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Independence/Gilmanton senior Hunter Guenther threw the ball 30 yards downfield on a fake punt to close the first half of a 67-7 loss to host Cashton last Friday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
As cheers flooded the football field at Cashton High School last Friday and the final tones of the National Anthem faded, the visiting Independence/Gilmaton Indees gathered on the sideline preparing for what would be a grueling battle with one of the best teams in all of Division Seven.
The ensuing...
With two top-10 finishers, the Blair-Taylor boys cross country team finished sixth in the season-opening Cashton Invitational on Saturday.
Kristoffer Sandal was fourth and Delorean Peterson took seventh overall for the Wildcats as they scored 147 team points. The B-T girls team also competed, but...
After two straight seasons of reaching the WIAA Division Four State Tournament, the Arcadia High School boys soccer team kicked off the 2022 season last week with dreams of going for the three-peat.
La Crosse Central hosted the Raiders in a season opener at Fields for Kids last Thursday in an...
Arcadia’s Egan Pauly made his way to the sideline after picking up a block from (13) Cam Boland on a touchdown run against Whitehall on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
A two-score lead was in jeopardy as the Whitehall football team was driving down for a potential game-winning drive, but a high snap helped Arcadia preserve the 22-19 victory.
Arcadia seemed to have taken control midway through the third quarter when a touchdown and two-point conversion put them...
Ithzel Cossio sent a shot toward the pin on the 16th hole at Drugan's Castle Mound Golf Course in Holmen last Tuesday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Both Arcadia High School girls golf coach Mike Sobotta and Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau coach Scott Hovell believe they have a shot at the Coulee Conference title despite losing their best golfers from last year’s teams.
The scores from the first conference meet last Wednesday show that such confidence...
Brock Sluga ran up the middle for a Whitehall first down during their game against Colfax on Friday night. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall football team was driving for what could have been the tying score, but lighting flashed and that’s where the drive and the game ended.
The Norse trailed Colfax 14-6 at halftime, but received the opening kickoff in the second half. They picked up a first down near midfield when Brock...
Independence/Gilmanton’s Tyler Kingsbury tried to get around the corner during their game against Boyceville on Saturday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
A long field goal put the Independence/Gilmanton football team ahead in the first quarter, but it was all downhill from there as Boyceville scored 47 unanswered points in the season opener.
The game began Friday night as the Indees rattled off a big run, but that was the lone offensive highlight...
A 52-point lead in the first half for host Ellsworth stood up as final in the Arcadia High School football team’s 2022 season opener on Friday.
The powerhouse Panthers scored eight touchdowns in the effort, including six on the ground. Ellsworth went 12-1 last season, losing to Catholic Memorial 21...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau's Ben Peterson took hold of Mondovi running back Dawson Rud in the first quarter of a 20-10 loss to the visiting Buffaloes last Friday. The game was the first of the 2022 season for new G-E-T coach Paul Anderson's team and featured a two-hour weather delay. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Most coaches don’t soon forget their first game running a new team, but Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau head football coach Paul Anderson’s debut on Friday should probably be circled on a list of memorable firsts somewhere.
Anderson and the Red Hawks opened the 2022 season with a game that featured just...
Arcadia senior Whitney Sonsalla putted during an invitational golf meet to open the 2022 girls' season last Friday morning at La Crosse Country Club. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Whitney Sonsalla showed she has no plans of slowing down in her senior season of high school golf last Friday, cracking the top 10 in a loaded field at the season opener at the La Crosse Country Club in Onalaska.
But it could be just the beginning for a player who coach Mike Sobotta described as...
