I'm Phil Ne for WRCO sports.
The Southwest Wisconsin Conference.
All conference girls basketball players have been announced this week.
Platteville and Prairie Dushine tied at nine and one during the regular season,
taking the co-conference championship.
Lancaster was six and four, River Valley four and six, Dodgeville two and eight,
and Richland center zero and ten in the Southwest Conference.
First team all conference girls, players, including Jessica Morgan of Lancaster,
along with Rihanna Die and Avery Richard of Platteville, Prairie Dushine's Tana Redloff,
and Tessa Chakowski Higgins.
Second team members include Jackson Berengeon of Platteville, Prairie Dushine's Rita Okenbach,
Greenley Cron, and Carly Kramer, and also River Valley sophomore Ella Myers, makes the second team.
The animal mentioned squad includes River Valley, Lexi Divini, a senior, and Junior Brooklyn Stokes.
Richland center's senior, Carly Meadon, and sophomore Kylie Burns.
From Platteville, Macy Noble, and Addison McNeil, Lancaster's Kylie Olmsted,
and from Dodgeville, Abelene Bartz, and Emma Dirty.
The sportsmanship awards go to Caleb Brahm of Dodgeville, Nicole Kelly Lancaster,
Claire Hoosier, Platteville, Prairie Dushine's Claire Kennedy, Richland center junior,
Jury Schultz, and senior McKenzie Woodhouse of River Valley.
The player of the year, a sophomore, Rihanna Die of Platteville.
The co-coaches of the year, Brandon Temperley, and Paula Shedavi of Platteville and Prairie Dushine
respectively. That's a look at the Southwest Conference, all conference postseason awards for Girls
Basketball. Speaking of Girls Basketball, the State Girls Basketball Tournament gets underway
today with the semi-finals for division three at 145, number one seed, 26 and one elk mound,
plays 18 and 10 Xavier, a fourth seed. The second seed, Oostberg team at 26 and two,
plays number three, Lakonia. They're at 24 and four. And division four, semi-finals tonight,
the Prairie School number one seed at 26 and two, plays number four, Cubicini, which is 23 and five.
And in game two, number two seed, St. Mary Catholic at 25 and three, plays Durand, Arkansas,
23 and five. The tournament will continue tomorrow.
WIAA tournament boys, basketball, sectionals, semi-finals tonight, and there are some outstanding
games on tap, including North Crawford taking on Royal at Prairie Dushine High School. And
Southwestern will play Abundant Life Christian at Evansville.
In division four, Mineral Point takes on Darlington at an SWAL rematch that will be at Landcaster High
School. In division three right here in Richland Center tonight, it will be Plattville taking on
Wisconsin Dells. Plattville defeated Wisconsin Dells back on December 5 by a score of 81 to 67.
The winner of that game will face either Lake Mills or Edgerton. They meet tonight at Fort
Atkinson. And the sectional final game comes up Saturday afternoon at one o'clock at Barobu High School.
And tonight in division two, Madhora Battles Manona Grove, that will be played at Oregon High School as well.
Bowling scores from the Merchants Bowling League, Granite Valley had a 2857, Richland Locker,
a 2844, Goblin Insurance, a 2813, Team High Game, Richland Locker, 987, AutoZone and Goblin
Insurance, each had 977s, and Granite Valley, a 974. Top series, Justin Schimmick, a 682,
JJ Klatt, a 672, DJ Adams, a 666, Isaac Davidson with a top game, 269, Justin Schimmick,
a 263, Jeff Seckman with a 259 in the Merchants Bowling League.
The number 18 Wisconsin Badgers playing the Big Ten tournament against Northwestern.
Today's meeting will be the second of the season between the two teams. Wisconsin is 13 and seven
against Big Ten teams. Northwestern is eight and 13 in the conference. Coach Gregg Gard talked
about bouncing back after that disappointing loss to Penn State and getting ready for the tournament.
We made very quick work of it yesterday and we needed to move on quickly. So I probably have
dissected it deeper and more intensely and harder than anybody else just because I knew
it wasn't one right now. We needed to spend a lot of time on as a team. I did because I wanted
to really dissect the issues, but more importantly, we needed to flush it quick and move on.
The Badgers won the only meeting with Northwestern back on February 1st. It was a close game,
though, 7569. Pregame time today, 1230 on WRC, FM 107.7 and AM 1450.
Marquette takes on a Xavier team, which is riding a seven game win streak in tonight's action on
the Big East Conference tournament trail. The team split two games during the regular season.
The goal of the Eagles have been almost as cold as the second half. Musketeers have been hot. Marquette
has lost six of its last 10 games. Packer offensive tackles, Rashid Walker and Zach Tom will almost
double their 2024 NFL salaries with the payments they receive under the league's performance-based pay.
The PPE represents supplemental player compensation based on a comparison of playing time to salary.
Walker will receive just over $925,000 and Tom will get $849,000. The NFL release the amounts
for only the top 25 recipients. Also in the news, Aaron Rogers,
officially no longer a member of the Jets has expected the team release the four-time MVP
with a post-June first designation. The 41-year-old quarterback can join another team
as an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career if he still intends to play a
21st NFL season. The Jets absorbed a $49 million dead money charge by cutting Rogers,
but are able to spread that over two years instead of one. On Monday, New York agreed to terms
with former Steelers and Bears quarterback Justin Fields on a two-year deal.
And finally in sports, more remembrances of Milwaukee Bucks' great junior bridgeman,
Shaquille O'Neal, weighed in yesterday on TNT.
They always tell us stories about 75% of athletes zero to five years after they're done playing.
Go broke. A lot of people don't know this, but I've patterned my whole business acumen after
junior brishman. This one hurts a lot. I'm Phil Ne for WRCO Sports.
