I'm Filney with sports. The Ridge and Valley Conference wrestling duels will be held tonight.
DeSoto, Ithaca, Weston, Kickaboo LeFarge, Youth Initiative, Peccatonica, Argyle, River Ridge.
All will be at North Crawford, hosted by North Crawford, Seneca. They will get their season of
dual meets in for the year tonight. And that will be again at North Crawford Schools,
Ridge and Valley, dual meet night. Girls basketball, Kickaboo is at Seneca and North Crawford at
Ithaca. Cuba City is at Riverdale and Phenomore at Southwestern. Iowa Grant at Darlington,
Middle Appointed, Boschabell. Royal travels to Bangor,
Cashton at Nacita, New Lisbon at Brookwood, Hillsborough at Westby, that is Hillsborough at
Wadiwalk Center, Highland at Scholesburg, and Readsburg at Portage. Boys basketball Wisconsin
Heights at New Glarest, River Ridge at Castville, Barnavelle at Blackhawk, and Scholesburg at Benton,
Highland is at Potosi, Readsburg at Saug Prairie. It's Prairie Dushin at Dodgeville,
and Landcaster visits River Valley. Plus, Richland Center is home against Plattville.
Second time in the round against the conference foes, and the Hornets lost Plattville,
the first time out. Earlier in the season, Plattville's league leading have not been the beaten
in the conference this year. They have four losses overall. And as far as the game plan,
and things coach Brian Poles talked to us earlier this week about the Hornets trying to improve
their inside outside game, and especially shots from the outside. Playing inside first,
and then taking those threes outside, we're not the type of team that's built to do that the
other way around. We're going to look to see if we can get in the paint. You know,
Jayden has really, Jayden Shep has really made some strides this year. Percentage-wise,
he had a nice game against Lodai shooting from the outside. And really for him, we talked about,
it does come down to that shot selection. When he has his feet set, when he gets that pass,
whether it's ball reversal or from the paint, his percentage is so much better. And he's
getting better at that. It's fun to watch him on a nightly basis. Start to slowly figure out
those little things. I'm looking forward to his continued improvement. But you're right,
we need to have that consistency. It's a big part of the game. It's a game changer. So for us to
get more consistent, we really need that in the last four or five weeks of the season.
The Hornets had eight in eights going into the game tonight against Plattville. We'll have the
action on FM 100.9 and WRCO.com pregame time around 715. Richland Sports Medicine is out with its
athletes for the month, the month of December. And those athletes were nominated by their coaches.
The names were also voted on by a panel of the in the area. And we are pleased to announce
the December of the month, athletes of the month names West Bosworth, Richland center boys,
basketball player and Holly King, Ithaca girls basketball player. Congratulations to both
weaths and also Holly on being recognized as athletes of the month courtesy of Richland Sports
Medicine, recognizing outstanding achievements at the schools that they serve.
Richland center church league volleyball results from this week. Week nine matches,
they were played Monday and Tuesday nights. In the eight division, Richland Baptist Temple
won top previously undefeated St. John's two games to one. Free Methodist one, down Bethel Lutheran,
two games to one. Avocal Bible church one had a buy. Bula Wesleyan swept five points Lutheran
two games to none in the B division. Richland Baptist Temple two knocked off Hidden Valley
Community two, two games to one. Avocal Bible church two, top Grace Community one, two games to one.
Richland Baptist Temple three, blank free Methodist two, two games to none.
Basketball Assembly of God, down Grace Community two, two games to none. Richland Baptist Temple
four, got by Church of the Nazarene two, two games to one and Church of the Nazarene one,
beat Bula Wesleyan two, two games to none. Only two weeks of regular season matches remain.
Action continues next week on Monday and Tuesday and then the makeup matches the following week
February 10th and 11th. Bowling Scores report from the merchants league at Phoenix Center last
night. Phoenix Center had the top series 28 20. Jones Chevrolet 28 16 and AutoZone a 2782. Top
game Walsh's Ace Hardware a 1025. Bubbling Springs 1000 and four and Jones Chevrolet a 981. Top
series Greg Shepp a 740. Jason Gerner rolled a 727 and Jacob Kramer a 672. Top game Greg Shepp
267. Jason Gerner a 266. And Jeff Seckman with a 259 in the merchants bowling league.
The Badgers failed to hold a 5.5 time lead in Wednesday's 7668 loss to Barron.
That's two losses in the last three games. The Terrapins used a 14-to-2 run to take control of
the game and built the lead to double digits at one point. John Tanje top Wisconsin with 23 points.
Poor shooting doomed the Badgers as the record fell to six and four in the big 10 conference
and 17 and five overall. Coach Greg Guards team is on the road again Saturday with a game
at Northwestern. He commented last night that the wheels came off for the Badgers in the second half.
