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GIRLSBASKETBALL

BOYSBASKETBALL

WRESTLING

GYMNASTICS

Your Local Teams:

Prairie du ChienRiver Ridge

Wauzeka-Steuben Seneca

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Other key players: Ethan Mara-Sr., Ryan Garri-ty-Jr., Brady Ulrich-Jr., Jacob Schneider-Jr., Mike Steiner- Jr., Dylan Boisvert-Jr., Conner George-Jr.

Who are some of the top teams in your confer-ence? What is your conference outlook, goals for the season? Dodgeville, Platteville, and River Valley would be the front runners to win conference. Our outlook is trying to contend for the conference title.

What will be the keys to your success this season?Eliminate defeat. Can we take care of the ball and

score enough to win games?

What was last year’s record? 17-6What do you consider your team’s strengths and

challenges? The challenge is to replace four starters on last year’s team and trying to find an identity to our team this year. Our strength has really been our basketball tradition.

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN HIGH SCHOOL

Boys Basketball Members of the Prairie du Chien High School boys basketball team are, front row: Manager Chris Check. Second row: Jacob Schneider, Student Assistant Connor Wittrig, Manager Sam Peterson, Student Assistant AJ Cox, Manager Cory Check, Student Assistant Robert Carlson, and Michael Steiner. Third row: Vince Weber, Ryan Garrity, Coach Randy Schneider, Head Coach Andy Bana-sik, Coach Jan Waller, Connor George, and Brett Trautsch. Fourth row: Austin Roach, Luke Rickleff, Brady Ulrich, Brandon Granzow, Cheng Chen, and Dylan Boisvert. Ethan Mara and Student Assistant Kevin Thein are not pictured. (Photo courtesy of B&C Photography)

Prairie boys aiming to contend for SWC title

Date Opponent Site Time 12-13 Platteville A 7:15 12-19 R. Center H 7:15 12-27 Aquinas Trn. A TBD 12-28 Aquinas Trn. A TBD 1-2 Barneveld H 7:15 1-7 Viroqua A 7:30 1-10 River Valley H 7:15 1-16 Lancaster A 7:15 1-18 Waukon A 2 p.m. 1-21 Westby H 7:15 1-24 Dodgeville H 7:15 1-27 MFL Mar Mac H 7:30 1-30 Platteville H 7:15 2-1 Crestwood A 2:30 2-7 R. Center A 7:15 2-11 Decorah A 7:30 2-13 River Valley A 7:15 2-17 Tomah A 7:30 2-21 Lancaster H 7:15 2-25 Regional TBD TBD

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Returning letter winners: Olivia Skemp, McKen-zie Banasik, Hayley Hemmer, Hali Fischer, Rachel White, Caitlin Harris, Brooke Moret, and Katie Check

Other key players: Laura DuCharme, Erin Mo-rovits, and Brittany O’Connell

Who are some of the top teams in your confer-ence? Strong teams in conference: Dodgeville and Richland Center

What will be the keys to your success this sea-son? The keys to this year will is ball security and rebounding.

What was last year’s record? 12-11

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PRAIRIE DU CHIEN HIGH SCHOOL Girls Basketball

Members of the Prairie du Chien High School girls basketball team are, front row, from left: Manager Greenley Krahn, Caitlin Harris, Hali Fischer, and Manager Lily Krahn. Second row: Hayley Hemmer, Laura DuCharme, Brooke Moret, Brittany O’Connell, Jena Swiggum, and Rachel White. Third row: Coach Paul Carroll, April Krahn, Head Coach Paula Shedivy, and Jeff Sjoberg. Back row: McKenzie Banasik, Olivia Skemp, Katie Check, and Erin Morovits. (Photo courtesy of B&C Photography)

Date Opponent Site Time 12-12 Dodgeville A 7:15 12-14 Holmen H 2:30 12-17 Sparta A 7:30 12-20 Platteville A 7:15 12-27 Aquinas A TBD 12-28 Aquinas A TBD 1-9 R. Center H 7:15 1-11 Barneveld A 2:30 1-14 Westby A 7:30 1-17 River Valley H 7:15 1-23 Lancaster A 7:15 1-31 Dodgeville H 7:15 2-3 River Ridge H 7:15 2-6 Platteville H 7:15 2-10 Waukon H 7:30 2-14 R. Center A 7:15 2-18 LaC. Central A 7:30 2-20 River Valley A 7:15 2-27 Lancaster H 7:15 3-4 Regional TBD TBD

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Members of the Prairie du Chien High School gymnastics team are Jessica Gutknecht and Morgan Pedretti.

