Thursday Sports 2/28/19
28 February 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
The Milwaukee Bucks won a high-scoring game at Sacramento last night, beating the Kings 141-140 in overtime. Eric Bledsoe a triple-double for the Bucks, scoring 26 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and dishing out 13 assists. Malcolm Brogdon chipped in with 25, Khris Middleton and Nikola Mirotic had 21 and Giannis Antetokoumpo 17. The Bucks hit 17 of 45 three-point attempts.
Milwaukee improved to a league-best 47-14 and lead second place Toronto by 2 ½ games in the Eastern Conference.
A professional women’s basketball team is coming to Oshkosh this spring. On Wednesday that team was unveiled as the “Wisconsin Glo.”
On the same court where the Wisconsin Herd play at Menominee Nation Arena, the area’s first women’s team is now expected to give basketball fans something extra.
According to Greg Pierce, president of Fox Valley Pro Basketball, most of the players will have Wisconsin backgrounds, either playing at UWGB, Madison, UW-Milwaukee, or Marquette, All the players will have experience in women’s minor league basketball. Pierce said two of the teams in the league, one in Flint, Michigan and one in St. Louis, have been multiple time champions in other leagues and have joined the new league.
The Glo, will have a 12-person roster and be one of five teams that make up the Global Women’s Basketball Association, which was established in 2016.
UW-Oshkosh swept the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) men’s basketball major awards for the first time as senior guard Ben Boots was voted Player of the Year and interim head coach Matt Lewis was tabbed Coach of the Year to headline the Titans’ selections to the all-conference team.
Boots is the fifth Titan to be named WIAC Player of the Year, joining Tim Dworak (2002, 2003), John Lallensack (1968), D.J. Marsh (2009) and Ralph Sims (1977, 1978).
Lewis becomes UW-Oshkosh’s third WIAC Coach of the Year and first since Ted Van Dellen earned the award in 1996. Former Titan coach Bob White was WIAC Coach of the Year in 1967, 1968 and 1978. Lewis, who took over the UW-Oshkosh program last May, has guided the Titans to a 23-3 record. His .855 winning percentage ranks second among all 1,098 active NCAA men’s basketball coaches.
UW-Oshkosh, the outright league regular season champion, had a program-record four players chosen to the All-WIAC First Team in Boots, junior center Jack Flynn, junior forward Adam Fravert and senior guard Brett Wittchow. The Titans’ previous high for All-WIAC First Team selections was three in both 1968 and 1998.
Quarterback Alex Hornibrook has decided to leave the Badgers football team. Head coach Paul Chryst made the announcement on Wednesday..
Hornibrook went 26-6 in three seasons as starter for Wisconsin, including a 20-4 record in Big Ten games. His .813 winning percentage is the best of any quarterback in program history. He started nine games as a junior last season, throwing for 1,532 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Hornibrook ranks in a tie for third all-time at Wisconsin in touchdown passes (47), fourth in completion percentage (60.5%) and fifth in passing yards (5,438).
In Cactus League action Wednesday, the Indians beat the Brewers 6-1. Corey Ray homered in the third inning for Milwaukee’s only run. The Brewers managed just two hits. Trey Supak took the loss giving up three runs on three hits, including two homers in one inning in his first appearance of the spring. Milwaukee plays the Reds and Giants today in split-squad games.
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