Both defenses gave up yards, but Gilman’s defense did a much better job of limiting the scoring Friday, allowing the Pirates to secure their second straight outright Central Wisconsin West Conference championship with a 58-24 win over McDonell Central in Chippewa Falls. Junior running back Grady Kroeplin took center stage in the win, rushing for 250 yards and four touchdowns on just 19 carries.

Believe it or not, the high school football regular season ends Friday, with one local team looking to seal a second consecutive conference championship, another looking for post-season momentum and one more just wanting to find the win column. _ What looked like it could be a season- ending battle between unbeaten teams for a conference championship lost a little luster in some peoples’ eyes

After a sectional tennis match that did not go anywhere near as planned, all Medford seniors Sophie Brost and Lindsey Wildberg wanted was a shot to play one more time. They found out Friday afternoon they are getting that opporunity. After going 12-7 together following a mid-season switch to doubles, Brost and Wildberg were added by the WIAA as special qualifiers for the Division 2 individual

While a 28-14 home loss to Rhinelander in week five was disappointing, being Medford’s first Great Northern Conference loss since the 2018 finale in Ashland, the Raiders also knew they couldn’t quit playing. Two wins later, they have their shot to earn a piece of the GNC title. Getting that piece of first place won’t be easy. Homecoming Friday brings in a redhot Mosinee squad that has

The weather couldn’t have been much better and the results also couldn’t have been much better Thursday for the Medford cross country program’s lone home meet of 2021. The Raider girls put their five scorers among the top eight finishers to easily win another team championship trophy, while Joe Sullivan earned another individual title and the boys set some of their best times of the

For the fifth straight week to start the football season, the Gilman Pirates went basically unchallenged Friday night, scoring on their first six possessions to build a 45-0 halftime lead in a 52-8 blowout win at Bruce. While the state’s top-ranked eightplayer team has outscored opponents by an average of 40 points per game, the Pirates are finding ways each week to challenge themselves ahead

While the ultimate goal was to win, the Medford Raiders felt good about achieving all of their secondary goals Thursday in a 103-67 loss to Great Northern Conference swim power Rhinelander. Well, they almost reached all of them –– at least well enough to earn a day off from practice. “We took a gamble in some spots hoping we’d get a couple of points,” head coach Betsy Meinel said.

Joe Sullivan remained undefeated, winning a sprint to the finish by the slimmest of margins, and the Medford girls can claim they are still undefeated after winning the Division 1 Small team championship at Saturday’s 65th running of the Bill Smiley Cross Country Invitational in Wausau. The 60-team meet moved this year to the new Bill Smiley Memorial Course on the Wausau East High School campus

Sometimes there’s nothing like a perfectly-timed match on your schedule. That’s exactly what the Medford Raiders got on Tuesday. Three days after a grueling 14-set day in the first Great Northern Conference Saturday meet of the fall, the Raiders got all 14 players involved, raised money for a good cause on their Cancer Awareness Night and put on a good volleyball show for a sizable mid-week

The Lakeland Thunderbirds made things happen on two drives with their passing game Friday, but the Medford Raiders ran the ball almost at will throughout, resulting in a record-setting night for senior Aiden Gardner in a 45-20 road win. Gardner broke Medford’s singlegame rushing record with 352 yards on 31 carries and he scored four of the team’s six touchdowns in the win, which bumped the