Sauk Prairie made numerous treks to the awards podium at the Platteville Invitational last Saturday.
But the Eagles saved their best award for last when they walked away with the championship of the nine-team meet despite not recording a single-first-place individual or relay finish.
BEAVER DAM — Well, it’s official: the Eagles have landed ... in the WIAA playoffs, for the first time since 2007.
Needing a win to guarantee themselves a spot in the postseason, Sauk Prairie’s football team went to Beaver Dam last Friday and left with a resounding 56-22 win in the final game of the regular season.
The 2019 season was a joyride packed with more success than most people saw coming.
Things could be even better in 2020.
Wisconsin Heights’ football team capped a sensational season last Friday with a 50-6 destruction of Williams Bay. The Vanguards finished the year 7-2 overall and 4-2 in the Great 8 Conference.
DEFOREST – It was a beautiful day for a run on the Don Batty Cross Country Course at the Windsor Sports Complex last Saturday morning.
With temperatures in the mid 50’s and partly sunny skies, the Sauk Prairie boys’ couldn’t have chosen a better day to defend their Badger North Conference title.
Kala O’Connell gave the traditional “coach speak.”
One game at a time. Not looking ahead, etc., etc.
But O’Connell, Wisconsin Heights’ girls’ volleyball coach, has a good feeling about her Vanguards.
When the going gets tough, as the adage goes, the tough get going.
Senior forward and co-captain Evan Carlson capped a perfect week for Sauk Prairie with a pair of game-winning goals as the Eagles won the outright Badger North Conference boys’ soccer championship.
Christian Patzka and Samantha Herrling are conference champions.
The rest of their teams performed like champs, as well.
At the Southern Capitol Conference cross country meet held last Saturday, Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld had a bevy of memorable performances.
The postseason is here.
And to say the boys soccer team from Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld has high hopes would be a massive understatement.
“We are positioned for a run at state,” Vanguards’ coach Bartlett Holmes said.
It was the perfect night for seniors Summer Acker, Abbey McCumber, Alexa Judd, Giulia Brickl, Isabel Menendez and Patricia Silva to finish off their home careers.
Sauk Prairie sophomore Quinlyn Mack reached the WIAA Division 1 state meet last weekend. Mack won her opening match over Tristin Jantz of Westosha Central, 6-1, 6-1. Mack lost in the second round, though, to Haya Donin of Eau Claire Memorial, 6-2, 6-3.
