Sports
Sweers, Gyllin Headed Back to State for Mauston Wrestling
The Mauston Golden Eagles wrestling team will send a pair of wresters to state as Sectional Champions. Hayden Gyllin breezed through the sectional round with a tech fall of Fennimores Drew Crubel, a pin over River Valleys Blake Brickl, and a pin over Sugar Rivers Trei Udelhoven. Sweers pinned Nathan Blaschke of Fennimore in the quarterfinals before tech falling Ethyn Bodendein of Richland Center in the Semi-Finals. Sweers was able to revenge a regional final loss from a week ago with a 4-1 overtime victory over Portages Landon Heitmeier in the Sectional Final match at 175pounds. Gyllin will be the #3 seed in D2 for 190lbs while Sweers will be the #2 seed in D2 both get a bye into the quarterfinals.
Local Prep Scores from Thursday 2/20
Boys Basketball
Royall 76 Bangor 34
New Lisbon 48 Necedah 39 (Austin Berndsen 13points for New Lisbon)
Hillsboro 72 Brookwood 36 (Miles Ravenscroft career high 37points)
Wonewoc-Center 47 Cashton 46
Girls Basketball
Mauston 63 Wautoma 27
New Lisbon 48 North Crawford 34
Necedah 49 Wonewoc-Center 32 (Hannah Hunkins 17points)
Holmen 74 Tomah 36
Westfield wins via Adams-Friendship forfeit
Wisconsin Dells 68 Nekoosa 22
Sauk Prairie 58 Reedsburg 46
WIAA Regional Girls Hockey
Badger Lightning 3 Stoughton Icebergs 2
Black River Falls/Tomah 5 Chippewa Falls/Menomonie 2
Mauston Girls Enter Post-Season on a High Note
The Mauston Lady Golden Eagles played the last regular season and final conference game of the year Thursday night at home and finished strong with a 63-27 win over the visiting Hornets from Wautoma.
Bre Heller led all scorers with 26 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks
Catie Lavold added 13 points, 6 assists and 6 steals and Kylie Heller put in 11 points had 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 3 blocks
As the regular season is concluded and tournament action begins, they now wait to see if they will play #11 seed Gale-Ettrick-Trempaleau or #6 seed Altoona. The winner of that game will travel to Mauston on Friday February 28th for the game against your #3 seed Lady Eagles.
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