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From the Sports Desk – 7-3-2013

By Melissa | June 28, 2013

By Marlys Kruger It seems like this column seems to get written a lot less often than in the first four years I worked for The Messenger. As I begin my fifth year, I am still wrapping up spring sports as several of our local baseball and softball players are still earning awards while college…

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Elk Mound says goodbye to several track and field athletes

By Melissa | June 28, 2013

The Elk Mound boys and girls track and field teams had several seniors, most of whom were four year competitors, end their high school careers this spring at the regional, sectional or state meet. Members of the boys’ team who competed since their freshmen year were a part of the 2010 and 2013 conference championship…

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Elk Mound grads complete college baseball seasons

By Melissa | June 28, 2013

Garrick Day, a junior on the Wisconsin Lutheran baseball team along with Austin DeLong, a freshman for the Augsburg (MN) team both concluded their season with their respective teams last month.

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EM school board approves spending fund balance to close out budget

By Melissa | June 24, 2013

By LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — If you don’t use it, you lose it. That was the premise the Elk Mound Board of Education operated under for approving a motion at the June 17 meeting to spend Fund 10 revenue if necessary to zero out the budget for 2012-2013. “We like to get (the…

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Seniors leave their mark on Elk Mound softball program

By Melissa | June 14, 2013

ELK MOUND — With seven seniors on the softball team this year for Elk Mound, the expectations were high after the team reached the sectional semi-finals last season. Although the year ended with another loss to the same Grantsburg team, again in the sectional semi-final game, this group of girls, six of whom were four…

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Elk Mound baseball says goodbye to 10 seniors

By Melissa | June 14, 2013

ELK MOUND — To say the Elk Mound baseball team was heavy on upperclassmen this year would be quite an exaggeration as 10 seniors ended their playing days for the team this season. One was a four time letter winner while several of them were three year varsity players. In the past four years, the…

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Osseo-Fairchild steals Mounders’ thunder in sectional game

By Melissa | June 7, 2013

OSSEO-FAIRCHILD — Although the game was played in a steady rain, there was no lightning to hold things up when the Elk Mound baseball team faced off against the Osseo-Fairchild Thunder in the sectional semi-final game played on the Thunder’s home field Tuesday, June 4.

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Locals earn 2012-13 Softball All-Conference Team honors

By Melissa | June 4, 2013

2012-13 DSC SOFTBALL ALL CONFERENCE TEAMS

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Locals earn 2012-13 Baseball All-Conference Team honors

By Melissa | June 4, 2013

2012-13 DSC BASEBALL ALL CONFERENCE TEAMS

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Bauer scores points at state for Mounders

By Melissa | June 3, 2013

LA CROSSE — Freshman sprinter Jonah Bauer gave the Elk Mound boys’ track and field team their only points at the state track and field meet held May 31-June 1 at La Crosse by placing seventh in the 100 m dash.

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