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Raider softball stays unbeaten in Coulee, falls to Pirates
The Arcadia High School softball team remained perfect in Coulee Conference play with a win over Black River Falls last week. Arcadia silenced the Tigers with a 5-0 shutout last Friday, a win that improved the Raiders to 3-0 in the Coulee. Arcadia is 5-2 overall after a loss to Cochrane-Fountain City last Thursday.
Area and Wisconsin DNR fire officials say wild land fires are up significantly this year so far
EAU CLAIRE COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - A grass fire just south of Eau Claire is one of several that fire crews responded to in recent days. “7 fires over the course of a week is a pretty busy week. Historically for how often our agency responds to fires,” said Andrew Sorenson.
B-T’s DC softball streak ends at 78
For the first time in nearly six years, the Blair-Taylor softball team lost a Dairyland Conference game. It looked like the streak would continue as B-T had a lead against Melrose-Mindoro late in the game, but the Mustangs rallied to force extra innings and then scored in the bottom of the eighth to win the game. It was B-T’s first conference defeat since they fell to Cochrane-Fountain City, 5-3, on April 24, 2018. That was the only DC loss for the Wildcats that season before the team went undefeated in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023 — there was no 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The streak reached 78 games as B-T won its first two conference contests this season.
Boys take first at Neillsville meet, girls place second
The varsity meet at Oriole Park Friday April 19 cancelled for weather and not to be rescheduled, the varsity Oriole track team nonetheless got competition in at Neillsville four days earlier on Monday April 15. With the boys placing first out of eight teams and the girls placing second at Neillsville, finishing behind Bloomer. Orioles head coach Robert Seidl had more to say after results were in.
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