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 Moreby 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 Moreby 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 Moreby 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 Moreby 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 Moreby 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 Moreby 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’…
Read Moreby Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent The Colfax baseball team had high hopes of handing the Mondovi Buffaloes their first loss in Dunn-St. Croix Conference play when they met up in Colfax on Monday, May 3. The Vikings tried to keep it close but a big sixth inning by Mondovi kept their perfect conference record intact…
Read MoreTwo more Dunn-St. Croix Conference golf matches resulted in another pair of third-place finishes for the Colfax-Elk Mound boys’ team. Playing in back-to-back, nine-hole conference meets in Durand on Monday, May 1 and at Mondovi, Tuesday, May 2, the C-EM boys’ golf squad finished in third for the fifth time in as many conference meets.…
Read Moreby Marlys Kruger Sports Correspondent It was a cool, windy day last Monday, May 3 when the Colfax softball team hosted the Mondovi Buffaloes. After falling behind early, the Vikings saw their comeback fall one run short, dropping the contest 8-7. But 24 hours later, the Vikings went to Boyceville and bruised the Bulldogs in…
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