Th e Prairie du Chien High School gymnasts have been busy at the downtown facility practicing under their new Coach Amber Narvaez. Narvaez, who had previously coached for Club TNT Gymnastics, is very excited to have the opportunity to build up the gymnastics pro-gram in Prairie du Chien.

At a recent school board meeting, the possibility of taking away the gymnastics program was discussed due to low numbers of gym-nasts this year.

“Prairie du Chien has too nice of a facility to cancel the gymnastics program,” said Narvaez. “We hope to get our numbers up in the next two years so we can keep it going. We would like to invite surround-ing area schools to co-op with us next year.”

Th is year, there are two high school gymnasts, Morgan Pedretti and Jessica Gutknecht. All of the meets will be away meets. Narvaez noted that the high school numbers may very well improve in the future, however, with 33 middle school athletes out for gymnastics this season. Narvaez said that she is very happy with the high num-bers of middle school girls and she hopes to see many of the middle school gymnasts carry over into high school.

“Th is is a great start to re-building the high school team,” said Narvaez, who has competed in a National Gymnastics Competition in Florida where she placed in the vault. “Th e younger the gymnasts are when they begin training, the better skills they will have in high school.”

Carrie Nolan, who coached the summer gymnastics program, and Laurie Pedretti have been helping Coach Narvaez with managing the winter gymnastics program. Th ey are working on diff erent projects and fund-raisers for the program and plan to hold a gymnastics clin-ic for elementary students after the new year.

New coach working to increase gymnastics numbers

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN HIGH SCHOOL

GymnasticsDate Opponent Site Time

12-12 Westby A 6:30

1-13 Platteville, Belmont,

Lancaster A 6:30

1-20 River Valley A 6:30

1-24 Viroqua A 6 p.m.

2-3 Dodgeville A 6:30

2-8 GET A 9 a.m.

2-10 Southwestern A 6:30

2-15 Platteville A 11:00

2-21 Conference A 6:30

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Who are some of the top teams in your confer-ence? What is your conference outlook, goals for the season? Lancaster will be heavily favored to win the conference, and rightfully so. I would like think we can be right there behind them. A huge tam goal for us will be win our first ever Regional Championship.

What will be the keys to your success this season?Staying healthy. If we stay injury free we could

have a very successful season.

What was last year’s record? 11-3 overall. 4-1 SWC.

What do you consider your team’s strengths and

challenges? Strengths are that we return two medal winners from the state tournament and will shoot to qualify four or more people to the state tourna-ment in February.

Challenges are that we are light on depth.

Wrestling team striving for Regional Championship

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN HIGH SCHOOL

WrestlingDate Opponent Site Time

12-10 Viroqua H 7 p.m. 12-14 Oelwein Trn. A 10:00 12-17 Lancaster H 6 p.m. 1-3 Westby H 6 p.m. 1-7 R. Center A 6 p.m. 1-10 MFL Mar Mac A 6 p.m. 1-17 River Valley A 7 p.m. 1-18 MFL Tourn. A 10:00 1-23 Pville-Belmont H 6 p.m. 1-25 Monroe Invite A 9 a.m. 1-28 Dodgeville H 6 p.m. 2-8 Clash A 10:00

