By Chris Bennett Correspondent The Elkhorn Area High School girls swimming team finished in the top half Nov. 1 at the Southern Lakes Conference swim meet at Lake Geneva Badger High School. The Elks finished fourth with 270.5 points. Badger won the meet with 534 points. Burlington Combined finished second […]
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Mair magnificent at state
By Chris Bennett Correspondent Elkhorn Area High School’s Tay Mair ran one second off her best time of the season Saturday in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 1 State Cross Country Championships at The Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids. Mair finished 106th in a field of 185 runners. […]
Heartbreaker for girls volleyball team
East Troy falls to Catholic Memorial in sectional semifinal By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Last week’s Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 sectional volleyball semifinal at Catholic Memorial had all the makings of an instant classic. And in many ways, the matchup of the state’s top-two ranked teams definitely lived up […]
Soccer ‘brothers’ headed to state
Comets knock off three top-ranked teams in state By Jennifer Cesarz Correspondent The top three teams in the state, according to the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association rankings are Grafton, Catholic Memorial and St. Anthony. The No. 4-ranked Delavan-Darien High School Comets spent the past week knocking those three teams out […]
Volleyball team advances to sectionals
Trojans take down Whitnall, Elkhorn in regionals By Dan Truttschel Correspondent It’s safe to say that visiting Whitnall may have stunned the East Troy High School volleyball team in the first set of a Division 2 regional final Saturday night. But the defending state champions weren’t about to let that […]
Girls finish ninth at sectional, boys come in 13th
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The 2014 cross country season came to an end Saturday for the East Troy High School boys and girls squads. East Troy’s girls finished ninth, while the boys were 13th, at a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 sectional at Pewaukee. Pewaukee won the girls’ sectional […]
Elks beaten at their own game
Season ends in first playoff game By Chris Bennett Correspondent The final two games of the regular season for the Elkhorn Area High School football team are the stuff of schoolboy legend. The same is not true of the Elks’ second consecutive playoff appearance, but the experience does little to […]
Swimmers rout rival Delavan
By Chris Bennett Correspondent The Elkhorn Area High School girls swim team routed Delavan-Darien 135-35 in a Southern Lakes Conference swim meet Oct. 21 at Elkhorn. The victory in the Elks’ final SLC dual meet of the year improved the team’s SLC dual meet record to 5-2. “We swam really […]
Mair makes school history
By Chris Bennett Correspondent The Elkhorn Area High School cross country program is sending a runner to state for the first time since 2009. Taylor Mair finished sixth Oct. 25 in the WIAA Division 1 Sectional Meet at Verona and qualified for the WIAA Division1 State Cross Country Championships Nov. […]
Kickers finish just shy of state
By Chris Bennett Correspondent The better team prevailed Oct. 25 in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 boys soccer sectional final match between Elkhorn and Oregon at Wilmot High School. Oregon won 4-0 and advanced to the WIAA Division 2 boys state soccer tournament, which started Thursday and concludes […]