Well it happened folks! Wrestling, Girls Basketball, and now Boys Basktball have all captured their conference championships this year. To which I say "that is freaking awesome!" Nonetheless I think while we all thought the Girls and Wrestling team would probably walk away with one, the Boys have been a suprise. With limited practice time because of Football nobody was sure how this team was going to do. Well they shut us all up! Nice work to all the coaches and players and parents.
Girls hoops is where we go first. Taylor Wurtz with a strained IT Band in her knee means 2o points to drop in against Oshkosh Lourdes. Nice win over OL with a 49-29 victory Friday night at the Castle. Game was tough until Taylor got hot and put this one away. Ripon will get a first round bye tonight and play the winner of Kiel Sheboygan Falls on Thursday night in Ripon.
Boys had a huge week last week knocking off Waupun and Omro. Talk about physical teams! I have never pictured Ripon as a physical type of team but the guys have shown they can back it up with some big victories. The Winneconne game was just dead! Dead Crowd, Dead Teams, Dead Players, hell even Dead Announcers. Just one of those going through the motions kinda games. A win is a win is a win right. Whatever, the win made the Ripon Tigers conference champs for the first time since the 2002-2003 season. They get the first round bye and will play March 2nd agains the winner of the Sheboygan Falls WLA game.
Wrestling goes like this. For like the last 15 years it seems a kid from Ripon is going to state. This year its Sam Prellwitz in the 140 pound weight class. My heart goes out to Tyler Kasuboski who lost by one point on a chance of going to state. You may remember last year that Blake Roemer captured a state title at 215 pound so lets hope for conintued success.
Biggie Awards for this Blog
POB Boys - Eric Neuman has had some big success in the last few games for the Boys
POG Girls - Taylor Wurtz gets a nod for player of the year in the ECFC for me
Best Warm Up Song - My Humps by Black Eyed Peas heard at Oshkosh Lourdes Castle. Nothing like hearing " Im gonna get you get you drunk, get you love drunk off my humps, my humps my humps my humps my humps my humps my humps my humps my humps my humps my lovely lady lumps." At the Catholic High School To that I say "I love America Check It Out"
BOLD STATMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID: RIPON FANS GET OFF YOUR ASSES EVERY ONCE AND AWHILE AND CHEER. MAKE SOME NOISE FOR THE TEAMS SHOW THEM WHO RULES NOT JUST WHEN A BIG GAME IS ON THE LINE!
Until Next Time....Rock On!
Biggie
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
The Almost St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Greetings folks. Right to the point. What the hell happened in Waupun on Tuesday night? I will save the game details for later but right now I want to talk about the scrums that took place on the floor. Maybe because the city is quiet on Sunday is the reason Waupun plays so scrappy. I know they are a physical team and that's how they want to play, but never have I seen a guy tackle two guys in the middle of the game. A Waupun player who won't be mentioned by name but wears the number 44 was out of line on Tuesday night. The first scenario goes like this Hron and Lambert working number 44 on a 2-1 break and he tackles both Joe and James, puts Joe in a headlock gets in some shots and all three had to be seperated by the teams and a cop at the end of the floor. Techincals were called free throws were shot and the game goes on. Until a couple minutes later when number 44 wanting to foul a player to put them on the line tackles James Hron again this time getting the Big X foul. My thoughts watching this game are during the first incident was "oh s#$t its on" and I was waiting for a hockey game to break out on the floor. During the second incident my thoughts are why is this kid still on the floor? Take control of your team and get him out of there. Lucky did do that and number 44 went to the bench. I know this is not the first time an incident has occured in Waupun this year. I know there was a malee in the stands and in the parking lot during the Waupun, Beaver Damn game this season in which people were escorted out by police officers. Why does this keep going on? Put some more security in the stands, have the administration talk to the team. Usually you expect some questionable stuff from the stands not the team. It just wasn't pretty!
Back to the game. Couple of thoughts big game for Scott Gillespie who went to the free throw line a bunch and could have went some more with all the pushing and shoving going on. Ripon sits up top with a 9-2 record with Omro behind at 8-3. Which means for the second game in a row the Tigers control there own destiny. Ripon should get the number one seed in the regional and if they capture a conference title it will be nice to say that boys and girls basketball along with wrestling all have captured a conference title this year.