Members of the Prairie du Chien/Wauzeka-Steuben wrestling team are, front row, from left: Matthew Chase, Taylor Elliott, Kyle Wilkinson, Managers Kristen Hanson, Manager Vanessa Wright, Manager Kelsey Hebel, Dylan Yeomans, Tyler Rieck, and Clayton Beers. Second row: Colton Babb, Carter Ti-tlbach, Brendan Fleshner, Tye Scharfer, Logan Loman, Ethan Swiggum, and Jeremy Lessard. Third row: Ronnie Hebel, Tyler Cota, Peyton Hall, Coach Tony Bolen, Head Coach Clay Koenig, Coach Mike Rogge, Gunnar Kravchuk, Drew Yeomans, and Jacob DeBruin. Back row: Alex Wasechek, Brandon Check, Nick Adamany, Reese Dressler, Jack Feye, and Alex Chandler. (Photo courtesy of B&C Pho-tography)

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Members of the Wauzeka-Steuben High School girls’ basketball team are, back row, from left: Coach Ben McCullick, Elizabeth McCullick, Samantha Groom, Alyssa Teynor, Holidae Bahlmann, Lexi Bird, and Assistant Coach Jolene Mitchell. Middle row: Jamee McCullick, Kelsey Kapinus, Celina Giddings, and Amber Boylen. Front row: Jadyn Sander, Sophia Sander, and Kylie Zimmerman. (Photo by Chris-topher Smikrud)

Team defense and rebounding keys for W-S girlsCoach: Ben McCullick Assistant Coach: Jolene MitchellReturning letter winners: Holidae Bahlmann,

Elizabeth McCullick, Alyssa Teynor, Kelsey Ka-pinus, Celina Giddings, and Jamee McCullick

Other key players: Samantha Groom and Lexi Bird

Who are some of the top teams in your con-ference? What is your conference outlook, goals for the season? Ithaca and North Crawford should be tough at the top of the conference with the rest of the conference being competi-tive also.

What will be the keys to your success this season? We need to limit our turnovers and improve our shooting percentage. Our team de-fense and rebounding is a key to our success.

What was last year’s record? 9-13What do you consider your team’s strengths

and challenges? We have limited numbers so the younger girls will have to contribute early on. Th ese girls are willing to work so we will im-prove as the season goes on.

Date Opponent Site Time 12-12 Seneca H 6 p.m. 12-16 Riverdale A 6 p.m. 12-17 De Soto H 6 p.m. 12-20 Kickapoo A 6 p.m. 1-6 Highland H 6 p.m. 1-10 Ithaca H 6 p.m. 1-13 MFL Mar Mac A 6 :15 1-16 Weston H 6 p.m. 1-17 River Ridge H 6 p.m. 1-21 N. Crawford A 6 p.m. 1-24 La Farge H 6 p.m. 1-28 Belmont H 6 p.m. 1-30 De Soto A 6 p.m. 2-4 Ithaca A 6 p.m. 2-7 Seneca A 6 p.m. 2-10 Potosi H 6 p.m. 2-18 Weston A 6 p.m. 2-21 N. Crawford H 6 p.m. 3-4 Regional TBD TBD

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The Wauzeka-Steuben boys’ basketball team is a relatively young team which will be looking for continued improvement as it strives for the Ridge and Valley Conference crown this season, said Head Coach Matt Mezera.

The Hornets feature two returning letter winners in Corey Schafer and Hunter Heisz. The team con-sists of four seniors, eight juniors, one sophomore, two freshmen and one foreign exchange student.

The Hornets finished with an 8-15 overall re-cord last season, but the junior varsity team had a 19-2 record last season, and those players have now moved up to varsity.

The Hornets also have a relatively tall squad this season compared to other conference teams.

“We will be looking for good, balanced scoring this season,” said Mezera, who noted that keys to success will include staying healthy, being consis-tent, and getting better on team defense, where they will play man-to-man and various zones de-pending upon match-ups.

