MEDFORD GIRLS HOCKEY FLYING PAST THE EAGLES As the shots on goal and shots that didn’t quite hit the net added up Tuesday, the Medford girls hockey team held on to one thought in its second matchup of the season with Northland Pines. Just keep shooting. Exactly like the first meeting, a 3-2 win back on Dec. 16, that mentality paid off with the Raiders eventually overturning a 1-0 deficit

With convincing wins over Lakeland and Antigo Friday, the Medford wrestlers extended their Great Northern Conference dual-meet winning streak to 22, capped a fourth straight undefeated GNC dual-meet season and all but assured themselves of being able to call themselves conference champions for the fifth straight season. Unlike the split titles the past two years with Tomahawk, the Raiders don’t

Tanner Vlach hit the game-tying 3-point shot and scored 23 points and Donovan Sutherland made big plays at both ends late in Rib Lake’s thrilling 73-70 overtime win over visiting Phillips Friday. After trailing for most of the night, the Redmen led throughout the four-minute overtime to finally put away the pesky Loggers, who showed their 2-9 record entering the game was a bit misleading.

Steve Russ held Medford boys basketball career scoring record for 30 years before it was finally broken by Peyton Kuhn. That record did not stay in Kuhn’s possession nearly as long. What was becoming inevitable when Kuhn graduated in 2021 turned to reality in Tuesday’s non-conference game with Athens when Logan Baumgartner used a spin move and his left hand to bank in a shot with 2:04 left

While she didn’t know exactly where she stood, Tatum Weir correctly read the signs Thursday that she was closing in on the milestone mark of 1,000 career points. The Gilman senior actually entered the non-conference game at Augusta at 998 and with her first bucket, a 3-pointer from the right corner just 1:10 into the game, she took care of that mission and then she went on to score 30 points,

There is still a long way to go in the boys basketball season, but after two big wins in a five-day span, the Medford Raiders are sitting in a good spot in the Great Northern Conference race. The second of those wins was earned Tuesday when the Raiders scored the last nine points to snatch back a 6965 win over their fierce rivals from Mosinee in front of a sizable crowd at Raider Hall. The

MEDFORD GYMNASTICS GOOD START TO LIVING LARGE Medford’s junior standout Kyla Krause had a big night individually Tuesday and as a team the Raiders excelled on vault and on the floor while earning their first Great Northern Conference win of the season, a 132.575-127.7 victory over visiting Stevens Point. The win was the first for the Raiders as members of the GNC’s Large Schools

The Medford Raiders set their sights at the beginning of this season on three teams in their WIAA girls hockey sectional they believed they could finally beat this year. They got two of them for their first two wins of the year. They couldn’t quite get the third one Tuesday, though the Raiders will have at least one more shot this season at the Northern Edge Co-op. Medford turned a 2-1 deficit

Moving toward the top of the heap in the Marawood North will require winning road games and stealing a crossover game or two with the South Division. The Rib Lake Redmen got part of that done Tuesday night. Rib Lake used a strong second-half effort to get out of a three-point halftime deficit and beat host Chequamegon 64-59. The win evens Rib Lake’s Marawood record at 2-2, but puts the