Sports

Reedsburg has one of the finest baseball programs in the state.

The Beavers have reached the state tournament four times during their illustrious history. Reedsburg has won the conference title two straight years and leads the Badger Small again this spring.

The varsity group returned to action last Friday for the River Valley Blackhawks boys golf team in Portage where R-V placed third in the D-2 grouping with a team mark of 368.

Last week featured a win, a loss and a rain-out for the Beaver softball team with May now upon us.

Reedsburg athletes came away with five individual championships last Tuesday as the Beavers joined Waunakee, Monona Grove and the host school Stoughton Vikings for a Track and Field Quad.

Sauk Prairie’s girls track and field team won the Baraboo Relays last Friday.

The Eagles finished with 92.4 points and edged runner-up Baraboo (91.5). Beaver Dam (78.9), Reedsburg (71.9) and Madison La Follette (66) rounded out the top five at the nine-team meet.

Reedsburg stood at No. 3 in the first WBCA Coaches Poll in D-2 High School Baseball for the season when last week began with the Beavers coming off two huge wins over defending state champion Madison Edgewood.

Raindrops were dodged last week for the River Valley Blackhawks on the softball diamond with five games played over the course of six days.

River Valley has proven to be an offensive powerhouse at times this season on the soccer with the girls scoring four goals or more five times already this season. Last week, the Blackhawks also showed their defensive prowess as well with shutout wins over Galena, Illinois (a conference win), and against Wisconsin Heights, both by 2-0 scores.

Reedsburg has tasted victory in six of the last eight matches they’ve played on the soccer pitch with the Beaver girls coming off a late week victory at Beaver Dam.

Weston faced two of the toughest opponents they’ll see all season on back-to-back days last week on the softball diamond and the youthful and inexperienced Silver Eagles squad took it on the chin against a pair of title contenders, Ithaca in their own Ridge and Valley Conference, and Hillsboro from the Scenic Bluffs Conference.