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Grantsburg ball teams 2-0 in tournament

Bob — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:54:52 +0000

Both softball and baseball won their first game of the tournament last night in a wind storm.

The baseball team scored six runs in the second inning and that was enough to beat the Chetek/Weyerhauser 7-5. Jimmy Nelson got the win and Jacob Glover took over in the fifth and did a pretty good job.

Trevor Thompson takes the hill today against the Cameron Comets who beat Clayton/Turtle Lake last night 3-2.

The game will be streamed live HERE.

The softball team fared well again, beating Clayton/Turtle Lake 12-0 in five innings. Stacey McKenzie and Gabby Witzany went yard and the girls face off against Cameron on Thursday… this one could be the toughest game of the year for the Pirates.

We'll be broadcasting that one, too. It will be streamed HERE.

Both games start at 5pm.

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Grantsburg ball teams 2-0 in tournament

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Tournament fields set in baseball, softball

Bob — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:52:57 +0000

The fields are set and as expected, Grantsburg boys and girls will be staying home for the first game because they've earned number one seeds and first round byes.

The baseball team will face the winner of the (5) Chetek/Weyerhauser @ (4) Ladysmith game. The Grantsburg game will be played Tuesday, May 31. [BRACKET]

The fast pitch team will face the winner of the (5) Turtle Lake/Clayton @ (4) Unity game. The Grantsburg game will also be played Tuesday, May 31. [BRACKET]

Both games will be in Grantsburg… not sure which one will be on the radio. Stay tuned for more on that.

Both the baseball and softball teams from Grantsburg have had unbelievable years and with a couple games remaining in the regular season, both have perfect records.

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Tournament fields set in baseball, softball

How’d the rest of the conference do?

Bob — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:04:42 +0000

Here are the rest of the scores from around the conference from the first round of the playoffs. West Lakeland conference teams are in bold print. The home team is listed in the first column.

Saint Croix Falls (15-17)	3	Northwestern (9-18)	2
Grantsburg (31-0)	3	Glenwood City (2-20)	0
Clear Lake (14-9)	3	Prescott (4-10)	0
Unity (8-10)	3	Spring Valley (7-9)	2
Webster (16-5)	3	Saint Croix Central (4-18)	0
Siren (6-11)	0	South Shore (3-2)	3
Bayfield (6-6)	3	Shell Lake (3-23)	2
Turtle Lake (18-9)	3	Cornell (1-18)	0
Clayton (17-6)	3	Frederic (4-14)	0
Luck (16-15)	3	New Auburn (4-12)	0

So a good showing from the West Lakeland as they go 8-3 in the first round with a set record of 26-10 (if you take out the Clayton/Frederic tilt the set record is 23-7).

Siren, Shell Lake and Frederic have been eliminated.

results courtesy of WisSports.net

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How’d the rest of the conference do?

Grantsburg volleyball slips in poll

Bob — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:45:55 +0000

Nationally there seems to be a West and East Coast bias in the media. In Wisconsin it might be a Southern bias as the Grantsburg Pirates who started the first two weeks ranked as the best team in Division 3 have now dropped to fourth in the WVCA rankings behind three teams near or south of Madison.

Grantsburg did nothing to deserve a drop in the polls. Sure they lost a game to Webster last week, but they are still undefeated in matches including a big win in the Ashland Tournament over arch-rival (and the sixth ranked team in D3 according to the same poll) Washburn.

Deerfield (11-4), Racine St. Catherines (9-0) and Cuba City (5-4) all jumped ahead of the undefeated Pirates (9-0).

It's not that upsetting to me that this has happened. The poll is conducted by the volleyball coaches and like it or not a lot of times you vote for who you are most familiar with and the majority of schools are in the southern part of the state most coaches would be more familiar with those teams.

The only thing that matters is who wins their last match of the year. In Division 3 last year it was the Pirates. This year they have no blemish on their overall record. Polling is a fun way to see how your team is competing with other good teams in the state, but it has no real bearing on anything.

Grantsburg travels to Luck (6-9) tonight for a West Lakeland match.

West Lakeland Standings

	Conf	CW%	CGF	CGA	Total	TGF	TGA
Grantsburg	2-0	1.000	6	1	9-0	20	2
Turtle Lake	3-0	1.000	9	2	7-5	21	13
Saint Croix Falls	2-0	1.000	6	1	4-7	12	17
Clayton	2-1	0.667	8	3	9-2	22	6
Webster	2-1	0.667	7	5	5-2	14	8
Unity	2-1	0.667	6	5	3-3	9	9
Luck	1-1	0.500	5	3	6-9	16	19
Clear Lake	1-2	0.333	4	8	9-5	24	19
Siren	0-3	0.000	3	9	3-5	12	16
Frederic	0-3	0.000	1	9	2-4	8	13
Shell Lake	0-3	0.000	0	9	1-10	4	24

CGF= Conference Games For, CGA= Conference Games Against, TGF= Total Games For, TGA= Total Games Against

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Grantsburg volleyball slips in poll

