By Cara L. Dempski COLFAX — It was a rough start for the Mounders and Vikings golf teams. Elk Mound took fifth place out of six teams, and Colfax was sixth out of six April 6 at the first Dunn-St. Croix meet of the season held at the Whitetail Golf Club. Spring Valley’s team of…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski Elk Mound’s track and field teams wrapped up their indoor season with one final meet in Menomonie and a meet at UW-Eau Claire’s McPhee Center. The Mounders took on a field of 23 other schools, including multiple area Division 1 teams, at UW-Stout’s Blue Devil Invitational held March 28. The boys’…
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By Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — The Mounder softball team opened its 2017 season with a pair of home games that left its head coach pleased with the effort, even if she was not happy with some of the little details. Head coach Sam Weix saw a lot of good things in her squad’s…
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By Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Elk Mound’s golf coach, Brandon Powell, has a simple set of goals for his team this year. “Our statistic goal is to try to not have any scores over 50 on the varsity level,” the Mounder coach explained. “Our goal as a team is to get into the…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski In 2016, the Dunn-St. Croix athletic directors held their first conference scholar athlete banquet to honor D-SC athletes for their success in the classroom as well as their athletic success. One female and one male athlete from each D-SC school is nominated for the award. Criteria for nomination include grade point…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski MENOMONIE — The Mounders may shortly get tired of the City of Menomonie. The team traveled to Menomonie High School March 23 for the 2017 Dunn County Indoor Championship meet to open the season. The Mounders came away from the meet with a handful of top-ten finishes and some ideas of…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — By all accounts, the 2016 Mounder batsmen had a great season. They played to an overall finish of 17-5, and were 11-2 in the Large Dunn-St. Croix; the conference finish was good enough for second place, one game behind the Durand squad. But the Mounders’ season ended with…
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By Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — The Mounder track team ended the Jeff Mack coaching era on a high note in 2016 when it hauled home not only 18 all-conference honors for girls and 25 for boys, but brought home both conference championship trophies too.
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By Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Newly-coined head softball coach Samantha Weix freely admits she has no idea what to expect in the Dunn-St. Croix this season. “I’ll be honest, I don’t really know what the teams in the conference have this year,” she said. “Every game, we need to be ready to compete.”
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Mounder senior Dane Lew’s mother just had a wish come true. “She wanted to see him play one more game,” Lew’s father, and Elk Mound eighth-grade basketball coach, Dave Lew said. Lew was selected to play in the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches’ Association’s Division 3 all-star game at JustAgame…
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