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WRCO Morning Sports

WRCO Sports · Fri Sep 18, 2026

Phil Nee

I'm Phil Neve for WRCO Sports.

Luther will start it in play and the free kick from the 50s.

He's going to try to lob it up over the top of everybody and now played inside going one on one, taking a shot, got it in.

That was James Divert.

Nice job by the Hawks as they score goal number two.

Phil Nee

The River Valley soccer team knocked off Richland Center 2-0 in Southwest Conference action last night.

The visiting Blackhawks netted a goal in each half and made it stand on the way to the win against their long-time rivals.

The first goal was made by Virgil Willep at 29 minutes, the 1-0 lead stood through half-time, and the Blackhawks made it 2-0 at 47 minutes.

Tyson Luther assisted James Dibart and River Valley scored an insurance goal.

Blackhawks keeper Dylan Perry led the defense to a shutout.

Richland Center was competitive throughout the 80 minutes, but could not find the combination to score.

Caleb Federle was in goal for the Hornets.

Strong play from Connor Stoles, Josh Nelson, Sean Adams, Henry Martin, and Andrew Matta was not enough to turn away their opponent in front of the home crowd.

The Hornet JV team won three to two over visiting River Valley in the five o'clock game.

Following the 2-0 varsity win, River Valley will travel to the Sugar River Tournament Saturday.

Richland Center will prepare for another conference game coming up Tuesday at Prairie du Chien.

In other soccer scores, Wisconsinites Barneveld got the best of Prairie Duchenne, Seneca, Wasika Steuben Youth Initiative, 8-0, Plantville Lancaster 2-0 over Dodgeville Mineral Point, Reedsburg 10, Portage Pointette 2, Baraboo over Sugar River 3-2, Arcadia 3-1 against Tomah.

High school volleyball on Thursday night, Richland Center with a three sets to one win over Lancaster River Valley, three nothing over Dodgeville Riverdale defeated basketball in three sets last night.

Riley Kinney had four aces.

Abby Tisdale, eight kills for the chieftains.

Emily Goplin with four blocks.

Riley Kinney at 15 assists.

Haley Schneider and Riley Kinney each had nine digs in the match.

Cuba City, 3-1 over Fenimore.

Plantville, 3-0 sweep of Prairie du Chine.

Seneca got the win by sweep over North Crawford.

Hillsborough, 3 sets to 2 over Neceda.

Oneywalk Center got the win against Bangor, 3-2.

Brookwood swept Royal.

It was Iowa Grant, 3-1 over Southwestern.

And Black River Falls got the best of Westby.

3 sets to 2 again in high school volleyball from Thursday night.

There were several high school football games played last night.

Westby was the winner over Verroqua in the Cooley Conference, 26-6.

Aquinas defeated G-E-T, 20-7.

It was West Salem over Black River Falls, 42-16.

And Arcadia over Luther, 22-6.

Sadie Bluffs Conference, it was Royal, 48.

New Lisbon, 28.

And Bangor got the win against Nesita, 43-0.

From the Mississippi Valley Conference on Alaska 42-6 over Barobu, Sparta Edge Tomah 28-27, La Crosse Logan 37-29 over La Crosse Central.

Eight player football last night, DeSoto 36-0 over Highland, and North Crawford got the win against Kickerboula Farge 38-0.

That brings us to football coming up tonight.

Richland Center is at Lancaster.

Here is Hornets coach Andrew Troxel.

You know, Lancaster has had a very tough draw.

You know, when you look at who they played, you know, Belleville preseason favorite ranked, ranked Cubis City team, you know, you know, and just middle point, which is dominant, you know, in the tough Platteville team.

So those are no slouches, you know, and.

I know that they're kind of looking at this one going, okay, we got a little bit of reprieve, you know, taking on a one and three Richland Center team.

But our kids are hungry.

You know, I mean, they've been so close, you know, over the last week or so.

And so they want to capitalize.

They want to seal the deal.

You know, production is great, but they want the W. So it'll be nice to go down there.

I mean, we're going to see a lot of spread.

So they're going to throw it around quite a bit.

Not as much triple option as what they've had in the past.

So that's nice and we also have to prepare for it because they've been running triple options since they were in elementary school, right?

So they run it better than most teams.

That's kind of offensively what we expect to see in the defensively of 4-3 with tight man coverage.

And so what's going to come down to is just our ability to establish a strong run game.

Phil Nee

That is coach Andy Troxell Richland center is head Lancaster.

That game is still slated for seven o'clock.

Some games being moved up River Valley of Prairie Dushine.

In fact, we'll start tonight at five.

Here is Tyler McClain River Valley

coach.

Prairie Dushine is going to be a good squad.

