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The shots just weren't falling.
The Arcadia girls basketball team was still in position to win the game because their defense held Prescott to just 13 first half points. The problem was that the Raiders only had 13 themselves.
That changed in the second half, particularly during a 11-0 run that...
Tanner Andersen of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro attempted to flip his opponenet during the WIAA Division Two State wrestling tournament on Saturday. (Times photography by Zac Bellman)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro wrestling team returns to a familiar place with a familiar opponent for the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Team State Tournament on Saturday.
The Titans received the third seed for the tournament at the University of Wisconsin Field House...
Chloe Halverson of Arcadia drew contact as she went for a layup during their regional semifinal game against Ellsworth on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Arcadia girls basketball team started rolling in the final minute of the regional semifinal game and never looked back.
The Raiders had struggled to get any separation from Ellsworth before a 10-2 run in the final minute of the first half to take a 10-point lead into halftime before they...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City (GMC) gymnastics team members hit their marks and tallied top scores en route to earning a trip to state at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Two River Falls Sectional on Saturday.
GMC tallied a 136.95...
Trevor Daffinson of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro attempted to pin his opponenet during the WIAA Division Two State wrestling tournament on Saturday. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
Wrestlers from Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro took home five top-six placements among their seven competitors at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Two State Wrestling Championship this past weekend.
An individual title eluded the Titans this year, but the weekend...
Two wins put Blair-Taylor’s Logan Shramek (182) in the championship match before he ran into a buzz saw and defending state champion.
Shramek received a bye in the first round of the tournament because he won the Westby sectional. He avoided a rematch from the 2019 Wisconsin Interscholastic...
A conference title seemed impossible after the Whitehall boys basketball team lost its first four games of the 2019-20 season, but the Norse have only lost two games since and with two wins last week they won a share of the Dairyland Conference Large Division title.
The last of Whitehall’s four...
Ryan Oldendorf, Blair, traveled to Brown Deer for the 2020 12-and-Under Wisconsin Short Course Yards state championship swim meet to compete against the fastest USA swimmers in the state last weekend.
Oldendorf, age 12, qualified for the state swim meet in four individual events: the 50 yard...
The Independence boys basketball team finished the regular season with a road win last week.
The Indees battled past Alma/Pepin for a 52-50 win in Alma on Thursday to finish the regular season. No further statistics or information from the game was reported ahead of press time.
The win put...
Grant Beirne of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau drove past a Tiger defender during the Red Hawks 62-52 win over Black River Falls on Tuesday. (Times photography by Zac Bellman)
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau did their part with an outside shot at splitting the Coulee Conference up to four ways heading into last week, but did not get the help they needed to clinch a share of the title.
Entering last Thursday’s action within a game of West Salem (8-3) and Black River Falls (8-3...
