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Wisconsin Heights’ boys basketball team split a pair of games last week. The Vanguards defeated Dodgeville, 61-47, last Friday. Heights also dropped a 77-48 decision to Lakeside Lutheran on Dec. 10. Heights is now 3-1 on the season.

Vanguard Volleyball Alumni Tourney The third annual Vanguard Volleyball tournament on will be held on Dec. 28. You can choose players to represent a year or a combination of years. The entry fee is $20 and includes a T-shirt. If you’ve played before and don’t need a shirt, the cost is $10 to play.  

Austin Rider weighed in at more than 60 pounds under the heavyweight limit at the 55th annual Sun Prairie Bob Downing Scramble last Saturday. But that didn’t make a difference in the outcome as the Sauk Prairie senior earned his first-ever tournament title, pinning his way to the championship at 285 pounds.

Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights recorded three first-place finishes, while Baraboo claimed two titles at the annual Badger North Conference Relays held at Jack Young Middle School on Dec. 10. But Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights and host Baraboo shared the team championship with 100 points each. McFarland finished a close third with 94 points.

The following preview of the Southern Capitol Conference was compiled Wissports.net.   2018-’19 Recap: Marshall went undefeated in the Capitol-South and claimed its second consecutive Division 3 state title, defeating previously unbeaten Laconia, 64-56, in the championship game to finish the year with a 26-2 record. 

That’s more like it. Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball game entered its game with Johnson Creek last Thursday on a two-game losing streak. But the Vanguards put an end to that with a 67-24 destruction of visiting Johnson Creek.

The following preview of the Northern Badger Conference was compiled Wissports.net.   2019 recap: Stoughton won the conference tournament going away. The Vikings were the No. 1 ranked team in all of the Division 1 for the duration of the season and went on to win their second consecutive Team State championship. 

With just 10 games on the slate to earn a coveted Badger North Conference title, Sauk Prairie co-op boys hockey coach David Lohrei can’t emphasize enough how important it is for the Eagles’ to be at their best every night.

With hopes of securing a fourth consecutive Badger North Conference title as its primary goal, the Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights boys swimming team didn’t have any margin for error when it hit the water on opening night Dec. 3.

STOUGHTON — It’s never a good sign when your starting point guard enters the court on crutches. That was the situation when Sauk Prairie’s boys basketball team played its first road game of the season at Stoughton on Dec. 3 with senior Ben German sidelined with an ankle injury.