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 I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Is anyone else rooting for the Lions… to lose every game? I am and I kinda feel guilty about it, but going winless in the NFL is really tough to do! So good luck to them.

Well… I’m off to Chicago for a few days to spend T-day with Renae’s (my beautiful wife) family. When I return I will have the radio schedule for boys and girls basketball as well as Blizzard hockey and I will post it here.

Send me those pictures of your deer and I’ll get them posted as well.

Gobble, gobble!

The Burnett County Sentinel has released their picks for the All-Area football team. They choose from the five schools they cover (Grantsburg, Siren, Webster, Luck and Frederic).

Here are their picks:

MVP: Travis Moser (Webster)

Most Improved: Adrianna Otte (Frederic)

Coach of the Year: Jeromie Voeltz (Webster)

Webster: 6 (plus MVP and Coach of the Year)

Frederic: 5 (plus Most Improved player)

Grantsburg: 5

Luck: 5

Siren: 3

Calling all hunters…

Email me pictures of your prized kill and I’ll post it here on We Are Grantsburg. Make sure you include your name and the stats on the deer.

Tyler Larsen will get the ball rolling with this nice buck (legally an 8-pointer, with three broken tines so Tyler likes to call it an 11 pointer)

It is that magical time of year again where men and women alike share in the wonder of the season. No not Thanksgiving or Christmas…. it’s hunting season! The season where blaze orange becomes fashionable and men have an excuse not to shave their faces.

Its an exciting time of year for many in this area… let’s just hope they are smarter then the fellows in this story:

Two hunters were dragging their dead deer back to their car. Another hunter approached pulling his along too.

"Hey, I don’t want to tell you how to do something … but I can tell you that it’s much easier if you drag the deer in the other direction. Then the antlers won’t dig into the ground."

After the third hunter left, the two decided to try it.

A little while later one hunter said to the other, "You know, that guy was right. This is a lot easier!"

"Yeah, but we’re getting farther from the truck," the other added.

Byron Higgin has written a great piece on Kristina Anderson and her success as a volleyball coach in China. Read it here.

Byron Higgin has named his choices for the volleyball all-area team. As you might imagine it is rightfully loaded with Pirates. I know first hand that Byron takes a lot of time and puts a lot of thought into these teams and I think he has done a good job with this one. Here is a link to the article.

Check out this kill by some dude they call “Tarzan”.

I’d like to thank everyone who looks at this blog regularly. It is doing phenominally well, better than I ever though possible. Already this month wearegrantsburg.com has received over 10,000 hits! Thank you so much and be sure to bookmark us or subscribe to the RSS feed (you can find that link at the very bottom of this page).

There is a bit of time before sports start up again, so I’ll try to be focussing on more “newsy” comments that pertain to Grantsburg in the coming weeks.

I’ll also be posting some volleyball stuff this weekend so be sure to check back for videos and comments.

-Bob

Congratulations to Kortney Morrin who made the all-state honorable mention team which includes all volleyball players, regardless of division.

Had Grantsburg won the championship match I would suspect Kortney would’ve made at least second team, probably first team as well as a couple of her teammates joining her on the all-state selections.

She also made the all-state tournament team for division 3. (There were six positions available and four of them went to Wisconsin Heights players)

Grantsburg only had two players named to the all-conference teams and both were on second team. Grantsburg finished winless and obviously record corrolates into all-conference selections.

Senior Trent Bonneville (LB) and junior Allen Lindus (G) were the two named to the teams.

1st team Defense:

Ryan Larson, DL, St. Croix Falls, junior
Grant Hulter, DL, Webster, senior
Woody Reindahl, DL, Clear Lake, senior
Travis Moser, LB, Webster, senior
Joe Raygor, LB, St. Croix Falls, junior
Brayden Wienke, LB, Clear Lake, junior
Mitch Warner, LB, Clear Lake, senior
Joe Spanel, LB, Cameron, junior
Zach Quigley, DB, Webster, senior
Zach Foeller, DB, St. Croix Falls, senior
Jordan Olson, DB, Clear Lake, senior
Nick Morgan, DB, Luck, senior

1st Team Offense:

Matt O’Connell, QB, Clear Lake, sophomore
Dan Pope, RB, Webster, junior
Chase Bushweiler, RB, St. Croix Falls, senior
Dustin McKinney, RB, Unity, junior
Jake Espeseth, WR, Clear Lake, senior
Jason Vlansnick, WR, Unity, sophomore
Derrick Bender, OL, Cameron, senior
Jordan Werdier, OL, Webster, senior
Darrin Lee, OL, Clear Lake, junior
Jake Leintz, OL, Clear Lake, sophomore
Andy Laurison, OL, St. Croix Falls, senior
Sam Schmidt, K, St. Croix Falls, senior

2nd Team Defense:

Derrick Bender, DL, Cameron, senior
Josh Yunker, DL, St. Croix Falls, senior
Chad French, DL, Webster, junior
Trent Bonneville, LB, Grantsburg, senior
Eric Goulet, LB, Unity, senior
Tom Columbo, LB, St. Croix Falls, senior
Ryan Crotteau, LB, Cameron, junior
Matt O’Connell, LB, Clear Lake, sophomore
Kyle Godfrey, DB, Webster, senior
Dan Pope, DB, Webster, junior
Dustin McKinney, DB, Unity, junior
Jake Espeseth, DB, Clear Lake, senior

2nd Team Offense

Tanner Linsmeyer, QB, Cameron, junior
Zach Quigley, RB, Webster, senior
Nick Johnson, RB, St. Croix Falls, sophomore
Cody Lien, RB, Clear Lake, junior
Ben Harm, WR, Cameron, junior
Jordan Olson, WR, Clear Lake, senior
Allen Lindus, OL, Grantsburg, junior
Seth McKenzie, OL, Unity, senior
Mitch Sullwold, OL, Clear Lake, sophomore
Matt Jacobs, OL, St. Croix Falls, senior
Travis Moser, OL, Webster, senior
Ryan Larson, TE, St. Croix Falls, junior