Wisconsin
B1G Roundup: Wisconsin finds new ways to sweep, running its winning streak to nine
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — As the Wisconsin Badgers keep piling up wins, and Big Ten standings points, perhaps the scariest thing about facing this red menace is you never know who’s going to beat you.
They closed out 2023 with two wins in a Milwaukee holiday tournament via the goaltending of Kyle McClellan and the offense of Simon Tassy. In this weekend’s road sweep of Notre Dame, which extended their winning streak to nine games, the Badgers got different offensive contributions, and a win from McClellan and also from his backup, freshman William Gramme.
After a defense-first 2-1 win over the Irish on Friday night, Wisconsin improved to 18-4-0 overall and 10-2-0 in the conference via a wild festival of offense, winning 7-4 on Saturday. The Badgers got goals from six different players, and now have put together the program’s longest win streak since 1990 — a season that ended with Wisconsin hosting the NCAA title trophy.
On Saturday the Badgers led 5-1 in the second period before Notre Dame (10-10-2, 4-6-2) scored three goals in less than three minutes, prompting Badgers coach Mike Hastings to switch goalies. Wisconsin scored the only two goals in the final period to close out the win.
“The way we started was awful,” Irish coach Jeff Jackson said after his team was handed its fifth straight Big Ten loss. “We got some life in the second period. But give them credit, they made the right call during a timeout to switch goalies and that changed the momentum back away from us.”
Irish goalie Ryan Bischel finished with 26 saves. Notre Dame travels to Ohio State for a conference series next weekend.
The Badgers return home for a nonconference series with Lindenwood next weekend
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First Gadowsky family showdown is a wild one
When it was all over, Penn State coach Guy Gadowsky hugged his son Mac at the end of the handshake line, and breathed a sigh of relief following the biggest comeback in the history of the Nittany Lions’ program.
Penn State (10-7-3 overall) trailed Army West Point by four goals in the second period, but charged back with a quintet of unanswered goals and held on for a 7-6 win. It was the first head-to-head meet between coach Gadowsky and his son, who is a freshman forward for the Black Knights.
Junior Ryan Kirwan and freshman Aiden Fink each scored twice for Penn State, which returns to Big Ten play next weekend, hosting Michigan State for a pair of games. They finished their nonconference slate for the season with a 8-2-0 record and are now an impressive 45-3-1 in nonconference games since the beginning of the 2018-19 season.
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Buckeyes complete sweep in the battle of north Ohio
Despite going winless in the Big Ten in the first half of the season, Ohio State coach Steve Rohlik did not make any roster additions to his team at the holiday break. He said that getting forward Joe Dunlap back from an injury would be like having a new player in his lineup.
On Saturday, Dunlap proved his coach correct, scoring the game-winner in a 4-2 win at Bowling Green to complete the sweep in their weekend home-and-home series. The Buckeyes (8-8-4) won 6-2 on Friday in Columbus, paced by a quartet of Stephen Halliday assists.
Ohio State is back in the conference next weekend, hosting Notre Dame for a pair.
Michigan, Michigan State score wins over U-18 Team
After a long layoff, the Wolverines (8-7-3) didn’t look overly rusty, opening up a five-goal lead over USA Hockey’s National U-18 team and cruising to a 5-1 win at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan. That win came one night after Team USA traveled to East Lansing where the Spartans (13-4-3) won 5-2.
Michigan State returns to conference play next weekend with a trip to Penn State. Michigan hosts Stonehill in a nonconference series.
Jess Myers covers college hockey, as well as outdoors, general sports and travel, for The Rink Live and the Forum Communications family of publications. He came to FCC in 2018 after three decades of covering sports as a freelancer for a variety of publications, while working full time in politics and media relations. A native of Warroad, Minn. (the real Hockeytown USA), Myers has a degree in journalism/communications from the University of Minnesota Duluth. He lives in the Twin Cities. Contact Jess via email at jrmyers@forumcomm.com, or find him on Twitter via @JessRMyers. English speaker.
Laurel Burleson, a Dane County chef, thinks ugly apples make the best dishes.
One of her goals as a chef and restaurant owner is to save usable produce from the waste bin.
“I know how hard (Wisconsin farmers) work every day, making these products that are delicious and nutritious and for anything to get thrown away just because it’s not aesthetically perfect is just outrageous,” said Burleson, owner of Ugly Apple Cafe.
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The latest fruit monitoring report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows many parts of the state having great harvests, although northeastern Wisconsin orchards suffered from a cool spring. But most apple orchards are busy with the fall harvest. So what do you do with that abundance of apples?
