West Salem wraps up unbeaten regular season with 49-0 shutout of Westby
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West Salem wraps up unbeaten regular season with 49-0 shutout of Westby
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West Salem beat Westby 49-0 on Friday to finish 9-0 overall and 7-0 in the Coulee Conference, completing its first unbeaten regular season since joining the league in 1959.
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Holmen beat West Salem/Bangor 7-5 on Thursday at the Bernie L. Ferry Fieldhouse to win the championship and complete an undefeated season, with Gabe Schams scoring five goals.

Saint Mary's Athletics hosted 150 Winona Public Schools fourth-graders for its inaugural Fastenal Youth Sports Day, with students rotating through activity stations led by Cardinal student-athletes and coaches.

UW-La Crosse beat UW-Stout 3-0 on Saturday in La Crosse to improve to 15-0 overall and 4-0 in the WIAC, setting a school record for consecutive wins.

UW-La Crosse won both relays and nine individual events Friday night to beat UW-Whitewater 195-99 at the Richard L. Pein Natatorium.

A 90-yard kickoff return by Anthony Jones helped Central edge Onalaska 29-28 on Friday, while Logan's overtime win over Holmen gave the Rangers the MVC championship outright.

Holmen sophomore Carter Sinn won the MVC boys cross country title in a school-record 16:01.9 on Thursday in West Salem, leading the Vikings to a third straight team championship.







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Flags flew at half-staff across Wisconsin on Oct. 10 for Trooper Bradley Ritger, 29, who died Oct. 2 from injuries suffered in the line of duty in Dunn County.









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The closure between South 28th Avenue and Stewart Avenue started Friday for concrete pavement repairs, with a detour posted around the work zone.

Diagnosed with leukemia at 18 months and now 17 and cancer-free, Ayden Leonhardt traveled to Chicago with his father for a Professional Fighters League card at Wintrust Arena.

The annual after-dark display at Monk Botanical Gardens runs on selected October nights, ending with a trick-or-treating evening on Oct. 30.

Wisconsin's certified general school aid holds at $5.58 billion statewide for a third straight year, with Marshfield set to receive $30,586,161 and Wisconsin Rapids $44,269,713.

A free ODC haunted house in Wisconsin Rapids, a lantern-lit Spirit Walk at Historic Point Basse in Nekoosa and Colorama at Tri-Norse in Rome give the area three very different ways to spend the Oct. 15-18 weekend.

The Common Council votes Oct. 20 on PNK Group's conditional use permit for a Fourth Avenue North data center, after the Planning Commission recommended denial in September and the city began a 12-month data center moratorium on Oct. 9.



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Case beat Indian Trail 42-0 in Kenosha on Friday to finish 7-0 in the Southeast Conference, winning its first outright conference title since 1980.

Microsoft paid $12.75 million for 70.9 acres of mostly vacant farmland at 12734 Louis Sorenson Road to support data center construction already underway in Mount Pleasant.

Apple picking in Sturtevant, Boo at the Zoo and a downtown Candy Crawl in Racine, Pumpkin Palooza in Union Grove and scarecrows in Waterford headline Racine County's late-October calendar.

Foster, a Racine Case graduate, won the 200 freestyle and the 100 backstroke Friday night in La Crosse, where UW-Whitewater's men fell 195-99 and its women 208-86 to the Eagles.

Milwaukee swept the defending champion Dodgers in four games to reach its first World Series since 1982, and fans took to social media to celebrate a pennant 44 years in the making.

The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Library, Pabst Mansion and Milwaukee Ballet all posted sweep celebrations after the Brewers beat the Dodgers to win the National League pennant.
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