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St. Norbert, Stevens Point advance to NCAA D-3 Frozen Four

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Two Wisconsin teams will make up half of the four-team field at this week’s Division 3 NCAA Frozen Four in Lake Placid, New York.

St. Norbert College and UW-Stevens Point both advanced with victories over the weekend.

The Green Knights advanced for a record 12th time following a 5-2 win over Augsburg University in a national quarterfinal game at Cornerstone Community Center in De Pere, Wis.

St. Norbert (25-4-1) will face Colby College (17-10-2) in a national semifinal at 5:30 p.m. CT on Friday at Herb Brooks Arena.  The schools 12th appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four ties Norwich University.

UW-Stevens Point will face Salve Regina University in the other semifinal game.  The Pointers advanced by knocking off Adrian College 5-2 on Saturday in Adrian, Michigan.  Stevens Point improved to 21-5-3 on the season.  Freshman forward Zach Zech tallied a pair of goals in the win.

 

 

UW-Oshkosh among the final 8 in NCAA D-3 Tournament

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Charlie Noone – Photo Courtesy of UW-Oshkosh Titan Athletics.

The state of Wisconsin went into the NCAA Division 3 Sweet 16 with three teams remaining in the field on Friday night.  One team, the Oshkosh Titans emerged as the field was reduced to eight teams heading into tonight’s Sectional Finals.

The Titans (23-7) got 32 points from Charlie Noone to knock off Emory college 93-72.  Oshkosh faces host Augustana at 7 p.m. tonight with the winner heading to the NCAA D-3 Final Four.

Both Platteville and Stevens Point lost in Platteville last night.  The host Pioneers fell to Nebraska-Wesleyan 79-78 as Nate Schimonitz hit a jumper with two seconds left to give the Prairie Wolves the last second win.

Earlier in Platteville, Stevens Point fell to top-ranked Whitman College 65-55.

 

Green Bay captures 4th straight Horizon League title

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Allie LeClaire

Senior guard Allie LeClaire scored 24 points and was named the tournament Most Valuable Player as the Green Bay Phoenix (29-3) knocked off Wright State 62-44 to capture the women’s Horizon League Championship on Tuesday in Detroit.

Senior teammate Jessica Lindstrom added 12 points and 14 rebounds for her 18th double-double of the season and 41st of her career.

Green Bay’s stellar defense held HL Player of the Year Chelsea Welch to just 13 points on 2-of-15 shooting.

The Phoenix captured their fourth straight HL title and 7th in the last eight years.  They are now 16-4 all-time in the tournament’s biggest game and continued their dominance over Wright State as well, winning its 62nd game in 66 all-time meetings.

The 29 wins by the Phoenix are the most since the 2012-13 season and it’s the sixth time in program history the team has reached that mark.

Green Bay now awaits its seeding in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, with the bracket being announced on Selection Monday at 6 p.m. on ESPN.

Badger volleyball season ends in round of 16

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The 11th ranked Wisconsin volleyball team saw their season come to an end at the NCAA Regional semifinals, falling in four sets to defending NCAA Champion Stanford.

Wisconsin (22-10 overall) won the opening set 25-22 but lost the next three.  The Badgers hit an amazing .593 (19 kills – 3 errors – 27 attempts) in the first set but finished .315 (55-16-124) for the match.

Freshman Grace Loberg lead the Wisconsin offense with a career-high 20 kills.  Fellow freshman Dana Rettke added another 13 kills for Wisconsin.

Stanford improved to 29-3 and moves on to the Regional final tonight.

 

Wisconsin volleyball players honored by the Big Ten

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The Wisconsin Badger women’s volleyball team had two players named to the 2017 All-Big Ten team.  A pair of middle blockers, junior Tionna Williams and freshman Dana Rettke were both named to the squad.

Rettke and teammate, setter Sydney Hilley were named to the All-Freshman team.

Rettke, after setting a Big Ten Conference record with nine Freshman of the Week awards, was named the Big Ten’s Freshman of the Year.  The 6’8 middle blocker becomes the fifth Badger to earn the rookie honor, following teammate Molly Haggerty, who was honored in 2016.  Her selection to the All-Big Ten team was unanimous.

