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Wisconsin Badgers keep Paul Bunyan’s Axe

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3 years ago

December 19, 2020

(AP Photo/Morry Gash)

After going into overtime, the Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Minnesota Gophers during a rescheduled game Saturday night.

The game ended with a winning field goal kick from Collin Larsh, leaving the score Badgers, 20, Gophers 17.

Saturday’s game marked the 130th meeting between the two teams, continuing the longest-running, uninterrupted series in Football Bowl Subdivision history.

Kaitlyn Riley

Kaitlyn Riley’s passion for communications started on her family’s dairy farm in Gays Mills, Wis. Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club while volunteering as a news reporter for the college radio station. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat. In her professional career, Kaitlyn has worked in radio, print and television news doing everything from covering local events to interviewing presidential candidates, and putting back on her barn boots to chat with farmers in the field. Today, Kaitlyn can be seen covering local stories that matter to you in the La Crosse area.