Sports
Ben Hansen watched the ball to his glove for the out at first base during last Tuesday’s nonconference loss in Onalaska. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Whoever was keeping the scorebook for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau baseball team last week probably needed a pencil sharpener and a good hand stretch to keep up with a dynamic offensive showing from the Red Hawks.
Coach Scott Hovell watched his team surpass 10 runs in two of the team’s three games...
Runs were hard to earn for the Arcadia High School softball team last week against a trio of strong opponents.
Arcadia dropped a trio of games, scoring two runs across the three losses to Coulee Conference leaders Westby and Luther while also faltering to a 16-win team in Tomah.
The Raiders (3-11...
Blair-Taylor’s Kristoffer Sandal and Delorean Peterson led the back in the 1600 at the Dairyland Conference True Team meet held in Whitehall on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor boys track team topped the competition in a meet that scores every participant in each event.
The Wildcats scored 1,152 points in the competition, led by Kristoffer Sandal who won the 800, 1600 and 3200.
The Whitehall boys were fifth as they managed second-place finishes in the...
Blair-Taylor’s Lexi Lofgren threw to first for an out during their game against Independence/Gilmanton on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor softball team outscored its opponents 77-8 in six wins last week.
B-T scored at least 10 runs in five of the wins, winning each by at least nine runs. Their only close game was a 5-3 victory over Cochrane-Fountain City on Thursday.
The Wildcats began this week with a 16-1 record...
Arcadia junior Landan Bremer landed in the pit during the boys’ long jump competition last Friday during an invitational track and field met at UW-La Crosse. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Only one team scored more points than the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau boys track and field team at last Friday’s SCC/Coulee Challenge invitational track and field meet at UW-La Crosse.
Sam Ruiter won the mile run i and joined classmate Brady Seiling as individual champions at the event.
Arcadia won...
Benjamin Pierce
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Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau catcher Kinley Anderson went for the tag on a Westby runner stealing home during last Thursday’s 6-3 loss to Westby at G-E-T Middle School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
A dominant win over Onalaska last Monday was the highlight of another busy week for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau high school softball team.
The Red Hawks (4-6 overall, 2-3 Coulee Conference) handed Onalaska a 13-6 thrashing on Monday at home before dropping a trio of tight contests to other area...
After losing two close games to start the week, the Blair-Taylor baseball team finished with two wins to earn a split in its four games.
The Wildcats dropped a pair of one-run games on Monday and Tuesday, falling to Osseo-Fairchild and Whitehall (see story elsewhere in Sports). They got their...
Max Sobotta of Arcadia looked back a West Salem baserunner during their game last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Last week featured varying levels of success in Coulee Conference play for the Arcadia high school baseball team.
The Raiders opened the week with a statement win over Onalaska Luther last Tuesday before dropping both games of a doubleheader against West Salem—one convincingly and the other by a...
There were bright spots, but the Whitehall softball team was swept in two doubleheaders last week.
The Norse competed with Blair-Taylor in the first game last week Tuesday, but fell short, 8-0, before dropping the second game, 18-1. They were close with Alma Center Lincoln, falling 5-3 in the first...
