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Jessica Weiler
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School volleyball program didn’t have to go far to find its new leader.
Jessica Weiler will take the reins of the varsity team after being the junior varsity coach last season.
Weiler has been around volleyball since she was a child, she said in a post on the...
Vince Braun of Arcadia Post 17 applied a tag on a pickoff attempt during their game against Alma/Pepin last week Tuesday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Wisconsin American Legion Class AA regional tournament got off to a good start for Arcadia in River Falls last week, but the team lost its next two games.
Arcadia finished the regular season with a 5-4 win over Alma/Pepin on Tuesday. After winning five of their last seven games in the regular...
Red Hawk Post 354 second baseman Warren Stoner dove to tag out a Prairie du Chien runner early in a 5-4 loss at G-E-T High School last Friday as part of the Galesville regional tournament. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Only one team could stop Post 354 this weekend as the host Red Hawks looked to win their home regional tournament.
That team was Prairie du Chien, which earned a walkoff win over the Red Hawks in their first game on Friday before ending the hosts’ season and winning a regional title in the double...
A Mauston runner slid safely into second base as the ball flipped over the glove of Whitehall second baseman Jonah Czarnopis in last Friday's legion baseball regional tournament opener in Galesville. Whitehall won 8-2. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The first ever playoff game for Whitehall Legion Post 191 baseball finished as a big win for coach Mike Gilbertson and his team.
And while Post 191 dropped their next two games, Whitehall was proud to get its first ever postseason victory.
The Norse beat Mauston 8-2 on Friday before dropping games...
Arcadia’s Cam Boland threw to first for an out during their game against Whitehall last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Arcadia Tickfer-Erickson American Legion Post 17 baseball team slugged past Whitehall before splitting a couple low-scoring games against West Salem last week.
Arcadia scored seven runs in the first inning of a 10-7 win to start a doubleheader against Whitehall on Thursday. They hammered out...
Cole Williams watched the ball to his glove at second base for Red Hawk Post 354 in game one of a doubleheader against Whitehall last Tuesday. The Red Hawks won both games. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School legion baseball team ended the regular season with two lopsided wins over Whitehall last Tuesday.
Red Hawk Post 354 won both games in the doubleheader by double digits. The Red Hawks open regional playoffs on Thursday and Whitehall was slated to host Osseo...
Trempealeau native Dana Feyen won the Big 12 Conference Championship in the 5,000-meter race at the conference’s annual outdoor track and field championships in Lubbock, Texas on May 15. (Photo submitted by Iowa State Athletics)
Dana Feyen reached for her phone, exhausted and still trying to comprehend what she had just accomplished at the Big 12 Conference outdoor track and field championships in Lubbock, Texas on May 15.
The 2019 Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School graduate found the contact for her mom and hit ‘Dial’...
Arcadia catcher Carson Martin tagged out Red Hawk Post 354 runner Cole Williams at home plate during the first game of a legion baseball doubleheader at G-E-T High School last Tuesday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School legion baseball team played seven games in six days last week.
Post 354 split a pair of high octane games with Arcadia on Tuesday and edged West Salem 11-7 on Thursday. They suffered losses to both the Onalaska 19U and 17U teams on Saturday before closing...
Jake Dunn
Jake Dunn was ticked off as he pushed a tee into the dirt on the tee box of the ninth hole at Ettrick Golf Club last Wednesday.
Dunn had just missed a birdie putt on his eighth hole, a gaffe he thought would keep him from getting to the course record for lowest score.
“I was pissed,” Dunn told the...
When did local sports become more about those perched in the stands than the kids wearing the jerseys?
They haven’t.
But at a recent summer baseball game, I watched parents berate an umpire over his strike zone before later taunting calls they didn’t like, eventually escalating to screaming and...
