Sean Scallon
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Sean Scallon has been a reporter and Sports Editor at the Pierce County Herald newspaper in Ellsworth since 1998. He holds a bachelors degree in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He's also worked at newspapers in Glenwood City, Wisconsin; Marion, Illinois and Shawano, Wisconsin. Sean also works as a sports reporter for other newspapers and websites in RiverTown Multimedia from River Falls to Hudson to New Richmond and Red Wing.
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FOREST LAKE - In a dramatic rally the Ellsworth High School wrestling team, ranked third in Division 2 in Wisconsin, came from down 27-9 to tie Forest Lake, ranked third in Minnesota Class AAA Saturday at the Fores Lake Duals. Brody Kemmerer's pinfall at heavyweight in 2:17 evened the dual at 27-27. The initial criteria decision gave Ellsworth the win but a recount gave the win to the Rangers. Ellsworth wound up third in the six-team meet. EHS rallied behind upper weight wrestlers Derek Donnelly at 192, Parker Hines at 195, Hank Holdorf at 220 along with Kemmerer.
PRESCOTT - Prescott High School's girls basketball team had its best showing on offense this season against its river rivals Hastings and wound up with an easy 59-33 win at home. The Cardinals actually trailed 9-8 after the first quarter before outscoring the Raiders 24-6 in the second quarter. Prescott's second quarter scoring total was one point shy of the total amount of points they scored 72-hours before against Durand. Prescott's defense did much to force turnovers which led to easy scoring opportunities.
LA CROSSE - The Ellsworth High School Wrestling team is in position to successfully defend its Bi-State Classic title after the first round's action Thursday at the La Cross Center. The Panthers have 10 wrestlers still alive in the tournament field. Three of them will be wrestling in the semifinals Friday morning. Action begins at 9:30 a.m. and goes all day with the finals at 6 p.m. EHS's Jens Lantz at 113 pounds, Roarke Langer at 132 and Parker Hines at 195 will be competing in the semifinals.
A critical turnover and missed free-throws meant a third straight loss for Ellsworth High school's girls basketball team Friday. The Panthers lost in overtime to New Richmond 44-42 in their first Middle Border Conference game of the season. Ellsworth trailed at halftime 19-17 and again at the end of the third quarter 31-28. But Ellsworth's defense held the Tigers (1-2 overall and 1-0 in the MBC) scoreless until the 3:06 mark of the fourth quarter.
PLUM CITY - From desultory 13-13 score at halftime both Plum City and Boyceville high school boys basketball teams excited the crowd in the Plum City gymnasium with a triple overtime contest which ended with a 54-47 Bulldog win. Boyceville won despite PC's Chase Luebker scoring a game-high 29 points, including six three-pointers. PC made 10 trifectas for the ballgame. But the Bulldogs had the balanced scoring led by Luke Hellman's 17 points. Boyceville had three players in double figures while the Blue Devils had just one. The 'Dawgs pulled away in the third overtime, outscoring PC 12-5.
The Ellsworth Village Board Monday gave its unanimous approval to plans for having the Cheese Curd Festival and the village's 150th Sesquicentennial celebration at East End Park next summer. Jack Hines, who is a member of the Sesquicentennial celebration committee, said the cost of renting the fairgrounds for the Cheese Curd Festival has gotten too high and it would be cheaper for the festival to utilize both East End and Summit parks for its activities.
SPRING VALLEY - Instead of playing a home game against Shell Lake Saturday, the Spring Valley High School football team will be on the road in its Leve1 1 playoff match-up and probably playing Friday evening. When the playoff pairings were released for Divisions 3-7 yesterday evening between 7-7:30 p.m. after a Milwaukee judge's granted a temporary injunction to release them in a lawsuit case the WIAA is involved, Spring Valley was initially given a No.
The Ellsworth Village Board unanimously approved Monday officially designating Tax Incremental Financing District (TID) No. 7 in the Crossing Meadows development a distressed district. The village is taking advantage of a new state law which allows for local municipalities to declare TID districts to be designated as distressed. This allows for extensions with financing and allows monies from other village TID districts to be used to make up for shortfalls, which in Ellsworth's situation has occurred in TID No. 7.
SPRING VALLEY - Spring Valley won its first Homecoming game in several years by wiping out Colfax 42-7 Friday at Syverson Park. The No. 13 ranked Cardinals put up 34 points in the first half and started the game with the bang of Andy Bune's 75-yard kick-off return. And after the Vikings scored on their first possession of the game, Bune had another big play in the first quarter with a 54-yard run from scrimmage. Valley's Homecoming king had 112 yards on eight carries. SV took control of the game in the second quarter.