I am Filney, and here is a look at local sports in Southwest Wisconsin.
The original Center Ithaca Cross Country teams have had some good early workouts.
They're preparing for a scrimmage this Saturday.
Head coach Eric Mindham talked about this week's workouts for us.
Yeah, I think the team did a great job this summer putting in the work coming into the
season and shape and ready to go.
Boys team got six miles in last night.
Girls team got over five.
Really great start to the season and expecting a tough week of practice, but I think they're
ready to handle it from the gate here.
What are the numbers like this year?
It were really fortunate.
This is the highest amount of numbers we've had in the nine years I've been there.
So we're approaching the 40 mark between high school and middle school.
We're hoping to exceed that if we can.
And you have a special events planned for a Saturday.
Can you tell me about it?
Yeah, we've been trying to put something together for the kids to be able to run at home.
We just haven't had any luck having a home invitation all and getting commitments from
other schools.
So what we're looking to do is this Saturday at the park.
It's open to the community as well.
We're going to have a relay run.
It can be a mile race with teams of four and just something to kind of loosen the legs
a little bit and be able to run in front of their home fans and then we'll have a potluck
afterwards and have some recognition for our seniors.
It's an event we're looking to build in the next few years, but the idea is just a good
fun way to build off or to start the school year and recognize our seniors and just
start the season right.
Coach Vindem says they do have some experience back for this year's teams.
Yeah, we're really fortunate.
We have as much experience as we've ever had before.
We've got on the boys team, Clayton Lee and Ryan Stadler or two time state qualifiers
they return.
For the girls team, Grace Fretz was a state qualifier for us last year.
Unfortunately her seasons cut short already due to an injury, but we're still going to rely
on her leadership to kind of push the girls team forward.
So that's coming is coming up on Saturday at the Richland Center practice fields.
That was Coach Eric Vindem.
Richland Center football coach Andy Troxel preparing his team for this weekend, a game against
Furokwa on Friday night.
I asked Coach Troxel about this past week's scrimmage.
You know, right out of the gates, we got Logan and Logan was very, very big.
You know, they're very athletic and in our boys matched up extremely well.
You know, we had a little bit of kind of shell shock initially, you know, just coming off
and seeing, you know, somebody else's varsity starters.
But we still were able to find some good things and we were able to move the ball.
And that was great offensively and then defensively, man, they were just playing lights out
right out of the gates.
Our two outside linebackers, Kaisen Switch to Berg and Liam Fingerson, they are going
to be a lot to handle for teams this season, you know, and so they're putting pressure
on the edges, you know, and then you've got really a lot of talented kids, you know, in
the secondary, you know, with Bronson Perkins, you've got Jayden Chef, right, and Duncan
Harper, and supporting Kasper and Baker.
And that just allows them in our linebackers, like Brady Dosh, right, to really have a day.
So to come out of that scrimmage right and have just a one-score differential with Logan
was pretty good, you know, and then going right into scrimmage with LaCrosse Aquinas,
you know, offensively we were able to move the ball a better.
You know, end up putting up 21 points, you know, and defensive really, really played
solid against Aquinas as well.
So I know at the end of the day, scrimmages of scores don't matter, but when you look
at offensive production, right, in defensive stagnation, you know, I mean, that's something
that's really happy.
So we were so thrilled with how the boys looked on Friday.
Coach Troxel, Richeson Center, hosting Verokwa on Friday night.
I think I will be hosting Riverdale on Friday night.
Go ahead, Coach David Klang, spoke to me this week about how I think a scrimmage went
last week at Landcaster.
With a scrimmage, I thought like we kind of came out a little bit flatter than we wanted
to at the start, the first session, but as we kind of went along the night, we got a lot
better second session.
It was kind of where the where the fire and everything we thought would be at and where
would be playing at.
So it was just kind of one of those things is playing against a different team, kind of
a new scenario than what we've been doing the like the last two weeks that I think we
just kind of came all a little bit nervous.
And then once we kind of realized though, like this is just football, we were just fine
and everything went really well.
I thought at the end we learned a lot.
We learned other things to fix and things that went well.
So it is good to have that.
I think I will host Riverdale on Friday night at seven.
