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Arcadia is back over .500 as the final weeks of the high school girls volleyball season approach.
The Raiders overpowered Viroqua last Thursday, improving to 9-8 on the season and remaining in the hunt in the Coulee Conference standings.
Arcadia (6-3 Coulee) visited Cochrane-Fountain City on...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School football team’s defense did not score a touchdown in last Friday’s Coulee Conference game at Altoona High School, but it was an early play by the Red Hawk defenders that set the Red Hawks up for its third win in four games.
Friday was a continuation of a...
Andrea Waldera of Blair-Taylor went for a block during their match against Cochrane-Fountain City on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor volleyball team began last week with a win, but lost two matches as it fell to .500 on the season.
The Wildcats gutted out a five-set win over Melrose-Mindoro last week Monday, but lost to Alma/Pepin in five sets on Tuesday and to Cochrane-Fountain City in four on Thursday.
B-T...
For much of the 2023 season, one player has continued to lead the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls golf team.
Senior Alexis Murphy will represent the Red Hawks again this week, this time with a trip to the WIAA state tournament at her fingertips.
Murphy was the lone county golfer to qualify for this...
Adrianna Rotering was in the top cluster of individual runners to lead the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau cross country team last Friday at the Lake Mills Invitational, an event that saw the Red Hawks finish seventh as a team in both the boys and girls races.
Rotering, a senior, was the lone Red Hawk to...
Arcadia’s Ted Teske broke a pair of tackles before turning upfield during last Friday’s 56-0 loss to Aquinas at UW-La Crosse. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
La Crosse Aquinas’ defense intercepted Arcadia quarterback Kaiden Rotering seven times and the host Blugolds got touchdowns from its offense, defense and special teams in a complete 56-0 victory over the Raiders last Friday at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Arcadia (2-5 overall, 0-5 Coulee...
Whitehall’s CJ Johnston broke into the open field for a touchdown against Independence/Gilmanton last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
After a nearly 10-minute drive and two-point conversion gave Independence/Gilmanton a lead with 40 seconds remaining in the first half, Whitehall responded with a long touchdown pass at the halftime buzzer, then controlled the entire second half.
The Indees converted three fourth downs on a drive...
Blair-Taylor’s Tavian Shramek broke to the outside on a touchdown run in the first quarter of their game against Cochrane-Fountain City last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor offense found holes in Cochrane-Fountain City’s defense on its second possession and didn’t look back, handing C-FC its first Dairyland Conference loss of the season.
B-T lost yardage on its first possession, but used quarterback Tavian Shramek’s legs to move down the field on its...
Whitehall’s Aryana Ausderau spiked the ball during their match against Melrose-Mindoro last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Facing elimination after a close loss, the Whitehall volleyball team rallied to win two sets and beat Melrose-Mindoro, 3-2, in a Dairyland Conference match last Thursday.
The first three sets were decided by a total of nine points as Whitehall was one loss from elimination. The next two were also...
Arcadia High School graduate Meghan (Sobotta) Murphy is being inducted into the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 6. (Photograph courtesy of UW-Eau Claire staff)
Meghan (Sobotta) Murphy was hit with a reality check in her freshman season on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire golf team nearly 20 years ago.
Murphy questioned if she was good enough to be a Blugold and contemplated quitting once or twice after some high scores and working through coaching...
