacking
Sam Darnold and NFL playoff record tying 9 times to win 27-9 on Monday night.
The game moved to Arizona because of the devastating wildfires.
Sam Darnold's Renaissance push Minnesota and one of the NFL's best records offering
the hope of a deep playoff run, a disappointing night in the desert, Rammed Darnold and the
Vikings.
Out of the postseason, Darnold was ineffective for most of his first playoff start losing
two turnovers while being sack those nine times.
Steady for most of the turnaround season, Darnold finished 25 of 39 passing for 245 yards
with a touchdown and an interception.
One of the sacks caused a fumble that was returned 57 yards for a touchdown.
Packer's cornerback, Keisha Nixon tells reporters he wants to focus on defense from now on.
He says that a dire has nothing to do with his critical fumble on the opening kickoff
against the Eagles.
He just wants to look ahead.
Future is bright.
We have 31 turnovers, top five defense in every category and that was just a start.
That's also just buying in to what the coaches was bringing in.
That's only one year under the system so next year excitation is going to be even more.
By the way, a replay showed Nixon recoveries fumble on the kickoff but a review did not
support overturning the original call.
And the Packers tied in, Tucker Kraft reflected and looked ahead.
Personally just just continue to develop.
I think complacency is a constant cat in mouse game.
You just got to find a way every morning to get up and win that battle and I'm going
to get some rest.
You know, I'm very fortunate.
The violence I play with that I was able to make it out relatively healthy and I'll
just take a couple weeks off and get back at it.
The Packers talking yesterday as they were cleaning out their lockers.
I'm Phil Lee for WRC Sports.