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Last year the Grantsburg Pirate football team missed the playoffs for the first time in a decade managing only 2 wins. This year might turn out worse.

The Pirates are not running the ball nearly as well as years past and have started to rely on the arm of Trent Bonneville. He has done a very good job after taking over as quarterback the second game of the season. But, in the past two games Grantsburg has pased way too much because of the deficits they find themselves in.

This past game was particularly frustrating as Grantsburg faced winless Unity. The Pirates twice had the ball inside the five yard line, once only 6 inches from the goal line, but were unable to score, getting stopped on fourth down both times.

Grantsburg seemed to be the better team on Saturday, but big plays and penalties against the Pirates were enough to keep the Pirates out of the win column.

On what turned out to be the game winning scoring drive for Unity, Grantsburg had stopped the Eagles twice on fourth down only to have pass interference called against them. Both were very, very suspect. I don’t like to blame officials for things, but those two calls were unacceptable.

Grantsburg lost 28-26. Both teams scored four touchdowns. Unity made every extra pont, Grantsburg was 1 for 4 in that department as they scored on a two point conversion with their last touchdown.

It is a frustrating season for the Pirates, but they are looking to get a victory this Friday night for Homecoming. You can hear the game on WXCX – 105.7 starting a little before 7pm.

We appreciate you tuning in to our broadcasts on 105.7 WXCX.

Here is the football schedule for the rest of the year (volleyball has not been finalized, I’ll update with a new post when we know):

Fri. 9/26 Webster at Luck 7:00 pm

Sat. 9/27 Grantsburg at Unity 1:00 pm

Fri. 10/3 St. Croix Central at Grantsburg 7:00 pm (homecoming)

Fri. 10/10 Grantsburg at Webster 7:00 pm

Fri. 10/17 St. Croix Falls at Grantsburg 7:00 pm

Thurs. 10/13 Grantsburg at Cameron 7:00 pm

What a crazy game tonight with Grantsburg dropping their fourth loss of the season — this time to the Luck Cardinals.

It looked like it was going to be a long night for the Pirates as the Cardinals easily scored on their first drive and almost as easily on their second. But then Grantsburg stiffened and allowed only one more score the rest of the half.

The score at halftime was 21-0.

Then something happened at halftime. I’m not sure what was said during that short intermission, but it worked. Grantsburg came out and had a great half.

The third quarter was scoreless so it was still 21-0 heading into the fourth. Grantsburg was driving at the end of the third and were able to punch it in quickly in the last frame. They missed the extra point and the score was then 21-6, still Luck in control.

Then Luck began hurting themselves. On the second play of the ensuing drive the Cardinals fumbled and the Pirates fell on the ball inside Luck’s 20 yard line. They quickly scored and cut the lead to 21-12 as the two point conversion failed. It was still a two score game.

Grantsburg needed a stop and it looked like they had one. Luck was able to drive into Grantsburg territory but then a huge loss on first down made it 2nd and 22 at the Luck 45 yard line. It looked like the Pirates were going to get the ball back. Instead Carson Giller kept the ball on the left side where David Larsen seemed to have him wrapped up. Calling the game on the radio, I had already said the QB was down and third down was coming up when all of a sudden the kid runs out of the pack past everyone into the end zone. I still don’t know how that happened. It looked like he was stopped, but he kept his legs churning and was able to score a touchdown.

I felt at the time that the game was over. The Cardinals had a 16 point lead with less than 7 minutes left in the game.

I was wrong.

Grantsburg came back through the air and was able to score again. This cut the score to 28-20 when the two point conversion was good.

Grantsburg then stopped Luck forcing them to punt. They punted to the 20 yard line forcing Grantsburg to travel 80 yards with no time outs and about two minutes left to play. Grantsburg made it 60 yards, but then threw an interception with about 36 seconds remaining.

Luck eventually was able to kneel on the ball and claim a road victory.

Grantsburg has come out flat in the first half of every game they have played, with the possible exception of Clear Lake. I wonder what they could do if they started their games the way they end them?

Trent Bonneville is the player of the game tonight. He was something like 19-35 for 234 yards and 3 touchdowns. He also had three interceptions. He also had, by my count, about 9 dropped passes (of varying difficulty) from his receivers. I hope Grantsburg continues to air it out because it looks like they’ve found a guy who can do it.

Grantsburg takes on Unity who is winless as of this writing. They took on Webster tonight, so they could easily be winless next week. You can hear that game on 105.7 WXCX at 1:00 pm Saturday afternoon. I will also be broadcasting the Webster/Luck tilt on Friday night.

We are hoping to get volleyball on the air as well next week… so stay tuned and watch for updates here on We are Grantsburg.

Grantsburg loses to Clear Lake tonight to drop their third game to start the season. It started out pretty well for Grantsburg as it looked like they would be the first to score. Unfortunately, a fumble at the goalline and a recovery by Clear Lake ended that threat and from there Clear Lake scored 17 unanswered points and led at halftime 25-14. The final score was 46-14. Clear Lake had won the previous two games by a combined score of 95-24. They are also the defending West Lakeland champions. They were very good and will probably be good for the next couple years as they have a very good quarterback. He had nearly 100 yards rushing, a kickoff return for a touchdown and can throw a very nice ball. He took one shot deep in the game as he lofted a beautiful spiral downfield about 40 yards in the air. He had good air under the ball and just overthrew his intended receiver. Several other outstanding athletes line the Warrior roster. While a loss like that is tough to take, there were some positive things to be said about the game. Grantsburg had some nice sustained drives and were able to pick up a lot of yards on the ground, over 230. They were also able to connect in the passing games at times. Josh Phillips was quarterback Trent Bonneville’s favorite target as he threw to him about 8 times. Phillips caught four of them. Grantsburg starts this season out with four home games. Unfortunately they have dropped the first three. Grantsburg’s next test will be against the Luck Cardinals who were 2-0 coming into tonight’s game with Cameron at home. They defeated Cornell 47-6 last week and the week before they defeated Prairie Farm 45-6 (Clear Lake beat Prairie Farm 47-0). So another tough task lies ahead for the Pirates. I am privileged to broadcast the games on WXCX 105.7 FM as the play-by-play announcer. We will be broadcasting the Grantsburg/Luck tilt next Friday. Our volleyball schedule starts soon too…