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Whitehall’s Devon McCune threw to first for an out during their game against Osseo-Fairchild last week Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
After staving off elimination once, the Whitehall baseball team’s season came to an end last week.
The team was looking at the end at home last week Tuesday, facing a 3-1 deficit in the bottom of the seventh against Osseo-Fairchild, but three runs in the final at-bat gave the Whitehall team a walk-...
After falling during the 100 hurdles, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Quinn Wenthe rebounded with a third-place finish in the 300 hurdles at the state track meet on Saturday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The audience at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Roger Harring Stadium let out a collective “ooh” noise just after Quinn Wenthe clipped a hurdle in the 110-meter finals and fell to her hands and knees during the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Track and Field...
Blair-Taylor's Madalynn Frederixon lobbed an underhand throw to first base to secure an out during a WIAA Division 5 sectional final at Almond-Bancroft last Wednesday. The Wildcats lost 4-0 to Assumption. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Chloe Wagner held on tightly with a bittersweet smile on her face as she hugged a teammate who couldn’t hold back tears Thursday evening on a softball diamond two hours from home.
A few feet away coach Greg Bratina consoled another Blair-Taylor High School softball player, reminding her that he was...
Hunter Guenther of Independence/Gilmanton ran up to catch a pop up during their regional semifinal game against Alma/Pepin last week Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Independence/Gilmanton baseball team did what coach Peter Bartingale said it needed to do, scoring four runs in the bottom of the sixth to win the regional title over Cochrane-Fountain City last week Wednesday.
“You’ve just got to survive, keep the game close and hopefully win it at the end,”...
Whitehall High School senior Kevin Carroll will be returning to Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association state competition.
Carroll qualified for the state cross country meet last fall and was the only area qualifier from the WIAA Mondovi Sectional held last Thursday. The Whitehall runner...
As Cole Williams walked toward the batters’ box in a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Two baseball regional at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle School last Thursday, the senior had no illusions over what the at-bat meant to his team.
It was the bottom of the seventh inning,...
By Andrew Dannehy
Times Editor
The top two teams were clear, but the Whitehall golf team was able to lock down the fourth and final sectional qualifying spot at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Cochrane-Fountain City regional last week Tuesday.
The Norse scored a 380, led by...
Cochrane-Fountain City ended the Blair-Taylor baseball team’s season last Thursday after eight innings and a walk-off single.
The fourth-seeded Pirates squeezed by the fifth-seeded Wildcats 3-2 to give Blair-Taylor a final 5-17 record for the 2022 season. The loss followed a regular season finale...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior Kaitlyn Gunderson ripped down a bunt in the first inning of a WIAA Division Two regional playoff win over Neillsville at G-E-T Middle School last Tuesday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
All season long, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School softball team has been one of the area’s most aggressive teams on the basepaths.
In last Tuesday’s regional semifinal game against sixth-seeded Neillsville, though, the Red Hawks got caught being a bit too aggressive in the first inning....
Whitehall’s Brayden Lisowski connected on a pitch during their regional game against Melrose-Mindoro last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
With one swing of the bat, the Whitehall baseball team’s postseason changed.
The Norse led Melrose-Mindoro early in their Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association regional quarterfinal game, but the Mustangs rallied to tie the game. The tie didn’t last long, however, as Isaac Skoyen began the...
