The other guess up, Paul team is heading to the state tournament for the first time since 2014 an amazing effort by the bulldogs
Getting a victory by a final of 10 for against Columbus Catholic a gameplay that Blair Taylor last night
Erdogan WRC O Facebook live and WRC O dot com as well and WRC O FM 100.9 Henry Bray at the call
The game was tied at three before the bulldogs had an explosion
Orianna Lewis was the winning pitcher also the starting pitcher yesterday was JC Maxwell
And the bulldogs got it done congratulations to Ithaca and head coach Brad Lewis
Yeah, I'm grinning ear to ear. It feels great. I mean it would if I'd say I wasn't nervous that nervous
I'd be lying. I think everybody was letting I was even nervous, but you know, you know
We talked a little bit before the game about the nerves if you're not nervous
You probably don't care how you playing exactly. That's why I tell the girls
I said if you if you come to the game and you're and you're not nervous
You shouldn't be playing I said I still get nervous
I said, but I we got to feed off of it as positive don't know negative energy. It's got to be all positive
Well, first of all congratulations to win in a sectional. This is amazing
You're gonna go play at the University of Wisconsin on Goodman field. How does that make you feel it feels amazing to be honest with you
That's been the girl girls goal from day one. We said let's get to Goodman field and diamond and
We're doing it. I mean it doesn't seem real yet, but we're doing it. I talked to Casey and Holly and they said
Works not done yet. Work is not done. We're gonna go back and we're gonna practice hard
But we're gonna enjoy the moment right now and you shouldn't you've come a long way
This is a huge achievement and your girls played really hard
I at first in the first inning. I was kind of nervous and then I started talking to the girls and they go
Oh, we're always slow starters
So after they settled in they started batting the ball. We're pretty good
Yeah, we're the girls put the ball in play and that's huge, you know, and we do we have started out slow
But we have started out fast in games too, you know, it just depends on but we get contagious the hitting gets contagious and that's huge head coach
Brad Lewis talking with Henry Bray the bulldogs will play in the WIA state softball tournament Thursday morning
They will see to the state tournament and the bulldogs could be playing at nine or later on in the tournament around 10 30 or so
We'll see how that goes and let you know, but again the bulldogs will be at state softball. We know that for sure
coming up on
Thursday
WIA turn of an action in other places yesterday division five
Belmont nine two over Johnson Creek and a division four
Middle point seven nothing over Waterloo the Richland Center softball team lost five one in a WIA
Division three sectional game at point at the loss ended a streak of exciting playoff wins for the Hornets after a regional
Championship last week with the win the Puma's are now 24 and two on the season and will play at the WIA state softball tournament next week
The year ends at 16 and nine for Richland Center when he pitched her Cassidy McCaffrey struck out nine walked three and gave up two hits
Maggie Steinhorse was two for three with an RBI and
Tinsley Nelson had two RBI for point at the team scored single runs in the third and fourth innings
Trailing two to nothing Richland Center got on the board when Ebony McCorkle hit a single the Drowvin courtesy runner
Ella Clements Richland Center had new life until the Puma's played in three runs on three hits in the fifth inning and took a four-run lead
McCorkle and Reagan Shepp had the two Hornet hits
Kyrie Fisher suffered the pitching loss after striking out three and walking four she gave up seven hits
Point that will play a goodman diamond of the state tournament next week following the five one win over Richland Center for the Hornets
These seniors played their final high school softball games Maddie McLean Carly Meadon Chloe Darling
Jasmine Hazelrig and Savannah Russell at the WIA baseball tournament action
It was Highland edging River Ridge won nothing in nine innings. So the Cardinals a sixth seed will play eighth seeded
Bosca Bell in the upcoming Blair Taylor sectional semi-final at 1230 on Tuesday
Belmont was an eight nothing winner over Southwestern Johnson Creek got the victory against Paul Myra Eagle
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Indivision three Phenomore four two over New Glarris and Cuba City edge Dodgeville to advance into the sectional three two that final
Indivision two it was Reedsburg three sock prairie one and load-eye over Mount Horub 12 two in six innings
Richland Center girl soccer team season came to a close losing a close match one nothing at regionals last
night against Mauston the Hornets had some offensive chances created by seal and Nelson Brynn Anderson
Erlin Wallace and Rowan May Hornet defense of Ella Stadler Sylvia Schmidt Brynn Anderson Harper Glass Brenner and Mariah Obday played with high energy
Keeper captain Lillie Tidrick played great in each game this year always being the biggest motivator from the goal
The Hornets improved on many things over the course of the season seniors Lillie Tidrick
Sailor Nelson Erlin Wallace and Naomi Sherwood end of their high school athletic careers
After playing with a lot of heart through the entire season the coaching staff thanks them for their efforts over the last four years
River Valley at a first round buy in the tournament. They will play tomorrow when a big olutheran over Wisconsin Heights, Barnabelle
Two goals to none as well in the soccer tournament
The WIA state track and field meet will be held this weekend
Richland Center will be well represented their coach by Laura Ewing and she talked to me this week about their state participants
Our individual
Qualifier Maddie Hubert she qualified in the shot put
Um, and she's going to be competing on Saturday at UW cross
Um, and then we have two relays are four by two hundred meter relay
That is Robbie Budden, Kevin Hernandez, Fletcher Harper, Mason Gelanick and Duncan Harper
They're going to be competing on Friday for prelims and then hopefully they can make it in the top 10 to go to
Finals on Saturday and then our four by four hundred meter relay or boys four by four hundred
It also qualified for states
And that would consist of Robbie Budden, Fletcher Harper, Grayson Banker, Kevin Hernandez,
Harrison Carpenter and Duncan Harper
And they are currently in the top 10 in the state right now in our division D2
So hopefully again, they'll be competing at preliminaries on Friday and then again hopefully making it to the top 10
Do compete on Saturday during finals
Certainly, they've all had good seasons and I think you've watched those times
Go down a little bit here in the last month haven't you?
