But sports time fill me high school girls wrestlers will be going to separate tournaments
this year.
There will be a conference tournament this weekend for a lot of area conferences.
And then regionals and sectionals will be held the Friday night before the boys wrestling
tournament.
So Friday night, the Southwest Conference SWAL clash, they've also added the scenic
region rivers this year.
The girls tournament, the conference tournament will be hosted by Belmont High School on Friday
night.
Richland center wrestling coach Darren Gunderson has been working primarily with the girls wrestlers
the last couple of years and I talked to him this week about how it's going and about
Richland center's recent girls invite this past Saturday.
You know, I went pretty well, like I said, we know we're trying to build that tournament
up a little bit.
Trying to get more girls involved.
We only set a little over 40 girls this year, a little bigger than last year, so each
year we're trying to build it up, add more teams and hopefully we can get that to be
a pretty nice size tournament.
So tell me about the girls that you currently have representing Richland center.
You know, we have four girls this year.
They're all very hard working and very impressed with them so far.
So we're looking for good things here coming into conference and regional time.
Hopefully we can get a couple through and possibly take a shot and get to state, but they
work very hard and it's a good group of kids.
Are you glad that there is a separate conference, regional and sectional this year?
I am.
I'm very happy with that.
The girls get the exposure they deserve and there are a lot of good wrestlers out there
than girls.
You know, they can compete with some of the boys, I think, very easily.
So it's nice to see and I'm glad to see that WA is finally getting that going and hopefully
they'll get bigger and bigger.
It looks like there will be a number of wrestlers Friday night with the addition of the
scenic Ridge and Rivers.
It should be a good tournament at Belmont, shouldn't it?
It should be.
It's going to be a very good one.
I guess there's a lot of good wrestlers coming in and like I said, a lot of them got
some good individuals.
I think there's only a couple who probably have some full teams, but like I said, it's
going to be some good competition for the girls.
Who do you look at as your leaders for the girls this year?
Madeline Muller, you know, like I said, she's coming in for her third year here and she's
been kind of the overall leader of the team.
She kind of takes other girls when there are wings and been doing a great job, but like
I said, Kylie Spilby and Mariah McBae, McDae, they're all coming along well good and
vows are our newest girl and like I said, she's really really getting into things too.
So like I said, we're very impressive all four of them.
Darren Gonduson, good luck to the girls wrestlers as they get ready for the conference tournament
on Friday night at Belmont High School.
On the schedule tonight and boys basketball, the Farge at North Crawford was Zika at was
Zika Stuban at Kickapoo and Seneca at Weston, Bangor visits Hillsboro, Nassita at Royal,
cashed in at Brookwood.
Riverdale plays at Phenomore, Iowa Granted, Darlington, mineral point at Cuba City and
Southwestern at Boscabel.
In the girls games tonight, Richland Center at Dodgeville, River Valley at Plattville,
Lancaster at Prairie Dushin, Veribout Travels to Stoten, Highland at River Ridge, Verokwa
at Westby and Wisconsin Heights at Bellville and was Zika Stuban at Ithaca.
That is a makeup game.
It will start at seven o'clock.
It's varsity only and we'll have a game on WRC-OFM 100.9 and WRC-O.com.
At Wednesdays, WIA Board of Control meeting, a group gave final approval for a plan that
makes significant changes to the high school football playoff structure, plus voted to
expand the eight player football postseason as well.
A point system would be used for each win a team accumulates during the season.
More points would be assigned for wins against higher division opponents.
This is considered the tier one points.
In addition, the points for each opponent that a team defeats would be added up to determine
the tier two points.
I brought in our high school sports expert Travis Wilson for more about that.
There's a few different components to it.
One of the interesting components is number one, you know your division before the season
starts in high school football now, which is not been the case previously.
It was the only sport where you didn't know for sure which division you might be in.
There were teams that were kind of on that proverbial bubble that maybe they're D4,
maybe they're D5, they don't know until the season is over.
So that's one of the things that coach is like, because you know your division ahead of time.
Once that is done and you know your division, now you know who you're competing against
other teams in your grouping or area could potentially be and you qualify within your division.
So instead of that mad race to figure out qualifiers on the last Friday of the season,
you know your division and now you just got to figure out if you're in or not.
And then furthermore, the system applies points for your wins based on the size of the team
that you beat. So you rewarded for beating bigger opponents if you can.
But then you're also rewarded based on your schedule and that's where what they
term the tier two points come in, which is essentially a strength of schedule metric,
where you add up the points of the teams that you defeated and that's a really significant
part of the plan. So long story short, win games and good things happen.
Right, I think that it probably changes things though about who you schedule though because
right, you're going to want to play tougher opponents and if you're a team that has not got a
good tradition, people might not want to play you, is that correct? There's some of that potentially,
but I think you know one of the other parts to it for qualifying, it always used to be that it
was based on your conference record and your conference finish, which you know you don't necessarily
have control over what conference you're in or the quality of your conference. And now your
two non-conference games are included in the evaluation and qualification process to get into
the playoffs. So you have a little bit more control. If you feel like you're in a tough conference
and you know you need to find some wins or you need to get some more points, you can go out
and schedule accordingly and find a game that makes sense for what your needs are.
Still, it takes two to tango, right? I mean, you've got to find somebody that wants to play you
and is willing to play you. That is hopefully a good competitive game. And I think
I think we'll hopefully see that continue where there's good non-conference matchups
that are competitive for both teams and not just to blow out one way or the other.
So if you have let's say three really quality wins over conference opponents with lots of wins
and somebody else is sitting there with four wins against teams that didn't win hardly anything,
you could go to the playoffs with less wins, right? Absolutely. The proposal was run against
last year's results. And again, because you qualify in your own division, you know, you're not
comparing everybody across the state anymore. You're just comparing the teams in your division.
And in some divisions are weaker than others. There's just, you know, that's just the way it works.
So you could have a team that finishes five and four overall in a division that's a stronger
division, but that team played really weak competition. And in a different division that's maybe
a little bit weaker, you could have a three and six team or even maybe a two and seven team get in
if they have quality wins get in in a different division. So it really does reward eating good
competition, not just racking up wins against sisters of the poor. That is Travis Wilson from
whizports.net. The 11, nothing vote in favor of eight player football expansion moves the number
of qualifiers from 16 teams to 32 beginning in 2025 with more than 70 total eight player teams and
more than 50 that are eligible for the playoffs. It brings the ratio of qualifiers to teams in line
with the 11 player divisions and they will start practice the same day this year as well.
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Max Crosby. Jacobs comment got quick pushback on X from wide receiver Jade and Reed then shortly
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