By Cara L. Dempski It was not an easy start to the week for the Boyceville boys’ basketball team last week, but they did not lose their ability to keep fighting when the odds were against them. The Bulldogs opened their week December 12 in Elk Mound, where they managed to keep up with the…

Propelled by dominating performances in upper weight classes, the Boyceville Bulldogs capped a long day of wrestling last Saturday in the 2017 Dells Duals Classic with an unblemished 5-0 record. It was the second time in three years that the Bulldogs finished the 30-team, dual-style tournament, held at the Chula Vista Resort near Wisconsin Dells,…

By Cara L. Dempski It is likely the Boyceville boys’ basketball team was still riding high following its trouncing of the Prairie Farm Panthers in the season opener when the Bulldogs took to the road for the second week of regular season play. The Bulldogs traveled to Bruce last Tuesday, December 5 to face the…

By Cara L. Dempski The Lady Bulldogs took a 1-2 record into their first conference action last week, but likely were not expecting the outcome of last Tuesday Dunn-St. Croix opener at home.

By Cara L. Dempski SIREN — Last year, the Glenwood City boys’ basketball team did not win a game until the third week of the season, and then it was a 65-43 blowout over non-conference foe Clayton. This year, the Hilltoppers wasted no time adding a W to the record. The squad went to Siren…

By Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — Jamie Olson, the head wrestling coach at Boyceville High School, seems pleased with the ten grapplers returning to this year’s team after last season. The Bulldogs have an 18-person roster for the 2017-2018 season that includes two state champions and a pair of sixth-place medal winners from last season’s…

By Cara L. Dempski BALDWIN — According to Boyceville head girls’ basketball coach Jolene Bird, the Lady Bulldogs’ lack of varsity experience shown through in their season opener last Thursday.

By Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — It is hard to miss Boyceville’s Garrett Joles when he is on the wrestling mats. Even in practice, he seems to draw the eyes in toward him. There’s his sheer physical size, at well over six feet tall and 205 pounds, and then there’s the fact that during at…

By Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — It was a hard year for the Boyceville boys’ basketball team in 2016-2017. Head coach Ben Luer’s Bulldogs finished the season 5-18 after a 78-61 regional quarter-final walloping by the Elmwood/Plum City Wolves. The team wound up 2-12 in the Dunn-St. Croix to occupy the bottom slot of the…

By Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — In the first practice of the 2017-2018 season, Boyceville head girls’ basketball coach Jolene Bird was already dialing up the intensity for her girls. A small group of watchers gathered toward the end of the practice, when Bird was running a two-on-one defense drill. Groups of three raced to…