Girls get a first round bye and won't play until Thursday the 24th in the playoffs against the winner of the Kiel Sheboygan Falls game. Ripon has Oshkosh Lourdes on Thursday weather permitting for a chance to capture its first conference championship outright since 1979.
Alright Biggie Awards Time:
POB - Ben Lukoski for finally scoring two points in the game against Waupun. It's about time!
Best Pep Band Song: Waupun's Band hits us with Stand By Me
Craziest Fan: Waupun's Flag Guy hey great fan not to out of line but just enough to be a distraction he even helped clean up after the little cheerleaders did there dance routine
Underated Team of the Week: Winnecone Cheer Squad congrats on the State Championship.
Until next time....Rock on!
Back to the game. Couple of thoughts big game for Scott Gillespie who went to the free throw line a bunch and could have went some more with all the pushing and shoving going on. Ripon sits up top with a 9-2 record with Omro behind at 8-3. Which means for the second game in a row the Tigers control there own destiny. Ripon should get the number one seed in the regional and if they capture a conference title it will be nice to say that boys and girls basketball along with wrestling all have captured a conference title this year.
Girls get a first round bye and won't play until Thursday the 24th in the playoffs against the winner of the Kiel Sheboygan Falls game. Ripon has Oshkosh Lourdes on Thursday weather permitting for a chance to capture its first conference championship outright since 1979.
Alright Biggie Awards Time:
POB - Ben Lukoski for finally scoring two points in the game against Waupun. It's about time!
Best Pep Band Song: Waupun's Band hits us with Stand By Me
Craziest Fan: Waupun's Flag Guy hey great fan not to out of line but just enough to be a distraction he even helped clean up after the little cheerleaders did there dance routine
Underated Team of the Week: Winnecone Cheer Squad congrats on the State Championship.
Until next time....Rock on!
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Just About Tournament Time
What's up blog readers. First of all I would like to thank all of the Blog readers out there for actually reading this thing, it's always good to know some people enjoy it. I wanna start out with Boys Basketball today. Here we go. Saw the Ripon boys play at Markesan on Thursday night in a game that Ripon jumped out to a quick start and never looked back. James Hron was down with the sickness but still played and Isaac Minor did the fill in work for James. Not a bad thing necessarily when Ice is the fill in for James Hron I think. Tigers have been playing pretty good of late and lets hope they keep it rolling.
Girls Hoops this week has taken me to Omro and Winneconne. Omro was an officiated joke! Both teams went to the line a combined 62 times, that's right 62 times! It took us 38 minutes to call the fourth quarter on the radio. Ripon did not play its most fantastic game I had ever seen but they did get the win. Winneconne's game was just strange Winneconne went into a stall so they wouldn't get killed by 40 like they did 3 days before against Markesan. With the win over Winneconne the Tiger's captured at least a share of the ECFC title for the first time since 1979. The seed meetings this year were held via email (gotta love technology) and the Ripon Tigers get the number one seed with WLA at number two. Both teams get a first round bye so the Tigers first tournament game will be on Thursday the 23rd. Keep your eye on Taylor Wurtz who injured a knee in the Friday Winneconne game. Last we heard the knee was pretty inflamed and it was just a strained ligament. We will keep you advised!
Congrats to Jason Polcyn, Sam Prellwitz, Peter Schroeder, and Tyler Kasuboski for advancing to the Sectionals in Milwaukee Lutheran for Wrestling. Also I want to take some time a throw a shout out for David Soda who wrestled in one conference match and won and then captured the conference title in the conference meet last week. The kid is a gamer! He bowed out of the Regionals and Sectionals so he can get ready for the baseball season.
Speaking of baseball I have a very good feeling about this Ripon team coming up. The infield will be solid. With Gillespie, Lambert, O'Brien, and Soda all coming back. With Vince behind the plate and junior Lenny Schultz coming up to the first base spot the infield is awesome. The outfield will be nailed down by some other folks. Mike Wagner will be there for sure because of his bat but who rounds out the rest of the outfield will be intersting to see.
