Elk Mound Sports
Mounders track and field striving to improve on depth and distance in upcoming season
By Amber Hayden ELK MOUND — Depth and distance will be this season’s focus for the Elk Mound boys’ and girls’ track and field teams according to head coach Jonathon Langreck. As a second year head coach, Langreck will be looking for all the athletes to be able to improve their times. He would like…
Read MoreCedarblade wins 2019 WIAA girls basketball 3-Point Challenge
By Amber Hayden GREEN BAY — Sophie Cedarblade, a junior at Elk Mound, was this year’s WIAA 3-Point Challenge winner following the Saturday morning, March 9 competition at the Resch Center in Green Bay. The 3-Point Challenge is held each year in conjunction with the WIAA State Girls’ Basketball Tournament and preceeds the five state…
Read More2018-19 Colfax and Elk Mound Middle School Winter Sports Athletes
Elk Mound girls win state powerlifting competition, boys finish as runners-up
Colfax competitors do well too! By Amber Hayden APPLETON — The Colfax and Elk Mound powerlifting teams departed for the state tournament on Friday, March 1, to take part in the two-day competition held Saturday and Sunday, March 2-3 in Appleton. Elk Mound had 37 lifters qualify for the state competition, which was the largest in the state of…
Read MoreColfax, Elk Mound athletes named to 2018-19 D-SC All-Conference basketball teams
2018-19 DSC BOYS BASKETBALL ALL CONFERENCE TEAMS FIRST TEAM George Scharlau COL 12 Ben Thompson COL 12 Riley Radle DUR 12 Avery Hoepner MON 12 Aaron Borgerding SV 11 Dylan Bosshart SV 12 SECOND TEAM Luke Heidorn COL 12 TJ Tulip DUR 12 Fletcher Weiss DUR 12 Marcus Kinblom EM 12 Hadin DeSmith GC 12 Owen Schultz…
Read MoreMounder men’s season comes to an end with regional loss to Prescott
By Amber Hayden The Elk Mound boys’ basketball squad was the lone outsider in a regional bracket filled with Middle Border Conference teams. But the Mounders showed they could compete with games against the Somerset Spartans and the Prescott Cardinals in the opening rounds of the 2019 WIAA Division 3 tournament. With a first-round, quarterfinal…
Read MoreEM girls end assault on Coulee Conference with regional championship loss to G-E-T
By Amber Hayden GALESVILLE — The Elk Mound girls’ basketball team’s upset bid for a regional championship came up just short. Trailing by only four point at the intermission of their WIAA Division 3 regional title game played last Monday evening, February 25 in Galesville, the unranked and fifth-seeded Lady Mounders matched the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau (G-E-T)…
Read MoreElk Mound hosts last power lifting meet of the season
By Amber Hayden ELK MOUND — Elk Mound played host to the last meet of the season for Region one of the Wisconsin High School Powerlifting Association on Saturday, February 9, that includes fifteen schools in the region. Josie Jacobson of Elk Mound finished third in the 148-pound weight class behind Abigail Johnson of New…
Read MoreLady Mounders move on to regional final with wins over Viroqua and Westby
By Amber Hayden It was a productive week for the Elk Mound girls’ basketball squad. The girls pushed past a pair of Coulee Conference teams, the Viroqua Blackhawks on Tuesday evening, February 19, and the Westby Norsemen on Friday, February 22, in the opening two games of the WIAA Division 3 tournament. The Blackhawks were…
Read MoreElk Mound boys’ basketball loses 2 of 3 to close out regular season
By Amber Hayden It has been a rough end-of-the-season run for the Elk Mound boys’ basketball team as it closed out the 2018-19 regular season losing five of their last seven games including a 1-2 finish in the final week of regulation play against conference foes Mondovi and Durand and non-conference combatant, the Bloomer Blackhawks.…
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