Messenger Sports
Glenwood City Hilltoppers topple Colfax Vikings in homecoming gridiron action
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — It was homecoming week at Colfax high school with plenty of activities going on leading up to the annual football game. The Vikings hosted the Glenwood City Hilltoppers Friday, September 27 with every intention of building on the previous week’s game in which they scored their highest point…
Read MoreElk Mound XC runners compete at Durand Invite
by Renee Bettendorf Sports Correspondent DURAND — The Elk Mound Cross Country teams competed at the Durand-Arkansaw Invite on September 26. The varsity boys’ team took fifth place out of 11 teams and the girls placed seventh out of nine teams. Sophomore Hudson Banaszak was the first Mounder to cross the finish line. He placed…
Read MoreElk Mound football squashes Fall Creek Crickets for third straight Cloverbelt win
FALL CREEK — The Elk Mound football team captured its third straight Cloverbelt conference victory of the season with a 12-0 shutout of host Fall Creek last Friday, September 27. With their win over the Crickets, the Mounders improved to 3-1 in league play and 5-2 overall. Elk Mound could secure a playoff berth with…
Read MoreColfax cross country runners compete in pair of races
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent A small group of runners from Colfax competed at the Cadott Invite Sept. 24 and again at a Friday night race in Marshfield three days later. Kaysen Goodell led the girls in both races, placing ninth in Cadott with a time of 21:33 and placing 12th in the Marshfield race.…
Read MoreColfax-Elk Mound girl golfers repeat as CloverCroix Conference champs
You can call them champions once again! The Colfax-Elk Mound girl golfers claimed their second straight CloverCroix Conference championship last week with a trio of convincing wins. Colfax-Elk Mound swept the conference’s nine-hole mini-meets with a pair of back-to-back victories Tuesday, September 24. Competing at Whispering Pines Golf Course in Cadott that morning, the locals…
Read MoreMounder volleyball drops D-SC opener, splits at Husky Invite
It was not how the Mounders’ volleyball team wanted to open Dunn-St. Croix play. Elk Mound dropped its 2024 conference opener in Boyceville last Thursday, September 19 as the host Bulldogs earned the five-set victory. Two days later, the Lady Mounders competed in the Eau Claire North Husky Invite where they finished 2-2 on the…
Read MoreMounders cage Durand-Arkansaw Panthers in Cloverbelt football game
ELK MOUND — The senior duo of running back Parker Dutzle and quarterback Logan Jerome led the Mounders’ football team to a Cloverbelt win at home last Friday, September 20. Jerome completed nine of his dozen pass attempts for 239 yards and four touchdowns while Dutzle rushed 22 times for 154 yards to help lift…
Read MoreVikings show improvement but lose to E-PC Wolves in gridiron action
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent PLUM CITY — Although they came out on the low end of the final score, the Viking football team demonstrated a lot of positives when they lost on the road in Plum City to Elmwood-Plum City September 20 by a score of 32-18. The Vikings had the lead twice in…
Read MoreColfax runners race at Rice Lake Invite
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent In a cross country meet in which 38 teams and over 1,000 runners competed, the Colfax boys and girls raced at the Rice Lake Invitational held on the UW-Eau Claire Barron campus Sept. 17. Runners from all three divisions in Wisconsin competed and the meet was divided into a Small…
Read MoreColfax-Elk Mound girl golfers edge closer to second conference crown
A record-breaking performance helped the Colfax-Elk Mound girls’ golf team move closer to securing its second straight CloverCroix Conference championship. In a busy week that saw the squad compete in three events including a pair of conference meets at the Valley Golf Course in Mondovi, Colfax-Elk Mound set a new team record as it finished…
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