BLOOMER — As required by the WIAA when two schools form a co-op, each of the schools has to host at least one home meet. With most of the meets for the Bloomer-Colfax wrestling team held in Bloomer, Colfax hosted a home match in their gym Jan. 24 against Spooner, a Heart O’ North Conference…
Read MoreBy Marlys Kruger It appears Colfax graduate Ricky Hagen will have a championship ring for each hand to balance himself out as Hagen and his teammates from North Dakota State University won their second straight FCS National Football title Jan. 5 in Frisco, TX. The Bison turned a 10-10 halftime score against Sam Houston State…
Read MoreTraveling north on a cold, windy Saturday night, the Colfax girls’ basketball team used their aggressive defense and inside game on offense to take a 38-34 win over Ladysmith Jan. 19.
Read MoreWith all the distraction going on before, during and after the game last Friday night involving recognition of the Colfax 1978 state basketball champions (heck, Bob Bradovich even did the channel 18 sports from the balcony before the game), the current Colfax team needed to keep their focus when they hosted the scrappy Spring Valley…
Read MoreBy Marlys Kruger Although it was a little short notice due to scheduling problems, nine of the 12 players along with both coaches from the Colfax 1978 State Champion basketball team were introduced to a large crowd during halftime of the boys’ basketball game Jan. 18. It was 35 years ago this March that head…
Read MoreWith six wrestlers scoring points in the Shell Lake tournament Jan. 19, the Bloomer-Colfax team placed seventh in the 10 team meet with 99 points. Spring Valley-Elmwood won the meet with 358 points.
Read MoreThe Colfax girls accomplished something last week they haven’t done in a long time–for three years in fact—when they defeated the Eau Claire Regis Ramblers 42-28, on the Ramblers home court no less. They followed that win up by pounding Plum City at home 50-24 Jan. 17.
Read MoreHaving to forfeit several weight classes makes it difficult to win dual meets and the Bloomer-Colfax wrestlers have been finding that out all season. In a meet at Cumberland Jan. 14, B-C gave up 30 points due to five forfeits, and won just three matches as they were defeated by the Beavers 63-18.
Read MoreWith just six matches actually taking place, the Bloomer-Colfax wrestling team lost a dual meet 54-27 at home Jan. 11 against Chetek-Weyerhaeuser/Prairie Farm 54-27.
Read MorePLUM CITY — After their tough loss to Elk Mound two days earlier, the Viking boys came back quite nicely with a 55-26 Saturday matinee win over the Plum City Blue Devils Jan. 12.
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