Alright Biggie Awards Time:
Strangest Warm Up Song Ever Heard : Cherry Cherry Neil Diamond from Omro's IYF Staff
Most Overkilled Pep Band Song of the Year: Crazy Train (Everyone is playing this now)
POB Boys: Issac Minor had some big key points
POB Girls: Kaitlyn Wetzel doesn't get a whole lot of playing time but she hits some big baskets and has been huge for the defense, plus she is tough as hell. Always hitting the deck, getting smacked in the face, whatever she takes it and plays through it.
Until Next Time....Rock on!
Girls Hoops this week has taken me to Omro and Winneconne. Omro was an officiated joke! Both teams went to the line a combined 62 times, that's right 62 times! It took us 38 minutes to call the fourth quarter on the radio. Ripon did not play its most fantastic game I had ever seen but they did get the win. Winneconne's game was just strange Winneconne went into a stall so they wouldn't get killed by 40 like they did 3 days before against Markesan. With the win over Winneconne the Tiger's captured at least a share of the ECFC title for the first time since 1979. The seed meetings this year were held via email (gotta love technology) and the Ripon Tigers get the number one seed with WLA at number two. Both teams get a first round bye so the Tigers first tournament game will be on Thursday the 23rd. Keep your eye on Taylor Wurtz who injured a knee in the Friday Winneconne game. Last we heard the knee was pretty inflamed and it was just a strained ligament. We will keep you advised!
Congrats to Jason Polcyn, Sam Prellwitz, Peter Schroeder, and Tyler Kasuboski for advancing to the Sectionals in Milwaukee Lutheran for Wrestling. Also I want to take some time a throw a shout out for David Soda who wrestled in one conference match and won and then captured the conference title in the conference meet last week. The kid is a gamer! He bowed out of the Regionals and Sectionals so he can get ready for the baseball season.
Speaking of baseball I have a very good feeling about this Ripon team coming up. The infield will be solid. With Gillespie, Lambert, O'Brien, and Soda all coming back. With Vince behind the plate and junior Lenny Schultz coming up to the first base spot the infield is awesome. The outfield will be nailed down by some other folks. Mike Wagner will be there for sure because of his bat but who rounds out the rest of the outfield will be intersting to see.
Alright Biggie Awards Time:
Strangest Warm Up Song Ever Heard : Cherry Cherry Neil Diamond from Omro's IYF Staff
Most Overkilled Pep Band Song of the Year: Crazy Train (Everyone is playing this now)
POB Boys: Issac Minor had some big key points
POB Girls: Kaitlyn Wetzel doesn't get a whole lot of playing time but she hits some big baskets and has been huge for the defense, plus she is tough as hell. Always hitting the deck, getting smacked in the face, whatever she takes it and plays through it.
Until Next Time....Rock on!
Saturday, February 04, 2006
That's Is What High School Sports Is All About
Whats up blog readers? Hope its going well. If you were in attendance on Friday night to watch another Ripon vs. Berlin battle you were entertained with a great game. The Ripon Berlin rivalry never gets old and that is a good thing. Before the game we talked with Dean VanderPlas and asked him if he would like to see some more shots on the inside? His answer was a resounding "yes". Well he got it from Eric Nueman on Friday as Neumy dropped in 27 points in the 56-51 victory over Berlin. Ripon jumped out to a quick 11-0 lead however the Indians would then start dropping three's and quickly tied it up and took the lead. The fourth was basically trading baskets in the front half of the quarter. Ripon started to heat back up and some big free throws from Joe Lambert helped the Tigers with the victory. Two game balls going out in this game. One to Neumy for the big night and another to James Hron for containing Myls Phillipi to only three points on three shots attempted all night. He shut him down no ifs ands or buts about it. Nice job James!
Next up Girls Hoops I told you the Waupun Ripon game wasn't gonna be close and it wasn't as the Tigers won by 38 points. Taylor Wurtz and Sam Bickert had some great baskets for Ripon as they get ready to finish up on the road against Omro Winneconne and Oshkosh Lourdes.
Ripon wrestlers have the Conference meet today in Omro. Coach Bradley wasn't sure how the youngsters on the team would step and they have answered any of those questions. Here is to hoping Ripon kicks some behind in the Conference Tourney.
Time for the funny portion of the Show. The Biggie Awards.
POB (Player of the Blog) - Eric Neuman for dropping 27 plates on Berlin
Best Pep Band Song This Week - Toss up between Low Rider or the Chicken Dance from the RHS Pep Band.