I didn't think we started the second half real well because we gave up a three to Miguel to start it
and then we filed a three point shooter. So we gave him a little confidence and momentum early but
thought the stretch were he got away from us. We had three or four possessions in a row where we
missed some pretty easy looks. Some of them point blank, some good looks from three and then they
were able to answer. Coach Guards talked more about the loss. You know against a really good team on
the road you obviously have to take care of the ball which I thought we did a much better job
the second half and then you've got to be able to make some plays and make shots. You know we shot
the line on characters to clip poor tonight than what we have all year. You know credit to Maryland in
terms of they made things more difficult for us. They made some shots. The Badgers again will be
in action on Saturday. Number one Auburn was winner over LSU last night 87 to 74. It was a win for
Alabama over number 14 Mississippi State 88 84 in ranked college basketball. The Badger women's
basketball team picked up a victory last night a big big 10 win 82 75 over Michigan and the
Marquette women's team 67 38 over Xavier in state men's college basketball. Platteville over
Oshkosh 86 73 lacrosse beats out 90 to 53. Oh Claire 71 River Falls 58 Stevens point 83 white
water 52 as well. The Wisconsin men's hockey team is preparing for a border battle this weekend
against arch rival Minnesota just in time for the big 10 series. The Badgers have joined the US
C H O dot com top 20 at number 17 for the first time this year. The number four golfers will bring
a 10 4 and 2 conference record into the game. Junior forward Jimmy Snuggaroo leads the way with 18
goals and 19 assists. Also gold tender Nathan Erie has an 11 and four record and Packer Safety
Xavier McKinney predicts his teammate Quay Walker will soon be recognized as the best linebacker
in the NFL McKinney commented during an appearance on the NFL spotlight podcast. He says
Walker is already one of the best in the league. He started living up to the promise the second
half of 2024. The Green Bay front office has to decide whether to pick up or decline Walker's
fifth year option on his rookie contract. McKinney apparently sees that as an easy decision.
I'm Philney that's look at sports here on WRCO for a Thursday morning.
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We do have a sports cancellation to pass along tonight's kick-poo at Seneca Girls Basketball
game has been postponed. It will be made up on February 6th.
Filmy has a look at what's going on in high school sports this evening.
Area dual-mead wrestling is underway. The Ridge and Valley Conference duels are being held
at North Crawford High School, featuring host North Crawford Seneca this evening, River
Ridge, Pecantanica Argyle, Kikabool of Farge, Youth Initiative, Ithaca Weston, and Disodo.
In Area Girls Basketball, North Crawford at Ithaca, Cuba City at Riverdale, Phenomore
at Southwestern, Mineral Poit at Boscabel, and Iowa Grant at Darlington, Royal at Bangor,
Cashton at Nassita, New Lisbon at Brookwood, Hillsboro Visits 20 Walk Center, Highland
at Sholesburg, and Readsburg at Portage. In Moys Basketball, River Ridge at Cassville,
Barnabelle at Black Hawk, Sholesburg at Benton, Highland at Potosi, Readsburg Visits
at Sock Prairie, and at the Southwest Conference Prairie Dushin at Dodgeville, Landcaster at River
Valley, and Plantville Visits, Richland Center. Here is RC Coach Brian Pulse.
Playing at home always big, especially in these conference games, we want to just stick
around, keep it close, get it into that second half. The pressure is on them. They're
five and oh, they've got a nice lead in the conference, so we can come in confident and
loose and just give it our all and hopefully get it into that second half and make them
play a little bit tighter, and see if we can make some plays down the stretch.
Platteville at Richland Center, our featured game tonight in Moys Basketball with a pre-game
time-sponsored by a testing power sports beginning around 715. I'm Filney.
Platte Badgers failed to hold a five-point half-time lead in yesterday's 76-68 loss to
Maryland. That's two losses in the last three games. The Terrapins used a 14-to-2 run
to take control of the game and build the lead to double digits at one point.
John Tonjay's topped Wisconsin with 23 points. Poor shooting doomed the Badgers as their
record fell to six and four in the big 10 conference and 17 and five overall. Coach
Greg Dard's team is on the road again Saturday with a game at Northwestern. The Wisconsin
men's hockey team is preparing for a border battle weekend against Archrival Minnesota
just in time for the big 10 series that Badgers have joined. The number four golfers will
bring a ten four and two conference record into the game. Junior forward Jimmy Snuggerdug.
Stuggerd, I should say, leads the way with 18 goals and 19 assists in 28 games. Gold
tender Nathan Erie has an 11 and four record and 9.901 save per percentage and gives up
an average of two and a half goals per game. Packer's safety Xavier McKinney predicts his
teammate Quay Walker will soon be recognized as the best linebacker in the NFL. McKinney commented
during the appearance on the NFL spotlight podcast with host Ari Mirav. He says Walker is already
one of the best in the league. He started living up to his promise in the second half of the 2024
season. The Green Bay front office has to decide whether to pick up or decline Walker's five-year
option on his rookie contract. McKinney apparently sees this as an easy decision.
A solid senior season is helping Marquette Senior guard Cam Jones make his pitch for the NBA.
Jones is averaging almost 19 points more than six assists and just over four and a half
rebounds a game. It's possible he could become a lottery pick in the next draft. He scored in
double figures in every game. If he has a weakness it has been a falloff of his efficiency on
three pointers. Last year he was good on almost 41 percent. This year he's below 33 percent.
And former ball state coach Mike Neu has joined Illinois staff as a senior offensive assistant.
Neu went 40 and 63 at ball state from 2016 through 24. He was fired in November when ball state
had a three and seven record with two games remaining in its season. His 2020 ball state team
won a mid-american conference title and beat San Jose State in the Arizona ball. The first
ball victory in school history. The team finished 23rd in the associated press top 25. He previously
worked as quarterback coach Fort Elaine from 2012 through 13 and the New Orleans Saints from 2014
through 15. And once again we have the sports cancellation of the pass long tonight's kick-a-boo
at Seneca girls basketball game has been postponed. It will be made up on February 6th.
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