By Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — The Elk Mound and Colfax track teams are going to get used to seeing each other these last few weeks of the regular season. After waiting a few weeks for fair weather to making competing outdoors at least tolerable, the Mounders finally found a sunny night at the home…
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By Cara L. Dempski A perfect week on the softball field kept the Elk Mound girls unbeaten and atop the Dunn-St. Croix standings and tacked four more wins onto their season tally. The Lady Mounders pummeled Pepin/Alma and topped Glenwood City during last week’s conference softball action before they capped the week by trashing a…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski With four games in five days, it proved to be a busy and somewhat successful week for the Lady Mounders. Elk Mound’s softball team went 3-1 during that span, pummeling a trio of conference foes by double digits to remain unbeaten in Dunn-St. Croix play before being nipped by the state-ranked…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — Days after slipping under the 200 mark for the first time in 2017, Brandon Powell’s Elk Mound golfers did it again at the Whitetail Golf Club a week ago Monday. The Mounders went to the home course they share with Colfax for a round of Dunn-St. Croix golf April…
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By Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — If you look at the statistics from Elk Mound’s home game against Spring Valley, it seems like the Birds never really had a chance. The Mounders’ baseball team welcomed the Spring Valley Cardinals to the Elk Mound Village Park Monday, April 24 and proceeded to wallop the Cards…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Seven Elk Mound archers traveled to the National Archery in the Schools Program Midwest Shootout last month. The tournament, held April 22 in Dodgeville, featured archers representing 32 schools from all over the Midwest. The Mounders took six middle school shooters and one high school archer to the…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski STEVENS POINTS — The future of Elk Mound’s boys varsity basketball program is looking bright after the 2017 eighth-grade team took ninth place at a March tournament.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The chilly, bluster weather that accompanies the early spring in the upper Midwest can often be difficult to deal with if you are forced to spend extended periods outdoors. Fortunately for the Elk Mound track and field team, the weather does not pose a significant struggle. The Mounders traveled to the…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski If Elk Mound softball fans were looking for a good series of match-ups, then last week was definitely their kind of week. The Mounders kicked off the week with a thriller of a win over the Durand Panthers April 18, when Elk Mound went eight innings against the Panthers to pick…
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By Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound golf team struggled a bit when it returned to the links at Glen Hills Golf Course on April 18 following the Easter break. The squad finished fifth in the six-team Dunn-St. Croix meet with a score of 210; three more strokes than it had put up in its…
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