Number of Times This Week Bob Lukoski Has Complained About Not Following Shots: 9056
Best Cheer of the Week: This time going to the Berlin faithful as after Brett Vergin made a big shot in the Berlin game it was either "He's A Virgin" or He's Our Virgin" either way very funny. It was good to hear the "Start Your Tractors" chant again though from Ripon. Still funny too.
RHS Pep Banders Of the Blog: Going to Eazy E on the Tuba with the nice faux hawk haircut and to Lenny Schultz on the drums for being just that damn good at playing them. (Watch that kid on the kit or the snare, uneral)
Some of the Nicest Guys to Work With: The guys from AM 1090 WISS. Sponny and the crew have always been cool with us so we say thanks. There is this underlying radio rule that you are suppose to not like your radio counterparts which to me is some big BS. Those guys are great and they support there team just like we do. Props to them.
Biggie's Song of The Week: Chris Brown Run It, its has been stuck in my head all week.
Until next time...Rock On!
Biggie
Next up Girls Hoops I told you the Waupun Ripon game wasn't gonna be close and it wasn't as the Tigers won by 38 points. Taylor Wurtz and Sam Bickert had some great baskets for Ripon as they get ready to finish up on the road against Omro Winneconne and Oshkosh Lourdes.
Ripon wrestlers have the Conference meet today in Omro. Coach Bradley wasn't sure how the youngsters on the team would step and they have answered any of those questions. Here is to hoping Ripon kicks some behind in the Conference Tourney.
Time for the funny portion of the Show. The Biggie Awards.
POB (Player of the Blog) - Eric Neuman for dropping 27 plates on Berlin
Best Pep Band Song This Week - Toss up between Low Rider or the Chicken Dance from the RHS Pep Band.
Number of Times This Week Bob Lukoski Has Complained About Not Following Shots: 9056
Best Cheer of the Week: This time going to the Berlin faithful as after Brett Vergin made a big shot in the Berlin game it was either "He's A Virgin" or He's Our Virgin" either way very funny. It was good to hear the "Start Your Tractors" chant again though from Ripon. Still funny too.
RHS Pep Banders Of the Blog: Going to Eazy E on the Tuba with the nice faux hawk haircut and to Lenny Schultz on the drums for being just that damn good at playing them. (Watch that kid on the kit or the snare, uneral)
Some of the Nicest Guys to Work With: The guys from AM 1090 WISS. Sponny and the crew have always been cool with us so we say thanks. There is this underlying radio rule that you are suppose to not like your radio counterparts which to me is some big BS. Those guys are great and they support there team just like we do. Props to them.
Biggie's Song of The Week: Chris Brown Run It, its has been stuck in my head all week.
Until next time...Rock On!
Biggie
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Ripon vs. Wautoma
Greetings kids hope its well. Did the Ripon Wautoma game on Tuesday night for boys hoops. Tigers got a victory 46-42 but they had to work for it. Tigers had a 18 point lead at one time but Wautoma fought back to cut it to 3 points at one time. Ripon was outscored 18-5 in the fourth. Dean said in the post game the Tigers are taking too many three point shots once they have a few go in for them. Joe Lambert hit a big free throw to move that lead to four points and make it a two possesion game. Ripon Berlin Friday Night nuff said. Biggie Awards Time
Best Pep Band Song: I can't remember one really as Wautoma's band is really really really loud. What did you say
Funniest Comment Heard from Ripon Player: Joe Lambert quoted as "That is so weak" when Tony Pasterelli throws the ball off of players when he is going out of bounds. Funny Stuff Joe!
Not much for this week, Ripon Waupun girls on Thursday night. Should be a butt whooping on Ripon's part look for a 30-40 point victory.
Until next time...Rock On!
Biggie
Best Pep Band Song: I can't remember one really as Wautoma's band is really really really loud. What did you say
Funniest Comment Heard from Ripon Player: Joe Lambert quoted as "That is so weak" when Tony Pasterelli throws the ball off of players when he is going out of bounds. Funny Stuff Joe!
Not much for this week, Ripon Waupun girls on Thursday night. Should be a butt whooping on Ripon's part look for a 30-40 point victory.
Until next time...Rock On!
Biggie
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