We begin today with a look at the Richland Center Hornets football team, which began its season with a scrimmage in La Crosse on Friday night.
Here is coach Andrew Troxel.
You know, we always love going to the Logan scrimmage because we get to see, you know, some bigger schools, you know, teams that we won't typically see during the regular season and came out of the gates against Logan and Logan is always a tough team to start against just because their school two to three times our size.
Their kids are well coached.
They're big kids.
and they just feel comfortable within their system.
And so we got the lot to go on defense first against them, and they drove, they drove, they drove, and our kids just gutted it out and had a gritty goal line stand in that first drive.
And so, I mean, if that's an indicator of how our defense is gonna play tough and hard-nosed and on the trenches, man, it's gonna be a fun season.
So, defensively, they did really well.
Of course, you have little breakdowns here and there, right?
That sort of scrimmage shows you.
And so we were able to make little adjustments going into this week and then go that route.
So, offensively, we struggled initially.
I think part of that is the shock coming out of that first live action competition.
And then our second go-around was against Sparta.
And it just clicked for our kids.
Offensively, they were able to move the ball at will on the ground and through the air.
And defensively, I mean, they were playing lights out ball.
Anytime we see two bigger schools, right?
And we're able to have success on one side of the ball or both sides of the ball.
It's a, it's a really good scrimmage.
And at the end of the day, everybody came out healthy, right?
Which is always what you hope for with the scrimmage too.
I ask coach Troxel about the numbers for this year's Hornet football program.
So we've got about probably mid 40s, you know, overall with kids, we've got a very strong senior and junior class, which is good, you know, some young pieces, you know, with our sophomore class and then just a developing freshman class.
So.
We're hopeful that our numbers will continue to grow at the younger levels.
I think we're seeing a byproduct of COVID, you know, when kids just didn't get into youth sports when they were younger.
But what's nice to know is that we kind of have a finger on the pulse of where our numbers are at with our whole program.
So our current seventh graders, very strong numbers.
And then every other class behind that numbers are very strong.
So might be a couple lean years, you know, coming up in the next two.
But then after that,
Centers should be known for just rebuilding year in and year out, which is great that our youth program now is finally starting to kick in.
The Hornet football team opens up at Verroqua on Friday night with a kickoff time of seven o'clock.
I asked Andy Troxel about the leaders for the Hornet football team.
I've got 10 guys that have done everything we've asked them to do, and it's hard to not give a kid an opportunity to have that distinction when they're busting their tail like anybody else.
those ten kids, ten because we had a tie, number nine, you know, they're the gold standard for our program, you know, and so those kids include, in no particular order here, Jadon Shep, A.J.
Klone, and Kaisen Switzenberg, the Weiss, Bronson Perkins, Kaden Stibby, Blake Muller, Tate Perkins, Holden Grob, and Isaac Gould.
So just great kids all the way around.
Awesome.
Quite a few names we've mentioned in the past and they're hoping on some of that experience to pay off this year.
I'm sure coach.
Yeah, absolutely.
So there's a lot of experience that we're going to put back on the field.
And so I think that's the thing that'll be nice for home of football is that no, we're not, there might be some new guys and new spots or old guys and new spots, I should say, you know, but overall collectively we will be one of probably the most experienced teams we have to receive this year.
Richland Center head football coach Andrew Troxel as his team prepares for the start of the season.
The start of the season is underway for the Richland Center soccer team.
The boy is getting set for a big showdown on Saturday with the alumni soccer legends.
So the Hornets preparing for the start of the regular campaign and it's the annual scrimmage, the varsity versus the legends.
It begins around 11 o'clock on Saturday morning at a Vitus rip field.
If there are any legends that would like to play or be a part of the game, contact Rick Piasecki for more information.
Merchants Bowling League will have a meeting starting at 6 o'clock tonight.
The league will begin on September 2nd at 6 p.m.
In other notes from the local area scene, last night, RC Church League softball tournament champions were decided.
