There are plenty of high school events going on today, River Valley plays at Richland
Center.
It's the opening of the Southwest Wisconsin Conference.
I asked Coach Jane Breel, a River Valley about the start of the season.
I'm very pleased with the way that our kids have come in and their mental focus and honestly
with their approach at the plate, probably mostly, because sometimes that can be an issue
for players that struggle to carry in that bat out to the field with them defensively
and then it hurts their defensive games.
So as far as that goes, I've been pretty pleased with some of the things we've been doing,
but we have eight kids all in different positions right now compared to last year.
So this time of year is learning for us and unfortunately, we've had a lot of our
pre-season games canceled so far.
So we've only gotten a few in, but at least we've gotten them in and we've been able to
see some things.
Well, you play Richland Center and you kind of know what to expect this year, don't you?
We sure do.
You know, the kids know that every game in our conference is going to be a tough game
for us this year because every single one of our conference schools has a large amount
of talent on it.
So I guess for us, it's less about who we're playing and more about how we are performing
and the things that we are doing within our team.
So that's where I'd like our focus to stay is to continue to work on the things that
are going to make us better.
Here are the Black Hawks take on the Hornets today at Richland Center High School at the
game on WRC, a radio.
Here is Hornets Coach Jamie Gander.
You can kind of see it in practice.
We look a little rusty first night back, offspring break and you know, the kids are working hard
though, we're making corrections and we're trying to just move forward.
The weather hasn't cooperated real well though either.
You would have liked to have gotten the game in on Monday and turned out to be maybe
nicer than originally predicted.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know, you know, I don't know what the conditions were in Austin, but
they just called and said that there wasn't going to happen.
So unfortunately, you know, that would have been a good night to have gotten a game in.
You know, now we're looking at playing River Valley here with quite a stretch off, which
would have been nice to get some some at bats.
You know, going into conference, you always like to kind of have your ducks in a row and
I'm not sure, you know, where we're at right now, just it's been a little bit of a dry
spell getting some some games in.
It's really hard for me to judge.
I mean, it's really on, but almost all your conference teams lost in games last night.
I mean, so what do you take of that?
Yeah, I was looking at that and I don't know.
There's some teams there that I thought were going to be, you know, and who know was
who, I don't know who they pitched.
I think a couple of them did pitch their starters, but you know, I think this year that conference
is wide open and that's what we keep telling the girls.
You know, it's been 30 years, 30 years this year since Crystal Center won a conference
championship.
So, you know, keep telling them, keep keep that in mind, you know, it's there.
We have what it takes, I believe, to do that, but it's just, we got to get everything
clicking again.
And you know, like last year, you kind of seen the progression.
We were we were working progress and I think we're ahead of last year right now.
But there's also some positions that still need some work here.
Have a game tonight on the WRC Radio pregame time around 450 also the Richland Center soccer
girls will be at River Valley.
That's a five o'clock kickoff time today.
There's track action at landcasters, several schools involved, including the Richland Center
Hornets golf action for Southwest Conference teams at Dodge Point Country Club this afternoon
getting underway with T off time at four o'clock for Riverdale.
Their varsity softball team will be at Cuba City this afternoon for a 4 30 start time.
Weston's baseball team is home against his Soto and Ithaca Weston softball plays at
Seneca this afternoon.
Kickup who will be taking on North Crawford at North Crawford in Ridge and Valley Conference
play.
There's track action coming up this weekend for the Ithaca Weston track teams.
They're coached by Gina Lorenz.
We probably have about a dozen boys out girls.
We need more girls.
We could recruit.
Yes.
We could use a few more girls and it seems like it goes in streaks because there are some
years where it's just the opposite where you have more girls.
Correct.
Yeah.
It used to be where the girls team was the powerhouse team and now it's flipped, flipped
the switch there.
But yeah, the boys we have are doing an awesome job.
They've set some really high goals.
It seems like daily they walk by that case in the hallway that has all the school records
and they're looking to beat some this year.
So yeah, it's a good goal to have.
You had some that you broke last year, didn't you?
Yes.
Every year we have some we beat.
Sometimes it's their own record from the year before.
It's just constantly we stress, improve what you can do and get better.
The Ithaca Weston track teams will be at New Lisbon coming up on Saturday.
Virginia's bowling league action last night, bubbling springs photography with a 29.
72 led the league.
Walsh is a side where a 29 54, the Phoenix Center team won a 28 78, Walsh is a side where
had an 11 46 game, bubbling springs photography at 10 76 and the Phoenix Center team won a 10 17.
Top series.
The ship 6 91 chase Keller a 6 88 Mike Carpenter had a 6 64.
The best individual game, Trayton Shep 279, Ken Nick's junior 247, Chase Keller, Nicole
Montier and Adam Wilson all with 246s in the merchant's bowling league veteran right
hander, Sonny Gray and three Boston relievers combined to shut out the Brewers five nothing
yesterday.
The Red Sox took the series two games out of three, Milwaukee's best chance to score,
came in and loaded the bases in the seventh with two out, Joey Ortiz took a full count
pitch called a ball, but it was overturned on appeal and the strikeout ended the inning.
The Brewers are off today and travel to Washington for a weekend series starting Friday.
Yesterday it was Toronto 4 3 over the Dodgers, Colorado 9 Houston 1, Atlanta 8 2 over the
Angels.
The Cubs 6 Tampa Bay 2 in the National League San Diego 8 Pittsburgh 2 San Francisco
5 nothing over Philadelphia, Arizona 7 the Mets 2 St. Louis Speed Washington 6 1 Miami
7 4 over Cincinnati in the American League Cleveland 10 2 over Kansas City Texas 3 Seattle
nothing Baltimore 5 the White Sox 3 the athletics 3 2 over the Yankees and Minnesota beat Detroit
8 6 the box dropped the second game of a back-to-back series Wednesday 1 37 1 11 in Detroit.
The pistons control the game all the way Milwaukee center Jericho Sims had a triple double
with 11 points 11 rebounds and 10 assists Ryan Rollins scored a game high 23.
The box returned home for the next to last game of the season Friday when the Brooklyn
Nets visit the Pfizer forum.
The Wisconsin men's hockey team takes on North Dakota this afternoon in the semi final
round of the NCAA Frozen 4 the badgers are in pursuit of their 7th national title.
They are in the Frozen 4 for the 12th time in program history coach Mike Hastings talked
about the team being focused on winning in Las Vegas.
They understand how important Thursday is to first and foremost themselves their families
you know and then the program and you know they want to do this for a lot of reasons
first and foremost the guys that are in that locker coach Mike Hastings the badger hockey
team will meet the winner of top seeded Michigan or Denver if they win today the championship
game will take place on Saturday and Wisconsin governor Tony Evers has signed a bill designed
to keep badger athletics competitive about 15 million dollars will be available to the
states three division one athletic programs in Madison Milwaukee and Green Bay the money
can be used to pay athletes through new revenue sharing agreements and it codifies existing
rules concerning NIL name image and likeness deals for players that is an update on sports
today.
I am Filney.