“We will also be trying to become more patient on offense and work the ball through,” said Mezera. “We look forward to another great year of Hornets’ basketball and we thank our fans for all of their con-tinued support.” Members of the Wauzeka-Steuben High School boys’ basketball team are, back row, from left: As-

sistant Coach Jim Wagner, Jeremiah Huber, Josh Rush, Hunter Heisz, Bradly Swatek, Jordan Huber, and Coach Matt Mezera. Middle row: Jonah Huber, Tyler Atkinson, Lucas Klema, Brady Krachey, and Corey Schafer. Front row: Jaxon Coleman, Turner Krachey, Hunter Slaght, and Alberto Villar. Brandon Carter and Kyler Mohr are not pictured. (Photo by Christopher Smikrud)WAUZEKA-STEUBEN

HIGH SCHOOL Boys Basketball

W-S boys working towards Ridge and Valley title

Date Opponent Site Time 12-13 Seneca A 6 p.m. 12-16 Potosi A 6 p.m. 12-19 Kickapoo H 6 p.m. 12-23 Cassville H 6 p.m. 1-2 River Ridge A 6 p.m. 1-7 Belmont A 6 p.m. 1-9 De Soto A 6 p.m. 1-14 Ithaca H 6 p.m. 1-17 Weston A 6 p.m. 1-20 Highland A 6 p.m. 1-23 N. Crawford H 6 p.m. 1-25 Benton H 6 p.m. 1-31 La Farge A 6 p.m. 2-6 Seneca H 6 p.m. 2-11 De Soto H 6 p.m. 2-14 Kickapoo A 6 p.m. 2-20 Ithaca A 6 p.m. 2-25 Regional TBA TBA

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Members of the Seneca High School boys basketball team are, front row (seated): Managers Jared Payne, Kolton Chambers, and Noah Allan. Middle row (kneeling): Jake Whiteaker, Gavin Greene, Nate Withey, Tristain Sparks, Jake Jones, and Eric Konichek. Back row (standing): Head Coach Da-vid Boland, Kilian Boland, Brady Fernette, Jordan Johnson, Lucas Trautsch, and Nick Payne. (Photo courtesy of B&C Photography)

SENECA Boys Basketball

“We have an experienced group returning from last year,” said Seneca Head Coach David Boland. “Our goal is to continually show growth and im-provement as the season progresses. We want to develop the consistency to be playing very good bas-ketball by the end of the season.”

This is Boland’s 27th season as head coach at Sen-eca and he will be aided in helping to develop the Indians by Assistant Coach Al Bark.

The Indians will be working to improve upon last season’s 7-15 overall record and a 6-8 finish in the Ridge and Valley Conference.

Boland said he expects the Ridge and Valley to be a balanced conference this season, with North Craw-ford and La Farge as the favorites.

Seneca features eight returning letter winners and five starters back from last year’s squad.

Lucas Trautsch, a 6-1 senior forward, was an hon-orable mention player last season. Trautsch scored 166 points had 57 rebounds, 56 assists and 37 steals.

Jake Jones, a 5-9 senior guard, was also honor-able mention last season, having scored 200 points, grabbed 70 rebounds, handed out 45 assists and had 29 steals.

Kilian Boland, a 6-0 sophomore guard, was all conference. He scored 215 points, had 78 rebounds, 48 assists, and 46 steals.

Jordan Johnson, a 6-0 senior forward, scored 74 points, had 84 rebounds, 32 assists, and 39 steals.

Eric Konichek, a 5-7 junior guard, scored 134 points, had 64 rebounds, 41 assists and 48 steals.

Other players this season include Nate Withey, Jake Whiteaker, Tristain Sparks, Tyler George, Gavin Greene, and Nick Payne.

Date Opponent Site Time 12-13 W-S H 6 p.m. 12-17 C. Christian A 6 p.m. 12-19 Weston H 6 p.m. 1-2 Lansing H 6 p.m. 1-4 Cashton H 6 p.m. 1-9 N. Crawford A 6 p.m. 1-11 Barneveld A 6 p.m. 1-14 Kickapoo A 6 p.m. 1-17 La Farge H 6 p.m. 1-23 Ithaca H 6 p.m. 1-28 Hillsboro H 6 p.m. 1-31 De Soto A 6 p.m. 2-6 W-S A 6 p.m. 2-8 Cassville A 6 p.m. 2-11 N. Crawford H 6 p.m. 2-14 Weston A 6 p.m. 2-20 Kickapoo H 6 p.m. 2-25 Regional TBD TBD

