Luck's one match loss is to the Pirates on the second match of the year. Luck has also give Grantsburg their only blemish as the Pirates are 31-1 in sets taking their only set loss against the Cardinals, 20-25 in that same match.

So the question is whether Luck will have enough firepower on the road to topple the mighty Pirates who appear to be firing on all cylinders?

The match starts at 7:30 and will be streamed live, but joined in progress. (I am coaching the middle school football teams and we're hosting St. Croix Falls tonight. I'm just not confident the game will be over by the start of the match, thankfully it's in Grantsburg so the commute from the football field to the gym will be pretty short).

standings courtesy of Wisconsin Sports Network

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Huge match tonight in Grantsburg

The Pirates cruised through their own tournament on Saturday… the "closest" anyone came to taking a set from them was the Braham Bombers as they got within 9 points of winning. Think of that… nobody came within 10 points, on average, of beating the Pirates. Wow.

This Tuesday, the Pirates will be taking on Frederic for the third time this season. The first time was the first match of the year for the Purple and they came out strong, beating the Vikings in straight sets. The next time they met was on Saturday during the Grantsburg Invitational tournament and the Pirates took care of business winning the first two sets of the best of three.

Will the third time be the charm for Frederic? Probably not, unless the Pirates are too busy worrying about decorating their hallways and the big match against Luck on Thursday. This is the Pirates conference to lose at this point, having beat every team in it once. It's the second time through and the only blemish they gals in purple have is against the Luck Cardinals in which they dropped their only set of the year in set number three 20-25.

The Pirates are 11-0 and 28-1 in matches. Their average score? 25-13.

Catch the audio live at www.wearegrantsburg.com starting at 7:25!

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#1 Grantsburg hosts Frederic VB

2011 West Lakeland All-Conference

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Softball all-conference announced

Thursday: Grantsburg (19-5) vs. Phillips (12-11) boys in Rice Lake 7pm

Friday: Spring Valley (2-21) @ Grantsburg (14-7) girls 7pm

Saturday: Grantsburg boys Sectional Final 1pm from Chippewa Falls

Saturday: Grantsburg Regional final in Osceola (or Siren in Spooner if the Pirate girls lose on Friday). This game has to potential to be Grantsburg vs. Webster if the Tigers can get by #1 seed Boyceville. Webster won in overtime in their game against Glenwood City on Tuesday night 62-56.

Boys

Division 3 Unity

Division 4 Grantsburg

Division 5 Luck

Girls

Division 3 nobody left for the West Lakeland. St. Croix Falls and Unity both lost on Tuesday

Division 4 Grantsburg and Webster

Division 5 Siren, Luck and Frederic

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Not counting chickens quite yet…

In this game I was impressed by the Pirates defense with some good coaching adjustments and I was also impressed by the big guys David Ohnstad and Seth Coy. Both had great games defensively and were key to stopping Spring Valley's low post offense.

Here's the Division 4 bracket. Grantsburg will be playing Phillips next Thursday.

Congratulations to two other West Lakeland teams, Luck and Unity, as they, too are Regional Champions. Great representation from the conference.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a good way to stream with good audio without the crowd totally drowning me out, but if you feel like you want to try to listen here's the audio and video below. It also appears that it only recorded the end of the game. Ugh… still working out all the kinks.

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Grantsburg boys are Regional Champs

The Pirates will wait to play until Friday, March 4th as a benefit of receiving a first round bye while Webster will host #6 Boyceville on Tuesday, March 1st.

Webster had their conference championship hopes dashed when they lost to Luck last Friday (31-22). Coincidentally, that loss also eliminated Grantsburg from contention and Luck will be the top team in the West Lakeland again this year. The Pirates host Luck this week in what is now a fairly meaningless game (somewhat like your second semester as a senior).

In other news:

Unity received a number one seed in D3 while St. Croix Falls nabbed a #6 seeding.

Luck got a #1 seed, Siren received a #2 seed and Frederic secured the #3 seed. All three teams are in the same region! That's some West Lakeland power!

All told the West Lakeland had THREE number one seeds, a number two, two number three seeds and a number six. That's a total of three first round byes and six first game home games.

Nice year, boys!

D3 Bracket (Unity, SCF)

D4 Bracket (Grantsburg and Webster)

D5 Bracket (Luck, Siren, Frederic)

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Boys basketball brackets

The Pirates beat Somerset tonight in a game that was close throughout with the Pirates pulling out the victory 63-53 in Somerset. That win gave the Pirates 13 on the year besting their win total from last year (12).

The Pirates are 5-2 in the conference and tied for second behind Luck and with Webster and Unity. It's still anyone's conference. Grantsburg's next game is at winless in the conference St. Croix Falls (2-12, 0-8).

After that the Pirates host Unity for a big game. That game will be broadcast on 105.7 WXCX.

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Grantsburg boys already outdoing last year

I've noticed a lot of confidence building in the girls from the beginning of the year until now and with a tough schedule looming (their next two conference opponents are Siren then St. Croix), they'll need all of it, plus some.

But even if they can't pull an upset off during the next couple games one thing is for sure… Grantsburg is relevant again in the West Lakeland.

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The boys had a very difficult time tonight and fell to the Luck Cardinals 55-63. It was Grantsburg's second conference loss of the season and the Luck win puts the Cardinals atop the West Lakeland with just one loss.

Here's audio of the game.

The Pirates kept it close and actually tied it up in the third quarter but were in such heavy foul trouble it was only a matter of time until the game was decided on the free throw line and when it came down to the end Luck wasn't brilliant from the line, but they did enough to secure the victory.

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Grantsburg plays Siren next Tuesday and we'll have the doubleheader on 105.7 WXCX.

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Boys and girls split in Luck

Basketball season is well underway in the area and some interesting story lines are already developing in the West Lakeland.

Coming into the season on the boy's side I thought the top of the conference would be Luck and Grantsburg followed by Siren and Webster and I felt each of them had a legit shot at winning the conference. After a handful of conference games under their belts, it looks like I was mostly right. Webster has beaten Grantsburg, Siren has beaten Webster and Luck and Grantsburg have beaten Siren. And now you have to give Unity their props because they've beaten Luck and lost to Webster by two. Grantsburg beat them and they play Siren tomorrow night.

It's still anyone's conference.

The Siren girls have been dominant and have only one loss to conference foe, St. Croix Falls. It was a shocker to me that they lost, but talking to some others who know what SCF has, it shouldn't have been as big of an upset as I thought it was.

The Grantsburg girls have improved a lot this year compared to recent years and it looks like new head coach Adam Hale has brought some renewed energy to the team.

My next broadcast will be Friday, Jan 14 with Frederic hosting a doubleheader against Grantsburg. Tune into 105.7 WXCX for all the action.

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Basketball

The good news is that two of our teams will be heading to sectionals. Good luck to our conference teams!

D3 bracket

D4 bracket

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A look around the West Lakeland