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“The opportunity to go get that gold ball… you always dream about it,” Blair-Taylor coach Jesse Lien said after his team fell to Chippewa Falls McDonell Central in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Championship game in Green Bay on Saturday.
That dream of winning the gold...
Whitehall seniors Devon McCune (left), Luke Beighley and Colton Pank (right) hoisted the sectional champion plaque following Saturday’s 66-62 win over Cameron at Neillsville High School. The win gives Whitehall its first berth to the WIAA state tournament in 37 years. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Devon McCune wasn’t thinking about the moment, what it meant or what was at stake if he missed.
He wasn’t listening to the hundreds of screaming fans from Cameron trying to distract the Whitehall senior as he took two free throws in the dying seconds of Saturday’s WIAA Division Four boys basketball...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior Brady Seiling (right) and junior Braden Anibas fought for a rebound with a West Salem defender during last Wednesday’s 112-54 loss at Arcadia High School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The top-ranked Division Three boys basketball team showed it is deserving of a second-straight state tournament appearance last week.
West Salem (27-1) ended Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s season with a 112-54 victory in a sectional semifinal matchup last Wednesday at Arcadia High School.
Coached by...
Connor Weltzien of Arcadia finished a drive with a layup during their game against Mauston last week Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Arcadia boys basketball team came back from an early flurry of three pointers, but ran out of gas down the stretch, falling 73-67, in their Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association regional quarterfinal home game against Mauston last week Tuesday.
After trailing by 16 points at halftime,...
Whitehall’s Grant Olson released a shot from the baseline during their game against Eau Claire Regis on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
“It’s nice to get revenge on them,” Whitehall boys basketball coach Tyler Petersen said following his team’s 54-34 win over Eau Claire Regis last Friday.
The Rambles defeated the Norse in the first week of the new year, but they wouldn’t be the only team Whitehall would end up getting revenge...
Blair-Taylor Coach Jesse Lien was emotional as he handed the WIAA Sectional Championship plaque to his team after they defeated Belmont on Saturday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The ball hung in the air for what seemed like an eternity.
If it went through the basket, the Blair-Taylor girls basketball team’s season would be over. If it didn’t, the team would advance to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Five Sectional final game.
Clank! The ball...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City co-op senior Abby Miller performed her floor routine at Saturday's WIAA Division Two individual state gymnastics championship at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School. Miller earned runner-up honors in the event and took ninth in the all-around competition in her fourth straight tournament appearance. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Ever since reaching the podium at the WIAA Division Two individual state gymnastics championships as a freshman, Abby Miller has aimed to claim another top-six finish among the state’s best.
The senior did even better at Saturday’s championship meet at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School. In her...
The Blair-Taylor bench celebrated a basket during the second half of the team's sectional semifinal win over Hillsboro Thursday evening.
Hillsboro was surging to the finish as what was a nine-point Blair-Taylor lead with four minutes remaining in the game was in jeopardy while Kyra Bisarek’s potential game-winning three pointer hanging in the air.
“Oh God, don’t go in, please don’t go in,” B-T coach Jesse Lien thought.
His prayer...
G-E-T junior Jack Beedle unleashed a 3-point shot in Tuesday's 66-61 overtime win over Altoona in the first round of the WIAA Division Three regional playoffs. Beedle finished with 12 points for the Red Hawks. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
After nearly being upset in their opening playoff game last Tuesday, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School boys basketball team knew they needed to be better if they wanted their season to continue.
They used the scare from Tuesday’s overtime win over Altoona to refocus and grabbed two more...
Devon McCune of Whitehall went up for a layup with Melrose-Mindoro’s Ty Zeman defending during their game last week Monday. The Norse clinched sole possession of the Dairyland Conference championship with the win. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
With sole possession of the Dairyland Conference title at stake, the Whitehall boys basketball team didn’t blink.
Playing on the road against the team hoping to tie the Norse for the conference title with a win last week Monday, Whitehall had answers to everything Melrose-Mindoro threw at them. The...
