I am Phil Ney with WRCO Sports, the 50th WIA State Girls Basketball Tournament gets underway today and runs through Saturday night at the Rush Center in Green Bay.
Today's games, Division 3 starts the tournament at 135 with 28-no Usberg against 24 and 4 Mozeny, second seed Kettlemarine Lutheran at 27-1, plays Unbeaten 28-no Wisconsin Dells a third seed.
Also, Division 4, number 1 seed Nielsville will take on number 4 Lomira tonight at 635 and St. Mary Catholic will play Albany Monticello, a 2-3 matchup coming up in the later game this evening.
Tomorrow morning, Alivistrum plays Fall River at 905 followed by Pachelli and Barnabelle at the State Girls Basketball Tournament.
There are some really good boys games lined up for tonight in sectional semi-final action right here in Richland Center at the RCHS Field House.
It is southwestern playing North Crawford, assumption plays Cochran Fountain City at Black River Falls.
Barnabelle will battle abundant life Christian at Sun Prairie East and Shaboygan Lutheran plays Oak Field at Campbellsport.
Also, in sectional and Division 4 closest to us, Cambridge will take on Darlington at Dodgeville High School and Partyville plays Lomira at Portage.
Division 3, Plattville and Landcaster will play at Prairie Dushin High School tonight.
Watertown Luther Prep will battle Lake Mills at Watertown.
In Division 2, Mount Horob plays McFarlane at Evansville High School and Wauwatosa West plays New Berlin West at Waukeshaw North.
Among the boys, basketball sectional semi-finals, winners of tonight's games will play on Saturday.
The SWC all conference girls wrestling selections have been recognized this week.
100 pounds, the conference champion was Kayleigh Spilde of Richland Center, Alisa Schnitzler of Prairie Dushin was second, Maya Markline Dodgeville, the Honorable mention.
First team at 107, Kenlin-Bial of Landcaster, second Rosalie Cosmon of Prairie Dushin.
First team at 114, Michaela Lathrop, Dodgeville and Kylie Langdon, Prairie Dushin, second team.
At 120, Madeleine Muller of Richland Center, the conference titleist, Olivia Ball of Landcaster, second, and Aspen Gillo of Prairie Dushin Honorable mention.
At 126, Mackenzie Sholti River Valley, first team, Hannah Ingham of Prairie Dushin, second, and Mariah Obday of Richland Center Honorable mention.
At 132, Amelia Johnson of Landcaster, first team, Abigail Williams Richland Center, second.
At 138, Jenna Johnson, Dodgeville, first team, Tama Guyer Landcaster, second.
At 145, Brooklyn Hanky Landcaster, first team, Raylen Ragsdale River Valley, second, Valerie Fawver Richland Center, the Honorable mention wrestler.
At 152, JC Davis, Bill Montplatville, first team, Annabelle Slom of Richland Center, second team.
At 165, Brittany Pesci of Prairie Dushin, first team, Sophie of Burr Landcaster, second, and Ellie Osborne of River Valley, the Honorable mention wrestler.
At 185, Brielle Walmer, Dodgeville, first team, Day Lynn Hill of River Valley, second, and Aliyah Wall of Prairie Dushin, the Honorable mention.
At 235, Adeland Spurgeon of Landcaster, the conference champion.
Coach of the year, Tyson Wolf of Landcaster, and congratulations to the wrestler of the year, Richland Center Senior Madeline Muller.
Bowling scores to report from the merchants league of last night.
Series High, Phoenix Center II, with a 3026, AutoZone 2889, Walsh's Aside, where had a 2840 series.
The best game, the Phoenix Center II, 1056, Phoenix Center II, and AutoZone had a 1016 game, a piece, and Goblin Insurance, 1,08.
Top series, Trayton Shep, and Chase Keller, with 715s, Kenniks, Jr., a 679, Jeff Seckman, a 670.
Top game, Trayton Shep, 289, Isaac Gavison, a 279, and Chase Keller, a 255, in bowling action from the merchants league.
Xavier was able to get by Marquette in the first round of the big East Conference tournament last night, 8987.
That ended the Golden Eagle season with a disappointing record of 12 and 20.
Royce Parham had 22 points and 9 rebounds to keep his team in the close game.
Parham and freshman Nigel James Jr., and Adrian Stevens, have indicated they will return to Marquette next season,
while head coach Shaka Smart tries to find talent in the transfer portal.
The Badgers take on the Washington Huskies for the second time in two weeks this afternoon.
Washington edged USC 83-79 to earn the spot in the bracket against Wisconsin.
Coach Greg Guards team whipped the Huskies 12 days ago, 90-73, and a game that wasn't as close as the score would indicate.
The Badgers earned a double buy in the big 10 tournament by virtue of their fifth place finish in the conference standings.
In the NBA yesterday Orlando 128 Cleveland 122, New Orleans 122, Toronto 111, New York beat Utah 134, 117.
Denver 129, Houston 93, the Clippers over Minnesota 153, 128, and Charlotte 117 Sacramento 109.
The Badger hockey team is out of the big 10 tournament. Ohio State skated like the cold center ice was their home ice.
Last night as they knocked Wisconsin out with a 7-1 victory.
The Buckeyes never trailed. They have eliminated the Badgers in the tournament's first round for the third straight year.
Finn Brink had Wisconsin's only score on a shorthanded goal in the closing minutes.
What does it mean from here? Coach Mike Hastings of the Badgers was asked about that.
There's a real good chance that we'll be playing in the NCAA tournament, but you know what we did tonight is we put the pen down.
We don't get a right our own future, and so for us, now we've got to wait and see what happens.
But again, at the beginning of the year, we talk about your Buckeye business, and now we've got to make sure that our Buckeye business holds up.
And so that's what we'll be doing here over this next week, then preparing for that opportunity.
Yesterday in Exhibition Baseball Cincinnati defeated Milwaukee 6-3, Washington 3, St. Louis 1.
It was Minnesota 2-1 over Detroit, the Angels 8, White Sox 4, Yankees 8-1 over Toronto.
Colorado beat Seattle 11-7, the Athletics 13, Arizona 3.
Cubs 9, Kansas City 8, the other split squad from Kansas City lost 5-2 to San Francisco.
Baltimore 7, Pittsburgh 2, Atlanta 5-3 over Tampa Bay, Houston 4-1 over Miami.
The Packer's latest free agent signing reunites defensive coordinator, Jonathan Ganon, with an offensive lineman he coached in Philadelphia.
ESPN reports Javan Hargrave signed a two-year deal Wednesday good for $23 million.
He had been released by the Vikings just hours earlier.
At nearly the same time he was announced, the Patriots had officially signed former wide receiver, Romeo Dobs, to a four-year deal.
And the visitation time in the funeral has been set for Packer Legend Bob Harlan.
A visitation in funeral mass will be held March 16th at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Green Bay, with a public celebration of life following that same day in the Atrium at Lambo Field.
Harlan, who served as Packer's president and CEO for nearly two decades, died last week at age 89.
After joining the Packer's organization in 1971, he ascended to the team's presidency in 1989, and helmed a reorganization of the franchise that led to a Super Bowl 31 victory in 1997 in a nearly $300 million refurbishing of Lambo Field.
Harlan stepped down from his position in 2008.
Ted Alon, Wisconsin Radio Network.
And that is a look at sports today.
I am Phil Ne for WRCO Sports.