Seneca striving to be their best by season’s end

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Members of the Seneca High School girls basketball team are, front row (seated): Elizabeth Garfoot and Brianna Brockway. Middle row (kneeling): Manager Lexi LaLonde, Taylor Redman, Samantha Boland, Morgan Wall, and Manager Makenna Greene. Back row (standing): Jena Konichek, Becky Trautsch, Head Coach Kim Redman, Morgan Payne and Michaela Chambers. Assistant Coach Angie Mabb is not pictured. (Photo courtesy of B&C Photography)

SENECA HIGH SCHOOL Girls Basketball

Seneca looking for continued improvementCoach: Kim RedmanAssistant coaches: Angie Mabb and Randy Les-

sard

Returning letter winners: Brianna Brockway, Elizabeth Garfoot, Taylor Redman, Morgan Payne, Michaela Chambers, and Morgan Wall

Who are some of the top teams in your confer-ence? Ithaca, North Crawford, La Farge and Wauze-ka-Steuben.

What is your conference outlook, goals for the season? We look to challenge to be in the top half of the conference. We want to continue to improve throughout the season and be playing our best ball at tournament time.

What will be the keys to your success this season?Keys for success will be to fi nd ways for this year’s

team to be successful, both off ensively and defen-sively. We will need to stay healthy with the low numbers of players.

What was last year’s record? 24-3

What do you consider your team’s strengths and challenges? Strength - experience and competitive nature of our players to work hard and continue to improve as a team. Challenges - lack of depth with low numbers.

Date Opponent Site Time 12-12 W-S A 7 p.m. 12-17 N. Crawford H 7 p.m. 12-20 Weston H 7 p.m. 12-30 Hillsboro H 7 p.m. 1-3 Lansing A 6:15 1-7 Riverdale A 7:30 1-10 Kickapoo H 7 p.m. 1-14 Cassville A 7 p.m. 1-16 La Farge A 6 p.m. 1-21 Ithaca A 7:30 1-24 De Soto H 7 p.m. 1-30 N. Crawford A 7 p.m. 2-4 Kickapoo A 7:30 2-7 W-S H 7 p.m. 2-13 Weston A 7:30 2-18 La Farge H 7 p.m. 2-21 Ithaca H 7 p.m. 2-24 River Ridge A 7:30 2-27 Highland H 7 p.m. 3-4 Regional TBD TBD

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Members of the River Ridge High School girls basketball team are, front row, from left: Emma Mergen, Manager Rylee Zinkle, and Michelle Cliff. Second Row: Manager Chloe Stagman, Roni Zinkle, Bridgette Myers, Meagan Herrick, and Manager McKenzie Graf. Third Row: Assistant Coach Joe Schulte, Sabrina White, Amber Patterson, Head Coach Caron Townsend, Bailey Plondke, and Johanna Allen. (Photo cour-tesy of Z Studio)

River Ridge girls fighting for top three finish

RIVER RIDGE Girls Basketball

Coach: Caron TownsendAssistant coaches: Joe Schulte, Ashley Mergen

Returning letter winners: Johanna Allen, Meagan Herrick, Bridgette Myers and Sabrina White.

Other key players: Amber Patterson

Who are some of the top teams in your confer-ence? What is your conference outlook, goals for the season? Potosi, Belmont, and Benton-Shullsburg. We hope to fight for the top three.

What will be the keys to your success this season? Staying healthy, balanced scoring inside/outside, playing our tough man-to-man defense.

What was last year’s record? 12-13

What do you consider your team’s strengths? Strong returners, inside/outside game and defense.

