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UPDATE: Raiders Football Playoff Picture; Hudson Next Plays Arrowhead in Schofield
Undefeated Big River Conference champion Hudson has defeated its Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 opponents in the 2012 WIAA football playoffs. Now the Raiders face another undefeated team in Level 4. Hudson Patch will have live video of the game.
UPDATE (2:25 p.m., Nov. 5, 2012): The Minnesota Sports Broadcast Network (MSBN) has obtained exclusive video broadcast rights of Saturday's Hudson vs. Arrowhead game, which is a Division 1 WIAA State Semifinal game.
Hudson Patch will carry the MSBN feed of the Raiders game as it has all season. In addition, several Hudson establishments will host viewing parties including Kozy Korner Bar & Pizza and the The Village Inn Sports Bar & Grill.
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UPDATE (10:45 p.m., Nov. 4, 2012): After a convincing victory over a previously undefeated Appleton North team on Saturday, the unbeaten Hudson Raiders will face another undefeated team at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, when they play the Arrowhead Warhawks at D.C. Everest High School in Schofield.
Top-seeded Arrowhead, which hails from Hartland, defeated Kimberly, 31-7, on Friday night.
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According to the last WisSports.net Coaches Poll, released on Oct. 9 before the final regular season games were played, Arrowhead was ranked No. 1 in the state, while Hudson was ranked No. 7.
Other team rankings of interest from that poll include the following:
- Sun Prairie at No. 2 (to face Badger in Level 4)
- Appleton North at No. 3 (lost to Hudson in Level 3)
- Bay Port at No. 4 (lost to Hudson in Level 2)
- Stevens Point at No. 5 (lost to Appleton North in Level 2)
Hudson Patch will bring you a live streaming broadcast of Saturday's Raiders game through a partnership with the Minnesota Sports Broadcast Network (MSBN). The network will attempt to purchase video rights from the WIAA for the ability to broadcast video. If exclusive rights are granted to another media outlet MSBN will provide an audio broadcast.
The other semifinal game, which will be played at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9, at Arrowhead High School, features Sun Prairie and Badger. The winner faces the winner of the Hudson-Arrowhead game.
Division 1 Group A
- (2) Hudson 40, (1) Appleton North 21 - Final
Division 1 Group B
- (1) Arrowhead 31, (2) Kimberly 7 - Final
Division 1 Group C Final
- (1) Sun Prairie 34, (2) Verona 6 - Final
Division 1 Group D Final
- (3) Badger 14, (4) Kenosha Bradford 7 - Final
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UPDATE (11:10 p.m., Oct. 26, 2012): After blowing out Bay Port on Friday, the undefeated Hudson Raiders will face the undefeated Appleton North Lightning at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, at Goerke Field in Stevens Point, after Hudson
Hudson Patch will bring you live streaming video of the game through a partnership with the Minnesota Sports Broadcast Network (MSBN) and Paul Rode, owner of The Agave Kitchen. Kozy Korner is also partnering with Hudson Patch and MSBN to show the game on some of its TVs.
On the other side of the bracket, top-seeded Appleton North came from behind on Friday night to defeat Stevens Point, 17-14.
Division 1 Group A
- (1) Appleton North 17, (4) Superior 14 - Final
- (2) Hudson 46, (3) Bay Port 14 - Final
Division 1 Group B
- (1) Arrowhead 47, (4) Germantown 7 - Final
- (2) Kimberly 31, Menomonee Falls 0 - Final
Division 1 Group C
- (1) Sun Prairie 40, (4) Madison West at Sun Prairie 21
- (2) Verona 35, (3) Hamilton 28
Division 1 Group D
- (4) Kenosha Bradford 21, (1) Oak Creek 14
- (3) Badger 28, (2) Franklin 21
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UPDATE (2 a.m., Oct. 21, 2012): After a 31-0 victory over Eau Claire Memorial in Level 1, the Raiders will face Bay Port High School at a neutral field in a tough Level 2 matchup in the 2012 WIAA football playoffs.
The game will be played at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, in Chippewa Falls. Live video of the game will be broadcast on Hudson Patch via the Minnesota Sports Broadcast Network.
