Sports

How do you top your best defensive game of the season, one in which you dominated the opposing team? You do one better, of course. That was the story for Sauk Prairie’s football team last Friday, as they took care of visiting Mount Horeb-Barneveld, 28-0, in a Badger North Conference game on Senior Night.

They didn’t hang their heads and feel sorry for themselves. They didn’t let one loss bleed into the following week and cause a second setback. No, Wisconsin Heights’ football team rebounded in a big way last Friday. One week after a tough loss to Newman Catholic, the Vanguards bounced back with a 60-20 win over Rockford Christian Life.

Sauk Prairie boys’ soccer coach Drew Kornish was hopeful when he attended a seeding meeting for WIAA Division 2 postseason play on Sunday. But the Eagles received a No. 4 seed and will host No. 13 seeded Westosha Central when regional competition begins on Tuesday, Oct. 22.

Wisconsin Heights’ girls volleyball team received the No. 2 seed in its WIAA Division 3 sectional and will host Cambridge in a regional quarterfinal on Oct. 22. Brodhead received the top seed in the sectional.

The Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld boys cross country team finished in seventh place at the 17-team Riverdale Invite last Saturday. Vanguards senior Christian Patzka won the race in 15 minutes, 55.9 seconds. Boscobel won the boys race with 76 points to easily outdistance runner-up River Valley (127). The Vanguards were seventh with 188 points.

Sauk Prairie sophomore Quinlyn Mack is headed to the WIAA Division 1 girls state tennis tournament. Mack (13-8) will play Westosha Central sophomore Tristin Jantz in a first round match Thursday at 10:30 a.m. If Mack wins there, she’ll play a second round match Thursday at 4 p.m. Mack was the Eagles’ only player to qualify for state.

The postseason is just about here. And Sauk Prairie’s girls volleyball is hoping to pick up its play down the stretch.

Sauk Prairie’s cross country teams made the trek to the site of the annual state meet to battle a highly competitive field at the annual Wisconsin Rapids Invitational at the Ridges Golf Course last Saturday.

The Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld boys’ soccer team received the No. 3 seed for the playoffs, which start on Oct. 24. The Vanguards will take on the winner of the Prairie Du Chien/Dodgeland Hustisford play-in match.

A smash-mouth defense. A freight train offense. An all-around quality performance. It didn’t matter what the flavor was, Sauk Prairie’s football team was dishing it up last Friday. The Eagles played arguably their best game of the season and snapped a three-game losing skid, defeating host Portage, 19-0, in a Badger North Conference game.