I am Phil Knee with Sports.
It's the seventh week of the high school football schedule, Richland Center preparing, and I talked to coach Andy Troxell this week after his team's loss on the road last week at Nouglaris, and this week they'll play Broadhead Judah.
Yeah, I think anytime you're kind of on a five game skid, that's definitely something that you need to pay attention to, you know, and so we have a chance just to connect with the team and go through some stuff.
and really revisit what we can control and what we can't control, you know, and going to the Nuclaris, they're a well coached ball club, you know, with a lot of experience too.
And, you know, they, they shorted and we get to see it firsthand, you know, but hats off to our defense.
I mean, truly you wouldn't look at the score and think that, right?
But I mean, they were able to keep us, you know, in the game, you know, until half or so.
And offensively, we just kind of struggled.
I mean, they were fast, they were aggressive, you know, and,
And that just really hurts, you know, when we can't have offensive production and your defense is playing a whole game out there.
So, but no, we got a chance to just talk and really kind of revisited kind of where we're at with our situation this season.
We've got 14 kids there.
This is their first year playing varsity football.
When you look at that and you've got realistically four or five kids that have experience, two of which are injured and have been for the last few weeks, right?
We're young, right?
And you either
when or you learn.
And the last month we've been doing quite a bit of learning, you know, but there's a lot of growth that comes with it and our kids are still positive.
You know, they're, they're ready to come home from their home crowd, you know, and have a few ball games the last three weeks here closer to home.
RC coach Andy Troxell, his team will be at home on Friday night for its next game.
Also River Valley getting set to hit the road to Lancaster.
I spoke this week with coach Tyler McClain of the Blackhawks.
I think the biggest thing that we could take away as a group is just that continual part of the self-inflicted wounds.
I think, again, Bob was a very talented team.
They had a lot of very good players on both sides of those walls, but I think a lot of the stuff that we could have controlled, we lacked as a team and as a coaching staff, so that's definitely something that we're looking to improve on again this week, especially with a really good opponent when we're playing this Friday.
Well, certainly penalties.
come into play a lot.
And at what point do you say, oh, it's a young team.
That's bound to happen.
And how do you try to curb those?
Well, I think the biggest thing that we really try to focus on is, yes, the reality is we are a little bit of a younger team.
But this youth that we've had has had a lot of experience on the varsity level.
And really trying to focus on the little detailed things that maybe a lot of people scoff over, or maybe the fact that a lot of these young guys maybe didn't think about too much on their JV levels are not really kind of really starting to bite us in the butt a little bit.
So that's really something that we're trying to focus on again this week and really reiterate into our guides here.
Coach Tyler McClain of River Valley following his team's loss to Platteville last week and before their trip to Lancaster tomorrow night.
Games going on in high school sports tonight, Boy Soccer, Madison Country Day Co-op will be at River Valley, Sugar River at Platteville Lancaster, Mount Horro but Salk Prairie, McFarland visits Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells at Ripon, Portage Point at Travels to Stoughton.
In Girls Volleyball, Dodgeville is at Richland Center tonight.
We'll have coverage of that match live on the radio.
Also, North Crawford travels to Ithaca, Iowa Grant at Boscobel, Weston at Wozika-Stuben, Highland at River Ridge, Lafarge Youth Initiative at Kickapoo, Hillsborough at Neceda, DeSoto at Seneca, Royal at Brookwood, Cuba City visits Southwestern, West Salem at Varroqua, Bangor at Wonywalk Center,
Cashton at New Lisbon, Westby at Arcadia, Reedsburg at Mount Horrib in area spiker action going on this evening.
Merchants League bowling action AutoZone 2921, Walsh's Ace Hardware 2800, Gotland Insurance 2796.
AutoZone, a 1060, Goblin Insurance, a 1004, and Phoenix Center, a 988 for the Phoenix Center team one.
Top series, Jeff Sekman, a 682, Andy Keller, 671, Ken Nix Jr, a 668.
Ken Nix Jr had a 289 game.
Mike Carpenter and Jacob Layton with 255s.
Adam Wilson, a 238.
That's also from Note.
For the board, Nicole Matier, bowl to 5.84 and a 2.35 game in the Merchants Bowling League.
Start time for the Brewer Playoff Games have now been announced.
Games 1 and 2 will be played in American Family Field.
Jacob Miserowski will be on the mound Saturday night.
The game will get underway at around 7.30 and then they will start at 3 on Sunday afternoon.
Their opponent
The San Diego Padres pinch hitter Gavin Sheets blasted a two run homerun.
Five Padres pitchers combined on a five hitter and San Diego swept the Cubs out of the playoffs with a 4-1 victory.
Xander Bogarts drove in the first run for the surging Padres who followed up their 8-0 win in Tuesday's opener with another dominant mound performance.
The Cubs led the majors in runs and the National League in homers this year but they managed just eight hits over eight
18 innings against San Diego's inspired staff.
The Padres advanced to face the MLB best record brewers in the National League division series.
Elsevier yesterday in baseball, a good one with Atlanta and Philadelphia going 10 innings.
The Phillies win 4-3 and in the American League, the White Sox 7, Houston 3, Yankees 9-2 over Boston.
Packer's wide receiver, Jaden Reed, has been placed on the injured reserve, meaning his 2026 season is over.
Reed was carted off the field after sustaining a neck injury in the game against the Jets in week two.
Head coach, Malaflora, says one of his top receivers will have surgery, but the injury is not expected to end his pro football career.
Reed had caught four passes for 24 yards this season before the injury.
Also, the offensive line is getting shaken up this week and veteran guard Kevin Zeitler was officially signed yesterday.
Zeitler becomes the third experienced guard to join the Packers this week.
They signed Lake and Tomlinson to their 53 man roster and added Mackay Beckton to their practice squad on Tuesday.
Zeiler is the most recent signage.
He's trying to bolster the line.
He is 36 years old.
He made the Pro Bowl in 2023, grew up in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha.
He played in college at Wisconsin before beginning his NFL career back in 2012.
He says he was a Packer fan growing up during the Brett Favre era.
also in sport news going on tonight the new NFL weekend begins it will be the Steelers playing at Cleveland to begin the new weekend of NFL football NHL regular season action last night Pittsburgh was a winner against Philadelphia 7-0 Toronto 2 the Islanders 1 Colorado 8-4 over Los Angeles WNBA play Atlanta 93 Washington 75 and in overtime
Dallas 108, Golden State 100.
Michigan State coach Pat Fitzgerald says the Badgers defense played lights out against Penn State.
His Spartans take on Wisconsin in a Big Ten conference game Saturday.
Sports Illustrated reports that Fitzgerald says it's apparent UW is a Luke Fickle team.
Now he says they are physical and tough and they showed it by the way they were able to come back in front of a hostile crowd in Pennsylvania last Saturday.
Back to the Brewers for a moment, some new delicacies will be lined up for food at Amfam Field this year during
the playoffs.
If the combinations sound a little strange, that's because the team and its restaurants are engaging in a little Wisconsin fusion.
Items like a beer-a-bon-me hotdog, a double burger topped with pot roast and peppers, Oktoberfest pizza, and brat rangoons.
the purers will enjoy home field advantage through the post season as they scored over 100 wins for the first time in team history.
Raymond Newpert Wisconsin Radio Network.
And that my friends is a check of sports today on a Thursday morning.
I am Phil Knee.