HASA competes in Northfield

The Hudson Area Swim Association sent eight athletes to a swim competition in Northfield, Minn., Jan. 20. This meet was a “Pre-C” meet, meaning, only swimmers with no times or not-quite-C times were eligible to swim.

• Tatum Dietz

Notes From the Dockside: The lucky spot

With all the new innovations in fishing equipment, boats and motors and the proliferation of information about fishing it is still impossible to discount the value of just pure luck.

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Badgers sign 12 players to football scholarships and 7 walk-ons

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Coach Bret Bielema managed to get five recruits who earned four-star ratings from ESPN, Rivals and Scout.com. They include linebacker Vince Biegel of Wisconsin Rapids and running back Vonte Jackson of Kenosha Bradford.

Swim and dive team ready for BRC meet

Charlie Skinner and Willie Skinner each won one event and helped the Raiders’ 400 freestyle relay to a victory in the final event of the night but the Hudson boys’ swim and dive team came out on the short end of a 92-78 decision in a Big Rivers Conference dual meet at the middle school pool last Thursday, Jan. 26.

• Lucas Rukavina in the 200-yd. freestyle swim
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Hockey: Girls beat three-time state champs

Last Thursday, the Raiders took the short trip down Hwy. 35 to the Wildcat Centre in River Falls to face the fourth-ranked and three time defending state champion, St. Croix Valley Fusion, a team they lost to in overtime three weeks earlier. The Raiders emerged this time with a 4-3 upset victory.

• Racheal Knoke celebrates after scoring a goal against the Fusion
• Julia Douglas steals the puck from St. Croix Valley’s Taylor Magill
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Gymnasts’ scores keep climbing

The Raider gymnastics team wasn’t content with posting a season-high score of 132.8 in its dual meet against River Falls last Tuesday, Jan. 24. So it went out and scored even higher at its own Hudson Raider Invitational on Saturday.

• Maddy Rohde on the uneven parallel bars
• McKenna Daulton hits her vault routine
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Boys’ skaters split in BRC play

The Raider boys’ hockey team scored five second-period goals on its way to a 10-2 victory at Menomonie last Tuesday, Jan. 24 before coming up just short in a 4-2 loss to Big Rivers Conference leader Eau Claire Memorial on Thursday.

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Chippewa Falls Cardinals snap Raider wrestlers’ BRC streak

The match between the only two remaining undefeated conference teams lived up to expectations, but in the end Chippewa Falls held on for a 30-26 victory on its home mat to hand the Raiders their first BRC loss since 2004.

• Derek Schindler works to pin Chippewa Falls’ Mathew Young
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Boys hoops splits pair

Following a 48-38 nonconference loss at home to Edina, Minn. last Tuesday, Jan. 24, the Raider boys’ basketball team went on the road and posted a 46-43 Big Rivers Conference victory over Eau Claire Memorial Friday to improve to 4-3 in conference play.

• Hudson senior Max Hawksford
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UW-River Falls Falcon sports update

UW-River Falls’ senior basketball player Shane Manor posted back-to-back 18 point games, Maranda Dohrn set a career rebound mark, the Falcon men's hockey team defeated St. Norbert College in Green bay, and the women’s hockey team swept Marian in last week's college sports action.

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• Maranca Dohrn

Rodgers throws two TDs in Pro Bowl

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Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes Sunday night, but his National Football Conference team still lost to the American Football Conference 59-41 at the Pro Bowl in Honolulu. The Green Bay Packers' quarterback started the game and completed 13 of 17 passes for 141 yards.

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Boat safety courses offered

The Hudson Flotilla of the United State Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering a series of public boat safety courses.

HASA swims at U of M meet

The Hudson Area Swim Association (HASA) sent eight swimmers to the University Of Minnesota Jan. 14-15 to participate in a swim meet for swimmers with “A” times or higher.

• HASA swimmers who competed at the University of Minnesota

Steinwagner pursuing the dream at DMACC

Raider senior Brett Steinwagner is joined by his coach, Ryan Huppert, left, and his parents Penny and Brian as he signs a national letter of intent last Wednesday to accept a scholarship and play baseball at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) beginning next fall.

• Brett Steinwagner, right, with coach and parents
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Hike, snowshow at Afton park

Minnesota state parks and state trails will host 38 candlelight events this winter, including an event at Afton State Park on Saturday, Feb. 4. If there is not enough snow for snowshoes, the trail will still be illuminated for hiking.