Finally another blog

Yeah Yeah I know Biggie has been slacking on the old blogs but I got three games a week and 24 an American Idol are back on, I get a little tied up. Bunch of stuff to talk about in this one. First off Wrestling.

Congrats to Coach Bradley and his squad for kicking butt in the Oshkosh Lourdes match on Thursday 64-10. Seven Tiger grapplers with pins that is nice to see and with the win they go back into a first place tie. Wanna make sure the wrestlers get proper credit I know we don't do the matches on the radio but they are just as important as the other things we cover. So job well done to those guys.

Up next Basketball:

We start first on the Boys side. A big win over Winneconne a bout a week and half back had the Tigers playing the best ball we had seen all season. Ripon was quick, dominated the boards, and shot the lights out in the game. We move one week later to Oshkosh Lourdes and I am telling you the most underrated sports in the area may be taking place at Oshkosh Lourdes as both Girls and Boys Basketball teams were 1-5 when they faced Ripon. The girls played a great game against Ripon and kudos to coach Jessice Howe she has built that program into a good team, and the Boys pull an 46-43 upset over Ripon. Scott Gillespie was held to 8 points in the loss in Ripon's other loss he scored 9 points. Dean Vanderplas made and interesting statement in the post game also reminding his team they are a team and the weight of that team shouldn't fall on the shoulders of one guy. Ripon Boys play Wautoma on Tuesday night.

Next to the Girls. They have been playing great of late dominating teams. The defense has picked up, the ability to dish dimes into Erin Lind from Goljenboom is sick, those girls see the lane and its openings very well, and the play of some people coming off the bench has been huge for Bill Peters and his girls. Kudos to Markesan for knocking Ripon off in Markesan. I swear Bill Peters and his team will never ever want to go to Markesan ever again, they just can't seem to get a win there, whether it be against Markesan or in Regional Final. Anyways back to the game, the first half was as I like to say "less than stellar" with a 13-11 Ripon halftime lead. That all changed in the third quarter Jadee Rooney put up 15 or Markesan's 17 points and finished the night with 19. Ripon answered with 17 in the third also scored by a slew of Ripon players. My matchup of the night is a tough pick because there were three of them Lind vs. Krenz, Goljenboom vs. Rooney, and Wurtz vs. Dulas. My winner goes to the Wurtz vs. Dulas. Freshman vs. Freshman. And the winner is Marieanna Dulas, nice game and give her a round of applause. She gave Taylor Wurtz fits she was Taylor's second shadow, she hardly ever looked at her just followed the ball, job well done for Dulas. I am a firm believer in a tough loss late in the season does not hurt a team and gets them a little bit for focused for the run. I can see that happening with this team, they are solid. Also wanna give props to Erin Mellenthin my POG for the Markesan Ripon game. She got some extra minutes with Lind on the pine for some fouls and played a heck of a game against Caitlyn Krenz. Mellenthin did a great job on defense popped in some points and played well.

Is anybody worried about the Packers for next year that they may be actually worse than this year. Hopefully Mike can prove me wrong. Hey the Olympics start in a few weeks in Torrino, where the hell is that I don't know I thought it was a car that Starsky and Hutch use to drive. I like watching the skeleton because they are crazy. Super Bowl goes like this Steelers by 7 and that is a stone cold lead pipe lock as they say. Other than that not much else going on. Oh wanna thank Amanda Dickerson for joining us as our halftime analyst for the Ripon Markesan game. She was a standout player at Markesan and went on to play at UWO, she knows hoops folks and we hope to use her some more during the rest of the season. Know for the coveted Biggie awards.

Player of the Blog (since I can't do game anymore) - Erin Mellethin had a great game against Markesan and she doesn't start.

Weirdest Pep Band Song Ever Played Before a Basketball Game - Congratulations to Markesan's Jazz Band for playing "In The Mood" from the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Right before that song they played Crazy Train by Ozzy. Somewhere someone is turning over in their grave.

Biggest Fan Whiners I Have Ever Seen: Congrats to the faithful and that is no pun intended at Oshkosh Lourdes. Man can they complain, but they have that right because Jesus gave that to them (I'm going to hell for that one I'm sure)

Funniest Comment Said By Bob Lukoski This Week: As the officials at the Oshkosh Lourdes vs. Ripon JV game seem to be letting some things slide, Bob proceeded to stand up and shout at the top of his lungs at Oshkosh Lourdes "Jesus Come on!" In which I responded Bob you can't say that at this school and his reply was "well they still are horrible" I wasn't quite sure if Bob was complaining about the refs or looking for the third coming of Christ.

Well that should be good for now. Until next time....Rock on!

Biggie

It's Been Awhile

As Staind sings "It's been awhile". Hope everything is cool. Couple of things to talk about. I covered some big games in the last 8 days including a horrible Waupun Ripon girls game in Waupun in which Ripon won by 30 points and the JV girls won by 60. The Waupun girls basketball team and program is not good. They don't have the numbers because none of the volleyball girls play basketball so the Varsity team in a school of that size is 8 players thats right 8 players. They need some serious help!

Ripon vs. Waupun Boys - What a game a tough fight as always. It is always a pleasure to watch Lucky Wurtz in the Ripon gym. After what I will call "DancingGate" a few years back the Ripon Waupun rivalry in boys hoops has been classic. The Tigers played a great defensive game and took some serious hits from the Warrior players. Just a few nights before Waupun was in a big game against Beaver Dam which resulted in three people being escorted from the game via police and a incident in the parking lot between Beaver fans and Warrior fans because of a stolen flag. Gotta love high school rivalries. Anyways it was an awesome game, kudos to Ripon on a job well done.

Ripon vs. Omro Girls - This was ugly to watch. With a big whipping of Waupun the previous Thursday, this game was not good. Ripon was able to get the win but they did not play very well at all. Taylor Wurtz had a nice game with 25 points, Erin Lind struggled but put in 13 points and Sam Bickert got 9 all in the first half. I will tell you this I would have hated to be in the Wednesday practice after that game. Hopefully they will right the ship for Winneconne on Friday night.

Ripon vs. Omro Boys - Ed Patrick may be listed as coach for the Omro Foxes but a guy named Spencer I still think runs this team. Omro played a great game which for the first time since I have been watching Omro they scored over 45 points. Ripon had a terrible night shooting and settled for the perimeter shots and did not bring it into the paint too often. Scott had an off night with 9, Neuman bailed out the team with 17 and Joe Lambert is getting better with every game if he doesn't make first team all conference I would be suprised. So Ripon falls to Omro and sits at 4-1 with Omro in the ECFC. The Tigers have some big games all on the road in January it will be interesting to see how they fare.

Packers new head coach is Mike McCarthy and I said the same thing when they hired Mike Sherman "WHO?" well after doing some research I learned that Coach McCarthy was the QB's coach when Brett Favre last threw more interceptions than touchdowns. Any body wanna put money on Favre not coming back? Thanks for the memories Brett I'm glad I got to see you play and a chance to meet you.

Alright time for the coveted Biggie awards for this blog

Best ECFC Announcer : PA Announcer Omro or PA Announcer Waupun - this one is tough so its a tie.

Best Warmup Music - I still like the Omro KORN intro

Best Time-Out Music - Goes to Omro again with Metallica's Seek & Destroy

Worst Music - Omro Fox on the Run after the game, I am sorry that's just lame

Funniest Cheer - Berlin fans calling the Wolves "Lose-Aconne" instead of Winneconne

Until next time....Rock on! \--/

Biggie

We Are Marquette

What an ass kicking Marquette put on UCONN on Tuesday night in Brew Town. Steve Novak with 41 points throwing down a double double in his senior year in the first game in the Big East. If Big East fans don't know about Marquette they certainly do now. Steve Novak is having a great year and a great career for the Golden Eagles. I had to watch Novak play at Wisconsin Lutheran as his Brown Deer Falcons played Ripon in a Sectional game a few years back myself, Luke, and Kramer were not that impressed. We were wrong. You heard it here first WE WE'RE WRONG! The kid has a sweet 3 can work it from the basket to behind the arc. Nice job Marquette.

Mike Sherman is gone and I think a lot of fans are saying "oh well" Here is Jason's picks as who I would like to see the as the new coach.

1. Brad Childress - Get him here quick
2. John Gruden - Chucky would bring some spark
3. Jim Bates - Look what he did with a bad defense in one year
4. Mooch - Let the Yooper come work again in Green Bay
5. Dick Vermeil - I wanna see him cry one more time
6. Jim Haslett - Hey why not maybe Aaron Brooks will come back with him
7. Mike Ditka - Not gonna happen but maybe some more pictures of him in a wig would be good.
8. Barry Alvarez - Hey maybe it would be good for the Packers

There is my picks of who I would like, here is the list of who I don't want.

1. Mike Sherman
2. Ray Rhodes
3. Lindy Infante
4. Forrest Greg
5. Bart Starr

So that's all I have for now. AM 1600 WRPN has got some huge games coming up this week and next week. Waupun, Omro, and more.

Until next time....Rock on!

Biggie