Colfax Sports
Molly Heidorn repeats as sectional champion, returns to state
DURAND — Colfax’s Molly Heidorn had not lost a race all season but found herself amid a group of five front runners during much of Saturday’s frigid WIAA Division 3 Cross Country sectional in Durand. With less than 1,000 meters remaining, Glenwood City’s Bella Simmons began to pull away from the group and Heidorn. But…
Read MoreLady Vikings toppled by Glenwood City in regional semifinal
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — It’s been many, many years since a volleyball team from the Dunn-St. Croix Conference (other than Elk Mound) has won a match against Colfax. But there may be a new sheriff in town after the number three-seed Glenwood City Hilltoppers came to Colfax to face number two seed…
Read MoreVikings remain winless in loss to Hilltoppers
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — It was a tale of two different halves when the Colfax football team hosted Glenwood City this past Friday evening, October 23, on a field that had to be shoveled off from snow that had fallen before the game began. After giving up 41 points in the first…
Read MoreHeidorn repeats as CC conference champion; Mounder boys finish second
DURAND — Colfax sophomore Molly Heidorn joined an elite group of Viking athletes last Thursday afternoon, October 15 when she captured her second consecutive Dunn-St. Croix girls’ individual cross country championship during a chilly run on the Rolling Green Golf Course in Durand. Heidorn claimed the 2020 conference title with a run of 20:12.25 on…
Read MoreTurnovers lead to gridiron woes for Colfax
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent PLUM CITY — When the Colfax Vikings and the Elmwood/Plum City Wolves started their game last Friday night with records of 0-3, both teams knew by the end of the game one would have their first win while the other would sit alone in the cellar of the Dunn –…
Read MoreColfax Viking spikers split with Elmwood/Plum City Wolves
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent After a two-week hiatus, the Colfax volleyball team found its way back to the court with a home and away matches against the Elmwood/Plum City Wolves this past week. Playing at home Tuesday, October 13 for Parents’ Night and Senior Night, it took five sets before the Vikings claimed a…
Read MoreColfax girls win first conference meet, EM boys stay on top
COLFAX — It seems the Colfax girls’ cross country team may be peaking at just the right time – tournament time. With the conference meet slated for this Thursday and the subsectional and sectional tournaments for next Tuesday and Saturday, October 20 and 24, the Lady Viking harriers won their first (and the final) Dunn-St.…
Read MoreVikings drop third straight game with loss to Turtle Lake Lakers
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — It was Parents’ Night and Senior Night at Bjurquist Field Friday, October 9 and the Colfax football team was hoping to come up with a win over one of the new teams to the Dunn-St. Croix Conference, the Turtle Lake Lakers. But after the Vikings took an early…
Read MoreSpring Valley sails past Colfax gridders
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent SPRING VALLEY — The Colfax Vikings’ football team traveled to Spring Valley Friday Oct. 2 for their second game of the shortened season. For Spring Valley, it was their first game and they were more than ready to get things going as they used a huge first quarter to take…
Read MoreMolly Heidorn and Elk Mound boys headline another DSC east pod CC race
MONDOVI — Another Dunn-St. Croix east pod cross country race and yet another title for Colfax’s Molly Heidorn and the Elk Mound boys’ team. The Mounder boys, with four runners in the top six and all five varsity competitors in the first ten, won their fourth east pod competition in as many tries taking home…
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