With the seedings for the upcoming WIAA softball playoffs announced over the weekend, one aspect of Monday's Great Northern Conference showdown between Mosinee and Medford was taken off the table. However, a league championship was on the line. For the second time this season it was Medford coming away with the win as the Raiders clinch the GNC title with a 5-1 win in Mosinee. Mosinee came in ranked #1 in the state in this week's MaxPreps.com state poll with Medford number

Playoff brackets for Divisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 have been released by the WIAA for the softball tournament that starts as early as this Thursday for some teams. Division 1 seeds and brackets will be determined at meetings this week. Marathon has received a #1 seed in Division 4. The Red Raiders, 19-5 overall and in 2nd place behind Auburndale in the Marawood-South, will open postseason play next Tuesday, May 26th at home vs. the winner of this Thursday's game between 9th seede

After a slow start to the season, the Mosinee baseball team has turned it around in a big way. Further proof came Thursday when the unbeaten and D-2 #1 ranked Rhinelander Hodags came to town. Kaden Kolodziej, who no-hit Medford in his last start, was nearly as good in shutting out the Hodags on 4 hits over 6 2/3 innings in leading Mosinee to a 2-0 win. Kolodziej and Conner Rappley matched goose eggs until the bottom of the 5th when Mosinee would take the lead. Kolodziej wo

Monday on WausauAreaSports.com I wrote a pair of stories on the WIAA posting sectional assignments for the 2026-27 season of boys' and girls' hockey in Wisconsin. The 27 girls' hockey programs, 32 Division 2 boys' teams and the 53 assigned to Division 1 now know who they will have to get through in order to make the 2027 state hockey tournament at Bob Suter's Legacy20 Arena in Middleton. I noted that in the girls' bracket assignments that the teams that have won the last 5

What: Division 3 girls' basketball state semifinal Who: Mosinee (24-4 overall, 4th seed for state tournament) vs. Oostburg (28-0 overall, 1st seed) Where: Resch Center, Green Bay When: Thursday, 3/12 @ 1:35 pm The first game of the 2026 WIAA girls' basketball state tournament will feature a giant of recent Wisconsin basketball against a giant-killer of this playoff season. Oostburg is the defending Division 3 state champion and the undefeated top ranked team in the state