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.
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Eau Claire North opens the baseball season with just two returning starters.
Stacy Winsand cited mainly family reasons for stepping down as head basketball coach at Altoona on Wednesday.
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.
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.
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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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Bloomer girls take first
Eau Claire Memorial’s deep and talented pitching staff of a year ago is gone — shredded by injury and graduation.
Express add pair of pitchers
The gate is open for new and young candidates on the Eau Claire Regis baseball team.
Two of the state’s best took the mound at Fairfax Park on Tuesday afternoon.
Steel name Foguth head coach
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Brittany Rosemeyer’s double in the eighth inning scored the lone run in the game as Thorp softball pulled off a 1-0 extra inning victory against Bloomer.
If Monday afternoon was any indication of the next four years, the Bloomer Blackhawks should be in good hands.
Mondovi baseball continued its strong start to the season, moving to 3-0 on Monday with a 16-5 victory against Alma/Pepin.
It’s a different ball game at Immanuel Lutheran this spring.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Chippewa Falls assistant coach Steve Frank is a hitting guru. The 69-year-old spends hours scouring what he calls “hitting Twitter” and reading blogs on the latest hitting techniques.
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OSSEO — It didn’t happen overnight.
2017-18: Jaxon Knotek, sr., River Falls*; Dalton Banks, so., Eau Claire North; Hayden Baughman, sr., Chippewa Falls McDonell; Noah Hanson, sr., Eau Claire North; Jack Kron, sr., Eau Claire North.
In addition to player of the year Logan Mulhern from Osseo-Fairchild, selections for the 2018-19 All-Northwest boys basketball first team are:
The 2018-19 Leader-Telegram All-Northwest boys basketball honorees were selected by Spencer Flaten, Ron Buckli and Jack Goods based on staff observations and recommendations from area coaches. Players are listed alphabetically on each team. Special mentions were considered for one of the f…
The Eau Claire North baseball team split its doubleheader with Holmen on Saturday, losing 7-6 in the first game before flipping the score and winning 7-6 in the second game.
Their names were John Schaaf and John Coggins of Eau Claire, Jim Wayne of Durand, Larry Sturz of Altoona and Stanley’s Pete Huus.
AP All-State
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The halftime score was Colby 35, Regis 13. The Ramblers were getting shellacked and looked completely lost as they headed to the locker room for a much needed break.
ALTOONA — Altoona softball head coach Chris Maurina briefly considered having Kate Harris bunt as she stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and none out in the bottom of the seventh tied 2-2 with the Aquinas Blugolds.
In addition to player of the year Teryn Karlstad of Regis, selections for the 2018-19 All-Northwest girls basketball first team are:
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The 2018-19 Leader-Telegram All-Northwest girls basketball honorees were selected by Spencer Flaten and Jack Goods based on staff observations and recommendations from area coaches. Players are listed alphabetically on each team. Special mentions were considered for one of the five teams.
The Eau Claire North baseball team opened its season with a doubleheader sweep of La Crosse Logan on Friday, winning 11-1 and 10-0.
AP All-State Teams
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Hoglund commits to UW-Stout
What did Dalton Banks do for North? Caden Boser for Memorial? Or Cade Osborn for Regis?
Kaleb Miller, Jace Kressin and Zach DeMarce each knocked in a pair for Menomonie baseball in a season-opening 12-5 victory against Rice Lake on Thursday.
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MONDOVI — For having hardly stepped foot on a baseball diamond in the weeks prior, Mondovi sure looked to be in midseason form in its season opener.
