WIAA DIV. 5 GIRLS BASKETBALL - Not pretty, but a tourney win is a tourney win for Gilman

The Rib Lake Redmen missed all 13 of their 3-point shots Monday, but the key to victory was found inside, where Jed Henderson and Grant Beard powered them to a 58-38 win at Athens that clinched an outright secondplace finish in the Marawood North. Henderson dominated in the painted area early and finished with a 20-point, 10-rebound double-double, while Beard was the driving force behind Rib La...

The Medford Raiders (8-5 GNC, 9-14 ovearll) drew the fifth seed in the northern half of Division 2’s sectional #1 bumping up two spots from the mid-season reveal two weeks earlier, thanks to key GNC wins over Merrill Feb. 10 and Northland Pines on Feb. 19. The reward is a regional semifinal at four-seed New Richmond (13-9), who is 7-6 in the rugged Big Rivers Conference. The Tigers are a defe...

A week after getting their first girls hockey win of the season at Viroqua, things took a sharp turn the other way in Thursday’s WIAA regional final where the Medford Raiders were humbled by the Hayward Co-op for the fifth straight year, this time by a score of 17-0. The third-seeded Hurricanes took the lead early and by the end of the first period, things had snowballed on the sixth-seeded R...