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A furious defensive effort got Sauk Prairie’s girls basketball team off to a great start in a Badger North Conference last Friday night.

The Eagles were able to turn numerous Baraboo turnovers into transition points and secure their first conference victory of the season.

On ‘Rock the Rink’ night, the Sauk Prairie Area Recreation Center Ice Arena was packed and ready for a matchup between two of the leading contenders for the Badger North Conference boys’ hockey title. 

Sauk Prairie’s co-op hockey team didn’t waste any time letting the Reedsburg/Wisconsin Dells Cheavers know whose home ice it was.

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.

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.

Wisconsin Heights boys basketball coach Zack Colby was the first to admit his team had just as many questions as answers when the new season began.

Not anymore.

The Vanguards — who returned just one starter from a year ago — raced from the gates with a pair of impressive wins last week.

The following preview of the Northern Badger Conference was compiled Wissports.net.

After an offensive explosion in its season opener, the Sauk Prairie co-op hockey team got off to a slow start in its second game of the season.