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It was a rough week for Sauk Prairie’s baseball team, which dropped all three contests it played.

DeForest toppled the Eagles, 7-5, on April 11. Beaver Dam bested Sauk Prairie, 7-2, on April 13, and Lodi cruised past the Eagles, 13-0, on April 14.

Here’s a recap of Sauk Prairie’s week:

Sauk Prairie’s boys golf team had an extremely busy week and showed once again they could be one of the area’s surprise teams.

Here’s a recap of the Eagles’ week:

Stoughton Invite

The Eagles shot a 354 and finished in sixth place at the 10-team invite on April 10.

If back-to-back state tournament appearances have taught the Sauk Prairie girls soccer team anything, it is that persistence pays.

The Eagles also recognize that their season is a work in progress, a point they made while competing in three matches spanning five days last week.

For five months, Amy Schlimgen went back and forth, contemplating her next move.

The decision process was agonizing, excruciating.

In the end, though, family always comes first. So Schlimgen resigned as Sauk Prairie’s girls volleyball coach last week.

Wisconsin Heights senior Jacob Brabender was named to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Game. The event will be held June 29 at JustAGame Field House in Wisconsin Dells.

Brabender will play in the Division 4 game for the Red team.

The Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld track teams competed at the Marshall Quadrangular on Monday.

No team scores were kept, but here were the Vanguards’ top finishes:

BOYS

• 400-meter dash — Senior Sam King was third and freshman Travis Dreikosen was sixth.

Makayla Westphal and Wisconsin Heights’ girls softball team are off to a 1-3-1 start.

The Vanguards lost to Iowa-Grant, 16-6, tied Pecatonica, 2-2, in a rain-shortened game and lost to 2022 Division 5 state runner-up Barneveld, 14-2, in their first three games.

Sauk Prairie’s girls softball team rallied for a 3-2, 9-inning win over visiting Wisconsin Dells on Monday. Jenna Johnson’s double in the ninth plated Riley Kerl with the game-winning run as the Eagles improved to 1-1.

Sauk Prairie boys golf coach Shane Frey went back and forth for three days.

Play? Cancel? Play? Cancel?

Frey knew the weather was going to be suspect for the season-opening Sauk Prairie Invite on April 4. But Frey rolled the dice, moved up the start time, then had it pay off when all 18 teams were able to finish their rounds.

Few know the ins and outs of Wisconsin Heights baseball like Ted Severson.

Severson, a 1988 Heights graduate, played for the Vanguards growing up. He later played Home Talent League for Black Earth and Mazomanie.

And now, he’s the Vanguards’ manager.