SPRING VALLEY — The Elk Mound boys’ and girls’ cross country teams both placed third in the Spring Valley Invitational held Thursday, September 28. The race featured seven of the Dunn-St. Croix’s eight schools (Mondovi was not in attendance) plus Middle Border teams from Prescott and Somerset. That gave runners and teams an opportunity to…

SPRING VALLEY — After knocking off rival Colfax in straight sets two days earlier, the Elk Mound volleyball team had an opportunity to take sole possession of first place in the Dunn-St. Croix standing when they traveled to Spring Valley Thursday, September 28 to face the Cardinals, the conference’s other undefeated team. The Lady Mounders…

MONDOVI — Elk Mound knew it needed to play one of its best games of the season when it traveled to Mondovi last Friday evening to take on the Buffaloes in a Cloverbelt football contest. In a game of contrasting styles, which pitted Elk Mound’s aerial attack against Mondovi’s vaunted ground game, the Buffaloes prevailed…

DURAND — Running last Thursday, September 21 on Durand’s Rolling Greens Golf Course, site of next month’s Dunn-St. Croix Conference Cross Country Championships, the Elk Mound boys’ and girls’ teams both grabbed top five finishes in the Durand-Arkansaw Invitational that featured nearly two dozen schools from throughout West-central Wisconsin. The Mounder girls, led by junior…

ELK MOUND — In its only action of the week, the Elk Mound volleyball team swept the Boyceville Bulldogs in a Dunn-St. Croix match played last Tuesday, September 19 on the Mounders home court. Elk Mound prevailed 25-22 in a close opening set, took the second set 25-19 and won the third and final game…

ELK MOUND — After trailing early and holding a slim three-point advantage at halftime, Elk Mound exploded for 28 unanswered points in the third quarter of its home game versus Fall Creek last Friday, September 22. The Mounders went on to squash the Crickets 50 to 20 in a pivotal Cloverbelt football contest. The Mounders…

RICE LAKE — Featuring nearly 900 runners and three dozen schools competing in large and small school divisions, junior varsity and middle school races, the UW-Barron Cross Country  Invitational hosted by Rice Lake High School last Tuesday, September 12 is one of the fall’s premier running events in Northwestern Wisconsin. With 214 boys and 191…

DURAND — Elk Mound was looking for its second straight win over another winless Cloverbelt Conference opponent when it headed to Durand last Friday. After blanking hapless Osseo-Fairchild 47-0 the previous week, the Mounders were hoping to do the same when it visited Bauer Built Sports Complex September 15 to take on the Panthers of…

Although the Elk Mound volleyball team was only able to win one of the four matches it played last week, the one that it did win was the most important – a conference victory. Traveling to Durand last Thursday, September 14 for the Dunn-St. Croix Conference volleyball opener, the Mounders secured a three-set sweep of…