South Central Conference

The Mauston Golden Eagle Wrestling will send 3 wrestlers to the WIAA Individual Wrestling State Tournament beginning this Thursday at the Kohl Center in Madison.  Hayden Gyllin will represent Mauston as Sectional Champion.  In the 190lb weight class Gyllin started his day off with a 15-7 major decision over Fox Austin of Cuba City/Benton Scales Mound.  Gyllin then secured pin fall victories over Carson Loshaw of the Bellevue co-op in the semifinals and Ross Crist of the Darlington/Black Hawk co-op to secure a sectional championship and his 2^nd straight trip to the State Tournament.  Gyllin will be the #5 seed at state.  Espyn Sweers punched his first ticket to state by defeating Trei Udelhoven 5-4 in the Sectional semi-finals.  Sweers narrowly fell to Mason Lane of Lodi 7-5 in overtime in the sectional final match.  They could meet each other again in the State quarterfinal as Sweers is the #8seed and Lane is the #1 seed.  Drake Gosda was able to battle his way into state by placing 3^rd.  After a semi-final loss to Blake Endres of the Bellvue co-op Gosda battled his way through wrestlebacks fo finish 3^rd. Gosda pinned Carter Jensen of Nekoosa in the wrestleback before pinning Brody Banse of GET/MM in the 3^rd place match.  Gosda is representing Mauston for a 3^rd time at the State Tournament.  WRJC radio will have full coverage of Mauston wrestling at the state tournament beginning this Thursday night.

The Mauston Golden Eagles girls basketball team took care of business against Tomah Tuesday night winning 51-40.  Mauston trailed 18-16 midway through the first half before going on a 27-4 run to take a 43-22 lead and would hang on for the victory.  Kylie Heller and Carly Onsager each scored 13 to lead Mauston.  Bre Heller added 11 for the Golden Eagles who improve to 12-3 on the season.  Tomah was led by Brielle Plueger who finished with a team high 11points, Tomah drops to 3-12.  Mauston will now host Wautoma Friday night a game that can be heard on SmashCountry92.9FM and wrjc.com. The win snapped a 7 game losing streak versus Tomah dating back to 2015.

The Mauston Wrestling team stayed perfect on their season pulling off a pair of victories at their home triangular.  Mauston pounded Adams-Friendship 78-0 and then held off Sparta 48-29.  It was Mauston Hall of Fame Night.  Mauston wrestling inducted Bruce, Judy, Dane, and Randy Gyllin into its Hall of Fame.  Although not inducted into the Hall of Fame Thursday, Hayden Gyllin inducted his opponent to the mat pinning his Sparta opponent in just 39seconds.  Jacob Zimbauer, Espyn Sweers, Brekk Peterson, Espen Pitts and Mason Romanelli picked up pin fall victories for Mauston against Sparta.  Jayden Zimbauer and Brekk Peterson picked up wins against Adams-Friendship.  Mauston and Adams-Friendship wrestled just 4 matches as the Golden Eagles received forfeit victories in the other weight classes.  Mauston moves to 2-0 in the conference and 9-0 overall.