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Ormond, Underwood are third at 2023 state wrestling tourney

Ormond, Underwood are third at 2023 state wrestling tourney Ormond, Underwood are third at 2023 state wrestling tourney

Becker and Lueck finish fourth at the Kohl Center

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Marathon freshman wrestler Blake Underwood...

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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

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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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Numbers not in Gilman’s favor to start year after long football run
Logan Halida, pictured working against Rib Lake’s Seth Borchardt last January, is one of five returning players the Gilman Pirates are relying heavily on to start the new boys basketball season. Gilman opens Monday at Flambeau. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
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Numbers not in Gilman’s favor to start year after long football run

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Raiders put quick end to Bulldogs’ late rally, earn year’s first win
Taylor Klingbeil aggressively probes a potential opening in the New London defense during the first half of Medford’s 65-57 non-conference win over the Bulldogs Thursday. Klingbeil led all scorers in the game with 31 points. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
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Raiders put quick end to Bulldogs’ late rally, earn year’s first win

Two days after fading late in a seasonopening loss to Shawano, there was a moment in Thursday’s se...

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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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Experience brings higher expectations for Raider girls
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Experience brings higher expectations for Raider girls

From an experience standpoint, this could be a year where the Medford Raiders make a significant mov...

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