If you are in denial that breast cancer could ever happen to you, join the club. This is a disease that often has no symptoms – no pain, no visual cues, and nothing that stands out to announce its presence in the early stages. The only way to detect it early is through regular screenings and being aware - knowing your body and noticing changes. How prevalent is breast cancer? … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2018
Journal Writing Project Breaking the silence
Harvey Weinstein. James Franco. Matt Lauer. Roy Moore. Mario Batali. George H.W. Bush. James Rosen. Even one of Minnesota’s own, former Democratic Senator Al Franken. With the extensive availability of current proceedings made accessible through the various means of media present in our world today, a majority of individuals have likely heard of at least one of the … [Read more...]
Perfect R-P Miracle
Miracle may be a strong word. When R-P boys basketball beats an opponent, it’s rarely a miracle. One week plus removed from the Minneapolis Miracle, Stefon Diggs’ 61-yard TD catch to beat the New Orleans, Tom Vix’s group sent TRC shockwaves by beating some other Saints. St. Charles entered the contest coming off its only loss, 81-57 to defending Section 1AA champ Lake … [Read more...]
Knights Run County TRC Gauntlet
Fillmore County boasts four TRC schools. Kingsland’s basketball teams have now swept the other three. Knight squads beat Chatfield and R-P in December. In late January, Kingsland swept FC to run the gauntlet. In Preston, John Fenske’s guys grabbed a 70-47 victory. They were plus-11 at the free throw line (16 of 26 to 5 of 12). Team double-K got four in double figures. … [Read more...]
Gopher Wrestling Improves to 9-1
On parents and youth exhibition night, Chatfield wrestling continued its excellent year, hounding St. Charles through the middle weights, to post a convincing win. The Gophers led 16-11 through 132, only to win five straight; Nathan Goldsmith (138, 8-4 D), Campbell Berge (145, pin), Luke Ihrke (152, pin), Jake Mandt (160, forfeit), Davontae Goldsmith (170, 18-7 MD). Chatfield … [Read more...]
A Quick Strengthen
A weakened storm restrengthened quickly. Hurricane girls basketball regrouped from its worst shooting night (23%), it worst loss (51-43 to W-K). Houston tied a season-high with 21 assists, put up a season-high in points, and shot a season-best 55% (34-62) in beating Spring Grove 80-57. Alyssa Rostad had career-highs in points (30) and threes (7-10). Amber Chapel (18 pts, … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Chatfield’s Jake Mandt (#1 in Class A at 145) won his fourth tourney of the year (Lake City). He improved to 25-0 (corrected). LARP wrestling had two one-point matches at the K-M duals (beat Winona 40-39, lost to Worthington 37-36). Ross Herber (106), Carter Jonsgaard (113), Gable Speltz (120), Ethan Sense (170/182), and Noah Herber (182/195) each went 4-1 on the week. … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball (1/23 – 1/27)
Chatfield 43, La Crescent 61 (C: Landon Bance 9 pts (3-5 threes); Ben Brogan 8 pts, 6 rebs; Austin Hines 7 pts, 12 rebs) M-C 47, GM 73 (MC: Dylan Loppnow 12 pts (6-8 FGs), 8 rebs; Pierce Lind 10 pts, 6 rebs; Blake Henry 10 pts; D. Wyffels 4 pts, 7 rebs, 9 assists. Cougars: 0-16 threes) Schaeffer Academy 61, Houston 46 M-C 54, SG 73 (MC: Ryan Kuhn career-high 13 pts, 4 … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (1/23 – 1/26)
La Crescent 43, Chatfield 45 (C: Macy Pederson 14 pts (3-6 threes); B. Berg 13 pts; Alanna Goetzinger 10 pts, 9 rebs) L-O 30, M-C 56 (MC: K. McCabe 23 pts, 8 rebs, 6 stls; Payton Danielson 18 pts, 11 rebs, 4 assists, 4 stls) R-P 25, St. Charles 63 (RP: Lauren Lawston 8 pts. Seven other Trojans scored, but no more than 4 points) Schaeffer Academy 47, Lanesboro 29 (L: … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/23- 1/27)
Waukon 33, FCLMC 45 (Wolves jumped out 21-0. Match was tied 33-33 after 195. Wolves took 220/285 by forfeit to win second dual of year. FCLMC was winless the past two years. Each team had three forfeits. Bradon Knutson (106), Cale Anderson (113), Caleb Kunz (145), and Eric Kunz (160) had pins for FCLMC. Caden Anderson (126) won a 7-4 decision); St. Charles 51, FCLMC 9 … [Read more...]