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The Independence girls basketball team was able to take control of all three of its games last week in the first half as they came out with three convincing wins.
The Indees had halftime leads of 17, 18 and 16 points in their three games as they defeated Alma/Pepin 67-27, Augusta 62-46 and New...
The Coulee Conference Wrestling Tournament in Black River Falls went down to the wire on Saturday, with three points separating the top two teams.
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro were led by five first-place finishers to an overall tally of 314, which came just shy of overtaking West Salem...
The Whitehall wrestling team finished a perfect dual season and won the Dairyland Conference title with wins over Blair-Taylor and Rice Lake at a double-dual at B-T on Thursday.
The Norsemen clinched the conference title with a 52-22 win over the Wildcats to begin the dual then blew past Rice Lake...
Blair-Taylor wrestling took a convincing win over Cochrane-Fountain City last Thursday, pinning three Pirates in the process.
Depth carried the Wildcats through the rest of the match, as five forfeit wins expanded the lead.
B-T improves to 4-1 on the season with the win. The Wildcats are scheduled...
The Blair-Taylor girls basketball team appeared to hit their stride this past week, tallying runaway wins in their two highest-scoring games of the year thus far.
The Wildcats throttled Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran on the road last Tuesday, before returning home Saturday for a similar result...
Whitehall held Alma/Pepin to 31 percent shooting from the field and forced 29 turnovers as they came away with a 41-35 road win last week Tuesday.
The Norse had offensive struggles of their own but were able to take a 25-19 lead into halftime and held on to win by eight.
The win put Whitehall at 8-...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro wrestling team cancelled a scheduled match Saturday in favor of participating in a quad Friday night.
The Titans took one of three matches at Iowa-Grant High School last week, winning over Darlington/Black Hawk before falling to Iowa-Grant/Highland and...
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs as a Green Bay Packers fan was a childhood filled with extremes.
Walking into my high school on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 after Green Bay’s NFC Championship win over the Bears and two weeks later after the Super Bowl XLV victory over the Steelers were arguably two of...
An injury early in their first game made for a long week for the Arcadia girls basketball team as they lost two of three games.
Arcadia was able to beat Black River Falls last week Monday, but lost senior guard Chloe Halverson to an ankle injury in the process. Known for her defense, Halverson is...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau boys basketball dropped a pair of games last week, including one in the Coulee Conference.
The Red Hawks fell last Monday at home out of conference to Altoona, before taking a Coulee loss to Black River Falls on the road on Friday. Their record falls to 1-7 overall on the...