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Whitehall’s Luke Beighley drove to the basket during their game against Independence on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
As the new year began, the Whitehall boys basketball team took its game to another level.
The Norse began the week on Tuesday with a big second half that helped them pull away from Cochrane-Fountain City. On Friday, they were in complete control of a win over Independence.
The wins put Whitehall...
Whitehall’s Jonathan Thorn pushed the ball up the court during their game against Ladysmith on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall basketball team had a strong finish to earn one win, but couldn’t recover from a slow start in another game.
Both games were played in Whitehall as part of the team’s holiday tournament. The Norse opened the tournament with a 58-40 win over Chippewa Falls McDonell Central, but fell to...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School sophomore Cody Schmitz scored on a jump shot in a loss to Richland Center during the Aquinas holiday tournament on Monday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School boys basketball team has put on some impressive performances to this point in the 2021-22 season.
The same couldn’t be said for their last two games, a pair of losses in a holiday tournament at Aquinas last week. The Red Hawks (4-3 this season) hosted...
Cain Fremstad of Blair-Taylor released a jump shot during their game last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Despite being within reach for most of a nonconference game against Cashton last Thursday, the Blair-Taylor High School boys basketball team was unable to match the visitors’ scoring in key moments.
The final result was a 70-59 loss for the Wildcats, their third in a row after starting the season 4...
Callie Wagner of Blair-Taylor fought to secure a loose ball during their game against Cashton on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
One week after losing their first game of the 2021-22 season at the hands of Bangor, the Blair-Taylor High School girls basketball team got back to its winning ways.
The Wildcats (8-1 this season) downed visiting Cashton 83-54 last Thursday behind big offensive performances from juniors Lindsay...
G-E-T senior Lindsey Lettner hit a layup in the final minutes of regulation during a 60-58 overtime win over Holmen last Thursday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
When the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School girls basketball team lost senior Genna O’Neill to an ankle injury a few weeks ago, her absence was felt throughout the lineup as the Red Hawks adapted to life without one of their key players.
But in the same way that the team felt her absence, O’Neill...
Gunnar Johnson fought for control during a match at the Bi-State Classic in the La Crosse Center last Wednesday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Mel-Min High School wrestling co-op competed in one of the biggest events of the 2021-22 season last week, facing numerous other schools in the Wisconsin Bi-State Classic at the La Crosse Center on Wednesday and Thursday.
Tanner Andersen led the Titans with a second-...
Senior Kylie Schmitz fought for a rebound in the first half of a loss at Onalaska High School last Tuesday. Schmitz led G-E-T with eight rebounds. Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
As his team huddled together at halftime in a nonconference game at Onalaska High School last Tuesday, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls basketball coach Louis Hurd made his message clear.
“It’s going to take a team effort on defense,” he told the Red Hawks before they took the court for the second...
A 34-point night from Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School sophomore Cody Schmitz helped the Red Hawks past Holmen last Monday.
The host Vikings held an eight-point lead at the break, but the Red Hawks (4-1) outscored Holmen 38-26 in the second half to steal the win.
For Schmitz, the game was a...
The first win continues to be elusive for the Arcadia boys basketball team as they fell just short against Eleva-Strum last week Tuesday.
The 54-50 loss put Arcadia at 0-7 on the season with two of the losses being by fewer than five points and three by fewer than 10. The Raiders were scheduled to...