On the season, Rettke leads the Badgers and ranks second in the Big Ten with a .445 hitting percentage.  She also leads the team and ranks 13th in the conference with 3.37 kills per set.  The freshman has a team-best 1.42 blocks per set, which ranks third in the Big Ten.  The Riverside, Illinois native leads all Big Ten freshmen in hitting percentage and blocks per set while ranking third in kills per set. [Read more…]

Wisconsin and Marquette to meet in NCAA Volleyball

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The Wisconsin volleyball team will make its 21st NCAA tournament appearance, traveling to Ames, Iowa for the first and second rounds of the 2017 NCAA Championship.  The Badgers (20-9) will face Marquette (22-9) in the first round on Friday at 4 p.m. (CT) from Hilton Coliseum.

Wisconsin faced the golden Eagles earlier this season in the HotelRED Invitational at the UW Field House on Sept. 14, downing their in-state rival, 3-1.  No. 14-seed Iowa State (21-6) faces Princeton (18-7) in the other first-round match at 7 p.m. on Friday.  First-round winners play in the second round on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. for the right to advance to regional play.

The Badgers hold a 41-20 (.672) all-time record in the program’s 20 NCAA tournament appearances, including four-straight showings under head coach Kelly Sheffield.  UW is 13-4 under Sheffield in the NCAA tournament, advancing to at least the Sweet 16 round of play each season.

A total of eight Big Ten Conference teams made it into the NCAA tournament, including No. 1-seed Penn State, No. 5-seed Nebraska and No. 7-seed Minnesota.

 

Oshkosh set to host NCAA D-3 Quarterfinal

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Brett Kasper tossed six touchdown passes to lead the UW-Oshkosh Titans to a 42-21 win over North Central in the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs on Saturday at Titan Stadium.

The Titans fell behind 7-0, then scored 42 straight points before North Central would score again.

Kasper finished 18 of 24 for 276 yards.  Two of the touchdown passes went to Sam Mentkowski who finished with four receptions for 117 yards.

The Titans (11-0) will face Wartburg (12-0) at Titan Stadium at noon on Saturday in the quarterfinals.  Wartburg clobbered Trine 49-7 to advance.

NCAA D-3 baseball field is down to two for the title

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Fox Cities Stadium

Sunday started with six teams and it closed with just two remaining in the NCAA Division 3 College World Series field.

Roanoke, Virginia eliminated Concordia-Chicago in the first game of the day, 10-3.  North Central College of Illinois eliminated U-Mass/Boston in game two, 5-4.  Roanoke was then eliminated in game 3, falling to Washington & Jefferson 8-1.  Cal Lutheran closed out the day with a 10-8 win over North Central in an elimination game.

It leaves Cal Lutheran and Washington & Jefferson to square off in the best-of-3 championship series with the first game set to get underway at 3 p.m. on Monday afternoon at Fox Cities Stadium.

Wisconsin women’s rowing places 9th at NCAA’s

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The Wisconsin women’s rowing team placed ninth at the NCAA Championships on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, New Jersey this past weekend.

The Badgers used top-seven results in the second varsity eight and varsity four to power the ninth-place team finish.  It’s the second straight year that Wisconsin finished ninth in the field, tallying a school-record 86 points in the competition.

Washington, coached by former Badger coxswain Yasmin Farooq, won the team title with 132 points.  The Huskies won each of the three Grand Finals, becoming the first school in NCAA history to sweep all three boats.

California took second with 123 points, while Michigan led all Big Ten entries in third place with 112 points.  Texas (108 points) and Ohio State (106) round out the top five.

Big Ten Conference foes Indiana and Iowa placed 12th and 15th respectively.

 

Wisconsin earns NCAA softball win

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Chloe Miller clubbed a two-run homer to lift the Wisconsin Badgers to a 7-2 win over Missouri in the opening round of the NCAA softball regionals in Eugene, Oregon on Friday night.

Brooke Wyderski drove in three runs and Kaitlyn Menz tossed a three-hitter for the Badgers.

Wisconsin improved to 34-15 and will play either Oregon or Illinois-Chicago in the double-elimination Eugene Regional at 4 p.m. today.