By Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — When the game was finished and the statistics were compiled and recorded in the scorer’s book, there were an awful lot of zeroes following James Palmers’ name on the pitching line. The Bulldogs’ senior pitcher was careful and methodical in his pitching approach in a May 18 home contest…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski GLENWOOD CITY — A betting person might not have put money on Glenwood City coming from behind to beat Boyceville in their first game this season. Maybe the Lady Hilltoppers gained a little confidence in the three-week break between the fifth and sixth innings. Despite yet more rain, the Bulldogs traveled…
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BOYCEVILLE — An ability to manufacture a few runs and a masterful mound job proved to be a winning formula for the Bulldogs last Thursday. Bryce Boda tossed a complete game, Boyceville baseball’s first this season, a five-hit gem to help the Bulldogs snap their four-game losing skid with a tight but much needed 2-1…
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by Cara L. Dempski The Lady Bulldogs started their second-to-last week of the 2017 regular season with a loss at three-time conference champion Elk Mound. The Monday, May 8 game saw the Boyceville ladies held scoreless over four innings before picking up five runs in the fifth. The Mounders, however, had already chalked up 13…
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By Cara L. Dempski Playing softball can be exhausting. Especially if a team is scheduled to play a doubleheader. The Boyceville squad did just that last Tuesday, May 2 in Colfax. The Bulldogs earned a split with the Vikings, losing the first game 8-4 but rallied to win the second 5-4. The Bulldogs then hosted…
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By Cara L. Dempski With the regular season winding down, the weather is finally beginning to cooperate and as a result the Boyceville track and field teams were able to compete in a pair of area meets last week. Boyceville thinclads competed in Amery May 2 where the ran headlong into some stiff competition. The…
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By Cara L. Dempski It was a tough week for Boyceville on the baseball diamond. The Bulldogs, who faced a quartet of conference leaders, lost all four of its contests this past week including three Dunn-St. Croix match-ups. The Boyceville baseball team welcomed large Dunn-St. Croix co-leader Elk Mound to Evenson Field last Tuesday, May…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ALMA — After having its April 25 home game against rival Glenwood City suspended due to a rain storm, the Lady Bulldogs softball team had to make the long trek to Alma to battle the Pepin/Alma Eagles. The temperatures and weather for the April 28 match-up were markedly better than the…
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By Cara L. Dempski GLENWOOD CITY — Boyceville track and field coach Corey Day was dismayed by his girls’ team’s finish in Glenwood City last Monday, but it had nothing to do with the team’s performance. The Lady Bulldogs were plagued by a series of injuries that kept them from gathering more points to place…
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By Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — Sometimes, teams do not mind playing in the rain, other times they do. It took until the end of the fourth inning of the Bulldogs’ and Hilltoppers’ softball game at Boyceville April 25 before it was decided to suspend the game until the weather was better and there was…
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