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!