Sports

After an offensive explosion in its season opener, the Sauk Prairie co-op hockey team got off to a slow start in its second game of the season.

There is a new leader inside Sauk Prairie’s wrestling program for the second year in a row.

But it is a familiar face in former Sauk Prairie assistant coach Matt Gaffney, who has waited 11 years for his dream job.

Sauk Prairie’s boys basketball team displayed a lot of resiliency after falling into a huge hole in its season-opener last Saturday afternoon.
But an early 22-point deficit proved to be too much to overcome.

Wisconsin Heights’ girls volleyball team enjoyed a terrific year, finishing in second place in the Southern Capitol Conference and reaching a WIAA Division 4 regional final.
Not surprisingly, the Vanguards were justly rewarded when it came time for all-conference honors.

They battled.

They fought.

In the end, though, the hole was simple too big to escape.

Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball team dug itself a 15-point halftime deficit on Nov. 26, rallied back, but eventually fell to host Lakeside Lutheran, 47-41.

MADISON – It was simply no contest.

Sauk Prairie roared out to a 10-point lead and eventually ended the game with a running clock in a 56-18 rout of host Madison West in a non-conference prep girls’ basketball game last Saturday night.

Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball team split its first two games of the season last week.

The Vanguards defeated Pardeeville, 57-27, last Tuesday. Defending WIAA Division 5 state champs Black Hawk then downed the Vanguards, 76-37, last Friday.

A season of promise and high expectations got off to a bang for the Sauk Prairie co-op hockey team last Friday night.

Senior forward Riley Jelinek and sophomore forward Erik Peterson each recorded a hat trick to power the Eagles to a 12-0 victory over host Stoughton in a non-conference game at the Mandt Community Center.

A new offensive and defensive scheme quickly paid dividends for Sauk Prairie’s girls basketball team in its season-opener last Friday.

Junior Naomi Breunig scored a career-high 27 points, and the Eagles’ defense came up with 25 steals to spark a 70-33 rout of visiting River Valley in a non-conference matchup.

Melani Guentherman and Todd Wuerger just put the cap on a successful girls’ swimming season before switching roles a mere two days later.

Wuerger, who assists Guentherman with the Sauk Prairie girls’ squad in the fall, said there is no time for rest with a highly-anticipated boys season on deck.