2/20/25 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Thursday
20 February 2025 Sports
The Milwaukee Bucks return from the AL-Star break tonight hosting the Clippers. The Bucks are fifth in the Eastern Conference with a 29-24 record, a game behind the Indiana Pacers. The Clippers are sixth in the Western Conference at 31-23. Tipoff is at 7:00 at Firserv Forum.
The Ripon College men’s basketball team lost at Lake Forest College Wednesday night 64-57. Kolby Williams led the Red Hawks with 22 points as Ripon dropped to 11-13 overall and 8-7 in the Midwest Conference. Ripon hosts Lawrence University Saturday with the tipoff at 3:00.
UW-Oshkosh lost at UW-Eau Claire 62-49 Wednesday night. Joey LaChapell led the Titans with 15 points while Thomas Carter scored 10. Oshkosh drops to 12-12 overall and 3-10 in the WIAC.
The Ripon College women’s team won at Lake Forest College Wednesday night 85-58. Halle Van Horn led the Red Hawks with 18 points while Ella Ten Pas scored 14 and Laney Havlovitz
added 12. Ripon improves to 204 overall and 14-1 in the Midwest Conference.
The UW-Oshkosh women won easily at home over UW-Eau Claire Wednesday night, 64-42 Kacie Vaile led the Titans with 19 points, Kate Huml added 11 and Sammi Beyer scored 10. Oshkosh improves to 22-1 overall and 11-2 in the WIAC.
The Green Bay women’s basketball team extended its winning streak to 17 on Wednesday evening with a 59-50 win over the Cleveland State Vikings.
GB’s win streak, as of the time of this story’s publishment, is tied with Montana State for the third-longest in the country. Green Bay also clinched at least the two seed in the Horizon League Tournament. The Green and White is a full game ahead of second-place Purdue Fort Wayne, who did not play on Wednesday.
GB’s victory also marked the first regular-season sweep of the Vikings since the 2022-23 season. It’s the first three-game win streak against CSU since Green Bay won six in a row from 2019-2021.
The Phoenix (24-5, 17-1 HL) was led by Maddy Schreiber’s 16 points. She is just two points from achieving 1,000 in her career. Bailey Butler tacked on a season-high 15 points, and Natalie McNeal chipped in with her 11th career double-double (12 points and 12 rebounds). Callie Genke added another nine points for GB.
Cleveland State (21-7, 12-5 HL) was paced by 19 points from Jordana Reisma. She was the only Viking to reach double figures. Destiny Leo had nine points, while Mickayla Perdue and Sara Guerreiro each tallied eight.
The Phoenix held the Vikings to only 33.3 percent shooting from the field.» GB had a 35-32 edge on the boards in the win.» McNeal’s 12 rebounds were a game-high.» Cleveland State had 17 second-chance points.» GB had 22 points in the paint, while CSU had 20.» Green Bay’s bench scored 19 points compared to CSU’s four.
Green Bay will look to keep the pedal to the metal against in-state rival Milwaukee on Saturday. Tipoff is slated for 1 PM at the Kress Center.
Seven men from Chile have been charged in Florida federal court with orchestrating burglaries at the home of prominent professional athletes around the country, according to a criminal complaint.
The FBI complaint doesn’t name the athletes, but lists burglaries already made public infolving the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, as well as players for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and Memphis Grizzlies. Milwaukee’s Bobby Portis reported a burglary on November 2nd.
Accordinig to the complaint, the defendants are part of a burglary ring that “is known to target high-profile professional athletes when they are known to be away from home.” The men allegedly stole about $2 million in watches, jewelry, cash and other valuable, including a safe they later cracked.
Each defendant is charged with conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. It wasn’t clear Wednesday whether they are in custody, and Tampa federal court records don’t list attorneys for any of them.
Boys Basketball (Thurs.)
Kewaskum at Mayville
Girls Basketball (Thurs.)
Ripon at Kewaskum
Berlin at Plymouth
Winneconne at Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Campbellsport at Saint Mary’s Springs
Winnebago Lutheran at Laconia
Mayville at Lomira
Omro at North Fond du Lac
Denmark at Clintonville
Fox Valley Lutheran at Marinette
Wrightstown at Freedom
Luxemburg-Casco at Waupaca
Wautoma at Mauston
Markesan at Fall River
Princeton/Green Lake at Pardeeville
The organization that oversees school sports in Wisconsin voted Wednesday to ban transgender girls from girls’ competitions.
WIAA Executive Director Stephanie Hauser said the vote by the Board of Control put it in compliance with federal directives that only students who were female at birth can participate in girls’ sports.
“Working in consultation with legal counsel, our Board updated this policy to ensure clarity is provided to our membership as they work to comply with new federal guidance from the White House,” Hauser said.
WIAA Boy’s Sport:
Regardless of sex assigned at birth or gender identity, a student-athlete may practice and compete in a WIAA Boy’s Sport, assuming they meet all other WIAA eligibility requirements.
WIAA Girl’s Sport:
Student-athlete assigned male at birth
Competition. A student-athlete whose Sex Assigned at Birth is male may not compete in a WIAA Girl’s Sport.
Practice. A student-athlete whose Sex Assigned at Birth is male may practice in a WIAA Girl’s Sport with their Gender Identity and receive all other benefits applicable to student-athletes who are otherwise eligible for practice.
Student-athlete assigned female at birth
Competition. A student-athlete whose Sex Assigned at Birth is female who has begun hormone therapy (e.g., testosterone) may not compete in a WIAA Girl’s Sport.
Practice. A student-athlete whose Sex Assigned at Birth is female who has begun hormone therapy (e.g., testosterone) may continue practicing in a WIAA Girl’s Sport and receive all other benefits applicable to student-athletes who are otherwise eligible for practice.
Effective Date
Immediately upon passage by the WIAA Board of Control.
resident Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this month to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls and women’s sports.
The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” gives federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets “sex” as the gender someone was assigned at birth.
The NCAA changed its policy for transgender athletes, limiting competition in women’s sports to athletes who were assigned female at birth, the day after the president signed the order.
The policy was not applied to men’s teams, where the NCAA says any athletes regardless of sex assigned at birth or gender identity can play if they meet all other eligibility requirements.
Transgender men taking hormones, such as testosterone, can practice with women’s teams but can’t compete on a women’s team without risking the team’s eligibility for championships.
The Biden administration changed Title IX rules to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students, but last month a federal judge scrapped the rules, saying they overstepped the president’s authority. They had already been halted in 26 states after a wave of legal challenges by Republican states.
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