There is still a long way to go in the boys basketball season, but after two big wins in a five-day span, the Medford Raiders are sitting in a good spot in the Great Northern Conference race. The second of those wins was earned Tuesday when the Raiders scored the last nine points to snatch back a 6965 win over their fierce rivals from Mosinee in front of a sizable crowd at Raider Hall. The

Moving toward the top of the heap in the Marawood North will require winning road games and stealing a crossover game or two with the South Division. The Rib Lake Redmen got part of that done Tuesday night. Rib Lake used a strong second-half effort to get out of a three-point halftime deficit and beat host Chequamegon 64-59. The win evens Rib Lake’s Marawood record at 2-2, but puts the

The Medford Raiders found out who their toughest competition in the Large Division of the Great Northern Conference may be this winter, found some things they need to work on and also found out they have strengths to build upon in Saturday’s season-opening Hot Cocoa Gymnastics Invitational at Medford Area Elementary School. The Marshfield Tigers won the five-team meet with 132.175 points, while

MEDFORD BOYS SWIMMING A BOYS SWIM WIN Low numbers short-circuited Medford’s 2021-22 boys swim season before it started. Ironically, it was the Raiders’ depth that gave them the victory Thursday in the program’s first home meet in nearly 23 months. The Raiders’ 10 swimmers outscored Shawano 75-56 to go to 1-1 in the Great Northern Conference and earn the program’s first win

The Gilman girls basketball team was 2.7 seconds away from an 0-3 start a little over a week ago. Now the Pirates are riding a three-game winning streak as they head into their first tough stretch of Eastern Cloverbelt Conference play. Win number three came in convincing fashion Tuesday when the Pirates took care of visiting Greenwood 60-36 to improve to 2-1 in league play and 3-2 overall. The

MEDFORD BOYS BASKETBALL NOT QUITE ENOUGH The Medford Raiders got beat up in the first half by a team doing Medford kinds of things in Tuesday’s boys basketball season opener, yet they almost dug their way out of it in the second half. Down 47-30 at one point early in the second half, Medford rallied to tie the game twice, but they never quite got over the hump, falling 71-69 to visiting

MEDFORD BOYS BASKETBALL PREVIEW NEW ROLES, NEW FACES, SAME GOALS After falling short in an exciting WIAA Division 2 sectional final with La Crosse Central last March, the Medford Raiders are back at the starting line for a new boys basketball season. There are a handful of familiar faces and some new ones at the varsity level. The goal of being the best team the Raiders can be at season’s

The Medford Raiders tip off the 2022-23 girls basketball season tonight, Thursday, with a new-look coaching staff, a mostlynew varsity roster and new-look philosophies on both ends of the floor. They’ll also welcome a team leader back to game action as the new era of Raider basketball begins under head coach Chad Fronk. An assistant under Medford’s three previous head coaches, Fronk