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Shandler Herman delivered a pitch for the Pleasantville Lions Club team during their game against Ritter Hardware on Friday night. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
After taking a big lead, My Second Home needed a late blast to seal the championship in the annual Pleasantville Fourth of July Fastpitch Softball Tournament held last Friday-through-Sunday.
Aaron Berg smashed a grand slam in the second inning to help My Second Home take a 7-0 lead over Cushing...
Third baseman Ben Hansen looked to the umpire for a call after trying to tag a La Crosse North Star runner early in a Coulee Region Legion baseball game at Logan High School last Thursday. The Red Hawks lost the game 4-3 before winning a second game 7-6. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Post 354 baseball team hit two home runs last Thursday in a Coulee Region Legion game at Logan High School but fell 4-3 at the hands of the North Stars.
They avenged the loss with a tight 7-6 win in game two, which also saw a Red Hawk home run.
Post 354 hosted Arcadia...
The annual Fourth of July fastpitch softball tournament hosted by the Pleasantville Lions Club begins this Friday with six teams competing.
The first game will be played at 6:30 p.m. when the Pleasantville Lions team plays Ritter Hardware. My Second Home and Foster Fireside will then play at 8 p....
Dan Stuhr remembers clearly the first time someone asked him how he handled coaching girls as the head softball coach at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School.
His response?
“I said, ‘I don’t coach girls. I coach ball players. I don’t care if they’re a boy or girl, I expect them to wear their hats,...
Whitehall’s Brock Sluga swung on a pitch during their game against Holmen last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Whitehall’s Hutchens-Stendahl Post 191 American Legion baseball team was one out away from a win on Tuesday, but they couldn’t get the final out and then dropped another game on Thursday.
Post 191 led 5-4 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh against Onalaska, but a hit and a wild pitch both...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempeleau's Collin Handke pitched to a La Crosse batter in a legion baseball game last Tuesday at home. La Crosse won both games in a doubleheader. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
A week that featured ample sun and even more heat last week also saw plenty of offense from the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior legion baseball team in a Monday win over Tomah. Post 354 then dropped both games in a doubleheader to La Crosse on Tuesday.
Post 354 was scheduled to host Onalaska on...
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School softball team will be led by somebody other than Dan Stuhr next season.
Stuhr is resigning from his spot as head coach after a 2021-22 season that saw the Red Hawks finish 20-6, including a perfect 12-0 in conference...
Dave “Boots” Bjorge retired as the Arcadia softball coach, a position he held for 19 years. Bjorge led the program to four Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Tournament appearances including a state championship in 2014.
As Dave Bjorge walked around Broiler-Days earlier this month, he ran into numerous current and former Arcadia High School softball players. They talked about memories of big wins and bigger moments, ranging from dugout chats and championship games to post career events such as weddings and...
Brayden Lisowski got the start for Whitehall in a Wisconsin legion baseball game at West Salem High School last Friday. Whitehall fell 14-4 in five innings. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Whitehall Post 191 is off and running in their first-ever season as an official American Legion baseball team.
Post 191 split a pair of games last week, beating Osseo 4-1 on Thursday before a strong West Salem program handled Post 191 in a lopsided victory the following day.
Whitehall (2-2) was...
Arcadia’s Ryan Gardow charged a ground ball during their game against Holmen last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Holmen put on a show offensively and took advantage of several Arcadia mistakes as they scored 16 runs in five innings.
Three runs in the first inning gave Holmen the lead, but they kept piling on before going up 16-0. Arcadia Post 17 scored two in the bottom of the fifth, but the game ended by...
