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Steven McKinley, Michelle Lund and Angela Gaffney have made it to the state Cross-Country meet. Congratulations on a great accomplishment!

The state championships will be held Saturday, Nov. 1 at Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids. Steven will be running at 10, the girls will be firing off the starting line at 1pm.

Congratulations to Steven, Michelle and Angela!

Tickets are available for the Grantsburg/Eau Claire Regis Sectional Final game. You can buy them at the high school office on Friday, October 31. Tickets are $4.

There will also be a fan bus(es) heading to Osseo-Fairchild high school. The bus(es) depart from the high school at 3:00 pm on Saturday afternoon. You must sign up by noon Friday to reserve a seat to the game. Cost for the spectator bus(es) is $15.

Be sure to tune into 105.7, WXCX if you are not able to make the game. Our broadcast begins at 6:50.

Well it is going to be a good one in the Sectional Final game hosted by Osseo Fairchild. Grantsburg will lock horns with Eau Claire Regis who won tonight over Melrose-Mindoro 3-0.

Tonight’s match was very, very good and although Grantsburg won 3-0 it really could have been closer than that as you can tell by the finals of each set (25-22, 25-21, 25-22). The difference between the Pirates winning instead of the Castle Guards this year was finding a way to finish.

We saw Grantsburg come from behind in the third set of the Regional championship game against Colfax and they had to do it again tonight coming from behind in the first and third sets.

Grantsburg and Sheboygan Lutheran are the only two teams left in the state which haven’t suffered a loss. I’m not sure what Sheboygan Lutheran’s set record is, but Grantsburg still only has on set loss all year.

The Sectional Final match will be broadcast on 105.7, WXCX at 7 pm.

By the way… second place finishers in the Large Lakeland conference, the Clayton Bears, are still alive in division 4 volleyball. They defeated 3-1 and move on to the sectional final match versus Mellen. Oh, and the match will be played in Clayton. Congratulations, Bears!

It looked like another day at the office for the Grantsburg Girls volleyball team, but what looked like another easy three set victory turned out to be an exciting three set victory for the lady Pirates.

The Colfax Vikings dropped the first two sets to the Pirates 25-15, 25-14, but the third set saw the Vikings ahead by as much as 5 and holding onto a lead until Grantsburg tied it up at 22-22. Then Grantsburg got three straight points and won 25-22.

It was an exciting finish for the Pirates and they showed the Grantsburg partisan crowd that they are able to overcome a deficit, which they haven’t played with very often this season.

So Grantsburg continues to dominate the Regional tournament claiming their 16th straight championship.

Now onto Cameron where Grantsburg will again lock horns with rival Washburn. In the past ten years of Grantsburg volleyball, Washburn has ended the Pirate season three times.

The Webster Tigers are conference champions.

I’m not talking about track or cross country. I’m talking about football.

By beating the previously undefeated St. Croix Falls Saints 7-3 on Thursday night, Webster secured a tie for the conference championship with the Saints. They would also tie Clear Lake as all three teams finished with 5-1 records in the conference. Webster beat St. Croix who beat Clear Lake who beat Webster. Got it?

Grantsburg almost wins. But falls short.

I was broadcasting the SCF/Webster tilt tonight but was receiving scoring updates via text messaging during the game. I saw that it was a see saw battle, but in the end Cameron (who still had a very outside chance of making the playoffs) was victorious 31-21.

It has been a difficult year for the boys in Purple, but when something ends something else begins… bring on basketball.

Random thoughs…

I’ve been able to broadcast all around this area for a couple years now and have seen a lot of press boxes and met a lot of scoreboard operators and PA guys. All of them are nice, but I always look forward to heading to St. Croix Falls because they always go out of their way to make me feel comfortable. Heck, one year they even gave me some homemade nachos (are you listening, Webster?).

Tournament time is the best time of the year. WXCX will be covering Gransburg volleyball and Webster football as far as they go (or Webster volleyball if they pull an upset Friday night). There is a potential conflict (which has happened before) next Saturday because that would be the sectional final round and it would also be the day of the second round of football playoffs. If that were to happen we will do everything possible to get the two games on the air.

Grantsburg received two votes from bloggers picking them to win the state championship in volleyball on this blog. Out of 18 voters the overwhelming majority chose Wisconsin Heights to win it all, then Grantsburg and Eau Claire Regis each received 2 votes (but word is that Regis recruited those two, so by all rights Grantsburg is better than Regis, as if you didn’t already know that).  Racine Lutheran garnered one vote, probably from their coach.

Cheese and Volleyball is asking for your thoughts on who will win the state tournament in each of the four divisions. They will be donating $3 to charity per completed vote!

Go check it out and vote for the Purple!

Cross country is a sport that I admittedly don’t get. Don’t mistake that for disrespecting, heck my wife was a  great CC’er in high school and college. Her favorite poster was one that said, “Cross country runners get to enjoy four years of high school, football players get five.”

I suppose cross country would be about the most enduring sport in the sense that it must be considered one of the first. Of course back in the day people would run to catch stuff or to not be caught. Now they run around on a golf course or through the woods to beat one another.

We Are Grantsburg would like to congratulate all-conference runners from Grantsburg.

Girls:

Michelle Lund
Angela Gaffney
Jessica Banks
Aimee Vantatenhove

Boys:

Steven McKinley
Matt Emerson

Congratulations!

According to the wonderful blogger over at Cheese and Volleyball, Grantsburg is one of two teams left in the state, regardless of division, who are undefeated. Here is their post. (Rosholt has lost since that post)

The Grantsburg Pirates will begin their state tournament journey against Luck on Tuesday, October 21. Game starts at 7pm in Grantsburg.

The state tournament pairings are available at the WIAA website. Here is a link to division 3.

I am privileged to coach middle school football with Adam Olson and Brad Jones. Both of these coaches are very good and it was a  pleasure to coach with them.

The eighth grade team finished 4-2 while the seventh grade finished 5-1.

Both of these teams has a TON of talent. Grantsburg fans get ready because there will be some exciting football in the next few years.

I will not name middle school players on this blog, but there are definitely some running backs coming up that will make your jaws drop and give the opposing coaches fits. It is an exciting horizon for the football program in Grantsburg.