By Cara L. Dempski Until four years ago, there were only two potential winter sports at Elk Mound High School: boys’ basketball or girls’ basketball. In Colfax, there were three, the two basketball teams and wrestling. Four years ago, Colfax coach Matt DeMoe started a powerlifting “team” with one student. At the same time, a…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound girls’ basketball team may, or may not, have been out for revenge against Durand in the pair’s second regular-season meeting after the Lady Panthers slammed the Mounders in the first go round.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Eight members of the Elk Mound cross country team were selected as 2016 Academic All-state honorees by the Wisconsin Cross County Coaches Association. Boys’ runner Cade Hansen and the girls’ team, consisting of Elizabeth Fasbender, Alana Plaszcz, Brook Plaszcz, Kirstin Martinson, Paige Romanowski, Victoria Fasbender and Taya Schaefer,…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski MONDOVI — If the Mondovi boys’ basketball team was looking for a repeat of its 51-40 victory over Elk Mound in early December, it did not find it. The Mounders traveled to Mondovi last Thursday, January 26 and proceeded to trounce the Buffaloes 55-41 to earn a regular-season split with Mondovi.…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski GLENWOOD CITY — The Glenwood City boys’ basketball squad keeps running up reasonable scores and providing good defense, but it just cannot seem to lift itself past its opponents.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski MONDOVI — For a second consecutive week, the Elk Mound girls’ basketball squad got an extra day off on account of the weather. And for the second week in a row, it did not stop them from smashing their opposition while on the road.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski GLENWOOD CITY — The Elk Mound boys’ basketball team stayed hot on the tails of Dunn-St. Croix leader Spring Valley after crushing the Glenwood City squad in the season’s first contest between the Mounders and Hilltoppers. Elk Mound traveled to the Glenwood City last Friday, January 20 and left later that…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound girls’ basketball squad has now won eight of the 12 games it has played this season after registering back-to-back victories this past week. The Lady Mounders were scheduled to meet the Elmwood/Plum City Wolves on January 10, but the game was postponed to February 3 due to the…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski Mounder head boys’ basketball coach Mike Kessler sees a lot of promise in his team after Elk Mound put up a good fight against the state-ranked Prescott Cardinals. Prescott is ranked fifth in the January 10 Wissports.net Coaches Poll for Division 3.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound girls’ basketball team started 2017 with a bang, playing one game every other day, starting with the Mounders’ first day back to school after the holiday break. The Mounders traveled to Altoona Tuesday, January 3 to take on the Altoona Railroaders and came away on the losing end…
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