All Conference team announced

Bob — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:45 +0000

It took a while, but the West Lakeland conference volleyball team has been announced and here it is…

Grantsburg
Emily Cole, junior
Kortney Morrin, junior
Annie Palmquist, senior
Lauren Romanowski, senior

Clayton
Annie Grossenbacher
Ashley Grossenbacher
Lindsey LaBlanc
Krystal Kohnen – honorable mention

Clear Lake
Rachel Norby – honorable mention
Jaici Vangsness – honorable mention

Frederic
Chrissy Chenal

Luck
Morgan Denny, junior

Shell Lake
Ashley Anderson
Stephanie Clark – honorable mention

Siren
Carley Emery – honorable mention

St. Croix Falls
Sarah Petznick
Megan Yunker

Turtle Lake
Ashley Lahti
Tricia Hanson – honorable mention
Alex Tschida – honorable mention

Unity
Crystal Donahue – honorable mention

Webster
Mary Johnson
Siiri Larsen – honorable mention

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All Conference team announced

Clayton ousted

Bob — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:18:15 +0000

Co-West-Lakelanders, the Clayton Bears, lost to McDonnell Central last night in straight sets.

The Bears were runners-up in last year’s playoffs, losing to Catholic Central in straight sets.

Congratulations to the Clayton Bears on a terrific season!

Grantsburg is now the only representative from the West Lakeland conference still alive in the tourney.

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Clayton ousted

Regional championship preview

Bob — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:19:35 +0000

The Grantsburg volleyball team gets set to travel to Hammond, Wisconsin today to defend their regional championship for the 16th consecutive year.

They take on the St. Croix Central Panthers (7-2, 9-7 with six games unreported) from the Dunn-St. Croix conference.

Grantsburg coach Bill Morrin won his 800th match of his career last night by beating Prescott in straight sets. 800, people… that’s pretty dang good. I’ll write more about that acheivement in a later post and try to put it into some perspective. Congratulations, Coach Morrin! (thanks to Deb Johnson for giving me the heads-up on this one)

The Pirates have already defeated the Panthers this year 2 -0 during the Grantsburg tournament.

SCC defeated seventh seed Unity 3-1 last night to advance to tonight’s regional championship.

SCC lost earlier this year to Prescott (which Grantsburg solidly dispatched last night in straight sets) and Clayton (not a bad thing, but another common opponent for the two teams. Grantsburg beat Clayton easily during the conference season).

Grantsburg is 31-1 this year with only three set losses. Their set record is 76-3… there is nobody remotely close to that in all of Wisconsin womens’ volleyball.

The match starts at 7pm tonight and you can hear it on 105.7 WXCX.

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Regional championship preview

West-Lakeland volleyball standings

Bob — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:34:36 +0000

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.

Team	Conf	Total	Sets Won	Sets Lost
Grantsburg Pirates	9-0	23-1	57	3
Clayton Bears	8-3	21-8	51	26
Webster Tigers	8-3	13-9	39	29
Saint Croix Falls Saints	6-3	10-12	31	38
Turtle Lake Lakers	5-5	10-13	35	35
Luck Cardinals	4-6	10-10	33	34
Clear Lake Warriors	4-6	4-6	17	18
Shell Lake Lakers	3-6	8-14	25	38
Siren Dragons	2-7	5-13	18	39
Frederic Vikings	2-7	5-13	19	37
Unity Eagles	2-7	4-14	18	43

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West-Lakeland volleyball standings

Pirate Volleyball one step closer

Bob — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:47:35 +0000

Barring some kind of unforeseen shocker, the Grantsburg Pirates should have an easy road to their 21st consecutive conference championship. That’s because they defeated the Clayton Bears tonight three sets to none.

While Grantsburg seemed not to be hitting on all cylinders it was plenty to defeat the Bears (25-11, 25-18, 25-15).

I did not broadcast the game on the radio, but I did go and record the play-by-play. The radio station has decided (actually the managers decided) to forego any volleyball games and only do football games during the regular season. That’s why I did the game on my own so I am halfway ready for the playoffs when it is broadcast on the air.

So here is the match I did for my own benefit. I hope you enjoy it. (It’s my first time with a new recorder and I realize I am too close to the mic, but I’ll fix that next time. Thanks for cutting me some slack. Not to mention the rest of the rust I’m trying to break off.)

Clayton Bears at Grantsburg Pirates 9-8-09

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Pirate Volleyball one step closer

Grantsburg Volleyball still great

Bob — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:45:53 +0000

The Pirate volleyball team is still going strong after an undefeated regular season and a second place state finish in 2008, the ladies are at it again winning and winning big.

Tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 8 ) is a big match against Clayton (Division 4 state qualifier). This match tonight will go a long way to determining the conference champion in the West Lakeland.

I am planning on going to the game, but it will not be broadcast on radio. I did purchase a digital voice recorder and will call the game and upload it to this website as soon as I can.

Unfortunately, the radio station doesn’t plan on covering any volleyball games this year until the playoffs, so if I can find some businesses to sponsor this site, I will call the games for WeAreGrantsburg.com.

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Grantsburg Volleyball still great