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With huge sectional and Middle Border Conference ramifications, not to mention the pride of the New Richmond-Somerset rivalry at stake, the Tiger boys hockey team produced a gem in Somerset on Saturday night. New Richmond got a goal from Nick Lubow at 2:10 into the overtime to score...

It had become an annual ritual that the New Richmond girls basketball team would face Chippewa Falls and come out licking their wounds after a thumping from the perennial-power Cardinals. So when the New Richmond girls knocked off the Division 1 state-ranked Chippewa Falls squad...

After getting outshot 17-2 in the opening period, it would have been easy to write off the Western Wisconsin Stars when they were facing defending WIAA state champion Hayward. The Stars didn’t give up on themselves. The girls hockey co-op team based in New Richmond came back with...

It was no vacation for the New Richmond wrestlers when they competed at the Duals In The Dells tournament in Wisconsin Dells this weekend. Several Tigers suffered injuries that knocked them out of the tournament and that could keep them out of the lineup for the foreseeable future. The...

Qualifying seven lifters for state, winning the girls title and having the top girl in the meet were some of the highlights for the New Richmond Powerlifting Team in its season-opening meet in River Falls on Saturday. The Tigers competed in the Wisconsin High School Powerlifting...

Somerset’s wrestlers went into last Thursday’s rivalry match with New Richmond as underdogs. By winning several of the matches that were projected to be tight, the Spartans were able to lead 24-18 after eight matches. New Richmond was able to win five of the six bouts in the...

The Somerset boys basketball team was saying “Thank Heaven” after Friday’s game against St. Croix Central. Junior Heaven Hunt scored a career-high 26 points, including 20 in the second quarter, to carry the Spartans past a tenacious St. Croix Central team, 54-43. Somerset...

For the better part of a decade, a fierce defense has been at the core of the identity of the New Richmond boys basketball program. It now looks like the 2013-14 Tigers may be finding a combination that can add to that tradition. The pieces began to fall into place for the Tigers...

Facing two opponents from the Middle Border Conference on back-to-back nights forced the St. Croix Central boys basketball team to up its game. The progression started on Thursday, when the Panthers lost to Osceola 47-30. Where the Panthers really made a leap forward was on Friday,...

The first loss cuts the deepest. The Somerset hockey team took a 5-0-1 record into Saturday’s renewal of the rivalry with New Richmond. The Spartans played well in stretches, but undisciplined penalties took their toll as Somerset suffered its first loss of the season, 3-2, on...

Three South Dakota State football student-athletes, including repeat first-team selections Bryan Witzmann and Zach Zenner, were named Wednesday to The Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision All-America Team. Witzmann, a senior offensive tackle who graduated from Somerset...