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Thu
27
Feb

Area Girls Hoops roundup

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/27/2025 - 08:15

By Derick Kelly

Fri
21
Feb

Prairie du Chien boys place fourth at tough regional

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:18

PdC senior Blake Thiry cradles Belmont/Platteville’s Mason Mandurano for the pin during their semifinal match at 215 pounds during Saturday’s D2 regional meet at Dodgeville High School. (Derick Kelly/Courier Press)

Jack Simmons works to break his hand away during an escape attempt from Evansville's Tanner Zastoupil. (Derick Kelly/Courier Press)
By Derick Kelly
 
Nothing lasts forever and streaks come to an end. 
The Prairie du Chien boys wrestling team had to learn that lesson this weekend after finishing in fourth place at the D2 regional meet at Dodgeville High School.
Prairie accrued 188.0 points, two points behind third place Evansville and five points behind second place Belmont/Platteville. Only the top two teams qualify for the team sectional meet. Fennimore won the meet with 242.0 points.
Fri
21
Feb

River Ridge boys keep on winning

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:09
By A.J. Gates
 
With just three conference games remaining on their schedule, coach Jim Wagner’s River Ridge boys basketball team has been taking care of business, while at the same time keeping their hopes alive for a conference title.
Recent victories over Shullsburg and Belmont give the Timberwolves a Six Rivers West conference record of 14-2, and remain one game behind the league leaders from Highland (15-1) and Potosi (15-1), who both remain on their schedule.
Fri
21
Feb

Girls wrestling teams start postseason

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:07
By Derick Kelly
 
Area girls wrestlers kicked off the 2025 postseason last Friday night by competing in the regional meet. North Crawford/Seneca traveled to Richland Center while Prairie du Chien and Boscobel/Wauzeka-Steuben competed at Mineral Point.
North Crawford/Seneca finished in eighth place out of 20 teams with 50. 0 points. 
Fri
21
Feb

NC/S sends four wrestlers to sectional

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:06
By Derick Kelly
 
North Crawford/Seneca wrestling traveled to Mineral Point this past Saturday to compete in a D3 regional meet. NC/S finished seventh out of 13 teams with 103.0 points in one of the strongest regionals in Division 3. 
Senior Jaren Grimsled went 4-0 to claim the championship at 113 pounds while Sawyer Swiggum went 2-2 to finish third at 215 pounds. 
Also qualifying for the sectional meet was Thomas Sprosty at 144 pounds (third place) and Gavyn Wilkins at 120 pounds (fourth place). 
Fri
21
Feb

Area boys basketball roundup

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:04
By Derick Kelly
 
The Prairie du Chien boys basketball team nearly earned their first win in each of their three games last week but ultimately fell short each time.
The Hawks welcomed Richland Center to town this past Thursday night and took a 32-27 lead into halftime. However, the second half belonged to the Hornets, who outscored the Hawks 50-34 to hand Prairie a 77-66 loss. 
Prairie du Chien’s leading scorer with 21 points was Brady Lenzendorf while Sam Kramer and Brock Radloff each added 13 points. 
Fri
21
Feb

Timberwolves handle Belmont

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:03
By A.J. Gates
 
With a convincing 69-20 victory over host Benton last Tuesday night, coach Veronica Zinkle and her River Ridge girls basketball team improved to 7-6 in Six Rivers West conference action, and 14-7 overall.
With just two conference games remaining on their regular-season schedule, the Timberwolves sit third in the conference standings behind Belmont (10-3) and Shullsburg (9-4), and after hosting the Braves this Thursday night, will close out the regular season on Friday with a make-up game against visiting Black Hawk.
Fri
21
Feb

Area girls basketball roundup

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:02
By Derick Kelly
 
The Seneca Royals girls basketball team competed in a pair of games last week. 
First up for Seneca this past Monday, Feb. 10, was a home non-conference game against Wonewoc-Center. The visiting Wolves took a 17-14 halftime lead before outpacing the Royals 22-14 in the second half to claim a 39-28 victory.
The Royals wrapped up their week three nights later by traveling to De Soto and were defeated by the Pirates 60-38 to fall to 3-16 overall and 3-9. 
Fri
21
Feb

Girls go to the mat for wrestling program

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 09:59

Senior Carleen Chappell (left) is one of 12 girls out for wrestling this year for the Boscobel/Wauzeka-Steuben program. (Jimmie Kaska/Submitted Photo)

Luke Blair, who coaches the girls at Boscobel/Wauzeka-Steuben, said he's grown as a coach with this year's large group of girls out for wrestling. (Jimmie Kaska/Submitted Photo)
By Jimmie Kaska
 
Across the state and here in Boscobel, a growing number of students are participating in the sport of girls wrestling.
Coaches and players credit increased interest to recent changes that allow girls-only wrestling matches. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no standalone girls event for Wisconsin teams, so girls had to wrestle boys to take part in tournaments. As a result, only a few hundred girls took up wrestling as a varsity sport. According to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, or WIAA, 227 girls wrestled in 2017-18.
Fri
21
Feb

RR Timberwolves end wrestling season

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/21/2025 - 09:56
By A.J. Gates
 
Competing in one of the toughest regional meets in the state, coach Brad Lange and his River Ridge Timberwolves concluded the 2024-25 wrestling season last Saturday at Mineral Point.
With 19 team points, the Timberwolves finished 13th of 13 competing teams on Saturday, and failed to advance any individuals to this Saturday’s division 3 Westby Sectional.

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