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

WIAA DIV. 2 STATE GIRLS SWIMMING SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST The goal for Medford’s Aiden Denzer and Sydney Sperl was to set personalbest times and that’s what they did at Friday’s WIAA Division 2 girls swimming state championships, held at the Waukesha South High School Natatorium. Both Raiders swam in the 200-yard individual medley. Sperl, a sophomore, recorded a second straight

With Aiden Denzer and Sydney Sperl qualifying for state being the obvious highlights, it was also noteworthy that the rest of the Medford Raiders all set season-best times Saturday during the team’s fourthplace finish at the WIAA Division 2 Merrill girls swimming sectional. The Raiders scored 211 points, earned nine top-six finishes in the meet and beat the host Blue Jays, who had beaten them

FINISHING THE FALL TOGETHER Denzer, Sperl both advance in 200 IM After a year away, the Medford Raiders are back at the WIAA Division 2 girls swimming state championships. Their 2022 representation comes in rare form. It’s not often when the Raiders go to state that a relay team is not involved. It’s even more unique that Aiden Denzer and Sydney Sperl are going individually in the

SUCCESSFUL STATE RUN Girls team, Hraby move up from 2021 Four of Medford’s returning competitors beat their times from last year, one runner set her personal best on the season’s biggest stage and the Raider girls met their goal of improving upon their 2021 finish during another successful outing for the program at Saturday’s WIAA Division 2 state cross country championships. The

A 10th-place finish at Timm’s Hill was a good start to Kylie Orysen’s cross country season. The freshman kept getting better from there and will end her first varsity season representing the Prentice-Rib Lake Hawks at the WIAA Division 3 state championship meet. Orysen secured her state spot with a sixth-place finish at Saturday’s WIAA Division 3 Phillips sectional, held at the Moonlight Run

The Medford Raiders and West Salem Panthers were the favorites going into Saturday’s WIAA Division 2 girls cross country sectional race in Black River Falls to earn the top two team spots and berths in this Saturday’s state race. The Raiders just made it clear that they didn’t intend to qualify as the sectional runner-up. Less than three weeks after beating West Salem by just two points

The WIAA football playoffs have arrived, bringing a familiar foe to Medford and an unfamiliar one to Gilman Friday for Level 1 with winners in each game likely facing daunting challenges in Level 2. In Division 3, the Medford Raiders drew a four-seed in Saturday’s WIAA bracket reveal after a 7-2 regular season that included a 6-1 second-place finish in the Great Northern Conference and will