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