Going on, even as early as yesterday, the softball state quarterfinals were held in Division
1 yesterday.
It was Kokona, getting a 9-1 win over Sun Prairie East to move on Hamilton with score
8-3-0 win over Oregon.
In Game 3, it was Kenosha Bradford over Cedarburg 10-0, and in Game 4, DC Everest would get
a narrow 1-0 win over Watertown.
Today in Division 5, WRCOs Philany and Hank Bray will be over there covering the Belmont
Ithaca Game with more.
Here's Philany.
The Ithaca softball team takes on Belmont today at Goodman Diamond and Madison in the
state semifinal for Division 5.
Brad Lewis talked about getting the team ready to play.
Yeah, we just got to make sure they're prepared, ready to go, have all, you know, they're
going to have nerves.
We're all going to have nerves.
That's part of a big game like this.
Just our pitching company, our ladies, to continue to hit like they have them.
They've been hitting now outstanding.
We started a little slower against Columbus Catholic, slower than I would like, but I believe
they're ready.
You're going to be taking some extra BP this week and everything?
Yes, we have.
We've been doing a lot of live pitching and stuff.
We've had a couple different pitchers come in and pitch the girls to kind of give them
a different look at things and that's been great.
Correct.
That's what we've been pushing all week that it's just another game.
Even though we know it's not, but they have to play it that way.
I mean, if they get too hyped up, the adrenaline's going to be run on.
That's what we told them to and, you know, be just careful with it.
If it gets softball coach, Brad Lewis is team taking on Belmont.
We'll have it for you coming up this morning from WRCO and WRCO.com.
I am Phil me.
Thanks Phil.
As also in the division five, Omen Bancroft will take on Thorpe following that.
In division four, it will be Pacelli taking on McDonald's central Catholic and in game two,
it will be Michikot going up against Mineral Point.
The brave starting pitcher Spencer Schwellenbach went the distance in a six to win over the
Brewers on Wednesday afternoon.
The Atlanta series victory was his first in more, it was its first in more than three
weeks.
Rookie Chad Patrick absorbed the defeat.
Rice Hoskins hit his 10th home run and catcher Eric Hayes doubled in Milwaukee's second
run.
Christian Yelge was out of the lineup for a second straight time.
The Brewers hook up with the St. Louis Cardinals Thursday night.
Manager Pat Murphy hasn't named a starter.
A release of cornerback Jair Alexander leaves the Packers with $35 million of dead money
on the books about half is Alexander's and the team is still a paying for deals with
players like Preston Smith and DeVandre Campbell.
Eight NFL teams have more than 50 million still on the books as it stands now.
Green Bay won't have any dead money for 2026 depending on what happens this year.
Badger head coach Luke fickle says success this season will depend heavily on the offensive
line.
Fickle blames the failures of the last two seasons on average quarterbacking while
using a raid offense system.
The coach has Wisconsin isn't going back to the run heavy offenses of the last three
decades, but it needs an offense in line to create the balanced offense.
He and the coaching staff still want better quarterbacking may depend on consistent protection
from the line.
Multiple reports indicate guard Kevin Porter junior will opt out of his player option
for the coming season, even though it appears that superstar Yana sent in to cook and
tend to cook.
Bo could be staying in Milwaukee.
The task of assembling a winning roster will still be challenging.
Swingman Pat Conantins is expected to opt out of the coming season.
Porter found his touch after coming over from the Clippers in a one sided trade for Marjan
boat champ.
The box would like to have him back, but are limited by financial constraints.
Including a look at other sports scores from around the league in National League play.
It was Pittsburgh getting a five to win over Miami.
It was Philadelphia defeating the Chicago Cubs seven to two.
The LA Dodgers got a five to win over San Diego while it was the New York Met's holding
Washington scoreless five nothing San Francisco got a 10 seven win over Colorado.
Over in the American League, the LA Angels topped at the Athletics six five while it was
Baltimore 10 Detroit one Boston edged out Tampa Bay for three Minnesota defeated Texas
six to two.