Yeah, we have been cutting off seconds and seconds in our relays and
Maddie has just been throwing further and further all year long. It's so incredible. She
Through her PR this season is 38 eight
38 feet eight inches
And she is
PRing all of the times I'm so excited to see what she can do at states
And our boys relays teams
They started off at a good time and they've been cutting off seconds and seconds at at every meet that we've gone to
Our boys four by two actually broke our school record
That was said. I believe in 2007
Our 2004 I believe and so they broke our school record with their time at sectionals
130.66
So that's really exciting and our boys four by four also broke our school record
With the time of three 26 they broke it by a second three 26.16. They broke it by a full second
And that record was set in 1970. So this was a 55 year old record that they broke so
They broke that at sectionals to make it to state and I am so thrilled for them. They know working is so hard
We have three three seniors in the junior on that in that group
So I'm just so excited to watch them compete at state
Good luck to Richland center Laura you and her teams as they get set for the state meet this weekend in lacrosse
At UW lacrosse if I think I will be represented by Clayton Lee and two events
That one of the bulldog track coaches Brenda Walton checked in this week
Oh, yeah, he's had an amazing year
The say believes you know at the beginning of the season
We always ask what their goals are and he came up to me and said I want to qualify for state and in the 16 and the 32 this year
Um, he fell a little short last year in the 32 so his goal was to qualify in both this year
It takes a special runner to run those events, doesn't it?
Yeah
Um
It's tracking hard
Let alone putting in you know the miles and the time
And the discipline needed to do this for it. I mean if it was an easy sport
Everybody would be doing it
So it's they're not so
Yeah, it
It takes a certain mindset and especially with high school runners
A lot of it is building up their confidence
or
letting them know that they can do it and they can achieve great things
I mean it's all about confidence and that's kind of one of the things I've tried to instill in Clayton and sometimes he gets a little
It's easy just to sit behind somebody and let them do the work and then take off at the end
But the confidence comes from being able to put yourself out there and take a chance
And push yourself to the front and I mean it worked out really well for him that sectional
He did that and he ran his thesis best and he broke the school his own school record again
Um, he ran four it's 32 34
And then he turned around and I was kind of worried because the two-mile comes and that's like twice as far
And takes a lot more concentration and effort and
He went out there and he again broke his own school record
And ran 10 10
26 so again, it's that confidence
That he he's in great shape
He knows that he can do it. It's just the confidence it takes them get out on that track and make it happen
So at state, I think he's trying to go for a sub
430
So he just has to knock a half-second off each last that's it
Having success, I know he's a cross-country runner as well. I really get him well prepared, doesn't it?
Yes, it does. I mean
You know, we try to encourage the cross-country runners to run track and then the track runners to run cross-country
You know, I
Coached in Tennessee for several years and I would always go to the basketball coaches and I said
Let us take your your basketball players and get them in shape. So I tried to get them to run
Cross-country to get them in shape for basketball sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't but you know
Running is a great board. I mean, it's it's one of those. It's the nucleus of all sports if you think about it
And so why not run cross-country to get you in shape for basketball or soccer or so. Yeah
it
It's fun. It's fun watching this kids grow and really work hard to achieve their goals
What is the schedule Brenda at state for Clayton to run? Are they both on the same day?
No
Unfortunately, they're not but fortunately that gives him more time to recover in between his race
This he'll run the 1600 on Friday morning and then he'll turn around and run the 3200 Saturday
It'll probably end up being sometime Saturday afternoon
They don't start the running events until 10 o'clock on Saturday
Hopefully the weather will be favorable
And the state has that option as it they feel it's too hot for the runners
They can actually move that 3200 to be the last event of the day
Even behind the four by four. So we'll see what happens. I mean, it's it's going to be hard to keep them in that head space
So we want to get out there and race, but I think he'll be ready
Yeah, he's used to running both events the same day
You know, and so it is a different mindset when you've got you know almost 24 hours to rest in between, isn't it?
Yeah, I mean, and that's the hard part is to keep them in that
Head space to where he can get out there because
You know, it's not uncommon sometimes for high school athletes
They get to state and then they just like oh, I'm already made it to state
So I don't care how I run and it shouldn't be like that you should always care about how well you perform
So that's going to be the hard part. I mean every athlete's kind of anxious for the season to be over
And once that last race is over, they're kind of like oh, I wish I would have you know
could have would have you know
Type attitude and
Wish I would have done this or this or this and you don't want them to end the season with regrets
Well, you want them to go out there and do their best every single time
Good luck to Clayton Lee and the Ithaca staff and best of luck to all of the track participants
including river valleys Wesley Hatfield
Representing the black hawks in the the 100 and the 200 meter dash and a whole contingent of Kikulu Farge track athletes
And into the state tournament this weekend
