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The position group that may get the most out of the University of Wisconsin football team's spring game on Saturday is the place-kickers.
Badgers coach Bret Bielema said Thursday that he's going to spice up the competition between redshirt freshman Phillip Welch and junior walk-on Matt Fischer with a little game within the game.
``What we're going to do at the beginning of the second and fourth quarters is kind of what we do at the beginning of practice,'' Bielema said. ``We'll line up two units and we'll go rapid-fire field goals, four with each kicker, each one of the kicks counts for a point. So it will have an effect on the point total and also make those guys kick with people in Camp Randall.''
Bielema said Welch has a leg up on Fischer in the race to replace Taylor Mehlhaff.
``Just because I liked what he did when we went outside the other day,'' Bielema said. ``He didn't flinch an inch. This afternoon he missed his first one and he nailed the next three, and that last one was a 46-yard field goal that went probably two yards over the top of the goal post. The kid's got incredible leg strength. He's still a freshman understanding how much concentration it takes.''
Jim Polzin is in his ninth season covering the UW football team for The Capital Times