Reedsburg opened the boys basketball pre-season against a familiar foe last Tuesday, the Baraboo Thunderbirds. The long-time conference rivals are not conference rivals this year in hoops with Baraboo a member of Badger Large this season with Reedsburg still in Badger Small.
RAHS senior Brayden Klemp will represent the Reedsburg Beaver Football program at this summer’s Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star games at UW-Oshkosh. Klemp will be 1 of 9 offensive lineman on the Large Schools North roster after earning All-Conference first-team honors along the offensive line for a Reedsburg team that set school records for rushing yards and points scored in a season that saw Reedsburg advance to the WIAA D-3 State Championship game. Game time is 4 p.m. om July 18 for the Large School game at UW-Oshkosh. (School District of Reedsburg photo)
RAHS senior Brayden Klemp will represent the Reedsburg Beaver Football program at this summer’s Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star games at UW-Oshkosh.
Monday certainly felt like spring this week with temps in the 60’s and even 70’s and so perhaps it was appropriate that Monday was the first day of the spring sports season for area high schools as track and field athletes kicked off the pre-season workout schedule.
River Valley played the role of spoiler while also playing, arguably, its best game of the boys basketball season last Thursday night. The Flying Arrows of Lancaster were a win away from the outright conference championship in the Southwest Wisconsin Conference but the visiting River Valley Blackhawks and Coach Luke Thatcher had other ideas.
For the second year in a row, Reedsburg’s Hudson Jablonski took the mat at the WIAA Boys State Individual Wrestling Tournament this past week at the Kohl Center in Madison.
For the second year in a row, Reedsburg’s Hudson Jablonski took the mat at the WIAA Boys State Individual Wrestling Tournament this past week at the Kohl Center in Madison.
After they were unable to send anybody to Wisconsin Rapids last season, the Reedsburg Beaver gymnasts will be represented this weekend at the WIAA State Meet in D-2. Sophomore Ellie Vielhuber is a State Meet qualifier this year for the Beavers in the balance beam, placing third in Friday’s Sectional at RAHS.
River Valley High School’s gymnasts competed for the final time this season on Saturday at a WIAA D-2 Sectional Meet in Dodgeville. It was a strong field with the top six teams all scoring 130 team points or better with River Valley bringing up the rear with 107.875 team points.
Last Tuesday’s effort was one of the best defensive games of the season for the Ithaca/Weston girls basketball squad but it wasn’t enough in the end in a 46-34 loss at Alma-Pepin in the WIAA D-5 Playoff opener for both teams.
