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With time running out on their season, the Sauk Prairie Eagles didn’t panic.

UW-Green Bay commit Katelyn Fishnick jump-started the offense with an amazing second half goal, and the Eagles’ defense continued their stellar play.

It was a road trip that the Sauk Prairie Eagles will never forget.

For the second consecutive year, the Eagles met River Falls in a WIAA Division 2 girls soccer sectional championship game, this time in Rhinelander.

Wisconsin Heights senior standout Kylie Doherty had a tremendous weekend at the WIAA Division 2 state track and field meet.

Doherty finished fourth in the discus with a throw of 131 feet, 1 inch. Jefferson’s Ayianna Johnson won the event with a throw of 146-7.

It wasn’t the end they were hoping for.

But they didn’t go down without a fight.

Wisconsin Heights’ girls soccer team fell to Lodi, 5-1, in a WIAA Division 4 regional semifinal on June 2. The sixth-seeded Vanguards ended the year 1-10-4, while third-seeded Lodi improved to 9-6-3.

They were one of the area’s surprise teams all spring.

They won 15 games, finished second in the Badger West and reached the conference’s championship game.

But Sauk Prairie’s dream baseball season came to an end on June 1.

The competition was fierce.

The talent level was sky high.

And in the end, it was too much to overcome.

When Damien Wright-Rodriguez began his high school career, he had aspirations of excelling on the football gridiron as a multi-talented skill position player.

Alexis Klemm achieved a rare feat last Saturday night at Eagles’ Stadium.

The Sauk Prairie junior was just as surprised as the rest of her teammates when she slammed home a pair of goals off two corner kicks in the second half.

The Wisconsin Heights/Barneveld girls soccer team finished the regular season with a tie against Richland Center and losses to both Lodi and Cambridge/Deerfield.

Richland Center raced out to a 2-0 lead over the Vanguards on May 26. But Heights/Barneveld rallied back to earn a 2-2 tie.

Derek Adler (top),  Carson Hosking (rigjt) and Wisconsin Heights’ baseball team saw its season come to an end on May 26.

The Vanguards fell to Cambridge, 2-0, in a WIAA Division 3 regional quarterfinal on May 26.

The Vanguards ended the year 9-10.