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Arcadia High School graduate Meghan (Sobotta) Murphy is being inducted into the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 6. (Photograph courtesy of UW-Eau Claire staff)
Meghan (Sobotta) Murphy was hit with a reality check in her freshman season on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire golf team nearly 20 years ago.
Murphy questioned if she was good enough to be a Blugold and contemplated quitting once or twice after some high scores and working through coaching...
The Blair-Taylor volleyball team picked up two Dairyland Conference wins to stay one match back from first place.
B-T hit the road and came back with a 3-1 win over Eleva-Strum last week Tuesday before topping Alma Center Lincoln, 3-1 in Blair on Thursday. Set scores from the two matches were not...
Blair-Taylor’s Jacob Kling (52) and Matthew Nehring (71) combined to sack Alma/Pepin quarterback Madox Stewart during their game on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor football team had no answer for Alma/Pepin’s Demetrius Bergmann in a 56-20 home loss Friday night.
Bergmann ran for 277 yards and four touchdowns and returned a kickoff for a touchdown, giving him 353 total yards and five touchdowns. He also ran in four two-point conversion, making...
For the first time in the 18-year history of the Coulee Conference, neither Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau nor Arcadia won the conference title in girls golf.
Arcadia, which has won 12 Coulee titles, including the last five, wasn’t able to field a team this year, which meant there was going to be a new...
The Arcadia football team scored on its first play from scrimmage, but was intercepted on its last, falling to Black River Falls, 14-12, on the road last Friday.
Arcadia dialed up a trick play that worked for a 67-yard touchdown on its first offensive play. However, the Tigers scored to take a 14-...
A chance to tie or take the lead after a 97-yard drive slipped away from the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau football team as they fell short in West Salem last week.
G-E-T scored with about four and a half minutes left in the game to get within a point. However, their two-point conversion try was...
While the area teams didn’t have the depth to finish near the top in the meet, one area runner stood out at the Durand-Arkansaw Invitational at Rolling Greens Golf Course on Thursday.
Independence/Gilmanton sophomore Taylor Sylla finished behind only Lili Klinkhamer of St. Croix Central and Claire...
Two second quarter touchdowns gave Eleva-Stum a big lead at halftime and they held on to beat Whitehall, 30-14, last week.
The Norse scored and kicked a point after to get within a point at 8-7, but the Cardinals scored two touchdowns before halftime then put the game away with another in the...
Against larger schools and some of the top programs in the area, the Arcadia boys cross country team came away with a fifth-place finish.
The Raiders had three runners place inside the top 25 as they scored 129 team points, behind Eastview (108), Holmen (92), DeForest (45) and West Salem (39). G-E-...
Kyla Lambeck of Whitehall saved the ball from going out of bounds during their match against Independence/Gilmanton last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall volleyball team went from a game below .500 to two games above last week.
The Norse won two matches in Dairyland Conference play, beating Augusta last week Tuesday and Independence/Gilmanton on Thursday. Then they went 3-2 in a tournament hosted by Eleva-Strum on Saturday.
The wins...