I think everybody kind of picks them to be the favorite of the season.

They got some athletes.

They got some good sides up front as well, but a very beatable team.

So again, really trying to focus on ourselves, refine our process and get ready to go play some ball.

Phil Nee

Again, this year probably she has a really strong running game, don't they?

Yeah, they got a pretty good back this year.

They're nice up front protecting.

Again, that's going to be kind of our number one thing to take care of on defense is really trying to find either runs.

Phil Nee

Blackhawks at the Blackhawks tonight.

River Valley on the road.

Broadhead Judah at Platteville still slated for seven o'clock.

SWAL Fenimore at Cuba City at seven.

Also Southwestern East Dubuque will play at Darlington.

Nuglaris at mineral point starts at six this evening.

Non-conference action Benton scales Mount Scholesburg is at Dodgeville.

Six Rivers Conference River Rages at Bosque Bell, starting at five.

Black Hawk Warren at Wozika, Steuben, Seneca at six.

Potosi, Cassville and Iowa Grant, starting at seven.

And Riverdale host Pecatonica Argyle.

That game has been moved up to six o'clock.

Here's coach Jeff Johnson of Riverdale.

A little bit similar to last year.

They got a really good quarterback, a lot of run heavy quarterback, quarterback, sweep, speed option, and then mix that in with some quick, a quick passing game.

There's three in one.

They beat Wasiga last week and they won their first two non-conference games.

So they're formidable opponent.

Phil Nee

Jeff Johnson talked about the focus for Riverdale the rest of the way.

I think this is a must win game this week.

And then next week is a basketball.

I think that's going to be a competitive game too.

And then going into the last three are the top three teams.

Black Hawk is kind of down a little bit, but I think we could contend with anybody in our league.

Phil Nee

Houseware, cashed in plays at Hillsborough, five o'clock start time, Holman at Reedsburg at five.

South Central has Ripon at Wisconsin Dells, Mauston at Berlin, and Adams Friendship at Waupon, Nakusa at Watoma, eight-player football at Wisconsin Heights and Oneywalk Center, Monticello at Belmont, and tomorrow, Ithaca Weston slated to host Brookwood at one o'clock for Ithaca's homecoming game.

The annual nighttime race was held last night in Bosquebell.

The annual Greg Bell Memorial Night Race.

Richland Center, Ithaca, Joe and Dreyer won the race.

The high school boys team took second out of 22 teams.

Braden Burns also meddled for 15th place for RCI.

William Harpen was 20th.

Sam Jones, 24th.

Benjamin Santel, 33rd.

Ben Waterfall,

43rd and Samuel Harpen was 64th.

Also from the area teams, Boscobels, Kipton Brown was 16th at the meet.

Greg Fry was 38th and Graydon Richter was 40th.

For River Valley, Nathan Hamilton took 28th and Ramsey Amble was 69th.

Bennett Woodhouse, 95th.

Braden Turkusen, 66th for Kick-A-Boo LeFards, their top runner in last night's action.

For the girls races, Richland center, Ithaca without Margaret Margaret Lawless last night, Ava Martin and Ava Gatchel each ran personal bests on the evening for coach Eric Minden.

Pearl Fretz was 18th, Ava Martin, 43rd, Adlin Lawless, 51st and Rachel Waterfall was 60th.

For River Valley, their top runner was Molly Moss with a 16th place finish, Breel Grant, 22nd, Hayden Heglin, 76th and Reagan Sackett.

91st, fastest runner for Kick-A-Boo LeFarge was Ken Delandosek, 65th overall in the meet.

and bowling scores from the coffee clutch league series high the three aces 1749 the gutter gals had a 1746 alley cats 1702 gutter gals 619 and a 602 three aces 595 the 10 pins of 586 marlene gary with a top series 492 gene nix 459 Irene clad stovey 447 Irene clad stovey had a 180

game, Marlene Gary a 179, Jean Nix a 176, and Lila Kraska had the 3-10 split pickup in coffee clutch bowling.

And from all-star league action, Good Nuff had a 28-99 series, Advanced Pumpin' Well 28-88, Morris Heating and Cooling 27-73.

Advanced Pumpin' Well with a top game, 10-41, Second Best was Good Nuff 10-20, Turbos Bar and Grill had a 9-94.

Top series, Jason Gerner, a 703.

Kevin Genthe, a 668.

Casey Ewing, a 654.

Jason Gerner, with a 269 high game.

Kevin Genthe, a 268.

Casey Ewing, a 252.

Additional highlights, Mike Albrecht, with a 567 series, 135 over average.

Steve Swanson, with a 561, 99 over average.

Joey Parr, bold of 498, 99 over average.

Ingment with a 232.83 over average.