Last week was one of the better ones this season for River Valley girls basketball as the Blackhawks took advantage of some home cooking to earn wins over a larger area school, Reedsburg, and a conference foe in Prairie du Chien and both were double digit victories.
Coach Luke Thatcher’s River Valley boys basketball team got its first crack at SWC leader Lancaster last week on the home floor, but the Blackhawks missed out on a chance to make a move in the conference standings after a 68-57 loss.
The week past for Badger Lightning girls hockey included a pair of shutouts, one for the good side and one for the not so good side. The Lightning won a Badger Conference game Thursday over Viroqua before falling in Menominee Saturday to the CFM Sabers and both games had 4-0 scores.
Reedsburg faced a difficult week as the girls basketball season continues. The Beavers faced three difficult opponents, two of them on the road, and despite some good moments at certain times, the Beavers went 0-3 for the week.
The week began for the River Valley Blackhawks boys basketball team last Tuesday with a trip to Evansville for non-conference action and the result was a 65-52 setback, but the Blackhawks responded two days later with an impressive win at Platteville.
Thanks to a pair of postponements, the Weston Silver Eagle boys basketball team had played only one game since the start of their holiday break until Monday this week, a recently added game to the schedule at Highland. The Silver Eagles gave up 80 points or more for the second game in a row in an 89-59 loss to the Cardinals.
River Valley competed in meet number four in this current high school gymnastics season on Saturday at Elkhorn. R-V’s team score of 102.475 was seventh best among the eight schools with the Wilmot Union co-op at 138-plus team points the team champs.
A jam-packed week for the Ithaca/Weston girls basketball team began on Monday with a loss in Elroy against the Scenic Bluffs second place team, the Royall Panthers, by a final score of 53-24, with I/W falling to 2-9 overall.
Ithaca/Weston won plenty of matches but still came up just short in duals on the wrestling mast Thursday against Mauston/Necedah and Nekoosa/Port Edwards in Mauston.
A short-handed lineup was too much to overcome for the River Valley Blackhawks in a wrestling dual on Thursday night at Lancaster. R-V was able to fill only nine of 14 spots in the lineup and they fell by a final count of 57-12.
