Colfax Sports
Colfax Scholastic Trap team competes in State Championships
On Saturday, June 22, nine members of the Colfax Scholastic Trap Team took part in the 2019 WI State American Trap Championships in Nekoosa. Each athlete shoots four rounds, totaling 100 clay pigeons. Out of 1,571 shooters total, the Colfax members placed as follows (score out of 100 is in parentheses): Will Wanish – 393rd…
Read MoreColfax Sportsmen’s Club hosts its largest shoot
Thanks to the excavation of seven new shooting bays the 3-Gun Match at the Dunn County/Colfax Shooting Sports Complex July 7 was the largest competition there to date. According to Ted Miller, shoot director, 49 competitors took part coming from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Many of them came from the eastern side of the Badger…
Read MoreColfax adult softball league still going strong after 38 years
By Amber Hayden COLFAX — On any given night of the week, you can drive past Tom Prince Memorial Park and see either a softball or Little League game going on one or both of the fields. Or sometimes, players are getting in much needed batting practice for their upcoming games for the Monday night…
Read MoreColfax Scholastic Action Shooting Program Team goes to state
Rather than spend Father’s Day, June 16, at home grilling burgers with dad, members of the Colfax Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) Team were at the County Line Sportsmen’s Club in Racine at the SASP Wisconsin State Match, putting up with rain and a cold wind blowing off of Lake Michigan. Disruption of the holiday…
Read More2019 D-SC all conference softball teams announced
2019 DSC ALL CONFERENCE SOFTBALL TEAMS FIRST TEAM Amber Retzloff BV Sr. Bailey Bradford COL So. Hannah Prissel DUR Sr. Anna Blanford E/PC So. Kali Brathol E/PC Sr. Clare Hallum EM Jr. Hailey Blaskowski EM Jr. Maggie Wallin GC Sr. Delanie Fayerweather GC So. Maddie Oehlke GC So. Erin Seifert P/A Sr. SECOND TEAM Hannah Johnson BV…
Read MoreColfax Sportsmen’s Club puts new shooting bays into service
by Jim Nosker Colfax Sportsmen’s Club has put seven new shooting bays into service at the Colfax/Dunn County Shooting Sports Complex. While finishing touches are still needed, the bays are the culmination of a project that was started last fall and which involved moving tens of thousands of yards of dirt. Participants got to try…
Read MoreVikings’ and Mounders’ track and field teams compete in WIAA State meet
By Amber Hayden LA CROSSE — It was a struggle for both the Colfax Vikings and the Elk Mound Mounders as both schools competed in the 2019 WIAA State Track and Field Championship on the UW-La Crosse campus last Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1. It was the 30th year the event as…
Read More2019 D-SC all-conference baseball teams announced
2019 D-SC ALL CONFERENCE BASEBALL TEAMS FIRST TEAM Trett Joles BV So. Walker Retz BV So. Connor Sempf BV So. Brett Lew EM Sr. Tanner Marsh MON So. Jackson Falkner MON Jr. Dawson Alme P/A Jr. Carter Deppa SV So. Mike Bauer SV So. Aaron Borgerding SV Jr. Santana Schlegel SV Sr. SECOND TEAM Trevor Hollister BV…
Read MoreViking golfers finish season at WIAA regional tourney
CADOTT — The Colfax golf team’s 2019 season came to a close last Tuesday when they finished last in the 9-team WIAA Division 3 Cadott regional tournament. The Vikings’ golfers accumulated 503 strokes in the 18-hole regional meet held May 21 at Whispering Pines Golf Course near Cadott to finish in ninth place. “We had…
Read MoreColfax softball suffers one-run playoff loss to Spooner
By Amber Hayden SPOONER — For the Colfax Lady Vikings’ softball team, the end of the season came too quickly in their WIAA Division 3 first-round outing against the Spooner Rails last Tuesday, May 21. Colfax let the game slip away in the fifth inning after they had tied things up 1-1. A ground ball…
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