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WIAA Board approves Spring Baseball extension

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The WIAA‘s Board of Control ratified an agreement with the Appleton Baseball Club, Inc., that extends the use of Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium for the State Spring Baseball Tournament through 2028.

The State Spring Baseball Tournament has called Fox Cities Stadium its home since 1998.  The tournament has attracted an average attendance of 12,500 the past 11 years.  In addition, the 20 years the tournament has been held at Fox Cities Stadium represent the 20 largest attendance marks in the history of the event.

The extension will give Fox Cities Stadium the distinction of hosting State spring baseball for the greatest length of time since the tournament’s inception in 1948.  Wausau hosted the tournament for 25 years from 1973-1997.

Fox Cities Stadium was built-in 1995 and seats 5,900.

 

WIAA Boys State Basketball Tournament opens Thursday

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The 103rd Annual Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Basketball State Tournament tips off at the Kohl Center in Madison on Thursday and runs through Saturday.

The single elimination tournament features a five division format with four teams qualifying in each of the five divisions.

The 2018 Schedule follows.

Thursday, March 15

Division 3

#1  Valders (23-3) vs. #4 Kettle Moraine Lutheran (22-5)  –  1:35 p.m.
#2  East Troy (21-5) vs. #3 Prescott (24-2)  –  3:15 p.m.

Division 4

#1  Roncalli (21-5) vs. #4 Pardeeville (23-3)  –  6:35 p.m.
#2  Clear Lake (25-0) vs. #3 Marathon (22-4)  –  8:15 p.m. [Read more…]

WIAA extends deal in Madison

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The WIAA announced on Wednesday that the University of Wisconsin will remain the primary home for the association’s state championships for the next seven years.

The WIAA and the UW signed a contract extension that will allow boys basketball, football, wrestling, boys and girls golf and softball championships to call Madison their home through 2025.

Just a week earlier, the WIAA announced an agreement to holds its state girls and boys volleyball and girls basketball at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon through 2025.

Boys basketball is the longest running tournament on the UW campus, dating back to 1920.

 

Girls State Basketball Championships head to day 2

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Day 1 Results from WIAA Girls State Basketball Tournament

Division 3

Amherst (26-1) 45, Saint Thomas More (21-6) 32
Marshall (26-1) 58, Wisconsin Dells (25-2) 47

Division 4

La Crosse Aquinas (27-0) 75, Crandon (22-3) 38
Melrose Mindoro (27-0) 64, Manitowoc Lutheran (21-5) 30

Day 2 Schedule at the Resch Center

Division 5

Black Hawk (27-0) vs. Newman Catholic (21-6) – 9:05 a.m. [Read more…]

WIAA Girls State Basketball Tournament opens today

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The 43rd Annual WIAA Girls Basketball State Tournament tips off at the Resch Center in Green Bay on Thursday and runs through Saturday.

Following is today’s schedule:

Division 3

Marshall (25-1) vs. Wisconsin Dells (25-1)  –  1:35 p.m.
Amherst (25-1) vs. Saint Thomas More (21-5)  –  3:15 p.m.

Division 4

Aquinas (26-0) vs. Crandon (22-2)  –  6:35 p.m.
Melrose-Mindoro (26-0) vs. Manitowoc Lutheran (21-4)  –  8:15 p.m.

Tournament Extended in Green Bay

The WIAA and PMI reached an agreement to extend the Girls State Basketball and Volleyball tournaments through 2025.  The Boys State Volleyball Tournament also starts play at the Resch Center in 2019.

 

WIAA discontinues summer baseball

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The WIAA’s Board of Control voted unanimously on Friday to discontinue summer baseball after the 2018 season.

The number of teams still playing summer baseball had fallen below 40 and Wisconsin had been the only state to offer both a spring and summer season in baseball for varsity play.

A number of schools in the Milwaukee area, had already announced a switch in past months.

Kapco Park in Mequon has served as the championship host since 2012.

Starting in 2019, the summer teams will join the spring schools and the state’s best high school baseball teams will be settled at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute.

Boys & Girls State Volleyball at the Resch Center in 2019

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The WIAA Board of Control on Wednesday passed a plan that will combine both the boys and girls state volleyball tournaments on the same days at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon, starting with the 2019 season.

The Resch Center has played host to the girls tournament since 2002, while the boys have played their tournament at Wisconsin Lutheran College since 2008.

The WIAA is hoping to help grow boys volleyball, which had just 56 teams in the Association this past season, compared to 475 girls programs.

The WIAA plan does have a four-year sunset clause, which means the board will have to vote again to continue combined tournaments after 2022.

Kimberly keeps on keeping on!

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2017 State Champion Kimberly Papermakers – Photo Courtesy of Doug Ritchay/Fox 11 Green Bay

The 2017 WIAA State High School Football Championships are in the books and the Kimberly Papermakers are champions once again.

Kimberly (14-0) won its fifth straight State Championship (the last four in Division 1), extending the nation’s longest win streak to 70 games with a 27-7 win over Sun Prairie in the D-1 title game.

Sun Prairie (13-1) scored first, just two plays after recovering a first quarter fumble.  Jack Zander hit Cooper Nelson on a 19-yard scoring strike and the Cardinals jumped out to a 7-0 lead.  That would be the only score the Cardinals would get, despite owning the field position game for the entire first half.

Kimberly tied the game just before halftime on a 25-yard run by John Nett.  The Papermakers than took the lead for good on the first drive of the 3rd quarter when quarterback Alec Rosner sprinted 50 yards to put Kimberly in front 14-7.

State Player of the Year, D.J. Stewart, who rushed for 189 yards and two touchdowns put Kimberly on top 21-7 with a 25-yard touchdown run.

Draven Peeples had 127 yards for the Cardinals on the ground but appeared to be limping late in the first half and for the rest of the game. [Read more…]

WIAA State Football Finals

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Four games are in the books with three more to go today in the WIAA State High School football championships at Camp Randall Stadium.  Thursday’s results and Friday’s lineup follow:

Division 7  Bangor 37, Blackhawk 14
Division 6  Fond du Lac Springs 35, Iola-Scandinavia 12
Division 5  Amherst 28, Lake Country Lutheran 21
Division 4  Lodi 17, St. Croix Central 10  (OT)

Friday’s Lineup

Division 3  Rice Lake (10-2) vs. New Berlin Eisenhower (13-0)  10 a.m.
Division 2  Waunakee (13-0) vs. Brookfield Central (13-0)  1 p.m.
Division 1  Kimberly (13-0) vs. Sun Prairie (13-0)  4 p.m.