Despite having a higher seed, Hudson will not host the game because the WIAA ruled on Saturday night that Bay Port's travel distance (247 miles — 4 hours, 15 minutes) was "excessive." The game was moved to Chippewa Falls according to WIAA rules.
On Friday, the Bay Port Pirates came from behind to defeat D.C. Everest, 19-17. In 2012, the Pirates went 7-1 in the Fox River Classic Conference losing only their final game of the regular season to a tough Green Bay Southwest squad. Hudson is still undefeated this year after going 8-0 in the regular season, and shutting out Eau Claire Memorial, 31-0, at home on Friday.
On the other side of the bracket, Stevens Point emerged after four overtimes to defeat Green Bay Preble, 43-35. Appleton North rolled over Superior, 35-0, on Saturday afternoon.
Division 1 Group A Level 1 Results
- (1) Appleton North 35, (8) Superior 0 - Final
- (2) Hudson 31, (7) Eau Claire Memorial 0 - Final
- (3) Bay Port 19, (6) D.C. Everest 17 - Final
- (4) Stevens Point 43, (5) Green Bay Preble 35 - Final (4OT)
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UPDATE (1:18 p.m., Oct. 13, 2012): The 2012 WIAA football playoff brackets have been released. Hudson is the No. 2 seed in Division 1 Group A, and the Raiders will host Eau Claire Memorial in a Level 1 playoff game 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at Newton Field. Hudson Patch will carry MSBN's audio broadcast of the game.
The winner will face the winner of the Bay Port vs. D.C. Everest game in the Level 2 playoffs Oct. 26-27.
The seeding for Division 1 Group A is as follows:
- 1: Appleton North (8-0, 7-0 VFA-North)
- 2: Hudson (8-0, 7-0 Big Rivers)
- 3: Bay Port (7-1, 7-1 Fox River Classic)
- 4: Stevens Point (7-1, 6-1 VFA-South)
- 5: Green Bay Preble (7-1, 7-1 Fox River Classic)
- 6: D.C. Everest (4-4, 4-3 VFA-North)
- 7: Eau Claire Memorial (4-4, 4-3 Big Rivers)
- 8: Superior (4-4, 3-4 Big Rivers)
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ORIGINAL POST (2:30 a.m., Oct. 13, 2012): Just after 9 p.m. on Friday, the Hudson Raiders earned their final regular season victory over a tough Menomonie team to remain unbeaten and win the Big Rivers Conference championship.
Just over five hours later, the WIAA announced the 32-team Division 1 football playoff field represented in the map above. The map is color coded according to the number of victories each team earned this season.
In order to create the playoff brackets, the WIAA divided the Division 1 field into four eight-team groupings. The following high school football teams will be in Group A (alphabetic order):
- Appleton North (8-0, 7-0 VFA-North)
- Bay Port (7-1, 7-1 Fox River Classic)
- D.C. Everest (4-4, 4-3 VFA-North)
- Eau Claire Memorial (4-4, 4-3 Big Rivers)
- Green Bay Preble (7-1, 7-1 Fox River Classic)
- Hudson (8-0, 7-0 Big Rivers)
- Stevens Point (7-1, 6-1 VFA-South)
- Superior (4-4, 3-4 Big Rivers)
Head coaches and representatives from all eight teams will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday in Stevens Point to present their cases for seeding and report the results to the WIAA by 1 p.m. Once the seedings are set, a game date (likely Saturday), time and location (likely Newton Field) will be set for the Raiders' Level 1 playoff game.
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Notes: Five of the eight Big Rivers Conference teams qualified for the postseason: Hudson (8-0), Menomonie (7-1), Rice Lake (5-3), Eau Claire Memorial (4-4) and Superior (4-4). ... Superior was one of just four teams to make the 224-team playoff field without winning at least half its conference games. Superior was 3-5 in conference play. ... This was the first year that there weren't enough teams that finished .500 and above in their conference to fill the 224-team playoff field. ... The 32-team Division 1 field features five teams with 8-0 records, and Group A includes two of them: Hudson and Appleton North.
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This post will be updated with information from the seeding meeting once it is available.
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