The WIAA Girls Basketball Tournament is getting underway this weekend at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison. Area teams making the trip include Altoona in Division 2, Colfax in Division 3, Eleva-Strum and Flambeau in Division 4. Altoona and Eleva-Strum are making their very first trips to Madison, Colfax is in Madison for the first time since 1994 and Flambeau is the defending Division 4 champions. Check back with this site for updated scores and boxscores of all the games and you can see those games on WQOW-TV 18.

 

The Chippewa Falls McDonell football program has hired Todd Brown as it's new head coach. Todd was an assistant football coach at Regis high school this past season.

 

The Big Ten Men's Basketball tournament gets underway on Thursday. The Wisconsin Badgers are the #1 seed and will play on Friday morning at 11am on ESPN. They will face the winner of Michigan/Iowa who play on  Thursday morning.

 

Eleva-Strum basketball standout Lance Rongstad was named to the AP All-State 2nd team. Those individuals receiving AP Honorable Mention include Tyler Brown-Eau Claire North, Andrew Lochmann-Rice Lake, Josh Prince-Chippewa Falls, Steve Pax-Elmwood and Jordan Petersen-Eleva-Strum

 

Eleva-Strum boys basketball coach Rich Roginski was named the AP Coach of the Year for leading the Cardinals to an undefeated 27-0 record.

 

UW-Eau Claire's Michelle Burns was recently named the WIAC Women's Basketball Player of the Year.

UW-Eau Claire's Heidi Arciszewski and UW-Stout's Julia Hirssig join Burns in being selected to the WIAC Women's Basketball First Team.

 

Look for the 1972 UW-Eau Claire Men's NAIA championship game loss to Kentucky State (71-62) to be briefly mentioned in the upcoming ESPN mini-series Black Magic which focuses on African-American athletes. Travis Grant from Kentucky State led the Thorobred's to three consecutive NAIA championships. For the record the 1971-1972 Blugolds team went 29-2 which included a perfect 16-0 in the WSUC which is now called the WIAC. Black Magic airs this Sunday and Monday night on ESPN.

 

The 2007-2008 Heart O' North All-Conference boys and girls basketball teams were recently announced and here they are.

 

Boys first team
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Mike Schaaf- Chetek
Brad Hallberg-Barron
Brock Grewe-Cumberland
Joel Effertz-Ladysmith
Steve Tecker-Northwestern
Luke Ackerson-Spooner

 

Boys second team

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Justin Balts-Barron
Andrew Sloan-Barron
Grady Loew-Bloomer
Donnie Hissa-Northwestern
Mark Hanson-Spooner
Curtis Richardson-Spooner

 

Boys Honorable Mention

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Bryan Bowers-Chetek
Shay Herrman-Barron
Nathan Weltzin-Cumberland
Lane Wojtyna-Ladysmith
Aaron Corry-Northwestern
Max Anderson-Spooner
Jake Olson-Spooner

 

Girls First Team

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Hannah Haugestuen- Barron
Kelsie Siebel-Bloomer
Morgan Lee-Hayward
Sam Quandt-Hayward
Melissa Fuchs-Ladysmith
Gretchen Grubbe-Northwestern

 

Girls Second Team

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Emily Haugestuen-Barron
Megan Erspamer- Chetek
Amber Mathison-Cumberland
Nicole Flackey-Ladysmith
Aysa Sellers-Ladysmith
Anna Morgan-Northwestern

 

Girls Honorable Mention

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Alana Hanson- Barron
Shelby Springer- Barron
Tara Peterson-Bloomer
Alyson Berenholt-Chetek
Christina Swangim-Chetek
Alyson Kelsey-Hayward
Natalie Williamson-Hayward
Shaina Lane-Ladysmith
Nicole Hughes-Northwestern
Nicole Slaminski-Spooner
Kirsten Vik- Spooner.

 

We will have more All-Conference teams for you next week.