The New York Yankees got a six three win over Kansas City and Houston defeated the Chicago
White Sox 10 to two in inter league action Cleveland defeated Cincinnati 11 to two Toronto
got a five to win over St. Louis also by score five to two.
It was Arizona over Seattle.
In NBA playoff action, it was Indiana 116 Oklahoma City 107.
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The WIA State Softball Tournament is being held through the weekend at Goodmond Diamond
in Madison. Earlier today, Ithaca faced Belmont in a Division V semi-final game, which
was also our featured broadcast tour earlier, right here on WRC 100.9 on WRC.com and on
the Civic Media app. With more, here's Phil Ney.
Belmont Braves picked up an 11-nothing victory over the Ithaca Bulldogs in WIA State semi-final
softball in the morning. It was a total of three runs right out of the gate for Belmont,
two more in the second and six in the fourth as they put the game away on the 10-run rule
over the Bulldogs. Ithaca seized its season and at 21 and six, he managed two hits in
the game, Kelsey Coleman and Kayleigh Newkirk both had base hits. And for Belmont, their
lead-off Inter Addison McNat was on three times and scored all three times. They picked
up 11 hits against Bulldog pitching. For Ithaca, these seniors played their final high school
event, Kayleigh Newkirk, Ariana Lewis, Alyssa Muller and Holly King. For Belmont, they
improved to 25 and three. They'll advance to the WIA Division V State title game Saturday
morning at eight o'clock. For Ithaca, there's season end at 21 and six. The win goes to
Callie Hodson, starting pitcher for Belmont. She had some relief work in the last inning
from Jaden Raymaker. And for the Bulldogs, JC Maxwell is starting pitcher. He works
three and a third in Ariana Lewis. Worked two-thirds of an inning for the Bulldogs at Goodman
Diamond. The line's score 11 runs. 11 hits. No errors. Six left on for Belmont. No
runs. Two hits. Three errors. Two left on for the Bulldogs in state semi-final softball.
Deporting from Goodman Diamond and Madison for WRCO Sports, I am Phil Nees.
Still, also in Division V action. Almond Bancroft beat Thorpe by a score of 18 to three
in four innings. So in the championship game on Saturday at 8 a.m. it will be Belmont
facing Almond Bancroft. Also today in Division IV, Paselli beat MacDonald Central Catholic
by a score of three. Nothing. And they'll go on to Paselli will go on Saturday to face
Mineral, either Mineral Point or Michikot, the winner of that game. And right now it
is in the top of the fifth inning. And Michikot has a one-nothing lead on Mineral Point. And
that game will be played on Saturday at 10 30 a.m. The NCAA committee on infractions penalized
UW Madison today over impermissible calls between coaches and football recruits. Channel
3000 dot com reports that the committee found the nine football coaches and staffers in 2023
made a total of 139 impermissible calls to 48 recruits, including 117 calls before the
first permissible date of two call recruits of the calls 60 lasted one minute or less according
to the committee's finding findings nine of the impermissible calls came from badgers head
coach Luke fickle. The calls were classified as level two violations as a result of the violations
the NCAA has put UW Madison under one year of probation and issued a $25,000 fine. Additionally
fickle and assistant coach Matt Mitchell were barred from communicating communicating with high
school recruits from June 15th through the 21st. Brave starting pitcher Spencer swell back
went the distance in a six to two win or the Brewers yesterday afternoon. The Atlanta series
victory was its first in more than three weeks. Rookie Chad Patrick absorbed the defeat. Reese
Hoskins hit his tenth home run and catcher Eric Hoss doubled in Milwaukee's second run.
Christian Yolich was out of the lineup for a second straight time. The Brewers hook up
at the St. Louis Cardinals starting tonight and they will be playing a four game series.
Manager Pat Murphy hasn't named the starter and first pitch for that contest tonight will be
at 640 and you'll be able to hear the broadcast of that game on WRC E 107.7 and AM 1450
with the pregame starting at 605. WRCO Sports has been sponsored by Lakes Gas Company
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