2/28/22 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
28 February 2022 Sports
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Winneconne High School has a state champion in wrestling. Caleb Meumier took first Saturday in the 145 pound weight class at the State Wrestling Tournament.
St. Mary’s Springs’ advanced to the Division 2 boys state hockey tournament with a sectional final win. With a chance for a bid to compete for a state title, the Notre Dame boy’s hockey team did not disappoint. They beat the Neenah/Hortonville/Menasha Co-op 7-2.
In the Midwest Conference Tournament championship game Saturday, Cornell College edged Ripon College 82-79. Jalylen Malone led four players in double figures for the Red Hawks with 14 points, while Luke Meinholz and Ryan Steffes each had 13 points and Owen Theune had 12. Marcus Quirk and Cooper Kabela each scored 25 points for Cornell.
Ripon advanced to the finals with after beating Illinois College 68-65 on Friday.
On the women’s side Ripon College defeaed Monmouth College Saturday in the MWC championship game, 62-55. Alison Leslie led Ripon with 21 points and Cassidy Walters had 13. Josie Morgan led Monmouth with 22.
Ripon advanced to the championship game after beating Illinois State Friday, 68-65.
The UW-Oshkosh won the men’s WIAC Tournament Saturday, but it didn’t come easy. UW-Platteville’s Quentin Shields hit a 3-pointer to make it a one-point game. But Oshkosh’s Eddie Muench split a pair of free throws to give the Titans the 75-73 edge and the game tying jumper attempt from Shields was no good. Oshkosh’s Levi Borchert had his 14th double-double of the season. This is now the fifth WIAC tournament title the Titans have won and second in the last three seasons.
With this win, the Titans have secured the WIAC’s automatic berth into the NCAA Division III tournament. First and second round games begin next Friday and Saturday.
Despite a long day of conversations between MLB and the MLBPA on Sunday, the sides still remain far apart on a new collective bargaining agreement, a union source told ESPN. The six-plus hours of meetings came a day before a league-imposed deadline that will trigger the cancellation of regular-season games. If the sport doesn’t have a new collective bargaining agreement by the end of negotiations on Monday, Opening Day on March 31 will be canceled along with potentially a week’s worth of games. The league has indicated it wants about four weeks of spring training before opening the season, hence the Feb. 28 deadline in order to play on March 31.
The sides will meet again Monday morning for an eighth consecutive bargaining session. A union source indicated it’s ready to stay as long as it takes to reach an agreement. The league has said the same. A league source called Sunday a “productive” day of conversations, but no new proposals on core economics were exchanged, nor were any outstanding issues resolved.
The sides remain far apart on many items including minimum salaries, the competitive balance tax, Super 2 expansion, revenue sharing, an expanded postseason and a new pre-arbitration bonus pool.
Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson won the Wise Power 400 Sunday 400, holding off a charging Austin Dillon by .195 seconds at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. It was his first victory of the season, his second at the 2-mile track and the 17th of his career. Eric Jones finished third, followed by Daniel Suarez. Joey Logano ran fifth, followed by Aric Almirola, Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch (who started from the rear and served a pass-through penalty to start the race because of three inspection failures). Daniel Hemric and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. completed the top 10.
On the PGA Tour Sunday Sepp Straka shot a final-round 66 to edge Shane Lowry by one stroke to win the Honda Classic. traka finished at 270 while Lowry shot a 67 to finish at 271. Kurt Kitayama came in third at 272 while third-round leader Daniel Berger, who entered the day with a five-shot lead, slipped to a 74 to finish fourth at 273.
Kyrie Irving scored a season-high 38 points and the Brooklyn Nets stopped their recent slide by beating the slumping Milwaukee Bucks 126-123 on Saturday night. Bruce Brown made a 3-pointer to put the Nets ahead for good 118-116 with 1:38 left. Brooklyn ended a two-game skid and won for just the third time in 16 games. Milwaukee has dropped four of its last five. The Bucks had one last chance with 2.1 seconds and no timeouts remaining. Wesley Matthews threw a long inbounds pass to Giannis Antetokounmpo, who had a clean look at a game-tying 3-point attempt that bounced off the rim.
Johnny Davis scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half, and No. 13 Wisconsin took over sole possession of first place in the Big Ten Conference with a 66-61 victory over Rutgers on Saturday night. Brad Davison added 14 points, Chucky Hepburn had 13 and Tyler Wahl had 11 as the Badgers (23-5, 14-4) opened a game lead in the conference over No. 4 Purdue, which lost to Michigan State earlier in the day.
Geo Baker had 16 of his 19 points in the second half to lead Rutgers (16-12, 10-8), but missed a game-tying 3-point attempt with four seconds to play. Ron Harper Jr. added 15 points for the Scarlet Knights, who have now lost three in a row after a four-game winning streak — all against ranked teams.
13 Wisconsin will host #4 Purdue on Tuesday, and the Badgers won the earlier meeting.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, the Packers have restructured All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari’s contract, converting $11.58M into a signing bonus. The Packers have been busy this week working to get under the 2022 salary cap. Yates reported earlier in the week that the Packers also restructured Kenny Clark and Aaron Jones’ contracts.
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