2/19/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Wednesday
19 February 2025 Sports
John Tonje scored 31 points and No. 11 Wisconsin beat Illinois 95-74 on Tuesday night to earn its fifth straight victory and end its recent run of futility in this series.
Wisconsin (21-5, 11-4 Big Ten) had lost its last nine matchups with the Fighting Illini, including an 86-80 defeat Dec. 10 at Illinois. Wisconsin had won 15 straight meetings immediately before that stretch.
Tonje’s big performance came three nights after he had 32 points in a 94-84 win at No. 13 Purdue, which was ranked seventh at the time. He’s the fourth player in school history to score at least 30 points in consecutive games.
Wisconsin’s Steven Crowl added a season-high 20 points to go along with seven rebounds and five assists. John Blackwell had 16 points.
Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn had 17 points, Ben Humrichous 13 and Will Riley 11 for Illinois (17-10, 9-8).
The Badgers are scoring 82 points per game and are on pace for their highest average since 1970-71, when they had a school-record 86.3 points per game. This was their 15th game with at least 80 points.
Wisconsin hosts Oregon on Saturday.
Kam Jones scored 14 points, Chase Ross added 11 points and No. 16 Marquette cruised to an 80-56 win over Seton Hall on Tuesday night.
Ben Gold had 10 points for Marquette (20-6, 11-4 Big East).
Seton Hall (7-19, 2-13) was led by Isaiah Coleman with 13 points and Scotty Middleton with nine.
Marquette’s Stevie Mitchell left the game with what appeared to be an arm injury with just over six minutes left in the first half but returned. Mitchell entered the game fifth in the nation in steals (2.6 per game).
The win helped the Golden Eagles continue righting the ship. They had lost three straight before beating DePaul on Feb. 11. Marquette is tied with Creighton for second in the conference.
Marquette travels to Villanova on Friday night.
Tonight the Ripon College men’s basketball team plays at Lake Forest College with the tipoff at 7:30.
UW-Oshkosh is at UW-Eau Claire with the tipoff at 7:00.
In women’s college basketball tonight Ripon College is at Lake Forest College with the tipoff at 5:30. The Red Hawks are 19-4 overall and 13-1 in the Midwest Conference.
UW-Oshkosh is at home against UW-Eau Claire with the tipoff at 7:00. The Titan women are 21-2 overall and 11-2 in the WIAC.
Joe Buck will call his first nationally televised baseball game since 2021 on opening day.
Buck will be in the booth for ESPN when the New York Yankees host the Milwaukee Brewrs on March 27 at 2 p.m. CST.
Buck was FOX Sports’ lead MLB announcer from 1996 through 2021 and called 24 World Series. He joined ESPN in 2022 to call “Monday Night Football.”
YES Network analyst Joe Girardi and Brewers analyst Bill Schroeder also will be in the booth with Buck.
Buck’s last national baseball broadcast was Nov. 2, 2021, when the Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros in Game 6 of the World Series. He did a game with Chip Caray last season when the St. Louis Cardinals faced the Chicago Cubs, a game carried on the Cardinals’ regional sports network feed.
Tuesday was the slowest day of the year for sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says 14 sturgeon were speared on the lake, the lowest in a single day this year. Two of those were juvenile females, four adult females and eight males.
On upriver lakes Poygan, Winneconne and Butte des Morts, there were six sturgeon speared: five males and one adult female. The biggest fish of the day came from Lake Poygan, a 107.4-pound, 69.6-inch female speared by Kathy Marshall.
Boys Basketball (Tues.)
Plymouth 89 Ripon 65. The Tigers were led by Tyler Brewer’s 16 points and Blake Blake Bradley scored 19. The Panthers’ Kayden Schultz led all scorers with 30, two points above his season average and Augie Eigenburger added 15 and Max Hill scored 11. The Ripon JV team won 48 to 30 and the Ripon JV2 team also picked up a win over Plymouth, 71-45.
Waupun 87 Kewaskum 55
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 86 Berlin 60
Winneconne 89 Lourdes Academy 49
Beaver Dam 70 DeForest 61
Green Bay East 59 Antigo 46
Pulaski 82 Seymour 70
Waupaca 82 New London 74
Saint Mary Catholic 87 Menasha 72
Lakeland 47 Shawano 46
Campbellsport 71 North Fond du Lac 55
Saint Mary’s Springs 72 Lomira 57
Omro at Laconia 84 Omro 55
Winnebago Lutheran 53 Mayville 41
Oshkosh West 55 Appleton East 54
Fond du Lac 76 Kimberly 66
Kaukauna 66 Appleton North 56
Hortonville at Oshkosh North 78 Hortonville 61
Neenah 83 Appleton West 63
Little Chute 61 Clintonville 45
Wausau East 62 Fox Valley Lutheran 45
Waupaca 82 New London 74
Adams-Friendship 70 Manawa 48
Westfield 67 Amherst 62
Wisconsin Dells 74 Columbus 70
Central Wisconsin Christian 61 Valley Christian 56
Wayland Academy 62 Dodgeland 50
Horicon 67 Hustisford 66
Cambria-Friesland 44 Princeton/Green Lake 40
Randolph 62 Pardeeville 71
Rio 36 Fall River 65
Markesan 104 Montello 41
Girls (Tues.)
Kettle Moraine Lutheran 60 Lakeside Lutheran 26
Winneconne 67 Lourdes Academy 37
Winnebago Lutheran 50 Kewaskum 37
Brookfield East 40 Beaver Dam 26
Green Bay East 61 Antigo 49
Kaukauna 53 West De Pere 69
Lakeland 58 Shawano 44
Xavier 61 Fox Valley Lutheran 37
Menasha 69 Green Bay Southwest 25
Stevens Point 58 New London 35
North Fond du Lac 45 Hilbert 33
Appleton East 68 Oostburg 67
Hortonville 70 Appleton West 37
Pulaski 35 Freedom 31
Wrightstown 49 Brillion 46
Oconto Falls 54 Luxemburg-Casco 38
Waupaca 51 Weyauwega-Fremont 47
Westfield 68 Amherst 27
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