Colton Wildcats take win string to Touchet

Colton’s defense put enough brakes on the LWK speed game Friday night at LaCrosse to carve out a 66-20 showdown win and move to the head of the SE-Eight race. The 4-0 Wildcats will face a different test Friday afternoon when they travel all the way to Touchet to play another always-tough entrant in the league.

“I think a lot of the credit goes to our defense,” Colton Coach Clark Vining said on the big win at LaCrosse. He added he never expected a 45-plus match when the Wildcats’ rolled to LaCrosse Friday.

“It really started like a tennis match,” Vining reported.

The game began with the senior...