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Redmen start doable home stretch with win at Tomahawk

Redmen start doable home stretch with win at Tomahawk Redmen start doable home stretch with win at Tomahawk

RIB LAKE BOYS BASKETBALL

While it hasn’t been easy lately for the Rib Lake Redmen, who had lost eight of their previous nine games, there is...

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Girls hockey season starts with new conference, new staff
Medford’s Ava Hartl has her eyes on her passing target as the Raiders went through their opening drills during practice Monday afternoon at the Simek Recreation Center. Medford is happy to have Hartl, a senior, back and healthy to start this season after she missed most of last year while recovering from an injury suffered the previous summer. Medford opens its girls hockey season by hosting the Black River Falls Co-op Monday at 7 p.m. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
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Girls hockey season starts with new conference, new staff

Coaching high school sports is nothing new for Bruce Peterson, who once held head coaching jobs with...

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Columbus uses mid-game shooting spree to pull away from Rib Lake

First-week shooting woes continued in game two for the Rib Lake girls basketball and that meant trouble Thursday against a Columbus Catholic team that got 23 points from freshman Elly Gardner and rolled to a 60-30 non-conference win.The host Dons started to pull away with a late first-half surge and then hit Rib Lake with a 3-point barrage early in the second half to put this one on ice. They impr...

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State awards for 3 Pirates; 10 earn an all-conference award
Gilman’s Kolby Keepers quickly gets into the backfield and pressures McDonell Central quarterback Cael Holm during the second quarter of Saturday’s WIAA state championship. Plays like these helped Keepers become the North Central East Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year for 2025. Keepers also made the secondteam offense in the conference and earned All-Region and All-State first-team honors from the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
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State awards for 3 Pirates; 10 earn an all-conference award

When its top two teams dominate the rest of the pack and wind up playing each other in the WIAA’s ...

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Late push gets Hawks past Raiders
Rylee Hraby knocks the basketball away from Shawano standout Leah Nordin during the second half of Tuesday’s season opener at Raider Hall. Hraby is one of three seniors expected to log major minutes in their fourth varsity seasons, joining Aliyah Pilgrim and Laney Hraby. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
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Late push gets Hawks past Raiders

The Medford Raiders went cold at the wrong time in Tuesday’s girls basketball season opener, scori...

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Pirates sunk by Edgar’s late surge
Raygen Soper, pictured absorbing a foul during last March’s WIAA Division 5 regional final at Owen-Withee, is one of a handful of players returning to Gilman’s rotation this girls basketball season. She had 15 points in the Pirates’ opener Tuesday at Edgar. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
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Pirates sunk by Edgar’s late surge

Brandi Halvorsen poured in 23 points and Natallya Radke delivered the dagger with a clutch 3-point s...

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Handful are back, but young players also push for their shot
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Handful are back, but young players also push for their shot

The Gilman Pirates begin the 2025-26 girls basketball season with a young team and a new coaching st...

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