Colfax Sports
Lady Vikings end conference play with a bang
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent After wrapping up play in the Dunn-St. Croix Conference with a 17-7 thumping of the Elmwood-Plum City Wolves at home May 15, the Colfax softball team picked up a non-conference home game against a very good Fall Creek team a day later and fell 15-1 to the Crickets. Finishing up…
Read MoreC-EM golfers finish 2nd in D-SC tourney, Brice and Nichols earn all-conference
COLFAX — The Colfax/Elk Mound boys’ golf team capped the Dunn-St. Croix and regular seasons with a second-place finish in the 18-hole conference tournament held Monday, May 15 on its home course at the Whitetail Golf Course. Four Colfax-Elk Mound golfers carded sub-100 performances, three of which scored in the 80s, at the 2023 Dunn-St.…
Read MoreColfax girls fifth, boys seventh in Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent DURAND — The annual Dunn-St. Croix Conference track and field meet took place Tuesday, May 16 under pleasant conditions at Bauer Built Sports Complex in Durand. The Colfax girls, led by individual winners Molly Heidorn and Jeanette Hydukovich, along with the 4×800 meter relay team placed fifth of the eight…
Read MoreColfax-Elk Mound golfers head into D-SC tourney with pair of second-place finishes
Steady improvement by Colfax-Elk Mound over the course of this year’s compressed boys’ golf season culminated in a pair of second-place finishes in the final three, nine-hole Dunn-St. Croix meets last week. Hosting a conference competition at Whitetail Golf Course last Monday, May 8, Colfax-Elk Mound scored its first runner-up finish of the year when…
Read MoreLady Vikings finish off Spring Valley Cardinals in five innings
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — After losing a close game against Spring Valley earlier in the season, the Viking softball team made sure that didn’t happen again as they crushed the Cardinals 11-1 in a five inning contest played in Colfax May 8. Brynn Sikora started things off with a first inning RBI,…
Read MoreColfax track and field teams host ten-team Invitational
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — With ten teams competing, including five from the Dunn-St. Croix Conference, the Colfax track and field teams were busy as they hosted the Colfax Invitational May 9. The Colfax girls placed third with 96 points while boys finished seventh after scoring 54 points. Northwestern won both the girls’…
Read MoreColfax baseball team outlasts Spring Valley
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — After blasting the Spring Valley Cardinals 16-1 back in April, the Colfax baseball team seemed to be facing a much improved Cardinal team the second time around as they needed to score two runs in the fifth inning then hold on for a 5-3 win in the game…
Read MoreMounders prevail over Vikings on ball diamond
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent ELK MOUND — In what started out as a blowout, the Dunn-St. Croix Conference baseball contest between the Colfax Vikings and Elk Mound Mounders turned out to be a pretty competitive game before the Mounders held on for a 13-9 win in the game played in Elk Mound Thursday, May…
Read MoreColfax and Elk Mound softball teams split games to end the week
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent Playing in back-to-back games last Thursday and Friday, May 11 and 12, the Colfax Vikings and Elk Mound Mounders softball teams both won a game. The Mounders took the first one 4-2 on their home field, and the Vikings accomplished something they hadn’t done since the 2014 season, and that…
Read MoreColfax track and field teams host Invitational
by Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent COLFAX — As we all know, when you live in Wisconsin you have to live with the unknown when it comes to weather. Under sunny skies with the temperature in the mid-seventies, Thursday May 6, 11 girls’ teams from as far away as Grantsburg and Webster, along with 10 boys’…
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