Elk Mound Schools

By Cara L. Dempski It may be coach Mike Kessler’s first season coaching the Elk Mound boys’ basketball team, but the way the Mounders have been playing this season, it is almost like he is a veteran coach for the team in orange and black. And much like their female counterparts, the Elk Mound boys…

By Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — Village residents in Colfax and Elk Mound can always count on one thing: the night of a rivalry game between the two high schools usually brings a sizable crowd to town. The gym at Colfax High School was certainly full for the most recent contest between the Vikings’ and…

By Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — Two nights after the Mounder and Viking boys’ teams played out a rivalry match at Colfax High School, it was the girls’ turn.

By Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound girls’ basketball team may, or may not, have been out for revenge against Durand in the pair’s second regular-season meeting after the Lady Panthers slammed the Mounders in the first go round.

By Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Eight members of the Elk Mound cross country team were selected as 2016 Academic All-state honorees by the Wisconsin Cross County Coaches Association. Boys’ runner Cade Hansen and the girls’ team, consisting of Elizabeth Fasbender, Alana Plaszcz, Brook Plaszcz, Kirstin Martinson, Paige Romanowski, Victoria Fasbender and Taya Schaefer,…

By Cara L. Dempski MONDOVI — If the Mondovi boys’ basketball team was looking for a repeat of its 51-40 victory over Elk Mound in early December, it did not find it. The Mounders traveled to Mondovi last Thursday, January 26 and proceeded to trounce the Buffaloes 55-41 to earn a regular-season split with Mondovi.…

By Cara L. Dempski GLENWOOD CITY — The Glenwood City boys’ basketball squad keeps running up reasonable scores and providing good defense, but it just cannot seem to lift itself past its opponents.