Sports

River Valley moved up in the SWC boys golf standings last week after a second-place finish in a conference mini-meet on Tuesday.

Five games in five days: That sounds like a schedule for an MLB team but that’s what faced Coach Jane Briehl’s River Valley softball team last week with single games Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and two more on Saturday.

Reedsburg did some good things but eventually fell in the end 4-1 to McFarland in Badger Small Girls Soccer last Tuesday at RAHS. Sydney Olson tallied the lone goal for the Beavers, who were limited to just five shots on goal. Sam Laffey was busy in net with 17 saves.

Reedsburg extended its Badger Small mark to 3-0 in dual meet boys tennis action last Tuesday with a 7-0 trouncing of Fort Atkinson at the RAHS courts. Reedsburg won six of the seven matches in straight sets, including all three doubles contests.

Many track and field athletes from the Ithaca/Weston co-op competed in two meets over a three-day span with a trip to North Crawford Thursday for a Ridge and Valley Conference Invite before battling the competition at Saturday’s Ginger Morrey Invite at Riverdale High School.

Ithaca/Weston had gone through the first seven games of the softball season without tasting defeat but that unbeaten stretch came to a close last Tuesday as I/W suffered a 5-2 loss to Riverdale. Jacey Maxwell pitched a five-hitter with four walks and eight strikeouts but still was the losing pitcher for I/W.

It was a week of tough matchups for Reedsburg Beaver softball and Reedsburg couldn’t get over the hump in Badger Small losses vs. Mount Horeb, Portage and twice vs. Edgewood.

A trip to Mount Horeb last Tuesday resulted in a 10-0 loss as Reedsburg was shut down offensively and blanked for just the second time this season.

The Beavers had three meets in four days on the golf course, starting on Wednesday with the Reedsburg boys going to Holmen on the Cedar Creek Course. Reedsburg’s team score was a good one, at 323, putting them in sixth place in the field. Waunakee at 305 and Onalaska at 307 led the way in team scoring.

All three possible final outcomes were experienced by the girls soccer group at River Valley High School this past week. The Blackhawks tied Dodgeville/Mineral Point in a conference match, lost to Belleville-Sugar River for the first setback of the season, and then won a match vs. Lakeside Lutheran on Friday.

Coach Steven Stettler’s River Valley Blackhawk track and field squad had three meets scheduled in a span of five days this past week so in the interest of recovery time and conditioning, most of the athletes competed in only two of the three meets but despite not being at full strength for any of the events, Valley still had some impressive perf