Playoffs are in full-swing for Basketball, Wrestling, and Hockey

Riverkings apprehend outlaws in weekend series.

Over February 14 and 15, the Wisconsin Rapids Riverkings dominated play as they hosted the Isanti Outlaws as they earned the regular season sweep over the Outlaws with wins by 10-2 and 14-1.

Rapids also beat Isanti 7-2 and 6-2 in October.

The Riverkings next play over Feb. 21 and 22 when they host the Wisconsin Dells at the South Wood County Recreation Center with puck drops of 7pm both nights.

Rapids Wrestling moves to team sectional, loses in finals, Papermakers advance.

After winning its WIAA Division 1 Regional, the Wisconsin Rapids Wrestling team saw its dual season come to an end on February 18

In a rematch of the Division 1 state championship from a year ago, Kaukauna got the better of Rapids for a second time as they held on for the 49-18 victory.

Rapids defeated Neenah 59-23 as Kaukauna beat Hortonville 70-8 to advance to the final dual.

Individually, Rapids advanced 11 Boys and three Girls to the WIAA Division 1 Individual Sectional on Fri. and Sat. Feb. 21 and 22.

Nekoosa/Assumption/Port Edwards advanced five Boys and five Girls to the WIAA Division 2 Individual Sectional.

Krcmar sets scoring record.

Nekoosa senior, Nash Krcmar, became the program’s all-time leading scorer on Tuesday, Feb. 11 when he broke 1,226 career points when the Papermakers played Iola-Scandinavia.

Krcmar got 15 points to put him over the plateau and etch his name in the history books.

The previous record was set by Derek Baker in 2012.

Girls Basketball seeds announced.

On Sunday, February 23, the WIAA announced the pairings for the Girls Basketball tournament and all four local teams will be in action.

Assumption is a No. 1 seed in Division 5 and has a first round Bye. Port Edwards was seeded 15 and goes to No. 2 seed Pacelli.

In Division 4, Nekoosa got an 11 seed and goes to Whitehall.

Wisconsin Rapids was seeded 14 in Division 1 and will play at Hortonville.

Links

You can find more local sports reporting on Michael Kommer’s website. You’ll also be able to tune in to broadcasting of high school sports on WFHR and WIRI. The call-in sports talk show Playmakers airs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5 to 6 PM on 97.5FM / 1320AM.