The Colby Hornets volleyball team has started its 2022 campaign, competing in their first tournament of the season at UW-Stout. With a new system in place and some new focuses in practices, the Hornets hope to compete in the upper rungs of the Cloverbelt-East with the likes of Gilman, Columbus, and Neillsville. Colby finished in the top half of the conference last year, going 4-3 in Cloverbelt-

It may have been the Greyhounds who scored first in Friday night’s season opener in Loyal, but it was the visiting Abbotsford Falcons that would leave with the victory. After going down 8-0 in the first quarter, the Falcons scored 33 unanswered, taking the weather-shortened game 33-8. It was a game that saw both the familiar and perhaps the unexpected take place. The familiar was junior

After a relatively slow start, the Colby Hornets scored 28 points in the second quarter to take a commanding lead over former Cloverbelt conference rival Neillsville/Granton on Friday night. The Hornets would ultimately outscore their opponents 43-8 in their season opener, a dominating performance from a unit that hopes to compete for their third straight Marawood conference championship. While

After what will be a three year hiatus, an Abbotsford summer staple will be back next year. The Abbotsford Merchants city league baseball team will be returning to the Dairyland league for the 2023 season, headed by new manager Ryan Bargender. The Merchants have not played since the summer of 2019, as pandemic concerns during 2020 resulted in the loss of the season for the team. The world has

As the calendar inches closer to August, so to does the beginning of the fall sports seasons. For the Abbotsford Falcon and Colby Hornet football teams, this process begins with the summer mini-camps, which were held over the last two weeks. These camps give the teams an opportunity for conditioning and drillwork, as well as a refresher on playbooks and to start the process of finding new starters

Andrew and Brent Jeske had one last stop on their high school football tour; the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Game held at J.J. Keller Field, the home of the UWOskosh Titans. The pair of brothers were selected to play for the North in the small school team matchup on Saturday, both of them contributing to a dominant defense that held the opposing South team to just seven points.

The Abbotsford Heat’s 17u summer league team went 2-1 in their tournament at Edgar this past weekend, taking on West Bend, the host team in Edgar and an Edgar/Athens combination team. The combination of Edgar and Athens was first up on the docket for the Heat, the two teams colliding on Friday evening. The Heat would come away with a dominant victory, winning 14-3 and ending the game in five