PRAIRIE DU SAC — The Sauk Prairie High School girls basketball team may have found a way to contain Alahnna Simpson on Monday, but that didn’t pave the way to a victory over Central during the first day of the Sauk Prairie Holiday Classic.
Freshman Ellie Apuan stepped forward with 17 points, seven rebounds and five steals to help the RiverHawks, ranked sixth in Division 2 in the Bound Wisconsin/Zaleski Sports media poll, to a 43-32 victory that kept them unbeaten this season.
Central (7-0) plays Reedsburg (2-6) at 11 a.m. Tuesday in its final game of the calendar year.
Simpson, who is averaging 20.1 points per game as a senior, finished with eight points and four rebounds.
Junior Ellie Gillitzer also had eight points for the RiverHawks and added seven steals and five rebounds to her stat line in a game Central led 24-16 at the half.
Logan 33, Reedsburg 24
PRAIRIE DU SAC — The Rangers (2-6) snapped a three-game losing streak with a win during the first of a two-day event.
Junior Emma Bacon scored a team-high 11 points, and senior Lydia Mason added 10 for Logan. Bacon had nine and Mason six as the Rangers took a 15-14 lead to the break, then held the Beavers to 10 second-half points.
Senior Kaia DePaolo made seven free throws for all of her points in the second half for Logan, which plays Sauk Prairie at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Wisconsin Dells Holiday Classic
Wisconsin Dells 63, Onalaska Luther 29
WISCONSIN DELLS — The Knights (3-5) were held to 10 points in the first half and couldn’t cut into the 18-point deficit in the second half.
Luther had 10 players score, and all of them finished with between two and four points.
Carsyn Krause, Natalie Hackbarth and Addy Palubicki each made a 3-pointer.
