Coach Joe Woodhouse and the River Valley Blackhawks girls basketball team will take some momentum into the post-season after a solid second half performance in a 69-53 win over Dodgeville last Thursday in Spring Green.
Two key members of a Reedsburg Beaver Football team that advanced to the WIAA D-3 State Championship game in the 2025 season signed on to play football at the next level with their respective schools in a recent ceremony at RAHS. Will Mikonowicz, left, a two-way All-State First Team Selection, will play as a preferred walk-on with the Wisconsin Badgers this fall while Avery Olson, a two-way performer on the line, will play at UW-Stout starting this fall. (School District of Reedsburg photo)
Two key members of a Reedsburg Beaver Football team that advanced to the WIAA D-3 State Championship game in the 2025 season signed on to play football at the next level with their respective schools in a recent ceremony at RAHS.
The gymnasts from River Valley High School had one final tune-up prior to WIAA Tournament competition last week at the end of season Southwest Wisconsin Conference Meet in Dodgeville.
Ithaca/Weston ends the conference season with a bang in girls hoops action last week, winning the conference finale at Ithaca High School, 47-38, over Seneca, avenging a 6-point loss earlier this month against the Royals. I/W battled their way to an 18-17 halftime lead and were able to pull away a bit down the stretch to win by 9.
River Valley welcomed in a strong non-conference opponent, Mineral Point, in boys basketball action last Tuesday night. Valley owned a halftime lead, but the visitors rallied to win, 54-45, with River Valley falling to 10-10 overall for the season.
River Valley is taking some momentum into the upcoming WIAA Tournament season in girls hoops action, entering this final week of regular season play at 14-8 for the season.
Rarely do high school basketball teams play each other in two straight games but it happened this past week as Ithaca/Weston faced Kickapoo twice in three days in girls basketball action in the Ridge and Valley Conference.
Derek Franzen, top position, placed third in his weight class at the WIAA D-3 Brookwood Sectional for the Ithaca/Weston wrestlers on Saturday, falling one win short of qualifying for the WIAA State Tournament. (Photo from Lisa Clary)
Those involved with Ithaca/Weston wrestling knew the competition was going to be tough and each victory was going to be tough at Saturday’s WIAA D-3 Sectional at Brookwood High School. I/W did earn some wins along the way but for the first time in several years, the program will not be represented at the WIAA State Individual Tournament.
The RWD boys high school hockey co-op is now focused in on the post-season, which begins this week, but two final games were played last week in the regular season slate.
Weston played none of their three scheduled boys basketball games the week of Feb. 2-6 as the program went through a transition with three weeks remaining in the regular season. AD Maggie Landsinger sent this statement on Fri. Feb. 6
