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Mount Horeb’s girls basketball team will have a tough time replacing Grace Vesperman next season. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld
An up and down season came to an end last Friday for Mount Horeb’s girls basketball team.
The Vikings fell to powerful Reedsburg, 65-25, in a WIAA Division 2 regional semifinal held at Reedsburg High School.
Three nights earlier, Mount Horeb downed Portage, 64-49, in a regional quarterfinal.
The...
Sam Johnson and Mount Horeb’s boys basketball team begin the postseason Friday night. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld
The second season has finally arrived.
And Mount Horeb’s boys basketball team could be a real sleeper in this tournament.
The Vikings are a No. 4 seed in the WIAA Division 2 Oregon Sectional. And after routing Baraboo, 72-39, last Thursday, Mount Horeb finished the regular season with a 12-12 mark...
Lance Schmitz, a 1990 Mount Horeb High School graduate, was recently inducted into the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Schmitz, who attended the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, has been a teacher and coach in the Barneveld School District for the past 25 years.
Under Schmitz...
It was a great run.
A great season.
Unfortunately for Sauk Prairie’s co-op hockey team — which also includes Mount Horeb, Wisconsin Heights and River Valley — it came to an end on Feb. 23.
The Eagles reached the WIAA Division 1 sectional semifinals, but lost to Madison Edgewood, 6-0. Sauk Prairie...
Nathan Rozeboom and the Verona-Mount Horeb boys swimming team finished seventh at the WIAA Division 1 state meet last Saturday. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld
It was a bittersweet day, one packed with mixed emotions.
The Verona-Mount Horeb boys swimming team had a terrific performance at the WIAA Division 1 state meet last Saturday. The Wildcats finished in seventh place in a meet held at Waukesha South High School.
While the V-MH swimmers were ecstatic...
Mount Horeb boys basketball coach Todd Nesheim (left), shown with his father Doug, notched his 200th career win last Saturday. News Publishing Co. photo by Adam Mertz
The details of the game have been lost to time — was it in Monroe? Belmont? — but Todd Nesheim can still see flashes of his first-ever game as a high school boys basketball coach.
He was a junior in college at UW-Platteville, and had taken up former Mount Horeb coach Dennis Shanks on his offer to...
JJ Poarch (top) earned a trip to the WIAA Division 1 state tournament at 113 pounds. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld
Cole Cunningham and JJ Poarch are heading to the WIAA Division 1 state wrestling tournament.
Both Mount Horeb-Barneveld wrestlers finished second in their respective weight classes at the Fort Atkinson Sectional and earned a trip to state, which runs Thursday through Saturday at the UW Kohl Center...
Violet Statz helped Mount Horeb’s girls gymnastics team win the Badger Conference championship. Photo courtesy of Holly Stoenner
Mount Horeb’s girls gymnastics team gathers before the start of each season and outlines its list of goals.
So far, the Vikings have achieved everything on the list. And now, just two remain.
Mount Horeb took care of its latest goal last Saturday cruising to the championship at the Badger...
They’re still alive — and they appear incredibly dangerous.
Sauk Prairie’s co-op hockey team defeated Reedsburg/Wisconsin Dells/Mauston, 5-3, in a WIAA Division 1 regional final last Thursday.
The fifth-seeded Eagles advanced to a sectional semifinal at top-seeded Madison Edgewood Tuesday night. If...
The Badger West Conference Championships are a new event inside the re-aligned league.
And in a year in which things haven't always gone according to plan for Mount Horeb’s girls basketball team, the Vikings desperately wanted to make a statement at the conference championships.
Mission...
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