Week 5 of the high school football season is in the books. Here is a look back at some things that grabbed our attention in Week 5.

 

Upset of the Week: Loyal over Thorp. The Greyhounds beat Thorp for the first time in 19 years by a score of 14-6. It was defense that carried the day for the Greyhounds as they held the Cardinals to less than 100 yards rushing.

 

Upset of the Week Part II: Grantsburg got their first win of the season over Luck 17-9.

 

Teams that need to regain their early season form: The afore mentioned Luck Cardinals and Bloomer Blackhawks. Both teams have dropped two straight games. Two weeks ago Bloomer looked like one of the top teams in the state but after tough losses to Chetek and Spooner the wheels have kinda come off their tracks.

 

Most improved team from the early part of the season: The afore mentioned Chetek Bulldogs and Osceola Chieftains. After an ugly 18-14 win over McDonell in week one Chetek has outscored their opponents 76-7 the last 2 weeks behind a strong defense and the running of senior RB Elliot Waterhouse. The Chieftains have won 2 out of their last three games, and put up nearly 500 yards of total offense against the previously unbeaten Baldwin-Woodville Blackhawks last week.

 

Top running back tandems in the area: Tyler Tranor and Jerrod Tarman of the afore mentioned Osceola Chieftains and Dustin Kroeplin and Zach Pomputis of Owen-Withee.

 

Glenwood City established itself as the team to beat in the Dunn-St. Croix Conference after a  25-7 thrashing of Colfax. The undefeated Hilltoppers dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball and got key contributions from John Emholtz, Nick Schouten and Justin Morrow.

 

Several area football teams are one win away from qualifying for the WIAA playoffs which begin in October. The teams include: Menomonie, Chippewa Falls, Neillsville, Stanley-Boyd, Gilman, Owen-Withee, Eleva-Strum, Alma, Elk Mound, Spooner, Frederic, Shell Lake, Lake Holcombe, Plum City, Elmwood, Somerset and Ellsworth.

 

Eau Claire North took command of the Big Rivers Conference in girls volleyball on Tuesday night by beating Eau Claire Memorial 3 games to none.  Both teams came into that match with a 3-0 mark in conference play.

 

Things are very unsettled as of this writing in the Eastern and Western Cloverbelt volleyball standings. In the East Colby, Mosinee and Stanley-Boyd all own 4-0 records in conference play. In the West, Altoona, Regis and Chippewa Falls McDonell are tied at the top with 1 loss in the loss column.

 

Ten former athletes were inducted into the Eau Claire Memorial Athletic Hall of Fame last week. The inductees included: Todd Stein -1994 (swimming), Ron Poquette-1962 ( football, basketball, baseball )

Bill Milne-1994 (swimming ) Julie McNicoll-1985 (swimming, tennis ) Dave Johnson-1975 ( basketball and baseball ) Harold Gelein, Sr.-1912 ( football, basketball, baseball )  Harold Gelein, Jr - 1958 (baseball and basketball ) Kirk Etten - 1978 ( basketball ) Sherm and Jerry Carstensen - 1996 ( basketball )

 

UWEC soccer midfielder Gina Christenbury (freshman-Kenosha Tremper ) has been named this week's WIAC soccer athlete of the week.

 

Tim Petermann recently retired as the UWEC sports information director. Petermann began his work as SID back in 1967.

 

Brett Favre tied Dan Marino's all-time career touchdown passing mark in the Packers 31-24 win over the San Diego Chargers last Sunday. Brett has thrown 420 touchdown passes in his career and will have a chance to break the record set by Marino this Sunday vs the Minnesota Vikings at the Metrodome.