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Ryan Sokup of Arcadia attempted to get around the edge as Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Reid Johnson attempted to tackle him during last Friday’s game. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Arcadia coach Derek Updike complemented the grit his team showed as they held on to even the season series with a 14-12 win over Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau on Friday.
“We’re not pretty, but we get the job done somehow,” Updike said. “The kids just don’t give up and they play together.”
The difference...
Standing on the sideline of a spring high school football game two Fridays ago, one year after we had no prep sports at all to attend, was a strange feeling. I found myself pondering how much things can change in a year as I looked back, as well as forward.
In the rear view were painful memories of...
Evan Pauly of Arcadia broke into the open field for a touchdown during the first quarter of Arcadia’s win over Kewaunee. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
After an early score, the Arcadia football team’s offense struggled, but the defense put the game away for a 13-7 win.
The Raiders scored on their second possession, but their offense struggled the rest of the game. They added a defensive touchdown and held off a late Storm front.
The game against...
There will not be a MLB All-Star Game in the Atlanta area in 2021, but the game and state in which it previously was scheduled are not cancelled.
The show will go on in Colorado this year, and as for Atlanta, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred did not mince words in a statement shortly after the passage...
Justice Vaaler of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau looked down field just prior to throwing a 72-yard touchdown to Luke Vance in the Red Hawks' 20-19 win over Arcadia on Friday. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
The first meeting between Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau and Arcadia on the gridiron since Sept. 28, 2018 went down to the wire on Friday.
The Red Hawks took a late lead before holding firm at the goal line on a potential lead-changing two-point try in the final two minutes to secure the win.
G-E-T...
When Shaka Smart was announced on March 25 as the 18th head coach in the history of the Marquette University basketball program, many including myself were hesitant to believe it.
We had been through this dance before with this exact coach, seven years ago. At the time, I was a sophomore at...
Lane Huebner ran down the sideline after making a catch during the first quarter of Arcadia’s win over Black River Falls last Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Arcadia’s offense slowed down after a quick start, but their defense and special teams helped them pull away for a 34-14 win on Friday night.
It took just two plays for Arcadia’s offense to score, but it stalled down after that. The team’s defense and special teams helped get more scores and turn...
Trevor Daffinson took down Kingdom Prep Lutheran’s Jaden Johnson during Thursday night’s game. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The bus breaking down on the way to Galesville might not have been the worst part of the evening for the Kingdom Prep Lutheran football team as Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau scored five touchdowns in the span of seven offensive plays to help open a 50-point lead by halftime on Thursday.
KPL’s bus broke...
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, a recently-concluded 30-year study on the coverage of women’s athletics feels especially poignant to discuss.
A University of Southern California and Purdue University joint study conducted every five years since 1989 found that in 2019, “95 percent of...
Brady Seiling of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau is forced out of bounds by a Spartan defender after a first down run during the Red Hawks' 46-38 win over Sparta on Friday. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
A return to football for the first time in just over 500 days came with every bit of the excitement, as well as perhaps a bit of the rust, anticipated on Friday at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau.
In a battle of big plays early, three sustained drives across the fourth quarter and into overtime enabled...