Area 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 MoreBoyceville volleyball wins 5-set thriller over Elk Mound to open D-SC conference play
Although the Bulldog volleyball team won just one match during their busy schedule last week, that one victory was huge. Boyceville headed into last Thursday’s Dunn-St. Croix Conference opener at home against Elk Mound on the heels of a disappointing non-conference loss to Pepin/Alma on its home court just two days prior. But, there appeared…
Read MoreHellendrung runs roughshod as Bulldogs blank Hilltoppers for second straight year
by Joel DeWitt Sports Correspondent GLENWOOD CITY — When the rival squads from Boyceville and Glenwood City met here on the gridiron last Friday evening, September 20, the matchup on paper looked to be tight. Combined the teams were 7-1 and both were jostling for position at top of the Dunn-St. Croix conference standings. However,…
Read MoreBoyceville harriers compete at Rice Lake
by Renee Bettendorf Sports Correspondent RICE LAKE — The Boyceville cross country teams competed at the very large Rice Lake Invitational, that featured over 1,000 runners, held on the UW-Eau Claire Barron Campus on September 17 amid hot and humid weather conditions and hundreds of runners from schools ranging in size from Hudson to Prairie…
Read MoreGC spikers drop D-SC opener
MONDOVI — Although the Glenwood City volleyball had won just two of its first nine matches this season, it had hoped to open Dunn-St. Croix Conference play with a win when it visited Mondovi last Thursday, September 19. While they stayed close throughout the match, the Hilltoppers lost in straight sets to the Lady Buffaloes.…
Read MoreGlenwood City cross country runs in Osceola
OSCEOLA — In their only competition last week, the Glenwood City boys’ and girls’ cross country teams had to show a bit of patience when a storm hit the area just as they were about to compete in the Osceola Invitational last Saturday, September 21. The inclement weather eventually blew through and the race was…
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