Two trips to the podium highlighted another successful season for the Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights boys swimming team that came to an end last weekend.
VERONA – Rock star Meat Loaf had a hit song with ‘Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad’.
But it was a bittersweet moment for Sauk Prairie wrestling coach Matt Gaffney when the Eagles advanced two out of their three prized upper weight competitors to state out of the WIAA Division 1 Verona Sectional last Saturday.
What a difference a year has made for the Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights boys swimming program.
After competing in Division 1 the past four years, the co-op program dropped Lodi, which moved the team from Division 1 to Division 2 for postseason competition.
It has been a season of firsts for Austin Rider.
The Sauk Prairie senior won the Sauk Prairie Eagle Invitational and recorded a runner-up finish in the Badger Conference tournament.
Now, Rider has a regional championship to display, as well.
The road will be tough.
It always is at this time of the year.
But Sauk Prairie’s girls basketball team has shown that anything and everything is possible when it’s at the top of its game.
The road will be tough.
But when it comes to the postseason, anything and everything is possible.
Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball team received the No. 9 seed in its WIAA Division 4 sectional. The Vanguards will travel to eighth-seeded Darlington for a regional quarterfinal Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.
It wasn’t the finish that senior forward Riley Jelinek and the rest of his fellow seniors were after when Sauk Prairie’s co-op hockey team dropped its regular-season finale last Saturday afternoon.
But the Eagles still have high hopes for a long postseason run when the WIAA playoffs start this week.
Wisconsin Heights boys basketball coach Zack Colby will head to his postseason meeting this weekend.
And Colby should have a decent amount of ammunition.
The Vanguards won a pair of games last week and improved to 9-9 overall and 3-4 in the Southern Capitol Conference.
Several Sauk Prairie-Wisconsin Heights boys swimmers are headed to the state meet this Friday.
Among them (from top) are:
• Matthew Loy, who qualified for state in four events.
• Jordan Chao, who will be on two state relay teams.
• And Ryan Godwin, who will be part of the 400 freestyle relay.
