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The Independence/Gilmanton boys basketball team was close to its first win of the season, but couldn’t execute down the stretch.
The Indees began the week with a 61-31 loss at Melrose-Mindoro on Thursday. Two days later, I/G was in the game up until the final whistle, but managed just one point in...
The Independence/Gilmanton girls basketball team got off to strong starts in two lopsided victories last week.
In both Monday’s 64-48 win over Cochrane-Fountain City and Tuesday’s 78-46 victory over Augusta, the Indees went on runs early in the game and took big leads into halftime.
The wins put...
Defense led the way for the Blair-Taylor girls basketball team in a conference win last Tuesday.
The Wildcats held Melrose-Mindoro to just 23.6% shooting from the field and forced 26 turnovers in a 55-42 road win.
The win put B-T at 13-3 overall and 11-2 in Dairyland Conference play, well ahead of...
Despite trailing 12-3 going into the final period, the Titans’ Gunnar Kremer got a late pinfall win over Cadott’s Wyatt Anderson in their 126-pound title match at the Arcadia Raider Challenge. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
Trempealeau County wrestling teams were represented well at the annual Arcadia Raider Challenge, with Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau and Arcadia both able to celebrate team wins after a hard-fought day on the mats.
The G-E-T/Melrose-Mindoro boys and the Arcadia girls finished atop their respective team...
Whitehall’s Aiden Evans released a contested jump shot in the lane during the game against Arcadia last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall boys basketball team appears to be hitting its stride with two lopsided wins last week.
The Norse and Arcadia Raiders were close for much of the game last Tuesday, but Whitehall went on a run in the second half to pull away for a 55-41 win. On Saturday, Whitehall went on a big run in...
Whitehall’s Caden Bacino Hansche shot in for a takedown during his match at the Dairyland Conference duals hosted by Independence/Gilmanton on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
If the Dairyland Conference wrestling opener was any indication, Whitehall won’t have much trouble winning the conference title this year.
That’s in part because of numbers. While Whitehall fielded a full roster in Independence last week, none of the other teams had more than a handful of wrestlers...
Blair-Taylor’s Samantha Aguilar went up for a shot during her team’s game against Arcadia last Monday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor girls basketball team caught the top-ranked team in the state on the wrong night, but won three other games last week.
Eleva-Strum, the top-ranked Division Five team in the Bound Wisconsin/Zaleski Sports Girls Basketball Media Poll, knocked down a school-record 14 three-pointers...
The Blair-Taylor basketball team pulled away from Independence/Gilmanton in the second half and held on to beat Augusta before falling to De Soto last week.
The Wildcats had just a one-point lead at halftime of their 77-42 win over Independence/Gilmanton on Tuesday last week. The team had a big...
Having lost three in a row and four out of five overall since Christmas, the Arcadia girls basketball team was hoping to right the ship and get back on a winning track. They took a nice step toward doing that with blowout wins on back-to-back nights to end last week.
The Raiders (11-5, 5-1 Coulee)...
The Whitehall girls basketball team closed on a high note, winning the third of three road games last week.
The Norse were close in the other two, but lost to Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran by six points and to Cochrane-Fountain City by five. The third game was also close, but the Norse came away...
