Colfax Sports
Lady Vikings’ golf at Hammond and New Richmond, see improvement
By Cara L. Dempski The Vikings started out last week on shaky ground after putting together a score of 406 as a team at Pheasant Ridge Golf Course in Hammond. No results for the August 29 match were available prior to publication, but Colfax coach Ryan Krall noted the team had hoped for a better…
Read MoreColfax volleyballers nab second set thriller before falling to Blackhawks
By Cara L. Dempski BLOOMER — Colfax knows how to win, but early in 2017 the young team is working on consistency. The Lady Vikings may still have some kinks to work out, but they managed to take away a set from the Blackhawks Tuesday, August 29 in Bloomer. Ultimately, the Colfax ladies fell to…
Read MoreVikings struggle to mount offense in Spring Valley, fall to Cards
By Cara L. Dempski SPRING VALLEY — Last Friday’s Dunn-St. Croix opener against the Cardinals left Colfax head football coach Matt DeMoe speechless. “There isn’t much to say,” he wrote in his game comments. “Spring Valley is a good team. We didn’t match their intensity.” According to the Colfax coach, the Viking defense knew what…
Read MoreColfax cross country aiming to get back to state
By Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — Last year was an unusual one for Joe Doucette’s Colfax Vikings boys’ and girls’ cross country teams. While both groups did reasonably well over the course of the season, only one runner made the trip to the state meet at Wisconsin Rapids last October. That is out of character…
Read MoreColfax Viking girls’ golf team perseveres through wind, tough course at Amery
By Cara L. Dempski AMERY — If the Vikings were going to get in some good experience on the golf course last week, they certainly found it at Amery. Colfax’s girls’ golf team was scheduled to play at Amery last Tuesday, August 22, before heading to Osceola August 24, but wound up playing just the…
Read MoreColfax CC builds solid foundation with third- and fifth-place finishes at Boyceville
By Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — This year’s Boyceville Cross Country Alumni Invitational, traditionally on of the first races on the season’s docket, came just 10 days after the WIAA allowed prep teams to start practicing. That fact does not seem to have bothered the Colfax Vikings, since the girls’ team finished third out of…
Read MoreLady Vikings fare well at home quad, Menomonie Sprawl
By Cara L. Dempski If Colfax’s varsity volleyball team was looking for a positive start to the 2017 season, it certainly got one last week. The Lady Vikings kicked off the season with a quad at home August 22 and walked away with a 3-0 record after defeating Unity 25-18 and 25-21, Baldwin-Woodville 25-22 and…
Read MoreColfax football earns first win at Eleva-Strum
By Cara L. Dempski STRUM — Colfax had to wait six weeks to win a football game in 2016. This year, they tacked a “W” onto their record in week two. Colfax traveled to Eleva-Strum Central High School Friday night, August 25 after making a decent, albeit scoreless, showing at Ellsworth the previous week. The…
Read MoreViking girls’ golf sees busy week to open season
By Cara L. Dempski There is easing into a sports season to allow players to adjust to the work load, and then there is what happened for the Colfax girls’ golf team last week. The Lady Vikings started out the week at Pine Crest Golf Course in Dallas, where they took on Cumberland, Barron, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser…
Read MoreColfax gridiron gang shows flashes of brilliance in loss at Ellsworth
By Cara L. Dempski ELLSWORTH — Scoreboards can be deceiving creatures. That certainly was the case for Colfax’s Viking football team last Friday in Ellsworth. They may have lost the game 42-0 in their first match-up of the 2017 season, but head coach Matt DeMoe saw plenty to be pleased during the August 18 non-conference…
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