Sports
The 2024-25 version of the Independence/Gilmanton girls basketball team was in position to win a conference title and make a strong tournament run. Then it hit a wall.
The team started the season 19-3 and won nine straight games — including a 42-30 win over Eleva-Strum — entering the final week of...
Brooke Evenson takes over as Arcadia head coach following a playing career at Baldwin-Woodville and Upper Iowa University. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
Brooke Evenson has lived and breathed basketball since she was in elementary school, leading to a successful playing career at Baldwin-Woodville in high school and then five years playing NCAA Division II ball at Upper Iowa University.
Once her collegiate career ended, Evenson wanted a way to keep...
For one shining moment, Wisconsin Badgers football was fun again.
The Badgers earned their first win over a ranked opponent in four years with a 13-10 victory against No. 23 Washington this past Saturday in Madison, ending the program’s 11-game losing streak against ranked foes and their 11-game...
Having already established himself as one of the best running backs in the Coulee Conference as a junior, Arcadia’s Max Blaschko still found a way to level up even further during a record-breaking senior season.
The Raiders’ bell-cow running back earned a spot on the All-Coulee first team for a...
Arcadia head coach Luis Cruz consoled junior Jorge Guardado following the Raiders’ overtime loss to Sturgeon Bay in last Thursday’s state semifinals. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
For a majority of their state semifinal match against Sturgeon Bay, the Arcadia boys soccer team looked like the better of the two. Possession, shots on goal, corner kicks — the Raiders consistently were generating better opportunities throughout most of the 80 minutes of regulation time.
However,...
Blair-Taylor’s Landonn Daffinson got under a return during the Wildcats’ state semifinal loss to Heritage Christian last Thursday at the Resch Center. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
The 2025 season will always be remembered as a historic season of firsts for Blair-Taylor volleyball. It was an unprecedented fall for the Wildcats, as they went on a magical run that yielded the first conference, regional and sectional titles in program history.
That run brought Blair-Taylor to...
As it went into halftime on Saturday, the Arcadia soccer team was more frustrated with its own performance than with anything Three Lakes/Phelps (TLP) was doing. But coach Luis Cruz’s message was that his team needed to be better and was capable of being better. The result was five second half...
Taylor Sylla (above) finished 35th and her sister Allie Sylla (below) took 37th at the WIAA State Cross Country meet held in Wisconsin Rapids on Saturday. (Times photographs by Zach Rastall)
Throughout their time together running cross country in high school, sisters Taylor and Allie Sylla have pushed each other to get better and formed a dynamic duo that led the way for the Independence/Gilmanton program. Therefore, it felt a bit poetic that their final race together for the Indees...
Despite having to wear teammate Carter Giemza’s running spikes, G-E-T’s Adrian Bautista earned himself a state berth at last week’s sectional meet in Wisconsin Rapids. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
Going into a sectional meet where he was already dealing with the pressure of seeking his first state tournament berth in his third try as a high school athlete, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau junior Adrian Bautista realized on the bus ride he’d forgotten something important in the trunk of his car: his...
G-E-T’s Sydney Nelson bumped the ball during a regional match against Poynette last week in Galesville. (Times photograph by Zach Rastall)
Though wins weren’t always the easiest to come by for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau volleyball team during this first season under new head coach Marc Baures, the Red Hawks got to send out their seniors with a playoff victory in their final home match of 2025.
Following a challenging run through...
