Sports

A new offensive and defensive scheme quickly paid dividends for Sauk Prairie’s girls basketball team in its season-opener last Friday. Junior Naomi Breunig scored a career-high 27 points, and the Eagles’ defense came up with 25 steals to spark a 70-33 rout of visiting River Valley in a non-conference matchup.

Melani Guentherman and Todd Wuerger just put the cap on a successful girls’ swimming season before switching roles a mere two days later. Wuerger, who assists Guentherman with the Sauk Prairie girls’ squad in the fall, said there is no time for rest with a highly-anticipated boys season on deck.

Sauk Prairie’s girls volleyball team enjoyed a sensational season, going 31-14 overall. And the Eagles were justly rewarded, landing three players on the all-Northern Badger Conference team.

Patience. It’s not a word most coaches have in their vocabulary. But it’s one Wisconsin Heights boys basketball coach Zack Colby might need this winter. The Vanguards return just one starter from last year’s team that went 16-7 overall and finished in second place in the Capitol South Conference.

After an inauspicious start a year ago, Sauk Prairie’s boys basketball team finished strong, winning four of its final six games and battling Monroe for 32 minutes in postseason regional play.

What a difference a year makes. The Sauk Prairie co-op hockey team returned a strong group of juniors a year ago that could find the back of the net against any opponent on its schedule. But the Eagles had graduated an all-conference goaltender and didn’t have a replacement on the roster.

When coach Amber Fiene evaluated her first two seasons as head coach of her alma mater, Sauk Prairie’s girls basketball coach knew it was time to make a few changes on both ends of the floor. Fiene is eager to put the lessons she learned over the past two seasons to good use.

The Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld boys soccer team enjoyed a sensational season, posting a 9-5-2 overall record. The Vanguards also finished in second place in the Southern Capitol Conference with a 6-2-1 mark. After such a memorable year, Heights/Barneveld landed seven players on the all-conference team.

Senior co-captains Alexa Judd and Giulia Brickl capped a memorable season the best way possible — by swimming the final races of their prep careers at the WIAA Division 2 state meet at the University of Wisconsin Natatorium last Friday night.