Date Opponent Site Time 12-13 Cassville A 7 p.m. 12-19 Benton A 7:30 12-28 NC Tourn. A TBD 1-3 Black Hawk H 7:30 1-7 De Soto A 7:30 1-9 Potosi H 7:30 1-16 Belmont H 7:30 1-17 W-Steuben A 7:30 1-21 Iowa Grant H 7:30 1-24 Highland A 7:30 1-30 Cassville H 7 p.m. 2-3 PdC A 7:30 2-6 Benton H 7:30 2-11 Potosi A 7:30 2-14 Belmont A 7:30 2-20 Highland H 7:30 2-24 Seneca H 7:30 2-27 Argyle A 7:30 3-4 Regional TBA TBA

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Members of the River Ridge High School boys basketball team are, front row, from left: Isaac Mumm, Brock Kazda, Tanner Irish, and Mason Weaver. Second Row: Quinn Crubel, Zach Ertz, Kirk Martin, and Brad Klein. Third Row: Assistant Coach Kurt Adrian, Assistant Coach Troy Marshall, Tyler Schmidt, Alex Breuer, and Head Coach Nate Copsey. (Photo courtesy of Z Studio)

RIVER RIDGE Boys Basketball

Coach: Nate CopseyAssistant coaches: Troy Marshall and Kurt Adrian

Returning letter winners: Alex Breuer, Kirk Mar-tin, Zach Ertz and Tyler Schmidt

Other key players: Quinn Crubel, Tanner Irish, Brock Kazda, and Brad Klein

Top teams in conference: Cassville, Shullsburg, and Potosi

Our team goal is to fi nish in the top three in con-ference.

Our keys to success are to take care of the basket-ball and play good team defense.

Last year’s record: 13-11 (7-5) conferenceOur team strengths are size, patience and lead-

ership. Our biggest challenge is replacing the 70% of the scoring we lost from last season. Other guys need to step up to fi ll those spots.

River Ridge boys shooting for top three fi nish

Date Opponent Site Time 12-12 Potosi A 7:30 12-17 Highland H 7:30 12-20 Shullsburg H 7:30 12-27 Albany, IG, NC H 2:30 1-2 W-Steuben H 7:30 1-6 Lancaster A 7:30 1-10 Pecatonica H 7:30 1-14 Benton H 7:30 1-17 Belmont A 7:30 1-20 Clayton Ridge A 7:30 1-23 Cassville A 7:30 1-28 Potosi H 7:30 1-31 TBA H 7:30 2-4 Highland A 7:30 2-7 Shullsburg A 7:30 2-10 Mineral Point A 7:30 2-18 Benton A 7:30 2-21 Belmont H 7:30

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Members of the River Ridge-Cassville wrestling team are, front row, from left, Managers Taylor Crapp, Ian Crapp, Jennifer Remis, and MaKoy Retallick. Second Row: Alex Morgan, Bo Kluesner, Desmond Crapp, Marty Fischer, Feli Heiland, and David Seng. Third Row: Assistant Coach Kyle Johnstone, Andrew Breuer, Cordt Esser, Tristan White, Anthony Remis, Logan Hein, Jordan Kline (MS), and Head Coach Adam Guthrie. (Photo courtesy of Z Studio)

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Returning letter winners: Alex Morgan, Andrew Breuer, Cordt Esser, David Seng, and Desmond Crapp

Other key players: Bo Kluesner and Marty Fischer Who are some of the top teams in your confer-

ence? What is your conference outlook, goals for the season? The top team will be Weston/Ithaca with De Soto and RRC looking to take second place. We look to work hard to move into the second-place spot in the conference.

What will be the keys to your success this season? We will have to work hard and limit the pins that

we allow in dual meets to give us a chance to win. What was last year’s record? 6-6 What do you consider your team’s strengths?

Good work ethic and senior leadership

Date Opponent Site Time 12-14 Black Hawk A 10:00 12-19 MFL Mar Mac H 7 p.m. 12-21 RC Tourn. A 10:00 12-27 Merrill Tourn. A 9:30 12-28 Merrill Tourn. A 9:30 1-7 Belmont H 7 p.m. 1-11 Lancaster Trn. A 9:30 1-14 Fennimore A 7 p.m. 1-18 Weston Trn. A 10:00 1-23 De Soto H 7 p.m. 1-25 Riverdale Trn. A 9:00 2-1 Lancaster Trn. A 9:30 2-8 Brookwood A 10:00

Hard working RRC grapplers striving for top two