We begin our high school football preview with a look at the Richland Center home game against
Verrocua coming up tonight.
Here's Coach Andy Trunks, all talking about the visiting Black Hawks.
Well, I know they got a new coach this year.
I believe he was on staff in years past, but anytime you're a new coach, there's a lot.
There's a lot that kind of goes into that, you know, with your staff and your kids.
They're a young team.
They graduated quite a bit last year and they were three and six last year in the Cooley.
So, you know, we went up to their scrimmage and just tried to get some confirmation of
what we saw on film in years past.
And so, you're going to see a 4-4 out of them.
They've got some really, really big fellas in the trenches and they'll hit you.
And so, that's something that we got to be mindful of, you know, is not letting them
put their big bear claws on you.
But, you know, I think that with a 4-4 and what we saw with a 4-4 with Logan, you know,
we were able to find some things that worked.
I like our odds and I like our matchups.
I think our secondary, you know, is going to have a good day and I think our edges are
going to be really, really tough, you know, defensively.
So, overall, I think our, what we're bringing the table with our athletes, you know, and
just their performance over the summer, right?
Their commitment to offseason, strength and conditioning, they're hungry and they're
looking to really perform well.
Bristol Center football coach Andy Troxel, his team hosting Verrocua, love the game
tonight on FM 100.9 and wrco.com pregame time around 635.
Another key game in the area tonight, a non-conference battle with Riverdale visiting
Ithaca.
I spoke with Riverdale coach Jeff Johnson this week.
Our junior group is really strong.
Most of them got a lot of playing time last year, sophomores.
We have tremendous senior leadership, Brody Meath, he's returning as an all-conference
player.
He's a throwback and linebacker and we have a couple of the seniors that are really doing
a nice job.
You face Ithaca on Friday night, what stands out about them in the scouting report?
They have pretty good reputation, you know, they're, they're over the years, how many times
have they been conference title or in the playoffs, they have a really good program.
I remember coaching against Dan Rice way, way, way back before he retired and I told
him when I knew he was retiring, I said, you know, Dan, every time we come up here, we
know it's going to be a clean game and it's going to be a really, really hard game.
They always have a good program.
Who do you look at as Riverdale's leaders or do you name captains to this point in the
season, Jeff?
We did have captains vote last week and our two of our seniors, Brody Meath and Carter
Dagen Hart and Junior Bevan Dennis, where he elected captains and then each week will,
they will elect an honorary captain and this week's honorary captain is Colin Walsh's
honorary captain this week.
We have a really good quarterback with Owen, Blankenship, Ethan Kagel's kind of anchoring
one side of our, the other side of our line.
Those are our leaders.
Riverdale football coach Jeff Johnson.
As opponents tonight, the Ithaca Bulldogs and they are co-head coached by David Clay.
With Riverdale, they have a lot of their players coming back and it's one of those things
being the first game of the year.
You don't have a lot of film on them.
You don't really know a ton about them.
We know they might be doing some different things and it's kind of hard to judge that
off of the limited film and stuff we have, but they do have a lot of returning players,
a lot of nice like backs and quarterback back and so there's going to be some familiarity
there just being that they've been in the system for a while that brings some potential
problems.
Certainly he lost a lot to graduation, but you have a quarterback back this year, don't
you?
Yeah.
We have our quarterback Keegan back and that's nice.
It'd be his third year in the starting role and so it's going to be really helpful and
we can lean on him plus we have a lot of our returning line, which also helps in just
having that type of leadership both on the line and with your quarterback back even
though you might not have your backs and receivers back.
That's kind of a huge couple of pieces to have and get that kind of momentum and ball
rolling in the direction we need.
It's like a co-head coach David Clayng his team hosting Riverdale this evening.
Other games Bosque Bell will be at Hillsboro middle will point is at Dodgeville Iowa grant
at Phenomore Darlington visits Plantville Bellville at Lancaster River Ridge at Benton Scales
Mound.
Cochrane Fountain City will be home to Brookwood, Potosi Casfield at Cuba City, New
Glarris at Pequatonica Argyle, Barrowwood, Sock Prairie, Black Hawk Warren will visit
Southwestern East to Bukh, Wasaw East is taking on West B and lacrosse Aquinas
plays Prairie Dushin this weekend during the first week of high school football.
Several teams got the jump on the season with games last night in eight player football
to Soto 46, Kickable LaFarge nothing.
It was Belmont 48 nothing over Wisconsin Heights, Highland scored 52 points to defeat Monticello
52 14 and North Crawford started out which should be a good season for the Trojans this
year scoring 42 points and defeating one western by a final of 42 6 at western high school
last night.
In 11 player football for a scheme of the year River Valley travel to Evansville where
they lost 29 to 6.
Wasika Stuban scored a lot of points beating cash in 33 21.
It was Johnson Creek 49 Marshall 7 Melrose-Mendoro-Edged Bangor 21 20 Portage 63
Wisconsin Dells 27.
It was a win for one a key over lacrosse Central 55 to 6 and lacrosse Logan beat Ellsworth
final score was 12 to nothing.
High school football on WRCO tonight features Varroqua at Richland Center a pregame time
at 6.35 and then following that once again this year will be affiliated with the Wisconsin
radio networks football Friday night that will begin after a local coverage this evening.
Vice Terang had a two run blast and Isaac Collins drove in two runs as the Brewers beat
the Cubs 4-1 yesterday.
South Freelik and Terang each had a pair of hits as the Brewers extended their nationally
central lead to seven games over the Cubs Milwaukee starter Quinn Priester allowed one
run on three hits in four and a third innings but fell short of winning his 11th straight
decision.
Ozake Intata takes the mound tonight as the Brewers start a weekend series against
the Giants, you're the action on WRC FM 107.7 and AM 1450 elsewhere in baseball last
night.
It was San Diego eight four of a San Francisco the Dodgers beat Colorado 9.5 Washington
nine and the Mets three in the American League the athletics eight Minnesota three Kansas
City 6.4 over Texas Houston seven Baltimore two Boston 6.3 over the Yankees and St. Louis
beat Tampa Bay seven four from the NFL preseason Pittsburgh 19 Carolina 10 and the Giants
42 10 over New England appearing in an interview on up and Adams with K Adams.
Packer head coach Matt LaFloris seemed to squash any rumor the team was considering
cutting what receiver Romeo dobs LaFloris said he'd be shocked if dobs went anywhere
and the receiver has been competing and doing everything the team needs to see from him.
The decision will ultimately come down to General Manager Brian Goon to coonst NFL cut downs
required to be completed by 3 p.m. this coming Tuesday.
The pack plays tomorrow afternoon against the Seahawks.
You can hear the action on WRC O and the pregame begins at one o'clock.
I am Phil Ne with WRC Sports.
