WHITEWATER — On a rainy and cool afternoon, the Cheesemakers swept the Rock Valley Conference Championships on Oct. 15. Both boys and girls teams cruised to their fifth straight titles. The girls team scored 26 points, well ahead of second place Evansville (88) and third place Brodhead/Juda (115). Monroe’s boys team had 19 points, with all seven runners finishing in the top 12. East Troy (88) was second and Edgerton (139) was third. Brodhead/Juda (204) was eighth out of 11 teams.

Monroe sophomore Ace Rossing (17:20.5) won the boys race by less than a second over senior teammate Kamrin Gerber-Reamer (17:21.2). Landon Smith was fourth (17:48.6), Eli Phillips finished fifth (17:51.4) and Isaiah Ritschard came in seventh (18:02.7) to round out the Cheesemakers’ scoring. Monroe’s two alternate runners were Weston Huntsman (9th, 18:14.5) and Lukas Gerber (12th, 18:39.2).

Brodhead/Juda’s Ashton Henze (18:40.9) led his team with a 13th place finish. Treyton Leutenegger (19:46.3) was 31st overall.

On the girls side, Monroe’s top three runners finished back-to-back-to-back as second, third and fourth place. Braylin Cleary and Nevaeh Huenefeld tied with a time of 20:17.3, while Alivia Mosher was fourth at 20:39.0. Clinton’s Amaya Flickinger was the conference champion with a time of 19:37.8.

Also scoring for Monroe was Lyla Ritschard (8th, 21:29.8) and Maryella Green (9th, 21:36.4). Elizabeth Veeder finished 13th (21:24.9) and Annika Folk was 16th (22:37.2).

Brodhead/Juda was led by Olivia Brooks (10th, 21:38.5) and Ciarrah Condon (27th, 23:56.0).

Up next is the WIAA Division 2 Sectional, which Monroe will host on Friday, Oct. 23 at Twining Park, with the state meet the following week at Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids.