Board members Amy Jeffers, Lanny Isensee, Scott Backer, Katie Priebe, Matt McMahon and Rick Lowrey were in attendance for the July 8 Chatfield School Board meeting. The meeting was live streamed on cable channel 11 and on Facebook.com/ChatfieldTV. Also present were Superintendent Ed Harris, Lorri Lowrey, administrative assistant, and Trista O’Connor, business manager. During … [Read more...]
Letter to the Editor: Bring Bart Back
Letter about... Bring Bart Back To the Editor, Just like the kids of the last near two decades, we’ve gone through Chatfield’s Wrestling program and came out a better student-athlete and leader because of Bartels’ coaching ability. Some of the members of Chatfield’s council or board may not always see how things work in the lens of a middle schooler coming in to wrestling … [Read more...]
Athlete of the Decade: Hank Friederichs
A Decade’s Worth of Sports Part IV
The All-Decade wrestling team. Athletes from Chatfield, FCLMC, LARP, and GMLOKS/GMLOS are all included (given the Journal once covered the later). Individuals who graduated in 2010 are less regarded. Rankings are based off state placing, times made state, coaches ranking, career longevity, records, and team success. Said rankings are very much subject to debate! Thanks to … [Read more...]
All-TRC Wrestling Team
It was a solid year for wrestling in the county. Chatfield put together another excellent season, posting a win over the eventual section champion and sending three guys to state. LARP had some strong guys in the lower weights and got a state entrant. FCLMC, for the first time in many years, fielded a full unit and thus picked up a bunch of wins. Six Gophers and a pair of … [Read more...]
Goetzinger/Bartels Finishes Highlight State Wrestling
Three Chatfield Gophers and one LARP Screamin’ Eagle took on the 2020 Minnesota state wrestling tourney. Chatfield’s entrants went 6-1 Friday, all advancing to Saturday. Junior Seth Goetzinger and senior Cael Bartels headlined the cast. Goetzinger redeemed a 2-2 performance last year (where he didn’t place after finishing third as a frosh), by rolling to the 145-pound Class … [Read more...]
Athletes of the Week
Gopher Trio Head State Bound Wrestling Foursome
Five Journal-covered wrestlers entered their individual section tournaments ranked in state. Four earned berths to the 2020 state wrestling meet. Chatfield’s Cael Bartels (#2 at 113), Seth Goetzinger (#5 at 145), and A.J. Karver (#7 at 220), LARP’s Ross Herber (#4 at 126) fought their way to St. Paul. Goetzinger makes his third trip, Bartels and Herber their second, Karver … [Read more...]
Wrestling Teams Take on Play-Offs
The 2020 Section 1A and 1AA wrestling team play-offs saw each of the three county programs fighting to move on. FCLMC got the rare play-off win. LARP was up big before upper weights hindered its plight. Chatfield fell by a single point to the eventual section champion. In Class AA, LARP (5-seed, 9-9) took on PEM (4-seed, 13-9) in a quartefinal. Things went the Screaming … [Read more...]
Gopher Wrestling Pulls Double Shut-Out
Shut-outs don’t happen too often in wrestling. Winning every match by a six-point decision is also rare. Both of the above events are certainly aided by a squad simply not having numbers and thus forfeiting. At the St. Charles triangular, Chatfield used low opponent numbers and pulled off both. They double dual shut-out St. Charles, 82-0, and La Crescent, 84-0. The … [Read more...]
Wrestling (2/6 & 2/7)
Winona Tri > LARP 51, Winona 27 (LARP built a 51-6 lead after 170. Screaming Eagles took 106 (Quintin Betthauser), 126 (Ross Herber), 145 (Caleb Mueller), 152 (Kolton Riser), and 170 (Colin Klug) by forfeit, forfeited 120, 182, and 220. Tyler Kreidemacher (113), Gable Speltz (138), and Brennan Corcoran (160) had pins, Carter Jonsgaard (132) a 5-3 decision win); LARP 54, … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/30 & 2/1)
Chatfield 57, W-K 21 (Gophers took 113 (C. Bartels), 132 (Cody Guenther), 145 (Seth Goetzinger), 160 (Campbell Berge), 220 (A.J. Karver), and 285 (Erik Seha) by forfeit. Carson Rowland (106), Luke Ihrke (152), and G. Schott (170) had pins, Kailan Schott (126) won a 3-2 decision) PEM Tri > GMLOS 56, LARP 21 (S-Eagles forfeited 220, took 285 by forfeit (Jaydon Boynton). … [Read more...]
Wrestling
FCLMC Tri > Lake City 60, FCLMC 12 (Wolves took 285 (Stefan Nikoloski) by forfeit, forfeited 120 and 220. Devin Troendle (182) had a pin); La Crescent 16, FCLMC 60 (Wolves took 113 (Connor Wingert), 126 (Ryan Kelly), 138 (Boston Wright), 145 (Caden Anderson), 152 (Carter Hovland), 182 (Michael Barrett), 220 (Zach Krage), and 285 (Nikoloski) by forfeit. Bodey Wright (160) … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/16 – 1/18)
FCLMC Tri > St. Charles 27, FCLMC 40 (Teams double forfeited 106 and 195. FCLMC collected forfeits at 145 (Caden Anderson), 170 (Bodey Wright), and 285 (Stefan Nikoloski). Wolves built 16-6 and 22-12 leads, but dropped 152 and 160 to trail 22-21. FCLMC took three of the last four non-double forfeit matches (two by forfeit) for the win. Connor Wingert (113), Cale Anderson … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/10 & 1/11)
D-E Tri > Class A #12 Chatfield 27, PEM 40 (Gophers led 15-0 after 120 and 24-10 after 145, but won one match the rest of the way (including forfeiting 170 & 195). Lukas Carrier (113) and Cael Bartels (120) won by pin, Seth Goetzinger by forfeit, Carson Rowland (106 > 2-0), Cody Guenther (132 > 10-4), and Grady Schott (182 > 13-8) by decision); #12 Chatfield … [Read more...]
