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Addison Herman of Whitehall released a three-pointer during her team’s season opener against Black River Falls on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall girls basketball team got off to a fast start, then went ice-cold in a 59-36 loss to Black River Falls last Thursday.
After scoring 18 points in the first eight minutes of the game, the Norse managed just 18 more over the final 28. A double-digit lead was cut to a one-possession game...
The Blair-Taylor girls basketball team got hot at the right time last year, and they’re hoping to turn that into more success this year.
The Wildcats won 11 straight games toward the end of last year, with victories over other top Dairyland Conference teams in Whitehall and Independence/Gilmanton...
Coming off a two-win season, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls basketball team knows there is plenty of work to be done to get to the level of competitiveness they would like. One major boost for the program? The Red Hawks lost only one senior to graduation from last spring.
Though the program as...
With much of its roster returning, the Whitehall girls basketball team hopes to build on a strong finish to last season.
The Norse won six straight and 10 of 12 before the team’s season ended in the regional semifinal in a loss to Bangor. Whitehall graduated two seniors who played a lot, but return...
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...
