Just like last fall, the Gilman Pirates, Owen-Withee Blackhawks and Thorp Cardinals are the projected front-runners in Central Wisconsin East eight-player football conference as the 2023 season. Despite the loss of six graduates, the Pirates expect to run with those teams again –– literally. Speed and quickness are among the key strengths Gilman will rely upon in its fourth year of eight-player

The Medford Raiders enter the 2023 football season with athletic talent they believe they can win with. They also start the fall with little varsity experience following the graduation of 22 seniors, meaning there will be a learning curve to overcome to get where they want to be at season’s end. As always, the Raiders aren’t easing into the season as another tough scrimmage session last

The first Medford Raiders team to compete in the 2023-24 school year set a pretty good opening tone on Saturday. The Raiders’ girls tennis team went 2-1 at the Baldwin-Woodville Quad, losing 5-2 to the host Blackhawks, taking care of Barron 5-2 and then rallying from behind to beat Amery 4-3. The success was a big boost for a team that has some talent but doesn’t have a lot of varsity

The final year of the Rib Lake-Prentice Hawks football co-op is moving toward being a JV-only season due to a lack of numbers, particularly in the older classes. The move is not official yet, but the agenda for the Rib Lake School District’s board meeting tonight, Thursday, has been amended to include an item regarding a transition to a JV-only schedule for 2023, while the Prentice board meets

In a four-day span, there were several points where Medford’s American Legion Post 147 baseball team could’ve folded and called it a summer while hosting the Class AA double-elimination regional tournament. But in their minds, throwing in the towel was not an option, and that’s why Medford is back at a Wisconsin American Legion state tournament for the fourth time in five seasons. Down

A one-time rival for Rib Lake athletes has joined their side, aiming to bring success back to the school’s girls basketball program. Austin Edwards, a 2019 graduate of Phillips High School, has taken over the program. He’s the program’s fourth head coach in four years following the end of Mike Wudi’s seven-year run and the one-year stints of Wayne Mann and Joe Treffinger. He takes

Medford’s American Legion Post 147 baseball team broke ties in the fourth inning of both five-inning games Monday and swept a doubleheader with its northern neighbors from Rib Lake for the second time in 11 days. Clutch two-out hits from Parker Lissner and Braxton Weissmiller drove in the goahead runs in a 5-3 win in game one. Medford used a five-run rally to break a scoreless tie and eventually

Many of the world’s top golfers from the past 25 years spent last weekend a little more than an hour from Medford, but it was the two Wisconsin guys who nearly stole the headlines at the 43rd USGA Senior Open Championship. Bernhard Langer of Germany held off crowd favorites Steve Stricker and Jerry Kelly of Madison to win the fourday event held at SentryWorld in Stevens Point. This was just

The transition from being a Pirate to a UW-Platteville Pioneer has already begun for Gilman graduate Tatum Weir, but she got two last chances to represent the purple and gold in June at Wisconsin high school all-star events. First, Weir played for the Division 4/5 Blue team in the Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association Senior All-Star Games in Wisconsin Dells on Tuesday, June 13. Then,

For nearly a decade when it’s come to volleyball in Medford, two of the most familiar names to anyone involved have been Ashley and AJ. Which makes it no surprise the sisters will be back on the bench this fall, leading the Raiders at the varsity level. Ashley Jochimsen-McCarron is the program’s new head coach, succeeding Cheryl Schreiner who stepped down from the position at the end