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Gymnasts hit new highs at GNC meet
FebruaryW 26, 2015 Medford, isconsin
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Hanson, Peterson take Medford back to state by Sports Editor Matt Frey They’ve made it look easy at times this winter while compiling identical 40-4 records, but Medford’s state-bound wrestlers Tucker Peterson and Kolten Hanson insist it wasn’t as simple as it seemed. “It’s starts here,� Peterson said Monday, referring to Medford’s wrestling room. “You aren’t going to go to state if you’re not practicing hard. Kolten and me have been going hard.� “It’s all about hard work,� Hanson said. “I do a lot of work on my own, at home. I’ve probably run over 100 miles on my own at home just during the season.� That work certainly paid off for Hanson, a freshman, in his sectional championship match in Amery on
Saturday. He outlasted St. Croix Central senior Ryan Gulich in double overtime to win the 145-pound championship. Peterson, a junior, won his first two matches on Saturday to reach the 152-pound finals and punch his first ticket to state. The WIAA state individual tournament starts today, Thursday, and runs through Saturday at the Kohl Center in Madison. Medford returns to the big meet after not sending anyone last year. Peterson will be on the mat tonight in a preliminary match against Wisconsin Lutheran senior Malik Smith (41-7), while Hanson, as a sectional champion, gets a first-round bye. He’ll meet either Sheboygan Falls junior Josh Becker (3812) or Two Rivers senior Chandler Donati
See STATE WRESTLING on page 14
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Clinches state
Medford junior Tucker Peterson gains some leverage against Ellsworth’s Anders Lantz during their WIAA Division 2 sectional semifinal match at 152 pounds. Peterson won 6-5 to clinch his first state tournament appearance.
Breaks don’t go Medford’s way at state curling championships by Sports Editor Matt Frey
State win
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Medford’s Trevor Geiger releases the rock with sweepers Noah Jalowitz (l.) and Dillon Brost at his side during the fourth end of the boys team’s 8-5 win over D.C. Everest II on Friday afternoon. The Raiders went 1-3 in their pool at the Wisconsin State High School Championships in Wausau.
It’s not often where a team can say first place was separated from last place by a matter of inches. But that was the case for Medford’s varsity boys team during last weekend’s Wisconsin State High School Championships at the Wausau Curling Club. Entering the tournament as the third seed out of 20 teams, the Raiders never really got on track Friday and Saturday and lost three of four matches in their pool.
Two of those losses, however, came down to the very end. The Raiders had a shot on their last throw of a tournamentopening 4-3 loss to Portage II on Friday morning. Then, in the final round of pool play on Saturday afternoon, the Raiders lost 9-8 in an extra end to Wausau East, who eventually went to the championship game. The loss to East was painful because Medford’s team of John Shear, Dillon Brost, Trevor Geiger and Noah Jalowitz got the opening they needed to have a
See STATE CURLING on page 13
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