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The Independence girls basketball team continued to have a difficult time putting the ball in the basket as they scored a combined 53 points in two losses last week.
The Indees got going in the second half against New Auburn last week Tuesday, but it was too little, too late as they trailed by 11...
The Independence boys basketball team came out firing twice last week, but it was only enough to earn a split in two games.
The Indees buried a handful of three pointers early as they took a 29-21 lead at halftime and held on to beat New Auburn, 53-49, on the road last week Tuesday. They made five...
Bryan Rogstad of Blair-Taylor worked to free his arm in a quarterfinal match at the WIAA Division Three regional at Aquinas High School on Saturday. Rogstad advanced to the sectional this week by placing second in the 195-pound bracket. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Blair-Taylor, Independence/Gilmanton and Whitehall wrestling teams combined to have 12 wrestlers advance from the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Three La Crosse Aquinas Super Regional last Saturday to the Richland Center sectional this Saturday.
This is the first year,...
Arcadia’s Prestin Scow released a three pointer during their game against Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau last Thursday. Scow made a free throw with two seconds left to give the Raiders a 61-60 win. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Arcadia junior Prestin Scow was all smiles as his peers chucked him up onto their shoulders and cheers hailed from the grandstands in the Wanek Center gymnasium last Friday.
Scow finished with just one point against Arcadia’s county rival, but his free throw with two seconds remaining sealed a 61-...
GMC senior Abby Miller began her beam routine at last Tuesday’s triple dual gymnastics meet at West Salem High School. Miller took the top score with a 9.15 on the event and won the all-around competition. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Senior Abby Miller won all four events and the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City gymnastics team took the top three all-around scores to lead the team past Arcadia last week.
The teams competed in a triple dual at West Salem High School, one that saw Arcadia compete...
Aaron Rodgers doesn’t know what he wants to do, but he sure does seem to like talking about it.
There he was last weekend, joking about his future as he made his way down the golf course at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. But it certainly isn’t a laughing matter to the Green Bay Packers.
Earlier...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls basketball team dropped a pair of games against two strong area programs last week.
Division One Holmen left with a win against G-E-T on Monday, and the top team in the Coulee Conference beat the Red Hawks on Thursday. Full individual statistics were not reported...
The Independence/Gilmanton wrestling team clinched the Dairyland Conference cham-pionship with a dual win over Blair-Taylor at Cochrane-Fountain City last Thursday.
The Indees clinched the victory by winning the final three matches of the dual for a 48-25 victory. With wins over C-FC and Whitehall...
The Independence girls basketball team played tough defense last week, but it was only good enough to earn a split in its two games.
The Indees held Black River Falls to 38 points as they held on late for an eight-point win. Their defense was strong early against Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran on...
It was already a memorable week for Independence High School senior Tyler Kingsbury.
On Thursday, the guard became the sixth ever Independence boys basketball player to reach 1,000 career points, though it came in a 58-36 loss to Alma/Pepin. That was the ninth straight loss for the Indees as they...
