Area Sports
Treys topple Toppers in losses to Mounders, Warriors
by Joel DeWitt Sports Correspondent Lately, the Hilltoppers boys’ basketball team has been bitten by the 3-point bug. Glenwood City saw Boyceville hit 10-for-18 3-pointers in a tough defeat the previous week. Elk Mound and Amery nearly matched that output. The Mounders and Warriors combined to shoot 51 percent from beyond the arc to hand…
Read MoreGC girls drop D-SC games to EPC, Spring Valley
After recording its first victory of the season thanks to a double-digits non-conference triumph over Bruce January 17, the Glenwood City girls’ basketball squad was looking to tack on a conference win or two when it played Elmwood-Plum City and Spring Valley this past week. Unfortunately, the Lady Hilltoppers fell behind early both contests and…
Read MoreBoyceville girls drop three contests as losing streak grows to six straight
The Lady Bulldogs losing streak hit six when they dropped all three of their hardwood contests last week including a pair of Dunn-St. Croix conference match ups. Playing a doubleheader with the boys’ teams, the ladies took to the home court last Monday evening, January 23 to face Eleva-Strum. A slow start doomed the effort…
Read MoreBulldog sweep in Bloomer gives Coach Olson 300th dual wrestling victory
Last Tuesday’s 5-school dual meet invitational at Bloomer High School turned out to be a very special evening for the Boyceville wrestlers and their head coach Jamie Olson, That’s because Boyceville’s 45-28 opening-round victory over Arcadia at the January 24 meet was the 300th career dual win for Olson. His Bulldogs would go on to…
Read MoreBulldog boys win pair of non-conference games before falling to Durand-Arkansaw
As late rock n’ roll star Meat Loaf used to sing, “Two out of three ain’t bad”! Playing three games last week, the Boyceville boys’ basketball team came away with a pair of non-conference victories before losing a conference contest to Durand-Arkansaw. Competing in back-to-back non-conference games to open the week, the Bulldogs held on…
Read MoreGlenwood City wins back-to-back D-SC Conference wrestling championships
GLENWOOD CITY — A year ago, Glenwood City finished with a perfect 4-0 record in Dunn-St. Croix competitions to capture its first conference wrestling championship in a dozen years. But unlike last year when the Hilltoppers won a tiebreaker against rival Boyceville to eventually earn that coveted title, Glenwood City demonstrated compete mastery over its…
Read MoreBloomer/Colfax wrestlers split six home duals
BLOOMER — Wrestling six duals over a three-day span in two separate home meets, the Bloomer Colfax wrestling team earned a split as it won three and lost three. In a five-school, dual-style meet held at Bloomer High School last Tuesday, January 24, the Raptors defeated Thorp/Owen-Withee and Bruce but lost to Arcadia and Boyceville.…
Read MoreLady Vikings split pair of D-SC games
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent After defeating the Durand Panthers earlier in the season, the Colfax girls had high hopes of pulling off another win, but instead they allowed a 10-point halftime lead to disappear and fell to the Panthers 48-43 in overtime January 24 in Colfax. They came back however, with a lopsided win…
Read MoreLady Mounders begin new win streak
After being knocked from ranks of the unbeatens following a January 21 non-conference loss to a strong Somerset squad, what did the Lady Mounders’ basketball team do? It simply started a new winning streak. Traveling to the southern reaches of the Dunn-St. Croix Conference for a pair of games last week, Elk Mound played at…
Read MoreElk Mound boys handle Hilltoppers, beat Blackhawks, plucked by Cards
While last Thursday’s lopsided 65-35 home victory over lowly Glenwood City helped the Elk Mound boys’ basketball team maintain a share of the Dunn-St. Croix lead with Durand-Arkansaw, the Mounders also got in a pair of non-conference contests last week. Playing those two out-of-league games around their contest with the Hilltoppers, the Mounder boys had…
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