Sports
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...
The Whitehall wrestling team found itself on the winning side of three duals at a quadrangular hosted by Black River Falls on Thursday.
The action was originally scheduled as a Dairyland Conference dual against Independence/Gilmanton. The Norse still got the win over the Indees to improve to 2-0 in...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City gymnasts finished narrowly behind Sparta for second place at the McLellan Memorial Invite in Holmen on Saturday.
Strong performances on the floor led the all-around effort for GMC, with the Spartans just edging past them on the...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls basketball bounced back from an 0-3 start to their season with their second and third straight wins last week.
The Red Hawks picked up two road Coulee Conference wins, beating both Onalaska Luther last Tuesday and Black River Falls on Friday by double-digits. A...
Blair-Taylor boys basketball swept the two games they played last week, including a Dairyland Conference battle over Whitehall.
B-T outlasted the Norse last Monday, before rounding out their week Thursday with a win over Osseo-Fairchild. The latter game took the place of a scheduled matchup with...
The Arcadia boys basketball team got one Coulee Conference win at the buzzer, but fell short in the second half in another game as they split two conference home games.
It seemed Arcadia was headed for overtime against Black River Falls last week Tuesday before Trev Bjorge rebounded a miss and put...
After a loss to Blair-Taylor to start the week, the Whitehall boys basketball team got off to fast starts in two wins.
The Norse stumbled out of the gates on Monday, scoring just 16 first half points in a 63-51 loss to Blair-Taylor (see story elsewhere in Sports). But they rebounded the next day...
The Blair-Taylor boys swept three games last week, including two in the Dairyland Conference.
B-T took a dominating road win over Augusta to start the week last Tuesday, followed Friday by a home victory over Melrose-Mindoro. Then on Saturday, the Wildcats took the victory over Bangor to take...



