Updated Badger North Spring Sports Standings Through May 19

by Matz ~ May 20th, 2013

Baseball: Waunakee 8-1, Mount Horeb 9-2, Portage 6-4, Reedsburg 5-4, Sauk-Prairie 5-6, Baraboo 2-8, De Forest 1-11

Softball(Final) Portage 10-2, Baraboo 8-4, Waunakee 8-4, De Forest 8-4, Sauk-Prairie 4-8, Mount Horeb 3-9, Reedsburg 1-11

Track and Field(Final) Boys-1) Mount Horeb 2) Waunakee 3) Baraboo 4) Sauk-Prairie 5) De Forest 6) Reedsburg 7) Portage

Girls-1) Waunakee 2) Baraboo 3) Mount Horeb 4) De Forest 5) Reedsburg 6) Sauk-Prairie 7) Portage

Girls Soccer: Waunakee 5-0, Mount Horeb 3-2, Reedsburg 2-2, De Forest 2-2, Sauk-Prairie 2-3, Baraboo 0-5

Boys Golf(Final)  Sauk-Prairie, Waunakee and Portage all share first with De Forest 4th followed by Mount Horeb, Reedsburg and Baraboo

Boys Tennis(Final) 1) Waunakee 2) Sauk-Prairie 3) Baraboo, 4) Reedsburg 5) Portage

WIAA Division One Baseball Tournament Pairings Set For Area Teams

by Matz ~ May 20th, 2013

The post-season begins one week from tomorrow for area D-1 high school baseball teams and teams found out their WIAA Tournament trail Sunday night at the seeding meeting in Waunakee. Baraboo earns the number 11 seed in the 12-team Sectional bracket and will play at six seed Onalaska on Tuesday May 28th on 99.7 FM! Baraboo is 2-10 overall entering this week. Reedsburg gets the number eight seed and will host nine seed Tomah on the 28th with Reedsburg having won three games in a row last week to go 8-5 overall. Sauk-Prairie has lost some games of late and they wind up falling to the ten seed and will open on the 28th at seven seed Portage. Sauk is now 7-9 with Portage slumping a bit of late themselves but still sporting a winning record. Five seed La Crosse Central hosts 12 seed De Forest in the other May 28th game while the top four seeds-Waunakee, Holmen, Middleton and La Crosse Logan in that order, get byes on that date and will open the post-season at home on May 30th. Regular season schedules and conference schedules wrap up for these teams this week.

Monday WRPQ Sports Report

by Matz ~ May 20th, 2013

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Monday May 20 Area High School Sports Schedule

by Matz ~ May 20th, 2013

WIAA Regional Track and Field: D-1 at Baraboo at 3:30 PM-Baraboo’s refurbished Beryl Newman Field hosts a nine-team Regional with Baraboo, Reedsburg and Sauk-Prairie part of the mix. The Baraboo girls placed second at the Badger North meet last week with Mc Kaela Christenson winning two titles in her final ever conference competition with Emily Brinker, Emmalee Kick and Erica Judge also winning individual titles for the Thunderbirds as did Britany Schyvinck and two relays for Reedsburg. Sauk-Prairie had no girls champs but Lianna Mack and Libby Molitor among others are threats to win titles today in a field that also includes Holmen, Onalaska, Sparta, Tomah, La Crosse Logan and Central. Other area boys champs from the Badger North meet included Jake Nemitz of Reedsburg, Kyle Mc Conville of Sauk-Prairie in two events. The first events begin at 3:30 PM and the top four in each event advances to the Madison Memorial Sectional Thursday. Portage is part of the Beaver Dam D-1 Regional at 3:30 PM with many eyes on nationally ranked discus thrower Sam Elsner for the Portage boys. Matt Bare also won a conference title this past week for the Portage boys.

Wisconsin Dells High School hosts a D-2 Regional today at 4 PM with Adams, the Westfield coop, Columbus, Lodi, Marshall, Poynette, Randolph and Watertown Luther Prep also involved. Karissa Mace and Sam Conroy won titles for the Dells girls at last week’s SCC meet with Dan Sweeney and Byron Beyer top hopefuls for the boys with the top four in each event today advancing to the D-2 Boscobel Sectional Thursday. River Valley, Richland Center and Mount Horeb are part of the nine-team field at the River Valley D-2 Regional at 4 PM today.

