It hasn’t been the easiest of starts for the Gilman baseball team, who fell to 0-2 Tuesday with a 12-1 Eastern Cloverbelt Conference loss at Spencer. The Pirates, who have been hampered by an inability to get much practice time outside while breaking in some youthful players to the varsity level, didn’t get much going in their second road game against a team looking like a conference championship

A five-game first week of action showed the Gilman Pirates have a potent offensive lineup from top to bottom. Some glitches still showed up defensively Saturday as the Pirates ended the week at 3-2 following losses to Manawa and Stanley-Boyd at Poynette. Gilman was finally able to get this trip in for the first time since 2019 as the seven teams involved were able to dodge the weekend’s big

The Medford Raiders didn’t collect a lot of hits but they got clutch hits while adding three more wins in a three-day span for a 10-0 start to the softball season. Freshman Zayleah Leonhardt hit her second game-winning home run of the season to lift the Raiders to a 4-3 win over Somerset in the first round of Saturday’s Shawano Quad, where the Raiders went 2-0 by getting four sixth-inning hits