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The Pirates have won their conference 21 times in a row. That’s a crazy phenomenal stat. They finished this season undefeated in conference play and honestly, they were never challenged. Not even against division 4 state qualifiers, Clayton.

The Pirates are ranked number one again according to the Wissport.net poll. They remain number one in the WVCA poll as well.

The Pirates look like they’re ready for the post-season which starts next Tuesday and you can listen to every match on 105.7 WXCX. (If you’d like to advertise please call the station at 888.629.7575 – no, I don’t get a commission)

Here are the nearly final standings for the West Lakeland conference. Grantsburg still has the Cameron Tournament this weekend so the overall records will change, but the conference season is over.

The Grantsburg football team will don their purple jerseys for the last time tonight as they take on the Comets from Cameron at Robert Olson field. The game can be heard on 105.7 WXCX. Tune in around 6:20 for Red Rock Radio Replay then listen to the game at 7:00.

It looks like Grantsburg has a pretty good chance of getting their second conference win of the season and their third win overall because Cameron has only one win this season and it was a non-conference game against the Northwood/Solon Springs Evergreens (3-3, 3-4) 35-0.

Both teams have had trouble stopping their opponent’s from scoring this year. Grantsburg has given up 202 points this year (last year they gave up 298), Cameron has allowed 201 points.

Grantsburg has scored 114 points, while Cameron has only mustered 75 (35 against one team).

The WisSports poll and the Wisconsin Volleyball Coaches Association both have the Pirates at the top girls volleyball team in division 3.

The Pirates are 8-1 heading into tonight’s match with Webster. Their only loss was to Hayward in the Ashland Tournament.

Congratulations, Pirates!

Congratulations goes out to Janey Emery of Siren for hitting a milestone of 1,000 points in her career last Friday against Webster. So, congrats, Janey on a great career! Here is the story in the Sentinel.

Did you see that the Siren girls whallopped the Drummond girls 71-8? Wow… that’s the definition of a blowout!

Boys standings

Girls standings

Remaining schedule

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Boys Standings

Results from Tuesday’s games

A bit of a surprise in the Luck/Unity tilt in Luck. Only a 15 point victory for the Cardinals (who are ranked 4th in Division 3) over the winless Unity Eagles. Brennan Olson had 23 points, nearly half the points for Luck.

Girls Standings

Results from Tuesday’s games

The big matchup with St. Croix Falls and Siren went Siren’s way giving the Dragons the clearest path to the conference championship.

West Lakeland Boy’s Basketball Standings

West Lakeland Girl’s Basketball Standings

It has become a tough task to write about this football team as the season has worn on. I haven’t written in two weeks and in that time the Pirates have dropped two games by huge numbers.

The Pirates lost their homecoming game against St. Croix Central 46-0 and then last Friday night to the Webster Tigers 37-13 (the Pirates scored the last two touchdowns of the game against the backups for Webster). At its worst the Pirates were outscored 85-0 during the past two games.

Some historical perspective on this dubious season for the Pirates.

• Through 7 games the Pirates have given up 237 points. Last year, when the team finished with a 2-7 record, they gave up a total of 167 points.
• The last time Grantsburg was winless in a season was 1987 when they finished 0-9. Before that it was 1948 when the Pirates finished 0-5.
• The last time Grantsburg had two consecutive losing seasons were the 1994 and 1995 seasons when the Pirates finished 3-6 both years. (1995 was the last year Grantsburg had suffered a losing record, that is, until last year).
• The combined total losses for the team in the ‘04, ‘05, ‘06 seasons was 7.

Every team goes through their ups and downs, ebbs and flows (except Grantsburg Volleyball) and a downturn should be expected. Going through it though, is always tough. This will help the players deal with adversity throughout their lives. It will be interesting to watch and see how they come out on their final night playing in front of the home crowd. I still remember the scene like it was yesterday when I had played my last down at Olson Memorial Field (although it wasn’t that at the time since Bob Olson was still alive).

It has been a difficult season for the team and their fans. With two games left on the schedule the time is getting short to find a win. It would be very difficult to beat the St. Croix Falls Saints on Friday, but I believe the Pirates have a chance to beat the Cameron Comets on the final game of the season.