Medford’s high school gymnastics program, no doubt, lost a good one when head coach Steve Cain stepped down from the position in March following the Raiders’ fifth straight appearance in WIAA Division 2 state competition. But the transition to new leadership might be about as seamless as Medford’s gymnastics community could have hoped. One-time varsity assistant Andrée Brushaber was

The Whittlesey Reds amazingly found hole after hole Sunday with 19 singles and got one big blast, a threerun fifth-inning homer from Blaine Seidl, to complete a weekend sweep of the Everest Merchants with a 12-3 win at Mike Roiger Stadium and tighten up the race in the Dairyland Baseball League’s Large Division. Four teams now have two losses apiece atop the division and Marshfield is right

NATIONAL RUNNER-UP While UW-Whitewater has one of the nation’s most prominent athletic programs at the NCAA Division III level, its club baseball team made a remarkable under-the-radar run by coming up one win short of the Division I championship at the National Club Baseball Association World Series. Medford’s Seth Mudgett was along for the ride as an outfielder on the club that finished

ALL-GNC BASEBALL Back atop the Great Northern Conference after a one-year glitch, the Medford Raiders put nearly their entire baseball starting lineup on the list of 2023 All-GNC award winners and swept the conference’s two major awards. Logan Baumgartner closed his standout run in Medford athletics by earning his second GNC Player of the Year Award this school year after being a unanimous

Meredith Richter’s upset win in the girls 800-meter run at the May 22 WIAA Division 2 Colby regional certainly drew people’s attention. Her win Friday proved it was no fluke. Seeded eighth based on sectional times going into Friday’s state championship 800-meter race at UW-La Crosse, the Medford junior pushed herself toward the front of the pack in the first lap of the 10-runner second

With regional scores under 300, the Amery Warriors and McDonell-Regis co-op put themselves into the favorites role going into Tuesday’s WIAA Division 2 McDonell-Regis golf sectional at Lake Wissota Golf Course. They didn’t disappoint, earning the meet’s two team state berths. But the Medford Raiders weren’t shut out in their fourth-place finish as junior Connor Lingen emerged as the winner

For the second time in three seasons, the Medford Raiders held the oneseed in the WIAA Division 2 softball sectional half-bracket, had home-field advantage in the sectional semifinal and were one strike away from advancing to the sectional final with a legitimate shot of going to state. And, just like in 2021, the opportunity got away on Tuesday evening. This time it was New London’s

The seemingly-endless Great Northern Conference golf win streak is over, thanks to the Medford Raiders. With four golfers among the day’s top 10 and a team score of 309 Tuesday at Antigo’s Bass Lake Country Club, the Raiders ended Lakeland’s 31-meet winning streak in conference competition and tightened things up atop the team standings with three meets to go. Medford beat Lakeland by

The first win of Friday for the Rib Lake track and field teams was just the fact they got their annual Northwoods Quad in. The Redmen added some solid performances in just their second outdoor meet of this frustrating spring to make the evening even better. Other than the long and triple jumps, all of the other events went on as scheduled despite some wet conditions early due to a nearly all-afternoon

For the second straight doubleheader, Medford got strong starting pitching from Ty Metz and Logan Baumgartner Tuesday and the offense backed them up with a couple of crooked numbers in 10-6 and 10-0 wins over Rhinelander at Raider Field. Baumgartner came within two outs of a six-inning, no-hitter and Max Dietzman belted a grand slam home run in the sixth inning to ice game two on yet another