ST. CROIX FALLS — Radintz is headed back to state! Glenwood City junior Ian Radintz will be returning to the Kohl Center in Madison later this week after securing his second straight sectional wrestling championship here last Saturday. But this year, he will not be going solo! Radintz, who copped the 113-pound gold medal in…
Read MoreThe euphoria from the Lady Hilltoppers’ first basketball win of the season, which came against Spring Valley February 3, quickly dissipated when they suffered three straight lopsided losses last week including two in conference play. Points proved to be hard to come by for the Hilltoppers in those losses. Glenwood City’s week began with a…
Read MoreAfter beating rival Boyceville by two-points the night before, the Glenwood City boys’ basketball team scored a second straight victory with a 44-34 non-conference road win over the Amery Warriors Tuesday, February 8. Looking for their first three-game win streak of the season, the Hilltoppers came up short when they hosted the second-place Spring Valley…
Read Moreby Joel DeWitt Sports Correspondent GLENWOOD CITY — While both the Boyceville and Glenwood City boys’ basketball teams have had their struggles this year, the match up last Monday, February 7 would indicate otherwise. The game would feature six lead changes and clutch shots down the stretch by both teams. The Bulldogs would hold the…
Read MoreCADOTT — After winning their first Dunn-St. Croix conference championship in a dozen years, Glenwood City’s wrestlers set their collective sights on adding a regional championship to this season’s list of accomplishments. The Hilltoppers knew going into last Saturday’s WIAA Division 3 Regional at Cadott High School that their lofty goal would be a difficult…
Read MoreGLENWOOD CITY — The Lady Hilltoppers are winless no more! But, it was not an easy victory. The Glenwood City girls’ basketball team had to overcome injury, illness and foul trouble as it hung on to nip the Cardinals, of Spring Valley, 48-46 at home last Thursday evening, February 3. It seemed only fitting that…
Read Moreby Joel DeWitt Sports Correspondent The Hilltoppers boys’ basketball team faced a tough task this past week when they took on teams from the top tier of the Dunn-St. Croix conference. While strides where made, the results would be same in all three games as Glenwood City would drop the three contests. Glenwood City (1-8,3-13)…
Read MoreGLENWOOD CITY — When all the wrestling had come to an end last Thursday, the scoreboard read Glenwood City 39 and Boyceville 39. The January 27 tussle in Glenwood City for this season’s Dunn-St. Croix wrestling championship, between the rival Bulldogs and Hilltoppers, would be settled by a tie breaker in a rules book. While…
Read MoreLA CROSSE — Two local female wrestlers earned medals in the inaugural WIAA Girls’ State Wrestling Championships held this past Saturday, January 29 at the La Crosse Center. Boyceville junior Emma Gruenhagen won a silver medal after finishing as the state runner-up in the 126-pound weight class in La Crosse. Meanwhile, wrestling in the 100-pound…
Read MoreMENOMONIE — Glenwood City’s wrestlers made a pair of trips to Menomonie last week. On Tuesday, January 25, Glenwood City wrestled a dual at Big Rivers’ member Menomonie. The host Mustangs held off the Hilltoppers to win by a single point, 37-36. After defeating rival Boyceville on tie-breaking criteria to win this season’s Dunn-St. Croix…
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