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Rice Lake’s Kenny Bednarek
4 ON THE COVER
Whether she’s playing hockey for the ECA Stars 14 Alumni Update
or soccer for Memorial, junior standout Once a standout player at Memorial,
Abigail Stow is a natural-born goal scorer Ben Kincaid now is in his first season
as UW-Stout baseball coach
8 NEVER SATISFIED
Bloomer’s Kyra Arendt (right) already is a 17 Whistleblowers
state champion triple jumper, but she’s always WIAA baseball umpire Chuck Rupnow
looking for ways to leap even farther
20 Coach Speak
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