I'm Phil Ney with a good Southwestern Wisconsin sports, the 48th WIA State Football Championships
will be held today and tomorrow at Camp Randall Stadium.
Action gets underway today at 10 o'clock with Cochrane Fountain City playing Kenosha
St. Joseph Catholic.
Both are undefeated.
In the second game of the day, at one Darlington takes on Edgar, both are undefeated.
The Redbirds are certainly a perennial state team, but it's been a while since they won
a state title.
They won four state championships, earning division five titles in 1987, 90, 91 and 1995.
In addition, they played runner-up eight times, once in division four, three times in
division five, and five times in division six.
The Redbirds return to state, comes by virtue of a big win over Manitowak Lutheran
in the semifinals.
They were champions of the SWAL this year, averaging 44 points per game in the four playoff
games.
The Redbirds have won their four playoff games by an average of 30 and a half points.
They will be challenged today, also division five Mayville takes on Northwestern at four
o'clock.
Again, both teams have won 13 games without a loss.
The only team with a loss playing today little shoot at 12 and 1 plays 13 and 0, Winnecani.
Tomorrow at the tournament, division three state title will be determined with a game that
starts at 10 o'clock, when 10 and three Redsburg plays 13 and 0, Grafton.
Division two, Notre Dame and West appear play.
They're both undefeated at one o'clock, and the division one title game will start at
four, featuring Arrowhead at 12 and 1 and 11 and two Bayport.
Girls basketball tonight, regular season non-conference games, some teams starting their season,
others already playing game two of the schedule already tonight.
Winnecani plays against LaFarge at LaFarge, Neilsville at Bangor, Wisconsin Heights at Judah,
River Ridge at DeSoto, Seneca is at Nassita and Verokua travels to Royal.
State at Weston High School, it's Weston, Ithaca making their home debut at Weston
schools.
The new co-op will be hosting Hillsboro.
In other girls games, Seneca is at Riverdale, one a key at Sock Prairie, Lancaster plays
at Wozika Stubin.
Evansville is at Dodgeville, Argyle Peckatonica at Iowa Grant, and Middleville Point travels
to Plattville.
Also coming up on the airwaves tonight at on WRC Radio, it will begin at seven o'clock
Potosi Castville is at River Valley.
There is no junior varsity game, so just the one game tonight, varsity only, you can
hear it on WRC Osports.
The Richland Center Girls basketball team will open up tomorrow night, they will be at
Westby.
Jeremy Kui is the coach of the Richland Center Girls basketball team.
We're coming through our finishing up our second week of practice here, heading to Westby
on Friday.
Got to get the girls out up and down the court on Saturday in a scrimmage with Hillsboro
and Riverdale, and so obviously we learned from that in our first time on the court really
up and down this year and making adjustments this week as we prepare for the season.
What did you learn from the scrimmage that you maybe need to hone in a little bit here
before the first game?
We learned the girls are out of shape, that's one of those things, it's going to come,
they're going to get their legs under them as we progress throughout the season.
But once we settled in, it's definitely good to see them work through, you know we
got some new faces this year.
So trying to get everybody accustomed to playing with one another as well with some changes
that we're making on the court are both offensive and defensively.
Richland Center coach Jeremy Kui is team is at Westby tomorrow night.
The 25 26 church league volleyball season continue this week.
Monday night, Bialow Wesley and top grace community two games to one, hidden valley community
defeated Richlandeptus Temple three, two to one, Santa Maria blanked church of the Nazarene
one, two games to none and lighthouse chapel got the win over Richlandeptus Temple
one, two games to none on Tuesday, Richlandeptus Temple two down free Methodist one, two games
to one, five points top St Mary's two, two games to none, also basketball assembly of
God blanked Richlandeptus Temple four, two games to none, church of the Nazarene two,
not by evoke a Bible church two, two games to none and evoke a Bible church one, swept
free Methodist two, two games to none, Bethel Lutheran and Richlandeptus Temple five had
buys in this week's play for the second straight game.
Marquette suffered a non-conference loss after a disappointing result, a Dayton upset.
The Golden Eagles last night 77 71, the Flyers had led most of the game, but the score was
tied at 68 all, Nigel James led the scoring with 18 and Chase Ross had 15, Marquette hit
only 38% of its shots and was nine of 31 on three pointers.
Coach Shaka Smart's team stays at home to play central Michigan on Saturday.
Last night number four Arizona was a winner against number three Yukon 71 67, number seven
Michigan 86 61 over middle Tennessee and number 11 Alabama beat number eight Illinois 90
to 86.
In state, it was also the Badger women's team winning against Illinois Chicago 74 53 and
the Marquette women's team 75 43 over UW Milwaukee.
Bad Bill was a winner against North Central Illinois 66 to 60 in men's college basketball
and in college volleyball, it was Wisconsin getting the win by sweep over Purdue.
Packers quarterback Jordan love was back to being a full participant in practice yesterday,
but everyone in the receiver room is dealing with some sort of injuries.
Rookie Savian Williams was the only pass catcher who did not practice, but Romeo Dobbs, Matthew
Golden, Christian Watson and on TV and Wix were all limited.
Running back Josh Jacobs is listed as day today by coach Matt LaFour and a total of 17
Green Bay players have their names on the injury report.
The Vikings injury report includes only five players.
The new NFL weekend begins tonight with Buffalo playing at Houston.
In other sports, the bucks are facing a big challenge with Top Score, Yanis out to
Cumpo, out for at least a week and maybe two.
Analyning show Milwaukee is the weakest team in the NBA when it's superstar is not playing.
In recent years, there was always somebody to carry the load while he recovered, but
players like Damien Lillard or Chris Middleton have moved on.
The bucks have already won one game without Yanis, but they've lost two.
They're doing that trying to get by the challenge tonight as they get back to action against
the 76ers.
Last night in the NBA Toronto on 21 Philadelphia 112 Indiana 127 Charlotte, 118 Houston
beat Cleveland, 114 Miami 110 Golden State 96 Oklahoma City over Sacramento, 113 99 Denver
over New Orleans, 125, 118 Minnesota beat Washington, 120, 109 New York over Dallas, 113, 111
and Chicago beat Portland 122 to 121 and that is an update on sports for this Thursday.
I am Phil Ne.