Sports

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.

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

The regular season .is now complete for River Valley High School gymnastics after the Valley girls competed at the Platteville Invite on Saturday. River Valley put up a team score of 105.85 which has been pretty consistent with where they’ve been most of the season and the Blackhawks trailed the other eight squads in the final team scoring.

It would be safe to say that there was no WIAA Boys Wrestling Sectional on Saturday that had a higher level of skilled wrestlers than the one that took place at Richland Center High School.

Reedsburg’s boys basketball team had not won a true road game this season going into this past week but that fact is no longer true as the Beavers pulled out a thrilling 44-42 win at Sparta last Tuesday night.

It was an NBA-like schedule this past week for Coach Mark Simon’s Reedsburg Beaver girls basketball who played three conference games in a span of four days. Reedsburg hosted McFarland on Tuesday at RAHS, played a rare make-up game on a Wednesday at Fort Atkinson on Wednesday and then were back on the home floor Friday vs.

The Badger Lightning has five wins this season in high school girls hockey action and two of them are against conference foe Viroqua and both have been shutouts, including a 5-0 win this past week as goaltender Olivia Renneberg needed to make just 12 saves to earn her third shutout of the season.