Hillsboro, Royall and Wonewoc-Center join other Scenic Bluffs Conference schools at today’s Cashton Regional meet in D-3 with again the top four in each event advancing to the Sectional on Thursday at Viroqua.  Taylor Juresh won three events for the Royall girls with Kim Bucholz also a winner while Max Sebranek of Hillsboro won two events and Matt Bartels also won an event at the Scenic Bluffs meet last week.

Boys Tennis: Reedsburg Area High School hosts a D-1 WIAA Sub-Sectional today at 10 AM with Baraboo, Sauk-Prairie, Badger North champion Waunakee, Big Eight Conference champion Middleton, Madison East and Beaver Dam all in the field. Baraboo and Reedsburg both had no day two entries at the Badger Conference Tourney over the weekend while the Sauk one doubles team of Cody Mack and Tyler Ballweg placed third. Waunakee won the overall team title at Badger Conference, ending Madison Edgewood’s long reign on top with Sauk-Prairie second among the Badger North teams followed in order by Baraboo, Reedsburg and Portage and that was the order of finish in the final overall standings as well. The top four in flight one singles and doubles advance today along with the top two in the other flgihts to a Thursday Sectional at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. Portage and Mauston are in a D-2 Sub-Sectional at UW-La Crosse today with six other schools competing.

Baseball: Badger North-Baraboo at Waunakee at 5 PM, this game is a make-up from Friday’s postponement and will start at the normal 5 PM time slot as opposed to the special 7 PM time that was scheduled for Friday. Baraboo is 2-8 in the league and 2-10 overall and trying to snap an eight-game losing skid, a streak where Baraboo has scored just eight runs total. Waunakee is 8-1 and atop the conference but Waunakee still has to play Portage tomorrow and complete a suspended game with them tomorrow as well. Waunakee won 14-3 over Baraboo in the first meeting. Baraboo closes out league play Thursday at Reedsburg.

Reedsburg at Mount H0reb 5 PM-Reedsburg is 5-4 in Badger North after a 3-0 week in conference last week with victories over Baraboo, De Forest and Portage, winning by seven runs or more in all three contests. Reedsburg got strong pitching last week with Seth Douglas throwing well twice as Reedsburg looks to be more of a complete and balanced team with an 8-5 mark now overall. Mount Horeb is second in the conference at 9-2 and they close out league play today still chasing 8-1 Waunakee. Reedsburg beat Mount Horeb 5-1 in the first meeting with the Vikings stranding 15 base runners in the loss. Reedsburg also plays a make-up at Sauk tomorrow and at home with Baraboo Thursday.

Ridge and Valley: Kickapoo at Weston

Saturday-Jefferson wins the three-team Wisconsin Dells baseball round-robin event with a 13-3 win over Sauk-Prairie and a 4-3 win over Wisconsin Dells with Dells also edging Sauk 3-1. Dells is now 10-2 overall with Sauk 7-9 overall for the season.

Girls Soccer: Badger North-De Forest at Reedsburg 5 PM-This is a make-up from an April 16th postponement and both teams are 2-2 in Badger North with the winner today to join Mount Horeb in a second place tie in Badger North behind Waunakee. The Beavers are 8-2-1 on the season overall with MG on the schedule Thursday as well

Sunday League Northern Section Sunday League Home Talent Baseball: Reedsburg 12-4 over Ashton in six innings-Justin Backeberg had three hits including a HR and Trevor Berndt had two hits including a HR for Reedsburg with Sam Seymour the winning pitcher with both teams now 2-1 in the Sunday League.

Sauk-Prairie 7-3 over Montello-Chase Suchla had three hits including a HR for 2-1 Sauk with Matt Katzman the winning pitcher in relief of Travis Koenig

Black Earth 3 Cazenovia 0-Myles Potuznik threw a complete game six-hitter with 13 strike-outs for Black Earth as Caz suffers their first league loss. Jake Overlein took the loss and Cole Duren had three his for Caz.

