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Wisconsin Heights’ football team recently said goodbye to four seniors. From left they included Emma Ray Kalscheur, Garin Schoenemann, Derek Adler and Kaden Wagner.

The Vanguards finished the year 4-4 overall and went 3-2 in the Ridge & Valley 8 West Conference.

The lead — once as great as 12 points — was gone now.

And Wisconsin Heights’ girls basketball team needed a hero.

Meet Mikayla Teela.

The Vanguards junior made a series of clutch plays down the stretch and helped Heights topple Pecatonica, 55-50, on Nov. 17.

Editors Note: This preview of the Badger West Conference was compiled by Wissports.net.

2021-22 Recap

Call them Sauk Prairie’s ‘Sensational Seven.’

The Eagles — who finished second at the WIAA Division 2 state tournament — landed seven plyers on the all-Badger West Conference volleyball team.

The new season dawned bright and early for senior guard Carson Brickl and his teammates, who couldn’t wait to get to the Sauk Prairie High School gym on Nov. 14.

The Eagles’ boys basketball team got a jump on the new year with a 6 a.m. opening practice, a daily ritual for at least the first week of the 2022-23 season.

Sauk Prairie’s boys soccer team had four players named to the all-Badger West Conference team.

And the best news: all four will be back in 2023.

Tyler Fuchs knows a thing or two about basketball success.

In 2010, Fuchs was the starting point guard for a Sauk Prairie team that reached the WIAA Division 2 state tournament. That was the last time the Eagles went to state — and just the third time in school history they accomplished that lofty feat.

Following in the footsteps of successful girls’ soccer, swimming and volleyball seasons, the 2022-23 Sauk Prairie girls basketball team should be asking itself one question.

Why not us?

Sauk Prairie junior Savannah Acker entered the 2022 girls’ prep swimming season on a mission.

Wisconsin Heights-Barneveld’s boys soccer team had several players named to the all-Capitol Conference team.

From left are Sam King (second team), Carston Lamont (honorable mention), Cayden Kennedy (honorable mention) and Terek Marx (honorable mention) shown here with coach Tommy Lancaster.