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Arcadia High School football coach Derek Updike directed practice last Wednesday at Arcadia High School. The Raiders are hoping to build on a 2022 season that saw the Raiders finish 3-6. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Could another year of growth bring more wins for a young Arcadia High School football team this fall?
That’s the hope for the Raiders, a group coach Derek Updike believes has shown improvement from a year ago.
Arcadia finished 2022 with a 3-6 record, including a 2-5 run in a strong Coulee...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau junior Ben Hansen will take over as quarterback for the Red Hawks this fall as the team hopes to build on a 2023 season that saw G-E-T return to the postseason.
Two years ago when Paul Anderson was coaching the freshman football team at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau, he saw potential in quarterback Ben Hansen.
Now in 2023, the same duo will look for success on the varsity field. Hansen is set to take over as QB1 for the Red Hawks this fall as a junior, taking...
Independence/Gilmanton’s Xavier Santillan pitched to a running back during practice last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
In his second year leading the program, Todd Fischer is looking to build his Independence/Gilmanton football team around speed.
“I expect us to be a little quicker and a little smarter,” Fischer told the Times last Thursday.
Thursday evening’s practice came on a day in which the Indees installed...
The defending Coulee Conference champion in girls golf will likely not field a team in 2023.
Arcadia/Independence has not seen any interest from students in playing girls golf this fall in either school district, and longtime coach Mike Sobotta is retiring from coaching after decades in the job....
Former Arcadia High School girls golf coach Mike Sobotta gave Whitney Sonsalla advice during the 2021 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Tournament. (File photograph)
On most days of any Wisconsin fall, spring or summer for the last 20-plus years, a betting person could likely earn themselves some spending cash with a simple wager on Arcadia’s Mike Sobotta.
Put your money on a two-part parlay for a near guaranteed win — Sobotta being on a golf course somewhere...
Jackson Shramek of Blair-Taylor ran to the outside after receiving a pitch during a practice last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
While the program graduated a large senior class, the expectation is that the Blair-Taylor football team will have another successful season.
The team has made the playoffs every year under coach Andy Nehring, who took over in 2018 after the team was winless in 2017. B-T has won the Dairyland...
Cayden Johnston ran behind Brock Sluga during a play at the Whitehall football team’s practice last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
In Tyler Bortle’s first season leading the Whitehall football team, it established itself as a physical team. If they continue down that path, Bortle thinks the wins will start coming.
“It really comes down to the team growing as a whole,” Bortle said. “If we can develop the players and us as...
Four Trempealeau County football coaches say their programs are holding steady in participation, but all said sports in general have seen a shift due to a wide variety of factors.
Some sports are seeing athletes specialize in their best sport and dropping the others in hopes of a college...
Another high school sports season is already underway as area football teams were able to begin practice on Tuesday of this week.
This Tuesday was the first day football teams could practice or hand out equipment, according to Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association regulations. They are...
With his teammates celebrating behind him, Carson Martin of the Tickfer-Erickson American Legion Post 17 baseball team from Arcadia raised the Wisconsin American Legion Regional Baseball Tournament championship plaque after his team defeated Osseo Post 324 on Sunday. Arcadia will play Viroqua in the state tournament on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Another chapter was added to the long story of Arcadia summer baseball on Sunday as the Tickfer-Erickson American Legion Post 17 baseball team defeated Osseo Post 324, 14-2, to qualify for the Class A State Tournament in Prairie du Chien this weekend.
While the Arcadia spring team has yet to...
