I'm Phil Ney with a look at weekend sports. First of all, in high school action.
A triangular was hosted over the weekend. Prairie Ducine and softball a winner against
Thailand 11-4. Iowa Grant edged Thailand 3-2. And Iowa Grant was a 12-2 winner against
Prairie Ducine in five innings. Baseball action on Saturday, Dodgeville 3-0,
Overland Caster. The Richland Center track games were involved in the Betsy DeMarit Memorial
Limitational at Redsburg over the weekend. Richland Center boys team finished sixth
and the girls team finished fourth. Overall looking at some of the results. First of all,
four of the boys. Duncan Harper finished second in the 100-meter final. It was also Ryan
Stadler taking third in the 800 with a time of 2-16-5. Robert Button was second in the 1600
with a time of 4-48-88 and Kiernan Culver finished fifth. Owen Dreyer was first in the 3-200-meter run
with a time of 953-98. The four-by-one relay team finished fourth. That was Duncan Harper,
Robert Button, Sean Adams, and Bronson Perkins. Another relay team, the four-by-two was sixth.
Sean Adams, Killian Stanley, Dane Schwartz, and Lucas Duranne. The four-by-four was fifth.
David Button, Kamani Gullens, and Henry Clancy along with Andrew Melby, ran that for the Hornets,
and a fifth place finish for the four-by-eight. Ryan Stadler, Harrison Carpenter, Andrew Melby,
and Kiernan Culver. Also for Richland Center, senior Devon Woodhouse with a great job in the
pole vault, a 13-6, and a first place finish. Duncan Harper was fourth in the long jump as well
for the Hornet boys. For the girls in the 100 meters, Charlie Bailey was third, also in the 200
meters, Charlie finished second with a time of 27-81. Adeland Words was sixth in that event.
Charlie Bailey first in the 400, with a time of 101-53. Perl Fretz finished third in the 800,
also it was Lacey Allball taking sixth. Four-by-eight relay team finished first for the Hornets.
Adeland Lawless, Rachel Waterfall, Ava Gachel, and Perl Fretz were a part of that, and in the
pole vaulting, Danica Paul's, the senior pole vaulter, came in first with a 10-6 vault in the
final, and Chloe Hying finished third. Ava Gachel was fifth at the Betsy Damherit,
Readsburg Invitational, over the weekend. On today's schedule for Richland Center,
baseball action, the makeup game from April 6th will be played today at Austin,
of course, weather permitting, and Southwest Conference Soccer Action tonight as Richland
Center's soccer girls are slated to host Galena. It is slated to be T-shirt night as well.
For River Valley, baseball action at home and on conference setting against Wisconsin Heights.
Riverdale Sports tonight, Riverdale's softball team will host Iowa Grant at 430,
and Riverdale will play Seneca in a varsity game that is slated for 630 tonight at Seneca
in varsity baseball. The track meet, which was to be held today at Prairie Dushin,
a middle school track meet, that has been canceled at this point because of the impending weather.
For Ithaca, baseball tonight, and they will be at Kickapoo, five o'clock start time there.
Ithaca, Weston, softball, also in Violeta, take on Kickapoo.
For Weston, their baseball team will be home against LaFarge, as mentioned today in the
Richland Valley Conference. Speaking of baseball, it won't be long the home talent teams will be
hitting the diamonds. The first game of the league for the Muscatay mudcats this year is a bit
earlier. It will be Sunday, May 10th against Verona. The opening game for the Casanovia Reds,
slated for Sunday, May 17th, when they will be hosting cross planes.
It's baseball action coming up today for several area major league teams except the
brewers. The brewers will be off today. They avoided a weekend sweep by Pittsburgh behind the
strong pitching of Kyle Harrison. He blanked the pirates on one hit over seven innings with 12
strikeouts in a five-nothing win. That ended Milwaukee's four-game losing streak,
all of the runs scored in the fourth inning, and the brewers went without a home run for the seventh
straight game. They're off today. We'll host the Arizona Diamondbacks for three games starting
Tuesday. Following yesterday's great performance, Kyle Harrison talked about what went well for him
from the mound. I think just fastball command, starting out and then as the innings went on,
I think it was just mixing a good amount of change ups. I mean, showed it early. So that was huge
just to let them throw them in the zone and yeah, I thought the slider took a step forward today
and was able to use that to expand out of the zone. One more thing about the lack of home runs,
Milwaukee without a home run for a seventh straight game. That represents the brewers longest
such drought since August of 1999 when they went a franchise record 13 consecutive games without
a home run. Also in the National League yesterday, the Dodgers blanked the Cubs six-nothing,
Arizona 12-7 over San Diego Colorado shut out the Metz three-nothing San Francisco six-three over
Miami Colorado three in the Metz one was also that was the opener of the double header Atlanta six-two
over Philadelphia in the American League Toronto four-two over Cleveland Tampa Bay four-two over the
twins Boston beat Baltimore five three Houston seven the Yankees four athletics two Texas one
Kansas City eleven nine over the Angels and an inter league play Detroit eight three over Cincinnati
Washington two the White Sox one Seattle three two over St. Louis. Profitball focus gives the
Packers two thousand twenty six NFL draft class a B grade overall. So it was overall fairly successful
for the Packers as they were able to make do with with what they had and led by second round number
fifty two overall cornerback Brandon C say out of South Carolina. They say that he will be developed
into a good a good starter. Chris McClellan is noted for his strength and could become a salad
run stopper edge rusher Denny Dennis Sutton out of Penn State offers good size and length after
he was taken to the fourth round in the fifth offensive lineman Jagger Burton allowed just 12
pressures on 457 pass block snaps and no sex for him were given up six-rounder cornerback
Domani Johnson is much stronger in man-to-man coverage than in zone coverage also in the sixth
round kicker trace Mac was very accurate and was good on five of six field goal attempts
of more than 50 yards. The Packers traded up to get him Brian Gunnacone's talked about that.
You know we got some talented guys in that room we're going to have to figure that out but I
did think it was important to add competition to that and certainly we thought he was the best
kicker in this draft and you know I think Cam had a very strong opinion about that and as did I
and I thought yeah I felt fortunate to be able to acquire him. Coach Mallow's Lord talked about
only taking six players this year in the draft. Obviously I think we feel strong about our guys
that we have within our program already but certainly you can never add enough competition to
try to bring out the best in everybody so it was just kind of the way it fell this year and you know
there were a couple opportunities there where we felt like we could go up and get players that
could impact our team in our roster. A four star quarterback prospect has committed to play football
for the Badgers. Jack Sarge made an early commitment to Louisville but switched to Wisconsin last
week. Sarge is the son of former EW starting quarterback Jim. He's rated 20th nationwide in
the recruiting class of 2027. He has been on campus twice and has an official visit scheduled
for next month in Madison. Jack Sarge will be a part of the Badgers in the future. Their recruiting
class now includes nine commits. Yesterday in the NBA playoffs it was a win for Toronto over
Cleveland 93 89 San Antonio 114 and Portland 93 Boston 128 Philadelphia 96 in Houston beat the
Lakers 115 96. Finally from the NHL playoffs Buffalo 61 of a Boston Colorado 5 Los Angeles 1
Tampa Bay 3 Montreal 2 and Anaheim won it over time 4-3 over Edmonton. That is a wrap on sports. I am
filming.
