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Clockwise from top left, Addy Ranzenberger, Kylee Ballweg, Lauren Uselman, McKenna Breunig, Claire Hartman and Lyla Annen all had terrific performances to help Sauk Prairie’s girls gymnastics team finish in fifth place at the WIAA Division 2 state meet last Friday.

Wisconsin Heights’ boys basketball team played 25 games this season.

Perhaps the Vanguards’ 75-46 loss to Iowa-Grant in a WIAA Division 4 regional quarterfinal on March 4 summed up their season better than any other contest.

Three ties. No lead changes.

Sauk Prairie’s boys basketball team spent the majority of the second half within arm’s reach of Beaver Dam last Friday, seemingly a possession or two away from flipping the script on the Golden Beavers.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS — These were unchartered waters.

Emotions, challenges and experiences Sauk Prairie’s girls gymnastics program had never encountered.

But the Eagles have been a team that didn’t flinch all season. And they certainly weren’t about to start in their final competition of the year.

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Athletics agreed to an eight-year contract extension that grants the WIAA availability of facilities to host high school state championships in boys basketball, football, boys and girls golf, individual and team wrestling, and softball throug

Sauk Prairie boys basketball coach Sean McGann wasn’t pulling any punches.

“We were very bad,” McGann said after the Eagles lost to visiting Madison Edgewood, 63-48, on Feb. 27. “The last two games we have not defended at all and it makes our offense more difficult because we are playing in the half court every possession.”

They ran what appeared to be a perfect play at just the right time.

Sauk Prairie’s girls basketball team trailed host Onalaska, 45-43, with 10 seconds left in a WIAA Division 2 regional semifinal last Friday.

Wisconsin Heights’ boys basketball team didn’t end the regular season the way it hoped.

The Vanguards dropped two of three games last week — and eight of their final 10 — and finished the regular season 8-16 overall.

But Heights is hoping for bigger and better things this postseason.

It was a year of tremendous growth.

And it could be the start of even better things.

Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball team dropped a 53-44 decision to Ozaukee in a WIAA Division 5 regional quarterfinal on Feb. 25. The Vanguards finished the year 10-13, giving them their most wins in a season since 2016-’17.

MADISON — It was quite the learning experience for a trio of Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights wrestlers, who ended their season at the mecca of state wrestling — the UW Kohl Center — for the WIAA Division 1 individual state championships last weekend.