There's football in the area tonight in eight player football at Western High School,
only walk Weston will take on North Crawford, Monticello plays at Highland, Wisconsin Heights
at Belmont, and DeSoto is at Kikapu High School against Kikapu LaFarge this evening.
Eleven player football ported shows Wisconsin Dells, and River Valley gets into the game
coming up tonight against Evansville.
The schedule is sped up for first year head coach Tyler McLean.
I mean, we just kind of bumped up all our practices up a day, just kind of essentially
trying to get in the routine as best we can when we get ready for the Thursday night game.
Pretty much we kind of keep it as the same course as we would every other week.
But again, just kind of bump it up an extra day, asking the guys to come in an extra day
there, be ready to roll for Thursday night.
What do you know about Evansville?
Evansville, they obviously are pretty out there, they are very well coach and very talented
team.
They are a playoff team last year.
They have a good strong group of juniors and seniors.
A lot of those kids played a lot last year for that playoff team as well.
So they are going to have some guys on both sides of the ball, they are pretty good for
us.
But I still feel like our competition level and being able to compete with them is still
high.
We are not, you know, again, super concerned about the guy across from us.
We are kind of in the face of a permanent mold right now where we focus on us first.
River Valley football coach Tyler McLean, the Black Cawks in action tonight with a long
trip to Evansville.
Richland Center soccer practice is underway.
The current Hornets will face the alumni legends coming up on Saturday, August 30th at
11 o'clock.
So all Richland Center soccer alumni are invited to show up.
You'll get a jersey if you do.
Rick Pysseki will be the alumni legends coach and there will be a potluck get together
after the game coming up on Saturday, August 30th for Richland Center soccer and the alumni
legends.
There will be a parent and athlete meeting for any Richland Center middle school girls
interested in playing seventh and eighth grade volleyball.
The meeting will be held at 530 today in the Richland Center high school East Commons.
A tough third inning ultimately spelled doom for the Brewers last night.
Michael Bush hit a three run double off Jacob Mizorowski and the Chicago cabs beat the
crew for three for their third consecutive victory over the National League Central leaders.
Bryce Tarang had three hits for Milwaukee and Kristen Yelich scored two runs.
Mizorowski was charged with three runs in four innings.
The Brewers have now lost three straight for the first time since May 7th through the
10th and three games haven't taken off their National League Central lead.
Manager Pat Murphy was asked about his message to the team after last night's loss.
Tom, I'm proud I am of them because there's sometimes things don't go your way.
The winds blow and sometimes you can't try to fight it and you break the branches.
And if you try to fight it, you know, and they let the branches blow and they come back
and we'll reset.
But we didn't get the outcome we wanted, but we showed tremendous heart and tremendous
relentlessness.
Pat Murphy talked about the Cubs.
They took advantage.
They got a clutch hits.
They made every defensive play.
They made every tough play.
We had a lot of balls on the nose right at people.
That's just the way it is.
That's baseball.
We played and how we went about it made no excuses and went after it and put ourselves
in a position to win.
And maybe indicative of the whole game got a line drive caught that in the game.
The Brewers will play the Cubs this afternoon with a one twenty first pitch time.
And Quinn Freester will be on the mound for Milwaukee elsewhere, Washington five four
over the Metz Miami beat St. Louis six two Colorado eight.
The Dodgers three San Diego eight one over San Francisco.
In the American League Detroit seven Houston two the Yankees six Tampa Bay four Texas six
three over Kansas City.
The athletics four Minnesota two inner league action Pittsburgh two one over Toronto.
Philadelphia beat Seattle eleven two Arizona three Cleveland two Atlanta one nothing over
the white socks and the LA Angels beat Cincinnati by a score of two to one.
Yanis Anthony Cooper played his first summer preparation game ahead of the Euro basket
twenty twenty five a cropless tournament where Greece defeated Latvia one hundred four eighty
six in Athens.
Yanis only spent fifteen minutes on the floor, but he scored twenty five points on nine
of twelve shooting and added ten rebounds.
Yanis and his teammates have two more exhibition tests before a year old basket pool play starts
August twenty seven.
I am Phil D with an update on sports.
