Sports – Monday, October 28th, 2013

The Green Bay Packers rolled over the Minnesota Vikings
44-31 on Sunday Night Football.  Aaron
Rodgers throw for 285 yards and two touchdowns to Jordy Nelson of 11 and 76
yards.  Eddie Lacy ran for 94 and James
Starks 57 in the win.  The Vikings
Cordarrelle Patterson returned the opening kickoff 109 yards for a TD and after
that it was all Packers.  Micah Hyde also
took a punt back 93 yards for a Packer TD. Adrian Peterson ran for just 60
yards and a TD.  The Vikings added a pair
of garbage time TDs to make the score closer. 
Green Bay hosts Chicago on Monday Night Football next week. Talk
Packer football tonight at 6pm for In The Huddle with Davon House and David
Bahktiari.

 

Around the NFL, Matthew Stafford scored a late TD to rally the Lions by Cowboys 31-30  Charles Johnson caught
14 passes for 329 yards…the Chiefs stay unbeaten with 23-17 win over the
Browns…New England 27 Miami 17…Saints 35 Bills 17…Giants 15 Eagles 7…49ers 42
Jacksonville 10 in London…Bengals 49 Jets 9…Raiders 21 Steelers 18…Denver 45
Washington 21…Cardinals 27 Falcons 13.  Tonight
it’s the Seahawks and Rams.  Coverage
begins at 7pm on KFIZ.

 

Alabama
holds the #1 spot in this week’s BCS rankings. 
Oregon moves up to #2, followed by Florida State
and Ohio State. 
The Badgers are #24.  Bucky
travels to Iowa
on Saturday.

 

The Boston Red Sox evened up the World Series at 2-2.  Johnny Gomes’ three run homer in the 6^th
lifted the Red Sox to the 4-2.  On
Saturday night the game ended on an obstruction call.  Last night the game ended when Kolten Wong
picked off a Cardinal runner in the bottom of the 9^th. Both are
World Series firsts to end a game. Game 5 is tonight in St. Louis.

 

Jeff Gordon won the NASCAR race at Martinsville. 
Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson are tied for the Chase lead.  Gordon is 27 points back.

 

The high school football playoffs continues this upcoming
weekend with round 2, and we’ll have the area covered.  Fond du Lac
will host Germantown
on Friday night Division One matchup at 7pm. 
You’ll hear it on News-Talk 1450 KFIZ. On Saturday afternoon WLA hosts
Kewaunee in a Division Five matchup. 
That game kicks off and you’ll hear it on K107.1-FM.  On Saturday night, St. Mary’s Springs hosts Deerfield at 7pm. 
That game will also be heard on KFIZ. 
Also on Friday night, Laconia travels to Lancaster for their 2^nd
round game at 7pm.  Also in D4 next
weekend, Campbellsport hosts Freedom.  We
haven’t been given a kickoff time on that one yet.

 

State Cross Country

Saturday – Wisconsin
Rapids

Division One Girls

Megan Buechel – Fond
du Lac

Annie Moore – Fond
du Lac

 

Division Two Boys

Matt Kulk – Waupun

Bryce Verheyen – Waupun

 

Division Two Girls

Kayla Giese – Chilton

Claire Stiefvater – Chilton

 

Division Three Boys
Mitch Bilitz – WLA

 

Division Three Girls

St. Mary’s Springs Academy
Team

Hailey Isaac – Laconia