Sports – Saturday, March 5th, 2016

The Brewers are 3-0 in Cactus
League play after a 5-2 win over Seattle
on Friday.  Wily Peralta and Chris
Capuano each threw two scoreless innings.

The Brewers and A’s play this
afternoon. Coverage begins at 1:55pm on KFIZ.

 

The Bucks stopped the
Timberwolves 116-101 on Friday night at BMO Harris Bradley Center.
Khris Middleton led Milwaukee
with 32.  The Bucks host Oklahoma City on Sunday afternoon.  You’ll hear it on News-Talk 1450 KFIZ.  Coverage begins at 2:10pm on KFIZ.

 

The Horizon League Men’s
Basketball Tournament gets going today in Detroit.  Green Bay has
the #4 seed and will take on 9^th seeded Cleveland State
at 11am tomorrow morning.  5^th
seed Milwaukee takes on 8 seed Northern
Kentucky about 1:30pm.  The
league championship game is Tuesday night. 

 

Marquette travel to Butler
today for their regular season finale. 
The Big East Tournament gets going on Wednesday at Madison Square
Garden.  

 

The Badgers wrap up regular
season play on Sunday night at Purdue. 
You’ll hear it on News-Talk 1450 KFIZ. 
Coverage begins at 5:30pm with the tip set for 6:30pm.  The Big Ten Tournament gets going on
Wednesday at Indianapolis.

 

WIAA State Hockey Tournament

Boys State Semifinals

Appleton United 4 Eau
Claire Memorial 1

Hudson 4 Waukesha
1

Girls State Semifinals

Hayward 6 Rock
County 1

University School 4 Central Wisconsin 2

Today

Girls State Championship Game – Noon

Hayward vs. University
School

Boys State Championship Game – 2:15pm

Appleton United vs. Hudson

 

The Waupun gymnastics team
was 7^th at the State Division Two Meet in Wisconsin Rapids. 

 

The Waupun girls basketball
team heads to Waukesha
South High
School today for a WIAA Division Three Sectional
Final against Milwaukee School of Languages. 
That tip is set for 1pm.  A win by
the Warriors sends them to the WIAA State Semifinals next Thursday in Green Bay.

 

WIAA Boys Basketball

Regional Semifinals

Division One

Germantown 63 Fond du Lac 38 –
Jake Walgenbach 13

Kimberly 62 Green Bay East 47

Stevens
Point 72 Appleton North 36

Neenah 66 Eau Claire North 57

Superior 54 Appleton
East 42

Oshkosh North 102 Hudson
66

Oshkosh West 75 Marshfield
72 – OT

 

Division Two

Kaukauna 87 Green Bay Southwest 53

 

Division Three

Ripon 80 Winneconne 55

Omro 72 Watertown Luther Prep 63

WLA 56 Laconia 45 – Mitch McFarlane 32

Waupun 67 Campbellsport 60

Sheboygan Falls 79 New Holstein
78 – 2OT

 

Division Four

Howards Grove 59 St. Mary’s Springs 51

 

Division Five

Young Coggs 80 Oakfield 53

 

WIAA Boys Regional Finals

Saturday, March 5^th – 7pm

Division One

Neenah @ Superior

Oshkosh West @ Oshkosh North

Eau Claire Memorial @ Appleton West

Kimberly @ Arrowhead

Division Two

Seymour @ Kaukauna

Division Three

WLA @ Waupun – On KFIZ

Omro @ Ripon

 

All-Flyway Conference Girls Basketball Team

1^st Team

Caitlyn Tipton, JR, Laconia – Player of the
Year

Kelsey Birschbach, SR, Laconia

Mattie Klingenmeyer, SR,
Mayville

Anja Smith, JR, St. Mary’s Springs

Mackenzie Boehlke, JR, WLA

Natalie Geiger, JR, Lomira

Sabres Earn Split In Season Opening Games

The Marian baseball team split a pair of games with Simpson as they began their road trip in Arizona on Friday.  Marian dropped the opener 18-7 but rallied for 5 runs in the bottom of the 7th to steal an 8-7 victory in the night cap.  Cody Schaefer’s RBI single plated Hunter Berry with the game winner for Jason Bartlet’s squad.  The Sabres will face off with Whitman and Hamline today. 

Badgers Fire Women’s Hoops Coach

The Wisconsin Badgers have fired women’s basketball coach Bobby Kelsey after 5 seasons on the job.  Kelsey was just 47-100 in her time in Madison and was never better than 9th in the Big Ten.