GILMAN 30, THORP 8 BY MATT FREY SPORTS EDITOR Both teams moved the football but when push came to shove in Friday’s Central Wisconsin-East eight-player showdown, Gilman’s defense got more stops and its offense got more key plays in a 30-8 victory that clinched at least a conference championship share for the host Pirates. In a game that featured both the athleticism of the eight-man

MEDFORD CROSS COUNTRY BY MATT FREY SPORTS EDITOR With their leader Meredith Richter sitting this one out, Medford’s Lindsay Kahn saw an opening Saturday and she grabbed it, earning her first high school win at the Wisconsin Dells Cross Country Invitational, held at Christmas Mountain Golf Course. Homecoming king Tanner Hraby added to his big weekend with his first individual victory

The Pirates hit the road on Tuesday night, traveling to Greenwood for a match with the Indians and came home assured of finishing with a winning record in Eastern Cloverbelt Conference play. Gilman took care of business sweeping the last-place Indians 3-0. The Pirates grabbed control early in the match, taking the first set 25-8. They then took sets two and three 25-11 and 25-12 respectively.

With the calendar flipped to October, it’s time for the Medford volleyball team to peak and the Raiders took a nice step toward that Tuesday with a 3-1 win over Antigo in front of a sizable Cancer Awareness Night crowd at Raider Hall. The theme for the night was taking control, which the Raiders did to win three close sets that could’ve gone either way. “We’re trying really hard

A mid-season week off gave the Medford Raiders a chance to reset, study film and regroup in an effort to make a run in the second half of the soccer season. That run got off to a fine start Thursday with a 2-0 upset of the Rhinelander Hodags, who came to Raider Field sitting in first place in the Great Northern Conference. They were knocked out of the top spot thanks to Medford’s most

Medford junior Audrey Ruesch earned honorable mention for the second straight season, though in a different role this time, and four more Raiders earned their firstever All-Great Northern Conference girls tennis honors Thursday during the league’s championship tournament held at Rhinelander. Junior Natalie Preuss capped an unbeaten season in conference play in flight-four singles and earned

Assistant coach Tom Tallier may have put it best in the Gilman Pirates’ post-game huddle Friday by telling the team that, “now it gets real.” The Pirates coasted to another win that was decided in the first quarter with a 61-0 blowout at Greenwood in their Central Wisconsin East Conference opener, improving to 4-0 overall. Now the second half of the regular-season schedule kicks in and it

Advertised as a meet that provides the best competition for the greatest number of racers, the 67th annual Bill Smiley Invitational at Wausau East certainly provided that needed competition Saturday to local squads from Medford and Prentice-Rib Lake. Particularly for Medford standout Meredith Richter, who had gone unchallenged in her first four races of 2023, a good test was not only needed,

The Medford Raiders are hoping their first look at the Colby High School cross country course on Saturday is just a sign of what’s to come when they return for the WIAA Division 2 sectional meet on Oct. 21. Taking advantage on an ideal September morning and the relatively-flat layout, the Raiders set several season- or personal-best times while winning the team championships in three of the

The Medford Raiders drastically reduced their penalty yardage and rediscovered the run blocking that was so successful two weeks prior in Onalaska while rolling to a 50-14 win over Lakeland Friday night at Raider Field. They also seem to have found their next standout running back. Paxton Rothmeier had his third straight triple-digit yardage total and second straight game over 200 yards