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The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro wrestling co-op made their way to the La Crosse Center with machinations of being in the very last dual of the season battling it out for state gold.
That dream went unrealized for the Titans, who fell one win shy of advancing to the championship round...
For a second straight season, the G-E-T/Mel-Min/C-FC gymnastics co-op wrapped up their season as a team by competing at the state tournament. Though there were still nerves, co-head coach Carley Boos thought they handled the pressure of state better this time around — an exciting prospect given...
Sometimes the shots fall, sometimes they don’t.
The Independence/Gilmanton girls basketball team made shots late to pull ahead and defeat De Soto in Thursday’s sectional semifinal in Arcadia. On Saturday, however, the Indees had several chances, but couldn’t get the ball to go through the basket...
One splash of the net changed everything.
The Independence/Gilmanton girls basketball team had trailed for almost the entire Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association sectional semifinal. On the few occasions when the team was able to take a lead, De Soto marched back and quickly reclaimed the...
A slow start can prove fatal in the do-or-die part of the season. That’s a lesson the Arcadia girls basketball team learned the hard way in their playoff opener, ending an otherwise solid overall winter of hoops with a whimper.
The fifth-seeded Elk Mound Mounders (16-10) raced out of the gates to a...
The Blair-Taylor boys basketball team came through down the stretch to get one win, but struggled late in another game last week.
B-T trailed Augusta for most of last Monday’s game, but the Wildcats went on a run toward the end of the game to come away with a 65-62 win. On Thursday, B-T had a 10-...
After a slow start, the Whitehall boys basketball team got its offense going in the second half and pulled away from Alma Center Lincoln for a 51-29 road win.
Whitehall trailed 15-13 at halftime of its final regular-season game last Thursday. The Hornets scored first in the second half, but the...
Having one basketball program win their first-ever conference tournament title would be cause enough for celebration. But having both your men’s and women’s hoops teams pull off the same feat in consecutive days? That’s a memorable rarity that the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse got to experience...
An arctic blast-induced scheduling quirk resulted in the Arcadia boys basketball team playing Viroqua twice in a row to finish off the regular season. The Raiders turned that into their only sweep of a Coulee Conference opponent this winter.
Arcadia (8-16, 4-8 Coulee) overmatched the Blackhawks (4-...
The Whitehall girls basketball team got off to a slow start and could never catch up as its season came to an end with a 56-40 home loss to Mondovi on Tuesday of last week.
While the Norse defeated the Buffaloes, 51-36, on Feb. 9, last week’s Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association regional...