Waunakee 5 Plain 4

Richland Center 5 Cross Plains 4 (10 innings)

Middleton 11 Mazomanie 1

Caz, Reedsburg and Sauk all are 2-1 in the West Division with Middleton 3-0 atop the East

Portage is 3-0 in the Eastern Section in the Sunday League after a 5-4 win over Cottage Grove yesterday with Ethan Greene’s rbi double in the last of the ninth winning it. Matt Bortz was the winning pitcher in relief.

Friday May 17 Area High School Sports Results

by Matz ~ May 18th, 2013

Baseball: Badger North-Baraboo at Waunakee postponed to Monday

Reedsburg 10 Portage 1-Seth Douglas pitches a four-hitter with two walks and seven strike-outs over six innings for the 5-4 Beavers who won three league games this week. Reedsburg also banged out 12 hits against losing pitcher Jalen Walker as the Warriors fall to 6-4 in the league and likely now out of the title picture. Nate Runde had three hits while Steve Gavin, Jordan Bill, Douglas and Ty Brandt all with two hits apiece for Reedsburg with Brant homering as well.

Mount Horeb 8 Sauk-Prairie 0-Kale Pustina throws a six-inning shutout for the second time this week for 9-2 Mount Horeb, allowing no runs on two hits with two walks and four strike-outs. The Vikings tallied six runs in the fourth to break a scorless tie at that point with Riley Diske the starting and losing pitcher for 5-6 Sauk-Prairie and the Eagles are 7-7 overall.

South-Central Conference-Wisconsin Dells 3-1 over Westfield, Dells clinches the outright title with this victory as Colyn Buss continued his fine season on the mound for the Chiefs, allowing six hits with just one walk and four strike-outs in a complete game performance. Wisconsin Dells had only one run on the board through four innings on a Dakota Musiedlak HR but then tallied twice in the fifth with Buss homering in the inning and the Chiefs clinch the title with an 8-1 league record with one game left with Westfield now 6-3. Ashton Mace, Josh Gray and Alex Cimaroli had two hits each in a nine-hit Dells attack. Dells hosts a three-team round-robin today with the Chiefs facing Sauk-Prairie at 9 AM, Sauk vs Jefferson at about 11 AM and Dells takes on Jefferson at about 1 PM. Jefferson comes in as the state’s second ranked team in D-2.

Wautoma 2 Adams 1

SWC-Lancaster 4 River Valley 3

Girls Soccer: Stoughton 3 Baraboo 2 OT-Cassie Siedschlag and Jenna Liebfried scored goals for Baraboo who owned the lead in each half but Stoughton tied the match with 11 minutes left in regulation and they won in overtime, dropping Baraboo to 3-9 overall. Alex Tomaw had five saves in goal for the Thunderbirds.

Reedsburg 2 Monroe 0-Kate Fearing had both goals for the Beavers who are enjoying perhaps their best season ever record wise at 8-2-1 overall. Val Evans had one assist and Athena Murdock earns the shutout with seven saves.

Badger North-Mount Horeb 4 Sauk-Prairie 0, Sauk cancelled their non-league match with Fort to play this conference make-up but it was all Mount Horeb with Brooklyn Meyers scoring three goals for the Vikings who end up 3-2 for the conference season. Sauk finishes 2-3 for the conference season and they’re 7-8 overall.

Boys Tennis: Baraboo, Reedsburg and Portage all have no entries remaining after day one of the Badger Conference Tournament at UW-Madison.

Saturday-Dells Raceway Park honors veterans tonight as all current or past vets will get free admission by presenting their military ID and all kids under the age of ten will also recieve free admision. Late Models, Sportsman, Pure Stock and Bandits cars race tonight and the Legend cars also will be on hand and fans can redeem last week’s ticket stub from the rained out event for admission this week. Fan gates open at 4 PM with qualifuying at 5:15 PM and racing at 7:00

Sunday League Northern Section Home Talent Baseball-Reedsburg at Ashton, Montello at Sauk-Prairie, Black Earth at Cazenovia, Plain at Waunakee, Cross Plains at Richland Center, Mazomanie at Middleton. Caz leads the West Division at 2-0 with Ashton and Middleton at 2-0 in the East Division