WIAA Football Championships: Division 3 Preview
Thursday, November 16th, 2017 -- 9:42 AM
The 42nd Annual Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Football State Championship Finals are being held today and tomorrow, at Camp Randall Stadium on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Here's a preview of the Division 3 game.....Friday, Nov. 17
Div. 3 - Rice Lake (10-2) vs. New Berlin Eisenhower (13-0) - 10 a.m.
LAST YEAR: Catholic Memorial was a 24-14 victor over Notre Dame in the Division 3 title tilt.
ON THE AIR: The championship finals of all seven divisions will be televised live on Fox Sports Wisconsin. Check local cable listings for the FS Wisconsin channel in your area. In addition, the finals of all seven divisions will be streamed live on the FoxSportsGo app through your cable system’s authentication.
DIVISION 3 NOTES: Rice Lake is making its sixth trip to the State final and its first since 2014. The Warriors won their lone State championship in 1979. Their four runner-up finishes occurred in 1980, 1982, 2004 and 2014. They finished third in the Big Rivers Conference this season. They advance to the title game by ousting last year’s runner-up and perennial power Notre Dame in their Level 4 clash, 28-7. They have had an impressive run in the playoffs, outscoring opponents by a cumulative score of 147-34 in four games. New Berlin Eisenhower is back in the championship final after a 21-year hiatus. The Lions won the second of back-to-back Division 3 titles in 1996. In their first two appearances in the finals, they finished runners-up in Division 2 in 1986 and 1989. The Lions are the unbeaten champions in the West Division of the Woodland Conference this season. Their challenging road to the final included a 7-0 win over 2016 champion Catholic Memorial at Level 3 and a 21-14 win over the bracket’s other #1 seed Whitefish Bay at Level 4. In conference play this season, they compiled an average margin of victory of 38 points per game, and they have yet to trail on the scoreboard this season.
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