Sports
Last week saw the Arcadia High School boys basketball team take down a nearby opponent before the Raiders participated in the Midwest Players Classic in La Crosse.
Arcadia, now 6-7 overall and 3-3 in Coulee Conference play, was scheduled to visit another Trempealeau County team in Whitehall (8-4, 5...
Last week’s winter weather moved start times for area prep sports teams, but the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau boys still managed to win both of their games.
The Red Hawks took down Holmen last Tuesday before heavy snow and extreme cold moved into the area, and the birds followed the effort with a win...
G-E-T/Mel-Min sophomore Colton Koss fought off West Salem/Bangor’s Teghan Moore in a battle of two ranked wrestlers at 106 pounds during last Tuesday’s dual meet at G-E-T High School. The Titans won 41-26 to stay unbeaten in the Coulee Conference. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Numbers were flying in Pete Peterson’s head.
Peterson, the head coach of the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro high school wrestling co-op, was adding up results during last Tuesday’s Coulee Conference wrestling dual against West Salem, trying to see if his team’s lead was enough.
Peterson’s...
Whitehall’s Nolan Thompson worked to secure a pin against Osseo-Fairchild/Augusta/Fall Creek’s Abby Moss during their dual last week Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall wrestling team scored the first 36 points then 18 straight as it defeated Osseo-Fairchild/Augusta/Fall Creek, 60-12, in a home dual last week Tuesday.
The Norse got four pins and two forfeits as it took a 36-0 lead. Frank Juresh IV (106) got the dual started on the right track with a...
Arabelle Kniseley of Independence/Gilmanton drew contact on a drive to the basket during their game against Eleva-Strum on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Independence/Gilmanton girls basketball team got some breathing room with a run in the second half that put them in control of a 50-38 win.
The game had been close and Eleva-Strum was within one point about four minutes into the second half before the Indees got going.
A basket by Kassidi...
A nonconference slate proved to be tough for the Blair-Taylor girls basketball team as it went 0-3 last week.
The team began play with a 64-49 loss in Bangor on Tuesday then dropped two home games, 64-52 to Houston, Minn. on Friday and 66-36 to Colfax on Saturday.
B-T began this week with a record...
The team atop the Coulee Conference standings in boys basketball hampered the Arcadia offense last week.
West Salem (7-2, 3-0 Coulee) outscored the Raiders 39-19 in both halves of last Thursday’s conference game at Arcadia High School.
Arcadia, now 5-6 on the year including a 3-3 run in conference...
The Whitehall girls basketball team struggled offensively after a long break last week.
Playing its first game since Dec. 21, the Norse came out with intensity in the first half of its game against Independence/Gilmanton and rallied down the stretch, but fell short, 55-47 (see story elsewhere in...
The Arcadia High School wrestling team did it again last weekend.
The Raiders finished Saturday with a perfect 5-0 record at the Dragon Duals to place first in a field of six teams at Osseo-Fairchild High School, outscoring their opponents by a combined 289-86.
Arcadia is scheduled to continue its...
Catherine Kampa of Independence/Gilmanton drove to the basket during last Friday’s game against Whitehall. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
After a strong start to the second half, the Independence/Gilmanton girls basketball team held off a late run by Whitehall for the win.
I/G seemed to take control midway through the second half as the team went on a 19-9 run to go ahead 45-33 with eight and a half minutes left in the game....
