Sports

Following a two-week holiday break, the Sauk Prairie co-op hockey team got off to a slow start last Friday night.

Seniors Camden Desroches and Riley Jelinek each recorded a hat trick, though, to rally the Eagles to an 8-2 victory over visiting McFarland in a non-conference game at the Sauk Prairie Area Recreation Center Ice Arena.

Junior guard Naomi Breunig scored a team-high 13 points, but the Eagles lost a Badger North Conference game to the host Beaver Dam Golden Beavers 80-44 last Friday night.

The Golden Beavers came out on fire, sprinting out to an early 17-4 lead and never looked back.

Bring on the Southern Capitol Conference.

That’s how Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball team must feel following a demanding non-conference schedule.

Parker Breunig knows what it takes to rally the troops.

As a starting quarterback on the Sauk Prairie football team, the senior signal caller led the Eagles to their first playoff berth in 12 years.

It was all about quality and not quantity when Sauk Prairie hosted its annual Eagle Invitational last Saturday.

Sauk Prairie saved its best for last as seniors Marcus Hankins, Simon Patterson and Austin Rider closed out the final three weight classes of the meet on top off the podium as tournament champions.

Thrilling victories. Magnificent individual performances. Memories to last a lifetime.

These are the norm inside the remarkably successful sports programs at Middleton High School.

And 2019 was certainly no different.

Sauk Prairie recorded four top-three finishes and placed ninth at the Fondy Cardinal Invite wrestling meet in Fond du Lac last Saturday.

Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball team rolled over Poynette, 53-32, last Saturday.

The Vanguards also dropped a 67-56 decision to Lodi last Thursday.

Heights is now 4-4 overall and has yet to play a conference game.

It was a banner year for Sauk Prairie’s boys’ and girls’ sports teams, which created many highlights and lifetime memories in 2019.

The Eagles were competitive in the Badger North Conference with the boys swimming, cross country and soccer teams all winning conference titles.

It took a few weeks for Sauk Prairie’s boys basketball team to field a full-squad after some early-season injuries played a role in an 0-4 start.