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Coming into the season, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School boys basketball coach Jared McCutchen wasn’t sure what to expect.
Now three games — and three wins — into the year, McCutchen said his team is proving itself. The Red Hawks beat Cochrane-Fountain City 79-68 last Monday before beating...
After leading through the first six matches — the lightweight wrestlers — in a season-opening dual at Cadott High School, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro wrestling team saw its lead vanish quickly.
Cadott would go on to win the match 43-30.
Cadott won four straight matches by pins in...
Arcadia senior Kianna Suchla shot a three-pointer in the first half of a 55-45 win over Westby on Friday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
As the gymnasium at Westby High School slowly emptied on Friday, screams from the visiting locker room erupted and echoed through the far end of a nearby hallway — the Arcadia girls basketball team was winless no more.
The Raiders (1-3, 1-0 Coulee Conference) overcame a strong run by Westby in the...
Blair-Taylor’s Abby Thompson pushed the ball up the floor after a steal during their game against Whitehall on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Blair-Taylor junior Lindsay Steien reached a milestone as her team scored two convincing wins in Dairyland Conference play last week.
Less than three full games into her junior season, Steien scored the 1,000th point of her career last Friday against Whitehall. The basket that put her at that mark...
Caden Kruse of Blair-Taylor drew contact during a shot attempt during their game against Greenwood last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
If the first two games are any indication of what the Blair-Taylor boys basketball team will bring to the table this season, one thing is for certain — the scoring will come in droves.
The Wildcats scored 81 points to down Greenwood in their season opener last Thursday before keeping the offense...
Max Marsolek of Independence/Gilmanton worked for a pin during Thursday’s dual against Mondovi. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Two pins and five forfeits gave the Independence/Gilmanton wrestling team a win in its first match of the season last week Tuesday.
Facing former coach Chad Risler, the Indees began the match with two pins in new coach Ryan Guza’s debut. The Buffaloes came back to take the lead, but three forfeits...
Whitehall’s Andrea Sosalla went up for a basket during their game against Coulee Christian last week Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
A balanced scoring attack helped the Whitehall girls basketball team take a big lead as they moved to 3-0 on the season.
The Norse scored 35 points to take a 20-point lead into halftime then held Coulee Christian to just two baskets in the second half as they went on to win 69-19.
With a 3-0 record...
G-E-T senior guard Lindsey Lettner squeezed by a Sparta defender in a nonconference game last week Monday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Despite a bit of a sloppy start and an early injury in a nonconference game at Sparta on Monday, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls basketball team headed into halftime down a single basket.
But after watching Sparta nail back to back three-pointers to open the second half, the inexperienced Red...
There didn’t look to be much of a difference on the scoreboard, but the Independence girls basketball team’s defense wouldn’t let Boyceville threaten late in the game.
The Indees had a five-point lead at halftime, but it might as well have been twice as large considering the teams had combined for...
Breah Golden of Arcadia split a double team during last week’s game against La Crosse Aquinas. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Arcadia coach Lucas Passehl was hoping La Crosse Aquinas would miss, but that didn’t happen nearly enough and the Raiders couldn’t keep up with the Blugolds.
Aquinas ended up shooting 54 percent — including 15-for-29 from three — for the game after a first half in which they scorched the nets with...
