Sports
Royall Clinches Share of SBC Title with Blowout of Bangor
The Royall Panthers Boys basketball team clinched no worse than a share of the Scenic Bluffs Conference championship by hammering Bangor 76-34 Thursday night. Landon Lipke had a big offensive night scoring 23 points, Carter Uppena scored 13, while Braxton Board added 8points off the bench for the top ranked Panthers. Royall improves to 22-0 and 13-0 in the Scenic Bluffs Conference. Royall can win the conference outright with a win over Hillsboro on Monday. Bangor drops to 9-4 in the conference and 9-13 overall.
Local SBC Sectional Qualifiers for Wrestling
They Royall Wrestling Team fell to Mineral Point 72-10 in a Sectional Semi-final team wrestling matchup on Tuesday Samson Degner and TurnerCalhoun had to lone wins for the Panthers.
Local Scenic Bluffs Sectional wrestling qualifiers from Saturday
106 – Dalton Lein of New Lisbon
113- Brennen Rick of Royall
132 – Caston Gosda of Brookwood
138 – Drew Powell of Brookwood
150 – Garrett Dragan of Royall & Kai Pyykkonen of Brookwood
157 – Turner Calhoun of Royall
165 – Jackson Bender of Royall (Regional Champion)
175 – Emerson Murray of Royall
190 – Sampson Degner of Royall
215 Trenton Frye of Royall and Ryan McCoic of Hillsboro
Gyllin to Play in High School Football All-Star Game
Mauston will be represented in this summer’s Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All Star-Game by Hayden Gyllin. Gyllin will be joined on the team by rival running back Sam Ersland from Wisconsin Dells. They will be on the Norther Small All-Star team and be coached by Tomah native and retiring Stratford coach Jason Tubbs. The opposing coach will be former Royall coach and current West Salem head coach Ryan Olson.
Local Prep Scores from Tuesday 2/18
Boys Basketball
Royall 78 North Crawford 60
Mauston 68 Viroqua 43
Adams-Friendship 70 Manawa 48
Wisconsin Dells 74 Columbus 70
Reedsburg 74 Portage 63
New Lisbon 60 Cashton 45
De Soto 66 Brookwood 52
Alma-Center Lincoln 69 Hillsboro 33
Wonewoc-Center 63 Tri-County 54
Girls Basketball
Royall 33 Cashton 30 OT (Bria Gruen 14points)
Mauston 69 Black River Falls 41
Bangor 69 Brookwood 46
Hillsboro 65 New Lisbon 48
Mount Horeb 56 Reedsburg 42
WIAA Regional Hockey
Superior 5 Tomah/Sparta 2
Madison West 2 RWD/Mauston 1
Royall Boys Use Big 2nd Half to Win Top 5 Basketball Battle
The top ranked Royall Panther boys basketball team used a big 2nd half to get by #4 North Crawford 78-60 Tuesday night in a battle of top five boys teams. Royall trailed much of the first half but took the lead into halftime on a Carter Uppena midrange shot at the halftime buzzer. Royall road that momentum to pull away in the 2nd half of the game. Royall got a big game from Trey Wildes who finished with 22, Landon Lipke added 19points, Carter Uppena notched 14points, while Ben Crneckiy added 12points. Royall improves to 21-0 on their season while North Crawford drops to 18-2.
Mauston Girls Basketball Eases By Black River Falls
Local Prep Scores from Monday 2/17
Girls Basketball
Mauston 76 Westby 49
Wisconsin Dells 67 Adams-Friendship 24
New Lisbon 66 Port Edwards 35
Neillsville 64 Tomah 28
Boys Basketball
Port Edwards 71 New Lisbon 67
Ithaca 67 Cashton 42
North Crawford 92 Weston 22
Mauston Girls Whip Westby Behind Lavolds Big Game
The Mauston girls started out their week with a 76-49 victory over Westby with another hot night from behind the arc and at the free throw line
making ten 3 point baskets and shooting 90% from the free throw line going 9 for 10 on the night.
Caitlin Lavold led all scorers as she continued her strong February with a new personal best of 22 points to go along with 4 rebounds, 6 steals and 5 assists.
Kylie Heller knocked down 18 points and had 6 rebounds, 4 steals and 4 assists and
Ella Franek contributed 14 points, 4 rebounds, 2 steals and 3 assists. Mauston again had 7 girls score on the night.
They head to Black River Falls Tuesday night for another non-conference game before finishing the week and the regular season against Wautoma on Thursday as they get ready for tournament play starting on February 28th at home.
Local Prep Scores from over the Weekend
Boys Basketball
Hillsboro 59 Necedah 15 (Jerry Von Falkenstein 13points for Hillsboro)
Royall 81 Brookwood 30 (Carter Uppena 23points for Royall)
Bangor 77 Wonewoc-Center 53
Sparta 95 Tomah 93 2OT
Westfield 67 Portage 64
Girls Basketball
Sparta 70 Tomah 59
Westfield 54 Mauston 33
Wisconsin Dells 74 Adams-Friendship 17
Mauston Wrestlers Send 6 to Sectionals
The Mauston Golden Eagles will move 6 wrestlers on from the Regional tournament to the sectional tournament claiming 1 as a regional champion. Mauston wrestlers qualifying for sectionals included
106 Preston Seebecker -2nd place finish
113 Landyn Miller -2nd place finish
126 Brekk Peterson -3rd place finish
175- Espyn Sweers – 2nd place finish
190 Hayden Gyllin – Regional Champion
285 – Austin Hunter – 4th place finish
