Sports

Top-seeded Sauk Prairie needed a miracle on Sunday.

For eight innings, eighth-seeded Cross Plains’ one-two pitching punch of right-handers Jacob Meinholz and Logan Schultz blanked the Northern Section East Division champion Twins, holding them to only two hits.

ASHTON – It has been a changing of the guard this season for the Middleton 29ers, like many other teams in the Home Talent League.

Despite numerous roster changes, an infusion of new, young talent has bolstered the 29ers, who have remained one of the elite programs in the Northern Section.

All roads to the Home Talent League’s Final 4 — at least in the Northern Section — run through Sauk Prairie.

The Twins routed Cazenovia, 16-3, on Sunday and secured the No. 1 seed in the Northern Section playoffs. Sauk Prairie improved to 12-1 on the season and will host eighth-seeded Cross Plains (6-7) Sunday at 1 p.m.

Jacob Brabender, a 2023 Wisconsin Heights graduate, recently competed in the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Division 4 Boys All-Star Game at JustAGame Fieldhouse in Wisconsin Dells.

Brabender scored seven points for the Red team, which dropped a 123-101 decision to the White team.

Sauk Prairie’s girls soccer team landed five players on the all-Badger West Conference team.

Clockwise from top, junior keeper Erelyn Apel (No. 1), senior defender Addy Hermsdorf (12) and sophomore midfielder McKenna Breunig (8) were all named first-team all-conference. 

Sauk Prairie’s girls volleyball team recently received the United State Marine Corps and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for the 2022-2023 season.

Their magic number is now one.

Sauk Prairie’s Home Talent League team defeated Reedsburg, 13-6, Sunday and lowered its magic number to one for clinching the Northern Section’s championship.

BLACK EARTH – Bryce Barsness knows his baseball career is winding down.

So Black Earth’s veteran center fielder would like at least one more chance to play postseason baseball in the Home Talent League.

The West has officially been won.

Sauk Prairie’s Home Talent League team clinched the Northern Section’s West Division title Sunday with a 13-1 dismantling of Richland Center.

The Twins improved to 10-1 on the year and have a three-game divisional lead over Reedsburg (7-4) with just two weeks left in the regular season.

It was another exciting year for Sauk Prairie’s boys sports teams during a stellar 2022-23 school year.

Grant Sorg (football, wrestling, baseball), Brooks McInerney (soccer, hockey, lacrosse) and Nolan Vils (football, wrestling, baseball, track and field) all finished their prep careers as 12-season athletes.