In many ways, sports campaigns this season are unfair to many involved.  The silver lining is, at least there is a season, particularly for the teams who stay COVID-free enough to keep playing.  For M-C volleyball, the season in unfair in that there aren’t any big weekend tourneys against tougher competition.  With a 150-plus SEC match win-streak going, playing only SEC matches … [Read more...]

Lanesboro volleyball continued its excellent season.  Julie Schreiber’s group rode it three-headed hitting attack to two more conference wins.  The Burros first took out Houston in a tough three-set battle, 25-22, 26-24, 25-20.  Kaci Ruen (12 kills, 6 digs), Jessie Schreiber (11 kills, 7 digs), and Sydney Taylor (7 kills, 12 digs, 14-14 serving) notched 30 of Lanesboro’s 35 … [Read more...]

Spring Grove volleyball improved to 6-3 with a second 3-0 sweep of 0-7 winless Schaeffer Academy (25-7, 25-13, 25-20) and a far more competitive 3-1 victory over Houston (25-10, 25-19, 23-25, 25-17). For the week, Maggie Lile served 32-for-34 with 9 aces.  Against Schaeffer, a dozen Grove girls had kills and seven had assists as SG employed the entire lineup.  SG had 28 kills … [Read more...]

It is pretty easy to be overshadowed on the volleyball front when it comes to the teams the Fillmore County Journal covers.   Mabel-Canton, Fillmore Central, Grand Meadow, Lanesboro, Kingsland, Chatfield, and Spring Grove are all (well) above .500.  With a 2-0 week, Lindsay Milks’ LeRoy-Ostrander Cardinals moved their name into that plus-500 group.  The Cards first swept … [Read more...]

After falling to Fillmore Central, Chatfield volleyball (5-2) re-grouped by beating Caledonia 3-2.  The Gophers (5-1, 5-2) came back from down 2-sets-to-0.  Sydney Allen had 38 assists and 17 digs to key the effort.  Kingsland volleyball topped Southland 3-2 in a five-match set.  Ellie Buchholtz had 30 kills and Alyssa Link 40 assists for the Knights (5-1, 5-2).  L-O (3-2) … [Read more...]

L-O 29, Nicollet 18 (LO: C. Johnson 22-125, TD rushing, 3-10, 50 yards, INT passing; I. Collier 23-126, 2 TDs rushing, 2-25 receiving; Peyton Roe 9-76, TD rushing.  Cardinals scored in every quarter, leading 14-6 at halftime and 21-12 after three)  SG 36, L/P 22 (SG (3-2) won at L/P (2-3) with a second-half shutout. The Athletics had only 23 yards of offense in the second … [Read more...]

PEM 3, R-P 0 > 26-28, 23-25, 19-25 (R-P: Kaylee Ruberg 11 kills, 16 digs; Alyvia Eide 19 digs; Isabelle Kahoun 16 assists, 16-16 serving, 3 aces, 6 digs; Hannah Ronnenberg 3 kills, 16 digs, 21-21 serving; Hailey Jenkins 10 digs.  Ruberg had 11 of R-P’s 21 kills.  Trojan had 72 digs as a team.  The Bulldogs improved to 5-1.  R-P is 2-4, 2-5)  Southland 2, Kingsland 3 > … [Read more...]

To start the season, Grand Meadow football’s schedule wasn’t easy.  Week one they played at Mountain Lake, the defending state 9-man champions.  Week two, they hosted South-East rival Spring Grove.  Week three, they played at L-O, a rival who handed the Larks one of their two losses last season.  GM ran that gauntlet.  Their reward in week four?  Southland emerged as … [Read more...]

The halftime score was 36-36.  It looked like the first team to 60 would win.  The team that got to 60 points did win.  In a classic 9-man shoot, L-O (1-2) and Houston (2-1) did battle, combining for 110 points!  The game started uniquely.  The ‘Canes opening kick-off was allowed to be returned to the 10-yard line.  Cardinal four-year team manager Brody Larson, a sub 5’0” tall … [Read more...]

It was a ho-hum week for Mabel-Canton volleyball.  They beat one their closest competitors in the East handily, then notched a second win over a division foe.  The biggest highlight came from senior setter/hitter Kenidi McCabe.  All said feats were performed oddly on Wednesday and then Saturday.  M-C (5-0) first trekked to Randolph on hump day.  The Rockets (4-1) came in tied … [Read more...]