Sports
After spending 26 years coaching the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau football team, Jon Steffenhagen will be looking for a new way to spend his time. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
For the better part of the last 26 school years, the daily routine for Jon Steffenhagen, 57, has been largely the same: up at 4 a.m., in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau weight room by 5:20 for a workout, supervising football players or powerlifters in their workouts beginning at 6, teaching physical...
For a variety of reasons, I have been reflecting on one of my favorite television show quotes in recent weeks.
“I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.”
The quote was uttered by The Office’s Andy Bernard (Ed Helms), but is applicable to the...
Arcadia’s Carson Pehler tagged out a Sparta base runner during their game last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Runs were tough to come by for the Arcadia American Legion Post 17 baseball team, but they still managed a split last week.
Post 17 struggled all around against Holmen last week Monday, losing 12-1 as Holmen scored at least once in every at-bat. Arcadia was able to slow Sparta down on Thursday,...
Silver Star Nutrition of La Crosse won the 2021 Pleasantville Lions Club’s Fourth of July fastpitch softball tournament held last weekend.
The La Crosse team beat Strikers Lanes of Baldwin to win the championship with Ffats Brewing of Whitehall taking third and Weiner’s Bar of Ettrick taking fourth...
Three area schools will be represented as four athletes compete in the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-Star games in Wisconsin Dells next week.
Blair-Taylor will be well represented with two players and coach Randy Storlie for the Division Five Red team.
Two four-year starters in Kyle...
Two Whitehall High School graduates and one from Arcadia will team up as members of the South Small School team in the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Game next week Saturday.
Liam Herrick and Ryan Kleinhans had their senior seasons cut short due to a COVID-19 exposure, but they...
Blake Thiesse (above) and Zack Thiesse (below) were teammates at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau and now competitors in the Chippewa River Baseball League where both were selected to the All-Star Game as pitchers.
Asking Blake, Zack and Kaleb Thiesse which of them is the best pitcher right now yielded three curiously different answers.
Blake, who just finished his third year at Upper Iowa University, answered rather diplomatically.
“Everyone is battling it out, but honestly it depends on the day. We each...
A base hit fell just behind Wildcat second baseman Lexi Lofgren during Blair-Taylor's 7-5 loss to Juda/Albany in the WIAA State Semifinal at UW-Green Bay last Tuesday. A WIAA State Title eluded Blair-Taylor softball for the fourth consecutive season. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
An undefeated run for Blair-Taylor softball ended at 28 games for the second-consecutive season, as the Wildcats fell in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Four State Semifinal at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay last Tuesday.
“What’s the word? ‘Snakebit?’ It really seemed...
Luke Vance celebrated as he crossed the finish line in first place following the 100 in the state track meet on Friday. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
As the saying goes, it is not how you start, but how you finish.
Luke Vance of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau went from middle of the pack in the first 50 meters of the 100 meter dash to standing on the podium with two state titles, two school records and three total medals by the end of Friday’s...
Ziyannah Conner of Independence/Gilmanton competes in the 100 hurdles at the WIAA Division Three State Track Meet at UW-La Crosse last Thursday. (Times photograph by Zac Bellman)
When Ziyannah Conner of Independence/Gilmanton looked down the list of Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Three State Track Meet competitors and saw herself as the top seed in the 100 meter hurdles by a quarter of a second, she refused to allow herself to be complacent.
“They...
