Messenger Sports
Elk Mound captures regional baseball championship with pair of 10-run wins
ELK MOUND — The Elk Mound baseball team won back-to-back five-inning, ten-run playoff victories over a pair of Cloverbelt teams last week to capture its second WIAA Division 3 regional baseball championship in three years. The Dunn-St. Croix’ most valuable player, senior Kaden Russo, tossed a three-hit shutout and blasted a three-run home run in…
Read MoreColfax-Elk Mound boys’ golf season ends at sectional meet at Rice Lake
RICE LAKE — The Colfax-Elk Mound boys’ golf season concluded in sectional play last Tuesday. The local linksmen shot a combined 363 to finish 11th out of 12 teams in the WIAA Division 2 Rice Lake Golf Sectional held at Turtleback Golf Course May 28. Sophomore Orion Nichols led the Colfax-Elk Mound team with an…
Read MoreElk Mound’s Keinin Miller places and earns points in pair of state meet sprints
LA CROSSE — For the second consecutive year, Keinin Miller scored all of the Elk Mound boys’ points at the state meet. In Saturday’s competition, the junior speedster copped a eighth-place finish in the Division 2, 100-meter final and followed it a few hours later by taking sixth in the 200-meter final to provide the…
Read MoreColfax senior Jeanette Hydukovich wins state discus championship
LA CROSSE — The conditions were not ideal but the result was! Despite a steady drizzle of rain and a wet concrete throwing circle, Colfax senior Jeanette Hydukovich made her fourth and final appearance in the Division 3 girls’ state discus competition one to remember. On her second attempt in Saturday morning’s competition, Hydukovich unleashed…
Read MoreBuy your state park, trail passes online to save time
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds the public to plan ahead this Memorial Day weekend by purchasing their 2024 annual vehicle admission sticker and state trail passes online. Everyone can find their adventure in Wisconsin with 50 state parks, 15 state forests, 44 state trails, 15,000 lakes and hundreds of…
Read MoreColfax track teams host regional meet, Hydukovich, Hovde and Goodell take firsts
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — The quest for a chance to compete at the WIAA state track and field championships began May 20 for Colfax track athletes on their home grounds in the WIAA Division regional meet. Needing to place in the top four of each individual event, several athletes moved on to…
Read MoreTwo Colfax girls punch ticket to WIAA state track and field meet
by MarlysKruger Sports Correspondent CAMERON — Just as they have all season, Jeanette Hydukovich and Kaysen Goodell have led the Colfax girls on the track and in the field. Hydukovich was the runner-up in both the discus throw and the shot put and Goodell claimed a fourth place in the 1,600m run at the sectional…
Read MoreArneson is new Mounder boys’ basketball coach
Elk Mound High School is excited to introduce Dennis Arneson as the newly appointed Head Boys’ Basketball Coach for the 2024-25 school year. He will take over for Chris Hahn who served in that capacity the past two seasons. Having served as an assistant coach for the Mounders over the last 15 years, Coach Arneson…
Read MoreElk Mound’s Miller and Mueller headed to State Track meet
by Renee Bettendorf COLBY — Two Elk Mound track and field athletes qualified for state in four events at the WIAA division two sectional track meet held in Colby on May 23. They are junior Keinin Miller in the 100 and 200 meter races and senior Grandt Mueller in high jump and triple jump. Mueller…
Read MoreElk Mound girls finish third, boys take fourth in D2 track and field regional
BLOOMER — The Elk Mound girls’ ran, jumped and threw their way to a third-place showing at the WIAA Division 2 track and field regional meet held in Bloomer on Monday, May 20. The Lady Mounders tallied 99 points to finish a half point ahead of Stanley-Boyd, but just four points out of second which…
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