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The Independence/Gilmanton baseball team scored the first four runs and held on to beat Cochrane-Fountain City, 6-3, on the road on Friday.
The game came after a 3-1 loss to Blair-Taylor (see story elsewhere in Sports). The Indees entered this week with a 5-5 record before Tuesday’s game against...
The Independence/Gilmanton softball team struggled in three Dairyland Conference losses last week.
The Indees got off to OK starts, but quickly fell off in losses to Blair-Taylor on Tuesday (see story elsewhere in Sports) and Melrose-Mindoro on Thursday. On Friday, the Indees never got going,...
Distance events carried the Independence/Gilmanton girls team to a title, while the Whitehall boys team dominated the springs for its championship at the Dairyland Conference’s annual True Team meet hosted by Augusta last Thursday.
The meet scores every competitor with first-place finishers earning...
G-E-T’s Wyatt Oines swung at a pitch during the Red Hawks’ win over rival last Monday at Parker Hagg Field. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau finds itself right in the thick of the battle for a Coulee Conference baseball championship after a sweep of rival Arcadia last week.
The Red Hawks (10-7, 6-2 Coulee) worked their way into a tie (alongside Westby) for first place in the conference standings coming into this...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior Sawyer Smock and Arcadia junior Jaylie Dahl each hope to be part of the equation at next month’s state track meet in La Crosse. This past weekend, both of them enjoyed a high level of success in the venue they hope to soon compete at on a grander stage.
Smock and...
After a one-run loss to start the week, the Whitehall softball team won two games.
Whitehall had a lead for most of its game against Cochrane-Fountain City last week Tuesday, but the Pirates pulled through late for a 9-8 win. The Norse rebounded with a 3-2 win at Osseo-Fairchild on Thursday before...
After Arcadia fell behind early, Layna Wozney calmed the waters and opened the door to a comeback win by pitching five innings in relief and allowing only one run. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
Heading into last week, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau softball team was the lone remaining survivor unbeaten in Coulee Conference play. Through five innings of their first of two rivalry matchups against Arcadia, it appeared as if that unblemished record was in no danger.
Instead, the Raiders (13-7...
G-E-T’s Wyatt Nichols got ready to pass the baton to Mikah Vail while Whitehall’s Caydan Johnston handed off his baton to Mason Przybylla during the boys’ 400-meter relay. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
On an evening where they competed before a home crowd, a trio of Blair-Taylor boys shined bright for the Wildcats with first-place showings.
Blair-Taylor junior Connor Kruse won the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.36 seconds, senior Hunter Wagner won the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.05 seconds...
Blair-Taylor pitcher Andrea Aleckson delivered a pitch during the team’s win over Independence/Gilmanton last week Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor softball team was rolling, until it wasn’t.
The Wildcats won its first three games last week, all by fairly convincing scores as the team beat Independence/Gilmanton, 12-3, on Tuesday; Alma Center Lincoln, 26-0 on Wednesday and Alma/Pepin, 8-1, on Thursday. After that offensive...
An increasingly familiar theme is set to play out at the Preakness Stakes this Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore: the dream of a Triple Crown winner has been dashed long before the horses even make their way to the starting gate.
At the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby earlier this...
