Sports News
Sports – Friday, February 26th, 2016
Winnebago Lutheran senior Mitch McFarlane
hit a jumper as time expired in overtime giving the Vikings a 51-50 win over
Omro and a share of the Flyway Conference title on Thursday night. Omro’s
Travis Pomplun hit a left baseline three-pointer with :14 seconds left in the
extra period to give the Foxes the 50-49 lead before McFarlane’s game
winner. The WLA senior finished with 31 points. WLA and Omro both
finish with 10-2 records in the conference. The Vikings (14-8) last
league title came in 2010. They will host Poynette next Tuesday in the 1st round of the Division Three
Regional. Omro (19-3) will host Lomira in their playoff opener on
Tuesday.
Click here to watch McFarlane hit the game winner in OT.
Click here to watch postgame comments from McFarlane
Click here to watch comments from WLA coach Jeremiah
Hoffmann
Kimberly knocked off the
their regular season finale at the Acuity Fieldhouse on Thursday night. Drew Jorgensen had 20 and Caleb Goldstein 18
in the loss. Fondy (8-14, 6-12) will
open up WIAA Division One Regional play on Tuesday when they host Green Bay
Preble. You’ll hear it on News-Talk 1450
KFIZ.
Click here for postgame
comments from Fondy coach Mark Ziebell
The
Regional play tonight as they travel to Kimberly. The Papermakers swept Fondy in the regular
season winning at Kimberly 57-48 on January 12th and then 52-40 at
Fondy on January 22nd.
Coverage begins at 6:30pm tonight on KFIZ with the tip set for 7pm.
Individual State Wrestling Tournament.
At 145 Josh Adams won his 1st match by pin before falling in
the quarterfinals. At 285 Dante Johnson
also won via pin in his opener then fell in the quarters. Both wrestlers will wrestle again today with
a chance to get 3rd place.
In Division Two, Lomira’s
Tyler Garriety won his 1st round match at 106 while Allan Klink fell
at 220. Ripon’s Ryan Socha (220) and
Cody Jacobson (285) both won opening matches.
Chilton-Hilbert had three wrestlers lose opening matches in Jordan
Propson (160), Jared Mueller (182), and Dunan Calnan (195)
In D3, New Holstein’s Matt
Buechel (220) won his 1st match while Jacob Barth (182) and Tony Pernell (285)
dropped matches.
Division One
Division Two
Lomira – 106
Ripon – 220 Ryan Socha
Ripon –285 Cody Jacobson
Division Three
Foth
New
– 220 Matt Buechel
Oakfield – 132 Ross Ellison
WLA – 145 Luke Meihack
The Bucks lost in
112-107. Jabari Parker had 22 and Khris
Middleton 21 in the loss. The Bucks host
Saturday night. You’ll hear it on KFIZ.
The Marian men’s basketball
team continues NACC Tournament play with a semifinal matchup at #1 seed and
unbeaten Benedictine tonight. The tip is
set for 7pm.
The Marian men’s hockey team
continues Harris Cup playoff action tonight with a weekend semifinal series at
St. Norbert. The puck drops at 7pm
tonight at on Saturday.
Thursday, February 25th
Boys Basketball
Kimberly 71 Fond du Lac 55
North 42
West 54
Hortonville 71
Lomira 45 North Fond du Lac
34
St. Mary’s Springs 62
Mayville 56 – Kurt Mueller 12 pts, Jake Baker 11
WLA 51 Omro 50 – OT
KML 61 Campbellsport 41
Oakfield 58 Green
Lake/Princeton 50
Chilton @ Brillion
New
@ Sheboygan Falls
Ripon 59 Waupun 49
WIAA Girls Basketball
Regional Semifinals – 7pm
Division One
Division Three
Winneconne @
Campbellsport @ Waupun
Poynette @ Mayville
WLA @ Lomira
Division Four
St. Mary Central @ St. Mary’s
Springs
Division Five
Oakfield @ Sheboygan
Christian
CWC @ Hustisford
WIAA Boys Hockey Playoffs
Sectional Final – Saturday
5pm at Blue Line in
Waupun vs. U-School