Sports

The good news, three touchdowns were scored by the Wonewoc-Center/Weston Silverwolves football co-op on Friday night, a season high. The bad news, it wasn’t enough to earn a victory as De Soto left Wonewoc-Center High School with a 42-18 win in eight-man football from the Ridge and Valley Conference.

It was a week of mixed results in the world of River Valley Blackhawks boys soccer.

R-V opened the week with a strong effort and a 2-0 win over Wisconsin Heights Tuesday, but the Blackhawks fell in the conference opener on Thursday, 1-0, at Platteville/Lancaster.

Thursday was a good day, especially on the girls side, for the River Valley Blackhawks on the cross-country course for Coach Steven Stettler’s squads. The girls placed fourth in team scoring among the 10 full teams while the boys placed 10^th among 11 full teams at the Vernon County Fairgrounds, site for the Viroqua Invite.

Two matches are in the books, and two wins are in the books for the Weston Silver Eagle Volleyball team as Weston followed up a win over Coulee Christian with a 3-2 victory at La Farge to begin the conference season last Thursday.

Weston was represented by three high school boys runners at Thursday’s Viroqua Cross-Country Invite.

Floggers, Culver’s and First Weber finished as the top three teams, in that order, in the Monday Night Men’s Golf League at the Reedsburg Country Club.

Dave Fuhrnman has the individual lead for the season with 20 points in the Stableford scoring system.

The playoffs are now in play as the regular season has come to a close.

A Reedsburg Area High School graduate is part of this year’s women’s soccer team at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Nicole Riberich of Reedsburg is part of the team this season, which began Sept. 1.

Riberich is studying elementary/middle education.

River Valley won a match, lost a match and tied two others in a busy opening week of the regular season to close out the month of August.

Meet No. 1 is in the books for the Reedsburg Beaver cross country teams as Reedsburg was part of Saturday’s field at the Iowa-Grant Invite.

The competition season is just one day old for the Reedsburg Beaver volleyball team, and the girls have already earned some hardware. Reedsburg won all five matches on Saturday to win the championship at the Wisconsin Rapids Invitational.