Bronson Schofield and Elliot Petzold had two hits and two RBIs apiece as the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser baseball team beat Barron 12-1 for its first Heart O’ North Conference victory of the season.
MILWAUKEE — Cody Bellinger hit his 10th home run, Max Muncy also went deep, and Julio Urias struck out a career-high nine and allowed one hit in six strong innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1 Thursday night to extend their winning streak to five games.
Baseball
Almost three decades later, Reed Zuehlke will be making a return to the Winter Olympic Games.
Eau Claire North opens the baseball season with just two returning starters.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Saddled with early foul trouble and faced with an aggressive defensive scheme that kept him in check for the first two quarters, Giannis Antetokounmpo set the tone immediately in the second half.
Express add 3 arms
The Green Bay Packers will start and end the season against bitter NFC North rivals.
MILWAUKEE — Michael Wacha effectively cooled off NL MVP Christian Yelich, and the St. Louis Cardinals finally broke through against the reigning division champs.
Stacy Winsand cited mainly family reasons for stepping down as head basketball coach at Altoona on Wednesday.
The offensive lineman having the best spring isn’t someone University of Wisconsin fans are too familiar with.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Nobody seemed overly pleased with his results Tuesday afternoon as the Big Rivers’ top golfers battled a damp course and five months of rust at Lake Hallie Golf Club in the first conference tournament of the season.
BLOOMER — It was just a routine pop-up down the first base foul line. Bloomer first basemen Isabella Jenneman was shading over into foul territory to make the catch. Camped under it, the ball hit her glove, then she felt a jolting pain rush through her knee.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Christian Yelich had no idea what to expect from Cardinals hard-throwing prospect Ryan Helsley. It took him six pitches to figure it out.
ALTOONA – Cade Osborn and Mason Bauer teamed up to hold off Thorp’s state runners-up team of a year ago.
The Eau Claire North boys tennis team picked up three wins in singles and two more in doubles to defeat Baldwin-Woodville 5-2 in a nonconference dual on Tuesday.
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Football realignment passed
Eleva-Strum head football coach Chad Hanson will become the next leader of the Altoona program, he told the media Tuesday.
It wasn’t too long ago Olivia Hanson was dominating on the field for Eau Claire Memorial.
MILWAUKEE — Christian Yelich got a big reward for a little extra early work.
Flying Eagles take home awards
Big Rivers
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MADISON — While much fan interest this spring centers around Graham Mertz and the University of Wisconsin’s quarterback position, a different early enrollee may be turning just as many heads during the first half of spring.
MILWAUKEE — One can only imagine how thoroughly Giannis Antetokounmpo used to school Thon Maker in practice during the two and a half seasons they were teammates on the Milwaukee Bucks.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods blazing to victory in his Sunday red at the Masters, a scene once so familiar, was never more stunning.
MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo ran and dunked all over the Pistons until they just shoved him to the ground.
UWEC golf takes 7th
LOS ANGELES — Ross Stripling pitched as though he had somewhere else to be.
The Milwaukee Bucks had the best record in the NBA this season, so it would be no great surprise to see them playing for the title in June.
Look at the top of the WIAA state track and field results at the end of the year and the chances are you’ll see an unusual last name at the top of almost every sprint. It’s a French name — well, kind of.
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MADISON — The University of Wisconsin’s offense, lauded as potentially one of the best in school history last season, featured plenty of talented weapons to pair with three-year starting quarterback Alex Hornibrook.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota United made the first game at Allianz Field a real show, with end-to-end action that entertained the raucous fans as much as the new stadium itself.
LOS ANGELES — Yasmani Grandal had three hits, including a two-run homer, and drove in three runs in his first game back at Dodger Stadium as he led the Milwaukee Brewers to a 8-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
If you watched the college basketball championship game last Monday, you probably saw the camera focus in on Dick Bennett and wife Ann in the stands from time to time.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — A question from amid the crowd Friday addressed an ever-present concern for fans of the green and gold.
Bloomer girls take first
Members of the University of Wisconsin football team spent last July and August deflecting a barrage of questions about accomplishments they had yet to achieve.
There’s no LeBron James in these playoffs, so the NBA Finals will have a distinctly new look for the first time in nine years.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — There’s no clearer way to show the growth of Major League Soccer than with a shiny new stadium, built simply for the sport long dubbed “the beautiful game.”
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Forrest Gregg, the great Hall of Fame lineman for the mighty Green Bay Packers of the 1960s that Vince Lombardi called the “finest player I ever coached,” died Friday at age 85.
MENOMONIE — One more at-bat was all UW-Stout’s Mary Iliopoulos says she needed to break the WIAC single-season batting average record.
MIAMI — The last spot in the NBA playoffs went to the Detroit Pistons.
The Golden State Warriors are set to begin their quest for a third straight title, and this time it's up to someone else to try to stop them.
GREEN BAY — The introductions are over and the work has begun.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels were held to five hits Wednesday night, but the timing of those hits propelled them to their sixth straight win.
Eau Claire Memorial’s deep and talented pitching staff of a year ago is gone — shredded by injury and graduation.
MILWAUKEE — Oklahoma City wanted a win to avoid slipping into a first-round playoff matchup against the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors.
