Sports
After struggling to start the season, the Arcadia Tickfer-Erickson American Legion Post 17 baseball team picked up its first win last week Monday.
Arcadia’s 0-4 start included two losses by 10 runs or more as they gave up at least six runs in each game. But last week, Post 17 limited Tomah to just...
Recent G-E-T High School graduate Genna O'Neill pitched in a game against Tomah in May. O'Neill was named First Team All-State for the Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association in June. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The first two games of Genna O’Neill’s junior softball season were hard to stomach.
Her team lost the 2019-20 season to COVID the year prior, and G-E-T was headed into the season without a starting pitcher. She had worked the entire offseason on her pitches, throwing before and after school and...
Shandler Herman delivered a pitch for the Pleasantville Lions Club team during their game against Ritter Hardware on Friday night. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
After taking a big lead, My Second Home needed a late blast to seal the championship in the annual Pleasantville Fourth of July Fastpitch Softball Tournament held last Friday-through-Sunday.
Aaron Berg smashed a grand slam in the second inning to help My Second Home take a 7-0 lead over Cushing...
Third baseman Ben Hansen looked to the umpire for a call after trying to tag a La Crosse North Star runner early in a Coulee Region Legion baseball game at Logan High School last Thursday. The Red Hawks lost the game 4-3 before winning a second game 7-6. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Post 354 baseball team hit two home runs last Thursday in a Coulee Region Legion game at Logan High School but fell 4-3 at the hands of the North Stars.
They avenged the loss with a tight 7-6 win in game two, which also saw a Red Hawk home run.
Post 354 hosted Arcadia...
The annual Fourth of July fastpitch softball tournament hosted by the Pleasantville Lions Club begins this Friday with six teams competing.
The first game will be played at 6:30 p.m. when the Pleasantville Lions team plays Ritter Hardware. My Second Home and Foster Fireside will then play at 8 p....
Dan Stuhr remembers clearly the first time someone asked him how he handled coaching girls as the head softball coach at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School.
His response?
“I said, ‘I don’t coach girls. I coach ball players. I don’t care if they’re a boy or girl, I expect them to wear their hats,...
Whitehall’s Brock Sluga swung on a pitch during their game against Holmen last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Whitehall’s Hutchens-Stendahl Post 191 American Legion baseball team was one out away from a win on Tuesday, but they couldn’t get the final out and then dropped another game on Thursday.
Post 191 led 5-4 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh against Onalaska, but a hit and a wild pitch both...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempeleau's Collin Handke pitched to a La Crosse batter in a legion baseball game last Tuesday at home. La Crosse won both games in a doubleheader. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
A week that featured ample sun and even more heat last week also saw plenty of offense from the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior legion baseball team in a Monday win over Tomah. Post 354 then dropped both games in a doubleheader to La Crosse on Tuesday.
Post 354 was scheduled to host Onalaska on...
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School softball team will be led by somebody other than Dan Stuhr next season.
Stuhr is resigning from his spot as head coach after a 2021-22 season that saw the Red Hawks finish 20-6, including a perfect 12-0 in conference...
Dave “Boots” Bjorge retired as the Arcadia softball coach, a position he held for 19 years. Bjorge led the program to four Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Tournament appearances including a state championship in 2014.
As Dave Bjorge walked around Broiler-Days earlier this month, he ran into numerous current and former Arcadia High School softball players. They talked about memories of big wins and bigger moments, ranging from dugout chats and championship games to post career events such as weddings and...
