Sports – Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

 

The Packers have locked up kicker Mason Crosby to a four-year, $16 million dollar contract that keeps him in Green Bay through the 2019 season.   He is now the 2^nd highest paid kicker in the NFL behind New England’s Stephen Gostkowski.

The Badger men’s basketball
team is on the road tonight as they travel to Minnesota. 
Coverage begins at 7pm with the tip set for 8pm.  UW wraps up their regular season on Sunday at
Purdue.

 

Luke Fischer hit a pair of
free throws with 1.2 seconds left to give Marquette
an 88-87 win over Georgetown on Tuesday night at
the BMO Harris Bradley
Center.  The Germantown
native finished with a team high 23 points.

 

The Bucks host Indiana tonight at BMO Harris Bradley Center.
The tip is set for 7pm. 

 

The Brewers will play their 1^st
Spring Training game this afternoon against UW-Milwaukee.  The Crew opens up Cactus League play on
Thursday as they split the squad against the Giants and Cubs.  We’ll have the Giants game on KFIZ with
coverage beginning at 1:55pm on KFIZ.

 

Marian University‘s Olivia Hartley has been named the Northern
Athletics Collegiate Conference Position Player Student-Athlete of the Week  The Waterford native finished the four-game
Finlandia Dome Tournament with a .714 batting average, two home runs, six RBIs
and stole two bases.  The Sabres begins a
10 game trip to Florida
this weekend.

 

The Fond du Lac boys
basketball team rallied by Green Bay Preble 59-46 on Tuesday night in the WIAA
Division One Regional opener.  The
Cardinals trailed 27-22 at the break but outscored the Hornets 37-24 in the 2^nd
half.  Junior Caleb Goldstein led the way
with 23 points.  Sam Fredrickson added 17
in the win. Fondy will head to #2 seed and 6^th ranked Germantown on Friday night
in the Regional Semifinals.  You’ll hear
it on News-Talk 1450 KFIZ.  Coverage
begins at 6:30pm with the tip set for 7pm.

 

Click here for postgame
comments from Fondy coach Mark Ziebell

 

Click
here to watch postgame comments from Caleb Goldstein

 

Click
here to watch postgame comments from Fondy’s Jake Walgenbach

 

WIAA Boys Basketball Playoff
Pairings

Division One

Fond du
Lac 59 Green Bay Preble 46

 

Division Three

Laconia 102 North Fond du Lac
65

WLA 72 Poynette 52 – Mitch
McFarlane 22 pts

Click here for postgame
comments from Coach Jeremiah Hoffmann

Omro 65 Lomira 25

Campbellsport 54 Berlin 52

Southern Door 69 Chilton 41

Sheboygan Falls 77 St. Lawrence 33

New Holstein 71 Denmark
47

 

Division Four

St. Mary’s Springs 82
Dodgeland 48 – Kurt Mueller 12, Jake Baker 11

Click here for postgame
comments from Coach Kyle Krueger

 

Division Five

Oakfield 53 Salam 52

Cambria-Friesland 63 CWC 35

 

Regional Semifinals

Friday, March 4^th
– 7pm

Division One

Fond du
Lac @ Germantown 
– on KFIZ

Green Bay East @ Kimberly

Appleton North @ Stevens Point

Eau Claire North @ Neenah

Appleton East vs. Superior
@ Spooner

Hudson @ Oshkosh
North

Oshkosh West @ Marshfield

 

Division Two

Green Bay Southwest @ Kaukauna

 

Division Three

Winneconne @ Ripon

Watertown Luther Prep @ Omro

Laconia @ WLA

Campbellsport @ Waupun

New Holstein
@ Sheboygan Falls

 

Division Four

St. Mary’s Springs @ Howards Grove

 

Division Five

Oakfield @ Young Coggs

 

The Laconia and Waupun girls basketball team’s
will square off on Thursday in a WIAA Division Three Girls Basketball Sectional
Semifinal in Beaver Dam.  You’ll hear it
on News-Talk 1450 KFIZ.  Coverage begins
at 6:30pm with the tip set for 7pm.