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Blair-Taylor girls basketball team secured wins in two of their three games last week, all of which were against Dairyland Conference opponents.
The Wildcats began the week last Monday with a loss to Cochrane-Fountain City in a battle of Dairyland Large leaders. Then on Thursday, B-T earned a road...
Independence’s Alex Pfaff took a contested shot during their game against Melrose-Mindoro on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Defensive struggles were a consistent theme for the Independence boys basketball team as they lost two of three games last week.
The defense struggled in Independence’s only win, allowing 75 points, but they topped that with a season-best 89 points for a non-conference win over New Lisbon....
With two outright wins and a tiebreaker, the Independence/Gilmanton wrestling team went 3-0 at a quadrangular held at Cochrane-Fountain City on Friday.
The Indees picked up wins of 54-18 over C-FC and 45-9 over Richland Center before winning the tiebreaker after a 36-36 dual against De Soto.
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Emerson Pronschinske of Independence drew contact on a shot attempt during their game against Augusta on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
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...
Lane Huebner of Arcadia escaped from Bradyn Lockington of G/M during the Coulee Conference Tournament on Saturday. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
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...
Brekken Kulig of Whitehall tried to flip Bryan Rogstad of Blair-Taylor during the Norse's win over the Wildcats last Thursday. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
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...
