It's rivalry week on the hardwood for Janesville Craig and Janesville Parker. The girls basketball teams play Thursday, with the boys on tap for Friday night. Craig won the first meetings between the city teams this year.
A recap of area high school basketball games for Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.Â
Waunakee scored less than two minutes into overtime to notch a 2-1 victory over the Janesville Bluebirds in a nonconference high school boys hockey game.
Gunnar Nortman scored 27 points, and Mount Horeb used a balanced second-half effort to pick up a resume-building 75-67 victory Tuesday evening over host Janesville Craig in a nonconference boys basketball game.
Ricky Braunschweig set the tone with a pin in the first match, fellow freshmen Collin Roberts and Cutter Lange followed suit moments later, and Evansville/Albany ran away with a 52-24 road victory.
Fourteen players from Janesville Craig's girls soccer team traveled to Chicago last week to help be demonstrators during a breakout session at the United Soccer Coaches Convention.
A recap of high school boys basketball games for Monday, Jan. 14, 2019.Â
Elkhorn High leads area gymnastics teams at the halfway point of the prep season.
Five notable performances from area high school athletes in the past week, and five events to watch for over the next seven days.
The high school gymnastics landscape will take on a new shape starting next season. Co-op programs will be downsized to promote growth in the sport, and to hopefully, help level the playing field.
Verona guard Reagan Klawiter was 10-for-10 from the free throw line, with many of those coming in the final minutes, and the Wildcats pulled away from visiting Jansville Parker for a 48-37 Big Eight Conference boys basketball win Saturday night.
Janesville Craig's boys basketball team snapped a six-game conference losing streak Saturday night with a 73-66 win over Beloit Memorial.
Cougars go 2-3, after losing to Middleton on Friday night
Milton High's girls basketball team defeated Mount Horeb 68-48 Saturday in the Badger Challenge.
Janesville Parker's boys swim team finished second Saturday at the Manitowoc Invitational.
The Cougars earned 125.325 points in the top Gold Division, which Madison Memorial won with 132.05.
A recap of high school girls basketball games for Friday, Jan. 11, 2019.Â
A recap of high school boys basketball games for Friday, Jan. 11, 2019.Â
The Elks won 69-52 in a Southern Lakes Conference game between teams tied for second place coming into the night.
The Wildcats bolted to a 21-2 lead in the first seven minutes. Parker made 2 of its first 21 field-goal attempts, and was shooting just 18.5 percent at halftime even after scoring nine straight points late in the half to pull within 16.Â
Claudia Fieiras led three players in double figures with 22 points Friday night, as Janesville Craig's girls basketball team rolled past Beloit Memorial 82-44 in a Big Eight Conference game.
Six different players scored as the local girls high school co-op hockey team blanked the Stoughton Icebergs 7-0 at Monroe's arena.
Janesville Craig edged Madison West and Janesville Parker fell to Middleton in Big Eight Conference girls gymnastics Thursday night.
Rock Valley girls basketball: Brodhead, Clinton open second half of league play with upset victories
A roundup of Rock Valley Conference girls basketball games played Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.
Janesville Parker's wrestling team advanced to the championship match of the Big Eight Conference Showcase with a thrilling 39-30 come-from-behind win over Sun Prairie on Thursday night.
Madison Memorial scored four power-play goals to down Janesville's boys co-op high school hockey team 6-2.
The Purple Knights scored the first 16 points out of halftime Thursday night, running away with a 63-48 Big Eight Conference victory over Janesville Parker at Barkin Arena.
A roundup of area high school boys basketball games played Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.
Seventh-ranked Madison Memorial rallied in the second half Thursday night for a 67-58 Big Eight Conference win over Janesville Craig.
Janesville Parker boys basketball coach Matt Bredesen knew the Big Eight Conference was one of the best in the state. Now he understands why.
A recap of high school girls basketball games for Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.Â
A recap of high school boys basketball games for Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.Â
The area's girls high school co-op hockey team scored nine goals in the first two periods on the way to a 10-1 Badger Conference road victory over the Badger Lightning.
The Parker Vikings built an overwhelming lead in the first half en route to a 75-53 win over the visiting Beloit Memorial Purple Knights on Tuesday.
The Craig Cougars went without a field goal in the extra four minutes of overtime as the Madison Memorial Spartans rallied for a 63-56 victory on Bob Suter Court.
The city's boys co-op hockey team, which lost to No. 3-ranked Verona 10-0 in the team's first meeting, fell 6-5 at home on Tuesday night.
Pin with just one match remaining seasls Vikings' nonconference victory.
A recap of high school basketball games for Monday, Jan. 7, 2019.Â
Bob Getka is Janesville Parker's new softball coach. Getka replaces Steve Heilman, who resigned after the 2018 season.
After finishing as the state runner-up in the Division 2 152-pound bracket last year, Brodhead/Juda senior Jackson Hauri is ranked No. 1 in the D2 state rankings as of this week. His only loss this season was to an out-of-state wrestler.
Five notable performances from the past week in area high school sports, and five events to watch out for over the next seven days:
A recap of high school basketball games for Saturday, January 5, 2019.
Sophomore guard Brenden Weis hit a 3-point shot at the buzzer to give the Janesville Parker High boys basketball team a 50-47 win over Columbus at the Showcase Classic at Waunkee on Saturday night.
Parker finished fifth in the seven-team tournament that featured college-distance events.
The Rock County Fury lost a 2-1 nonconference game to Central Wisconsin on Saturday.
The Cougars gave up just five free throws over the first 18 minutes and ran away with a 64-26 Big Eight Conference victory over the Regents on Saturday.
Janesville Craig's wrestling team finished second Saturday at the Lodi Duals.
A recap of high school girls basketball games for Friday, January 4, 2019.Â
Madison Memorial opened up a 19-point halftime lead and coasted to a 55-37 Big Eight Conference win over Janesville Parker on Friday night.
The Blue Devils forced 19 first-half turnovers, held the Chiefs to single digits in the first half and ran away with a 67-35 victory that they hope turns out to be a tone-setter heading into the second half of conference play.
Madison West hit 12 3-pointers Friday night en route to an 82-75 Big Eight Conference win over Janesville Craig.
