Medford won four of the first five races and five overall Tuesday, but the host Shawano Hawks had the deeper lineup and outscored the Raiders 83-58 in Great Northern Conference boys swimming. Isaac Dittrich, Tahtankka Damm, Abe Miller and Adam Swedlund all earned individual wins in the meet and the Raiders also took the 200-yard medley relay. Unfortunately down to six swimmers for this meet,

Having earned a rare opportunity to hold a third-period lead, the Medford girls hockey team didn’t squander it Monday, killing off a power play and scoring three late goals to pull away for a 7-3 win over the Chippewa Falls-Menomonie JV team at the Simek Recreation Center. Kyla Kennedy earned a hat trick, scoring her third goal with two seconds left in the game, Skylier Krueger scored two clutch

botsford an early 5-3 lead, but that was the only lead the visitors enjoyed. Hopkins made a free throw and then scored off a steal. She did that twice at the top of the zone, helping Rib Lake take a 10-5 lead. Reagan Reinhardt scored five firsthalf points and Jolee Gehrke provided a lift with two free throws and a long jumper from the right side with five seconds left that pushed Rib Lake’s

len Searles said. Medford had a couple of early scoring chances in overtime that went wide of the net. The biggest play may have come from senior Logan Searles and it won’t show up on the stats sheet as he drew the penalty that set up the face-off and gamewinning goal. “That penalty that Logan drew at the end of the game was big,” Galen Searles said. “He battled off two guys. It looked

In a matchup between teams seeking their first wins of the 2020-21 season, two big scoring runs propelled the Spencer Rockets to that elusive first win on Dec. 29, sending them to a 65-36 home win over Gilman in Eastern Cloverbelt Conference play. The Rockets, who got their first win after eight consecutive losses to start the season, broke the game open with a 21-4 run to close the first half and

Coming off a stretch of three games against ranked teams and facing a stretch of three tough games in four days starting Friday, Tuesday’s game at Northland Pines served as a prime trap game for Medford’s boys basketball team. And the Eagles were ready to spring the upset trap. Playing energetic, pesky defense and hitting some timely 3-pointers, Northland Pines put the Raiders in their

First-half shutouts are something Greg Klapatauskas has seen many times as Medford’s football defensive coordinator. Now the girls basketball head coach, he almost saw his Raiders pull one off on Tuesday. A banked in 3-pointer by Hadley Olivotti with 2:29 left marked the only basket Northland Pines made in 19 attempts in the first half as Medford, despite being held scoreless as well for the

S Filled with youth and inexperience, the Gilman and Rib Lake boys basketball teams both came into this season knowing it may take some time to find their way. Judging by Monday’s result, Rib Lake is getting there quicker, granted the Redmen had a bit of a head start. Defensively, the Redmen put the clamps on Gilman’s leading scorer Andrew Hecker and they pieced together enough offensive

Back in action for the first time in two weeks, the Gilman girls basketball team opened with a back-and-forth first 12 minutes Tuesday at Colby, but a late first-half surge carried into the second half for the Hornets, who ran away with an 84-57 Eastern Cloverbelt Conference win. Particularly deadly were Colby’s veterans Emma Peavey and Brooke Suckow, who went off for 21 and 19 points respectively.