By Cara L. Dempski MONDOVI — The Mounder boys and girls cross country teams both took third place in the Dunn-St. Croix conference meet held at the Valley Golf Course in Mondovi last Thursday, October 13. The girls scored 75 as senior Elizabeth Fasbender and sophomore Alana Plaszcz finished in the top eight. Freshman phenom…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski SPRING VALLEY — The Elk Mound football team traveled to Spring Valley October 14 with hopes of taking back home a share of second place honors in the Dunn-St. Croix standings. But the Cardinals had no intentions of sharing the silver with the Mounders as they pulled out a 20-14 win…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound volleyball team continued its second-to-last week of regular-season play October 6 at Spring Valley and returned home victorious after a 3-0 sweep over the Cardinals. The Mounders then met Colfax again at a tournament in Altoona October 8.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Elk Mound’s head coach Dave Lew promised the students and fans of Mounder football a game for the history books during the homecoming pep rally the afternoon of Friday, October 7. The game didn’t turn out how he expected, when the Mounders were stunned 39-14 by a pack…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — And then there was one. Elk Mound stunned Colfax with a 3-1 win and knocked the Vikings from the ranks of Dunn-St. Croix conference unbeatens when the teams played out the latest chapter of the schools long-standing volleyball rivalry in an October 4 showdown in Elk Mound.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski Coach Jeremiah Fredrickson’s Mounder cross country teams split up for two October 6 meets. The varsity girls went to the rescheduled Durand Invitational while the boys and middle school teams travel to Eleva-Strum for a meet.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — The Mounders will have daily dress-up competitions, 28 members of the royal court, and a jam-packed Friday that will culminate in a football contest between the Mounders and Durand, and it’s all thanks to homecoming week. The fun started Monday, which was college attire day. It continued yesterday…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski Elk Mound volleyball coach Sam Weix said her team had no excuse to drop its first conference match against Mondovi. She explained the Mounders are better players than what was seen in the Lady Buffaloes’ gym on September 15.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski BOYCEVILLE — You would not have guessed it after the spectacular opening-play pass and touchdown, but the Mounders were a little sluggish at the start of their September 30 victory over Boyceville. With barely five seconds off the clock in the first quarter, Dane Lew dropped back to throw and nailed…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski OSSEO — The Mounders’ cross country teams ran their second-to-last race before the Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet when they travel to Osseo last Thursday, September 29. The girls raced away with second place with a score of 71, the boys, meanwhile, finished seventh with a score of 171.
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