ships too and Baumgartner and Metz were about as good as it gets in the GNC as Medford’s starters. “I just worked out a lot, which helped, and I pitched a lot in the summer so that really helped me come into the year strong. And I grew,” Metz said. “I was a little nervous in the first couple games I pitched but then I settled in. I think we’re really confident. I think we can go into

The Medford Raiders didn’t win their last home meet of the 2023 boys tennis season Tuesday, but individually, they did get one memorable victory. Saskatoon Damm was Medford’s lone winner in a 6-1 non-conference loss to D.C. Everest, beating Ted Kitchell in a marathon three-set match that took two hours and 45 minutes to play. The two had met last year with Kitchell winning 6-3, 6-2, but Damm

Lingen and Hintz had solid days on the par-72 course. Lingen was sixth out of 75 golfers with his 5-over-par 77. He hit par on 13 holes and birdied the 432-yard, par-4 16th. Double bogeys on the par-5 seventh and 17th holes added just enough to Lingen’s score to keep him out of the top five. Hintz’s round of 78 tied him with Josh Brickner of McDonell-Regis for seventh place. He was strong on

For the second time this season, Medford’s young girls soccer team hung with the current leaders in the Great Northern Conference Tuesday night. But for the second time, the Lakeland Thunderbirds were able to do to the Raiders what they’ve done to most teams they’ve played, keeping the ball out of their net and getting that go-ahead goal when needed in a 1-0 win at Raider Field. Maria

Pitchers from both teams got out of big jams in the fourth, but the Lakeland Thunderbirds weren’t as fortunate in the bottom of Tuesday’s fifth inning when the Medford Raiders hung an eight-spot on the board and quickly turned a tight 1-1 battle into an eventual 11-1 blowout in six innings at Raider Field. Held to just three hits through four innings by Lakeland senior Will Fortier, the Raiders

Gracie Tallier won all four of her events Tuesday, Bailey Angell swept the throws and Claire Drier was a topfour finisher in all four of her events in a high-scoring night for the Gilman girls at Spencer’s Brian Picket Invitational. With just six team members, the Pirates still fared quite well in the seventeam meet, tying Neillsville for second with 104.5 points. They trailed the only non-Cloverbelt