I'm Phil Neve with WRC Osports.
Today's the day, basketball and a highland drive to Blair Taylor, and they'll be taking
each other on in the sectional semi-final.
I talked to coach James Marks of the basketball bulldogs about his team peaking at the right
time.
I've always had in my mind that the potential for these guys were a lot more than what
we have shown in the past, but here late in the year and especially into the playoffs
we've just been playing with high energy and I think we're finally meeting that potential
that I see in them.
And coach Marks says the swall conference better prepared them for the postseason.
I've been telling the kids that since the day we got our seed, we take our lumps of
the year, but I think it's prepared us for this tournament so far, the run's been there
and doing well.
Has there been a memorable moment or anything like that that sticks out or many memorable
moments during this tournament run?
All right, now it's just been all blurr.
It's super exciting, little surreal at times, but I'd have to say our suicides squeeze
on the top of seventh against Sonica, sticks in my mind every day.
And I asked James about highland, which is yeah, they're defensive, it's fundamentally
sound, they're scrappy at the plate and they got some good pitch and go with it and I
think we're very similar in teams.
I think we're both just sitting our strides at the right time and playing a ball.
I talked to coach Terry Cool of Highland this morning.
Once you get to this point, all of the teams have won a regional title so they've proven
to this point at least they're playing very well in time.
What do you think is put your team over the top here and the chance to make it a section
of this year?
Claire pitching, our pitchers have done a fantastic job of keeping into just about every single
baseball game.
And then we've just been, especially once this weather warmed up, we've gotten some really
timely hitting so, and it's been a lot of different guys and oftentimes successful teams
will say that when you win, it's a contribution from everyone.
The six rivers better for Paris yet for the postseason, doesn't it?
Yeah, it is a tough conference, pretty much up and down.
You know, night in, night out that you're going to see a pretty decent pitcher and you're
going to have to be on your game if you want to win.
The victories against Ithaca and River Ridge, I mean, you had to beat some good programs
to get here, didn't you?
Yeah, both have done a really nice job.
Ithaca, of course, the last few years has been on standing, winning a state title a couple
of years ago.
And River Ridge this year just had an outstanding season and that's a program that's been getting
better and better each year over the past few seasons.
I'm scouting your port.
What looks tough about basketball?
I know they have some very good players.
There's the loose player who is their lead off hitter does a very nice job for them as
the center fielder.
And he's one that we're going to watch out for.
We know their pitcher is pretty consistent and we'll attack hitter so we're going to
try to be ready.
Here are the Highland versus Boscow Bill game live from Blair Taylor on FM 100.9 and
WRCO dot com later today.
It's scheduled for 12 30 will be on the air with it around 12 15 early this morning.
Pitzville takes on Blair Taylor at the same location for the right to play in today's
three o'clock sectional final.
Bill Mont is at Oakfield today taking on Johnson Creek, Reed'sville and Elkhart Lake
Glenbuella are in the other part of the racket.
In three today, that's at ASEO merchants park.
Westby takes on Mondovi this morning at 10 and Phenomore is playing at merchants park
again against Cuba City.
That game slated to start at one and the sectional final at four.
Both all of the teams are two wins away from the WIAA state baseball tournament, which
gets underway next week.
Reesberg is playing at Wisconsin Del's against Lodi this morning at 10 and Turner is playing
Edgerton also at Wisconsin Del's last night in Legion baseball, the Viola area Grizzlies
lost to Rushford 13 seven in game one.
The Grizzlies scored the win in game two by final of four two.
Thanks to coach Mike Kaufman of the Viola area Legion team for that update.
The Brewers with the loss last night, they ended a seven game losing streak for the Braves.
It was Atlanta getting a 7-1 win Monday, veteran lefty Chris sale struck out 11 Brewer
batters and gave up just one run over seven innings.
Atlanta pounded three home runs in the one-sided contest.
Milwaukee's only run came in the third when Joey Ortiz doubled, then was knocked in
by a William Contreras single with two outs.
The Brewers will try to weave in the series behind Quinn Priester coming up this evening.
Our manager Pat Murphy talked about Chris sale and losing to the Braves.
Guys, the right dude, man, I don't know him well, but everything I hear and the way he
goes after it, the way he loves competing, kind of his outlook, the fact that he came
back out at 99 pitches and came back in the game, tells you a lot, he was with his team
right then, you know, he was thinking, you know what, we've lost seven in a row, we've
got a great team, I'm going to kick it in and I'm just impressed with him.
Elsewhere in the National League Pittsburgh 10-3 over Miami, Philadelphia 4, the Cubs 3, Dodgers
8-7 over San Diego, Tampa Bay 10, Boston 8, the LA Angels over the athletics 7-4.
Inter League play Cincinnati 7, Cleveland 4, Toronto 5-4 over St. Louis and Arizona was
a winner against Seattle 8-4, the final score.
The Brewers are teaming up with law enforcement agencies across the state to distribute limited
edition baseball cards to kids.
Senior vice president of communications, Tyler Barnes says it's an opportunity for kids
to build trust with law enforcement.
Burns says the program started with Milwaukee area departments, but recently the Brewers
started to get flooded with a request from departments across the state.
Barnes says the team has distributed cards like this off and on, going back to the 1980s.
30 departments will get 1,000 packs of cards each.
Compactors have decided talent is not enough of a player can't stay on the field.
The team released off an injured star corner back, Jaya Alexander yesterday.
The front office praised Alexander, calling him one of the premier players in the NFL.
Injuries caused him to miss 20 of 34 games over the last two seasons.
Sports illustrated reports, the move gives Green Bay more than $17 million in cap space
for this season.
Sergeant Murphy talked about the loss of talent.
I feel pretty good.
I think Keishan Nixon was great, sorry, and drafted, an all pro-returner, and the reality
is for the last four years, it's about half of the games he's been able to play, so
we've been used to it.
Former Bucks coach, Don Nelson has been honored by the National Basketball Coaches Association.
Nelson received the Chuck Daily Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's NBA Finals Contest
between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers.
Nelson is 85 years old, Yahoo Sports reports that when he retired in 2010, he was the league's
all-time winningest coach with 1335 victories, 540 in Milwaukee.
The Bucks won seven straight division titles under his leadership, playing in the Eastern
Conference Finals three times.
I am Phil Lee, that's an update on sports.
