Competing with their full squads for the first time since March 17, the Gilman Pirates won six events in Thursday’s girls meet and scored in six events in the boys meet during their 2023 home and outdoor track and field opener. Held in beautifully warm conditions for mid-April, the meet featured 11 teams with all but one coming from the Cloverbelt Conference. Gilman tied Stanley-Boyd for fourth

BACK-T0-BACK MAJOR MILESTONES The Medford Raiders celebrated two major softball career milestones on back-to-back days to start this week and, as a team, kept rolling through the early portion of their 2023 schedule. The home opener Tuesday was unique as the Raiders shut out Tomahawk 16-0 in five innings in the first high school softball game ever played on the football field turf. It featured

As Medford senior Logan Baumgartner put it Monday, it didn’t really feel like April, it felt like June. Whether he was speaking about the weather or the playofflike intensity of the Great Northern Conference opener, he wasn’t wrong in either case. Baumgartner came one out away from going the distance on the mound and Tanner Hraby’s two-out, three-run triple in the top of the fifth was

After two years of virtual events due to Covid precautions and the total cancellation of 2020, Wisconsin’s National Archery in the School Program (NASP) finally returned to in-person competition for its state championships Friday and Saturday and Taylor County archers continued the local tradition of winning at the Woodside Dome in Wisconsin Dells. Medford senior Landen Viergutz excelled in

Options are always good for coaches to have and Medford softball head coach Virgil Berndt believes he’s in that fortunate position as the 2023 season gets underway. Coming off two straight Great Northern Conference and WIAA Division 2 regional championship seasons and having a core of six experienced seniors still on the roster, the program certainly is sitting in a good spot. The Raiders’

The Medford Raiders and Rib Lake Redmen both came away with some positive results to build from Tuesday in their season-opening efforts at the Marshfield Tigers Indoor Boys Track and Field Invitational. Medford edged out Rib Lake 58-57 for fourth place in the 13-team meet, getting scoring contributions from several sources. Rib Lake got 30 of its points by getting first-place finishes from freshman

The Gilman Pirates got event wins from three different athletes, which led them to a fourth-place team finish on the girls side of Friday’s season-opening Neillsville Indoor Invitational. Gracie Tallier got her senior season off to a strong start with three event victories, junior Bailey Angell won the shot put competition and sophomore Claire Drier pulled out a close win in the 45-meter hurdles

The Medford Raiders’ to-do list for knocking off La Crosse Central in Thursday’s WIAA Division 2 sectional semifinal was fairly standard for any basketball upset bid with making shots, staying out of foul trouble, getting some gift points off of turnovers and rebounding being at the top of the list. The Raiders, unfortunately, checked none of those boxes when the game was within reach and

Gilman’s Casey Grunseth and Medford’s Kirsten Weix won the event’s overall individual championships, Medford’s Landen Viergutz wasn’t far off and Gilman’s Reece Weir and Medford’s Dylan Emmerich also took home first-place awards at the National Archery in the Schools Program shoot held Friday and Saturday at Medford Area Middle School. The tournament drew 680 entries, including

The thought when La Crosse Central beat the host Medford Raiders 67-58 in non-conference play back on Feb. 4 was the teams weren’t done with each other this season. Nearly five weeks later, that anticipated rematch is upon us. For the fourth time in two seasons, the Riverhawks and Raiders will collide tonight, Thursday, and for the second time in those meetings, it’s a win-or-go-home