Burleson shared some recipes and her philosophy on cooking with WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”
This conversation has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Rob Ferrett: What do you like to do with apples apart from just eating them?
Laurel Burleson: One that I really like to do is making apple marmalade. That is shredding apples and preserving them in sugar so that they keep their structure. It’s kind of the opposite of making applesauce.
But we also make a lot of apple sauce and apple butter. That’s a good way to use a lot of apples all at once.
RF: What goes into making apple butter?
LB: Very basically you make applesauce, so just cook down your apples and blend them up. Then you take that applesauce and cook it extremely slowly, either in a slow cooker or in the oven. Cook it down until it’s dark and rich and more closely resembling a peanut butter than applesauce.
From there, you can put in whatever spices you want: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, bay leaf. You just have to be careful because whatever you start with in the big batch will get super concentrated and reduced in your end product.
RF: With applesauce or apple butter, do we have to be fussy about the type of apples? Or can we mix and match?
LB: I like to mix and match, especially because the apple season starts really early. Some years you can get the first season apples in July.
They don’t hold very long and they’re very juicy, so they break down really easily, but they are very tart. I like to get some of those early season apples and make them into applesauce and freeze them and then when I have other sweeter varieties later I mix them and then reduce that all down into butter.
RF: You shared a savory recipe with us for pork chops with apple bacon cabbage. Tell us a little bit about this recipe.
LB: It’s really fun for the fall and even into the winter. You can kind of use any kind of variety of apple that’s a little bit tart and it’s OK if it breaks down and blends in because the cabbage is going to maintain its structure.
If the onions and apples melt away into a delicious sauce it’s just fine. But also, if you end up with some apple pieces, then it’s a nice little surprise like a little sweetness.
The Ugly Apple Cafe operates cafes inside the Dane County Courthouse and the City County Building in Madison and sells its products at the Monona Farmers Market.
While the Wisconsin Badgers struggle on the football field, sitting at a disappointing 2-2 through four weeks, some of the program’s former transfers continue to find success.
One of those players is tight end Riley Nowakowski, who transferred to Indiana this offseason after five years with the Badgers. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin, native originally walked on to the program as an unranked outside linebacker. After playing sparingly during his first few seasons with the Badgers, he flipped over to fullback in 2022, then out to tight end after Phil Longo arrived in 2023. Nowakowski totaled 18 receptions for 131 yards and a touchdown from 2023-24; his two years as a primary offensive contributor.
The former Badger is already making significant progress toward those totals, now just four games into his Indiana career. He has four catches for 72 yards and a touchdown, plus one carry for a one-yard score. The versatile fullback/tight end delivered the highlight play of his career during Indiana’s blowout win over Illinois on Saturday, taking a 1st-down screen pass 43 yards to the house.
Wisconsin, meanwhile, has received solid contributions from Montana State transfer tight end Lance Mason. The veteran has 14 catches for 177 yards and two touchdowns to date, leading the team in each of those respective categories.
While Mason has been one of the Badgers’ few bright spots through four weeks, it’s hard to ignore Nowakowski’s emergence as one of Indiana’s dependable offensive playmakers.
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Get ready for an overall warmer stretch of weather as we head into this upcoming workweek. After some fog lifts this morning, we’ll have plenty of sunshine today with highs in the mid to upper 70s along the lake and low 80s inland.
Tonight will be dry with lows in the low 60s lakeside and upper 50s inland.
Monday through Wednesday should be very similar, with upper 70s to near 80 near the lake and low to mid 80s inland with plenty of sun.
We’ll start to bring in chances of showers or a T’storm starting Thursday right on into the weekend.
WATCH: Southeast Wisconsin weather: Dry Today, Warm Workweek Ahead
Southeast Wisconsin weather: Dry Today, Warm Workweek Ahead
TODAY: Any fog lifting through the morning, then becoming mostly sunny.
High: 77 lakefront… 83 inland.
Wind: E 5-10 MPH.
TONIGHT: Mostly clear.
Low: 62.
Wind: ESE 3-8 MPH.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny.
Highs: 78 lakefront… 83 inland.
Wind: ESE 5-10 MPH.
TUES: Mostly sunny and warm.
High: 80 lakefront… 84 inland.
WEDS: Mostly sunny and warm.
High: 81 lakefront… 85 inland.
THUR: Partly cloudy with a chance of a shower
or T’storm.
High: 80.
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