Sports
Kurt Owen and Mount Horeb’s girls volleyball team welcomed seven other schools to town last Saturday.
Then, the Vikings did their best to be less than ideal hosts. For the most part, they succeeded.
Mount Horeb finished second at its own invite, reaching the championship match before falling to...
Sept. 15, 2022.
That date will forever be a memorable one for Mount Horeb’s girls swimming program.
The Vikings went to the McFarland Triangular and notched a 109-34 win over Portage. After years of forming a co-op with Verona, that marked the first win for Mount Horeb as an independent program.
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They were more competitive.
They were in every game.
But Mount Horeb’s boys soccer team couldn’t get over the hump and dropped three games last week.
The Vikings fell, 2-1, to Sauk Prairie on Sept. 13. Milton toppled Mount Horeb, 2-0, on Sept. 15.
And Sugar River bested the Vikings, 3-0, on Sept....
PRAIRIE DU SAC — Big plays and a big stop.
That was the recipe. And the result was an appetizing one for Mount Horeb/Barneveld’s football team.
Two long catches by Landon Ellestad set up the Vikings’ first two scores, they turned Sauk Prairie away in the red zone early in the fourth quarter to...
Kurt Owen knows to be the best, you need to beat the best.
That’s why Mount Horeb’s girls volleyball coach loads up the Vikings’ schedule every season.
On Saturday, Mount Horeb faced one of its toughest tests of the year when it traveled to the star-studded Middleton Invite. And while Owen and the...
Mount Horeb’s boys and girls cross country teams both finished in seventh place at the 19-team River Valley Invite last Saturday.
Vikings’ senior Joseph Stoddard won the boys race, finishing the 5,000-meter run in 15 minutes, 46.9 seconds. Junior Marc Pipp was 34th (18:20.2), senior Owen Rathje was...
Mount Horeb’s girls swimming and diving team was edged by Sauk Prairie, 101.50-68.50 last Thursday.
“It was a great meet against Sauk,” Mount Horeb coach Bree Parent said. “This week was challenging with the start of school and changing of schedules. The girls have been working really hard at...
Nolan Krentz said it best.
Mount Horeb’s girls golf coach was thrilled his Vikings set a new school-record when they shot a 183 on Sept. 8 at Norsk Golf Club. Unfortunately for Mount Horeb, visiting Oregon one-upped the Vikings and carded a 165.
“Unfortunately, there’s no defense in golf,” Krentz...
Mount Horeb boys soccer coach John Malecki believes high school sports are much like the classroom.
They’re constant learning experiences.
Last week, Malecki’s Vikings learned plenty.
Mount Horeb fell to Monona Grove, 9-0, on Sept. 6. Oregon then defeated the Vikings, 4-0, on Sept. 8.
Mount Horeb...
There were several moments in the second half of last Friday night’s Badger Small Conference game where Mount Horeb/Barneveld could have caved under the pressure, up against an All-State quarterback and a program used to clutch situations.
Instead, it was DeForest that folded.
A series of...