In the A division, the mission got by 5 points, Lutheran 9-7, adding a tournament championship to their regular season title.
In the B division, St.
Mary's forced a second game for the title by taking down the Knights of Columbus in the first game, 15-2.
In the rubber game, it was the Knights of Columbus coming out on top, 17-11, to take
the title.
Dan Makovic and Darren Kepler each had home runs in the victory.
Thanks to everyone who helped make the 26 RC Church League softball season a very big success.
It won't be long down the line when we'll be talking about Church League volleyball getting underway.
Quail run golf action last night.
The league was delayed for a little more than an hour because of the storm that came through at the start of play.
Only half of the members were able to complete their round last night.
Makeup games will be played through the week and completed before next Tuesday.
The results from what we have and who finished last night, Aaron Halverson and Neil Mahoney both had 37s.
Aaron had an eagle on hole eight and Neil birdied hole one.
40s for Steve Chassina and JJ Klatt, a birdie on hole one for JJ Klatt.
Eli Cannon had a 42, including a birdie on hole six and Rod Reitz and Pat Keegan, both with 43s.
Other golfers with holes played under par.
Wally Wachter, birdied hole two.
Max Gasol with a birdie on hole two.
Pat Metz, birdied hole three during week 18 of the Quail Run Golf Action.
Night League hometown and baseball coming up tomorrow night.
Arena will be home against Sun Prairie in Night League Baseball second round action.
That first pitch time will be at 730.
Two innings with five runs crossing the plate.
Then a nine run ninth inning powered the Brewers to a record setting 22-nothing win over Seattle last night.
That's the most run scored in franchise history.
The most run scored by the winning team in a shutout victory in Major League Baseball history.
Milwaukee got home runs from Jake Bowers, Kristen Yellich, and Luis Lara, and David Hamilton.
Yellich, Lara, and Hamilton each drove in four runs.
Yelly talked about it being a team effort.
Kind of crazy.
I mean, it happened fast.
You know, it's always fun to be on this side of that.
You know, it's just a fun night for the guys and cool to see Gary out there closing it and kind of just contributions from everybody.
So there's always great nights when
they're going your way.
Brewer catcher Gary
Sanchez finished the game on the mound.
Kyle Harrison with the win he talked about being a part of it.
Yeah I mean I was going into it just like any other start until they take the ball from me so that's all I can do and Joe did a great job picking me up you know there's actually two innings were huge and then obviously the offense speaks for itself today so get the cool to be a part of.
And
I mean, that's, that's how we play, you know, when, when we, we swing at strikes and take balls, it sounds so easy and it's very, very difficult, but to be able to lay off really tough pitches and not panic that you have to swing because you're down on one, you know, or, or having two strikes is not a death wish, you know, then you break through and yelling hits a big homer and you break through.
Tostoune pitches for the Brewers in game number two tonight against the Mariners and hopefully they can.
Get some runs.
Baseball logic usually means that after 22 runs, you struggle the next night.
Hopefully not.
The Cubs were winners four or three over the White Sox, Texas five, nothing over Washington, Boston nine, Arizona four, Minnesota four and Atlanta one, Cleveland eight, one over San Francisco and Pittsburgh four, one winners against Detroit in the National League, St.
Louis three, nothing over Cincinnati, Philadelphia six, Miami four, San Diego five, two over the.
the Dodgers seven Colorado six in the American League the Yankees three Baltimore one Toronto ten five over Tampa Bay Kansas City for the athletics three and the Angels were winners three one over Houston.
Tight end Tucker Kraft scored a touchdown in Tuesday's practice that was open to Packers fans That's the last open practice before the team flies to Denver for Friday's preseason game defensive lineman Lucas Van Ness made several outstanding plays in his first practice back after dealing with a minor injury and running back Josh Jacobs took part in practice for the first time in almost two weeks
Green Bay will hold a closed practice today before leaving for the Broncos game.
The pregame time coming up at six o'clock on Friday night on WRCO FM 100.9.
That is an update on sports for a Wednesday morning.
I am Phil Me.