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LOCAL SPORTS
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- Here is 8-year old Sydney Eibisch (I-Bish) of Crystal Lake, IL. Last month while fishing with her dad and grandpa on Lake Alice near Tomahawk, Sydney caught her first walleye on her first ice fishing trip. She landed this 6-incher using a jig and minnow for bait. In fact, she was the only one to get on the board that day. After the picture, the fish was released.
4-year old Matthew Carpenter of Rhinelander was fishing at an area lake - when he landed this 22-inch Northern Pike. I'm told Matthew was very quick on the draw when the indicator on the tip up was spinning. Matthew is now giving tips to the rest of the family on how to land the big ones.
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EAGLE RIVER - Last week, the season ended for the Northland Pines boys basketball team. The team only won one game all season long.
But for one Eagle River family, great memories were made - despite the record.
That's because one of the sons is able to enjoy life from the sidelines - despite obstacles.
Ken Kluever of Eagle River and his wife Carie learned their second child - Austin has spinal bifida. It's is a developmental congenital disorder caused by the incomplete closing of the embryonic neural tube. Some vertebrae overlying the spinal cord are not fully formed. Austin will be bound to a wheel chair his whole life.
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ANTIGO - This weekend the Antigo Red Robins will be competing at the state gymnastics meet.
It's the 11th straight year, Antigo has qualified for meet as a team.
During that time, Antigo won the D2 state championship in 2008.
Head coach Julie Langseth is in her 23rd year with Antigo.
The Red Robins are strong on the floor and balance beam. After a weak start, their work on the uneven bars has improved all season.
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THE NORTHWOODS - The road to the state tournament began tonight in high school girls basketball. Regionals kicked off across the Northwoods.
We traveled to Rhinelander, Antigo and Crandon for highlights.
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WAUSAU - With a win over Northland Pines, the Central Wisconsin Storm advanced to state for the seventh straight year.
They're heading to Madison Friday to take on Bay Area.
The Storm co-op has players from D.C. Everest, Mosinee and Wausau West and East.
They've won two State titles, one in 2008 and the other in 2012.
The Storm defeated the Eagles 2-0 in the sectional final held at the Dome to earn their spot in the tournament field.
Even though they've been there before, they know there's still work to do.
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RHINELANDER - The Hodag boys rallied from being down 13 points to earn their third straight regional title. But the celebration didn't last long, they quickly began preparing for Sectionals.
The Hodags have made it to the WIAA's sweet 16 for the third straight year. Next up they'll face a Shawano team that beat Antigo and Waupaca over the weekend.
Rhinelander is 19-5 on the season and playing inspired basketball. They want to make sure they position themselves to go further in the playoffs this time around.
The sectional semifinal will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday at Stevens Point Area Senior High.
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THE NORTHWOODS - Only a few more weeks to go in the Winter Sports season. We'll start announcing our Players of the Year next Monday, but we still have one more group of nominees for Newswatch 12 Player of the Week.
On the hardwood Hodags Mitch Reinthaler came up big against Wausau East on Saturday. Mitch put up 18 points including a late free throw that sealed the win for Rhinelander. With the victory, the Hodags captured their 3rd straight regional title.
To the ice, hockey fans watched a thriller between Antigo and Northland Pines last Tuesday and Red Robins Alex Nagel was the hero. He had a hat trick, including the game winner in double overtime. The win sent Antigo to the section finals.
At state wrestling, it's hard enough to win one title much less repeat. But that's exactly what Merrill's Tyler Schmidt did. Tyler defended his title in D1 220 lb. on Saturday. He'll try to help Merrill to a team title this weekend.
And in girls hockey it was a familiar matchup on Saturday at the Dome. The Central Wisconsin Storm faced Northland Pines and it was a freshman with the performance of the day. Katelyn Ramthun scored 2 goals for the Storm and that was all they needed. The Storm are headed back to state.
To vote on any of our nominees go to the sports poll at wjfw.com. Voting will end at 3pm on Friday.
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REGIONAL SPORTS
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MILWAUKEE - Ersan Ilyasova scored a season-high 31 points on 13-of-14 shooting, and the Milwaukee Bucks hit a blistering 57 percent from the field to beat the Utah Jazz 114-88 on Monday night.
Zaza Pachulia added 14 points, six rebounds and five assists, and five Bucks scored in double digits. The NBA's worst team improved to 12-47 and enjoyed a rare breather at home.
Enes Kanter had 27 points to lead Utah, mired by a mistake-prone third quarter in which the Bucks regularly led by at least 20.
NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took in some of the action. Drafted No. 1 overall by the Bucks in 1969, Abdul-Jabbar was in town to promote a tourism ad for the state of Wisconsin that played off his acting role in the movie ``Airplane.''
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MILWAUKEE - Marcus Thornton scored 12 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 107-98 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night.
Brooklyn's Kevin Garnett missed the game with back spasms but wasn't needed as the Nets never trailed in the second half against the NBA's worst team.
Thornton, playing in his third game for Brooklyn since being obtained in a Feb. 19 trade with Sacramento, came off the bench to make 8 of 13 from the field to help the Nets finish their seven-game road trip 4-3.
Andray Blatche had 19 points and 13 rebounds for Brooklyn, including eight points and 10 rebounds in the fourth quarter.
Khris Middleton and Ramon Sessions scored 16 points apiece for Milwaukee.
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MADISON - Several wrestlers from the Northwoods headed to Madison with championship dreams. The Merrill Bluejays led the way with seven wrestlers competing at state.
At Division One 195 pounds, Rhinelander's Connor Johnson won is preliminary match against Green Bay Preble/East. However, he lost his quarterfinal match Thursday night.
At D-1 170 pounds, Merrill's David Pophal won both his matches. He'll wrestle in the semifinals Friday night.
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MADISON - Sam Dekker scored 16 points and No. 14 Wisconsin shrugged off a slow start to beat Indiana 69-58 on Tuesday night.
The Hoosiers (15-12, 5-9 Big Ten) held Wisconsin (23-5, 10-5) to its lowest point production in the first half this season, taking a 29-19 lead.
But Wisconsin outscored Indiana 9-2 over the first 3 minutes of the second half as the shots started to fall. The Badgers shot 26 percent in the first half, they hit 62 percent of their shots in the second. They went 6 of 11 from the 3-point line after making just 1 of 10 in the first half.
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SOCHI - The U.S. was averaging five goals per game heading into the Olympic semifinals.
Against Canada, it couldn’t muster one.
That was the story at the Bolshoy Ice Dome on Friday as Carey Price stopped all 31 shots faced and Canada continued its stifling defense in a 1-0 win over the Americans, securing a berth in the gold medal game for the second consecutive Olympics.
Jamie Benn scored the game’s lone marker — his second of the tournament — early in the second period, deflecting home a Jay Bouwmeester slap-pass.
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SOCHI - Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice for the second straight Olympic gold medal game and Canada beat the United States 3-2 in overtime on Thursday for its fourth consecutive title.
Canada trailed 2-0 before Brianne Jenner and Poulin scored in the final 3:26 of regulation, and Poulin had the game-winner with a power play goal at 8:10 of overtime.
To see more about the game, select the recap link below.
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SOCHI - The U.S. stayed hot in the Sochi Olympics by taking care of the Czech Republic on Wednesday with a 5-2 win to advance to the semifinals.
James Van Riemsdyk, Dustin Brown, David Backes, Phil Kessel and Zach Parise all scored for the U.S.
Plover native Joe Pavelski had an assist in the victory.
For more on the game, select the recap link below.
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