Sports

Sauk Prairie tennis standout Quinlyn Mack closed out her career with a trip to the WIAA Division 1 individual state tournament last week.

Mack, a senior, dropped her first match to Kimberly freshman Julia Gurholt, 6-1, 6-4.

Mack finished the year 23-9 overall.

It wasn’t the way they hoped to exit.

Then again, not much went according to plan this fall for Sauk Prairie’s football team.

The Eagles — under first-year coach Randy Wallace — dropped a 35-0 decision to host Stoughton in their season finale last Friday.

Sauk Prairie’s girls swimming team finished in fourth place at the highly-competitive Fort Atkinson Invite last Saturday.

The postseason has arrived.

And Sauk Prairie’s boys soccer team hopes to catch fire after a mediocre regular season.

The Eagles lost a pair of games last week and finished the regular season 10-9-1 overall.

Mount Horeb edged Sauk Prairie, 2-1, on Oct. 12. And Verona routed the Eagles, 8-0, on Oct. 14.

The Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld’s boys soccer team received the No. 13 seed in their WIAA Division 4 Sectional. Heights/Barneveld travels to fourth-seeded Mayville for a regional semifinal on Thursday at 4 p.m.

The Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld girls cross country team finished in sixth place at the Capitol Conference meet held in Watertown last Saturday.

It was a terrific Saturday for Jack Boerger and Sauk Prairie’s boys cross country team.

Boerger won the Badger Conference West individual championship and led the Eagles to the team title as well.

It’s now or never.

And Kala O’Connell believes the correct answer is now.

O’Connell, the girls volleyball coach at Wisconsin Heights, leads her Vanguards into the postseason this week. And O’Connell believes good things are in store for Heights.

Sauk Prairie’s girls volleyball team begins postseason play Thursday night.

And the Eagles are heading to the playoffs with a full head of steam.

Sauk Prairie won the Wausau West Invite last Saturday. The Eagles also notched a win over Fort Atkinson in the Badger Conference Challenge.

If this was one and done for Dustan Baldassari and Jay Kuenster — and it certainly appears to be that way — Wisconsin Heights’ co-football coaches exited in style last Thursday.