A multitude of players from the Class AA state champion Chatfield Gophers make the All-Southeast White team. Jeff Johnson’s crew gets seven A-D selections. Three, Ethan Ruskell (6’1” 210 DE/OL), Grady Schott (6’2” 200 TE/LB), and Caden Nolte (6’2” 275 OL/DL) are seniors. Four, Sam Backer (5’11” 195 QB/RB/S), Isaac Stevens (6’2” 180 OL/DL), Drew O’Connor (6’3” 180 TE/LB), and … [Read more...]
Gymnastics (12/23)
Cal/SG/H 118.950, Stewartville/Chatfield 117.115 (Seventh grader Paizley Lange was the night’s top scorer in two of the four events – the bars and the balance beam, while seventh grader Avery Augedahl was the best in floor exercise with the team’s best individual score, 8.200. Sophomore Sabrina Lisota was second in both beam and floor. Reflecting all four events, … [Read more...]
Wrestling (12/21 – 12/23)
Decorah 9, #12 in A Caledonia/Houston 60 (Warriors took 106 (Owen Von Arx), 195 (Ayden Goetzinger), and 285 (Grant Ness) by forfeit. Braxton Lange (113), Brandon Ross (#1 at 126), Cory Scanlan (152), and Tyler Jennings (220) scored pins. Tucker Ginther (#6 at 145) won a 16-1 tech fall, his 100th career win. Simon Seymour (120) won an 8-0 major decision. Owen Denstad (#9 at … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (12/20 – 12/23)
Southeast Conference Lyle/Pacelli 25, Grand Meadow 57 (GM: Kendyl Queensland 14 pts (4-4 FTs), 8 rebs; McKenna Hendrickson 12 pts, 5 stls; Lauren Queensland 11 pts, 11 rebs, 3 asts, 3 stls; River Landers 10 pts, 15 rebs; Sydney Cotton 5 pts, 7 rebs, 4 asts. GM racked up 55 rebounds) Kingsland 70, LeRoy-Ostrander 28 (K: Shelby Beck 11 pts; Emily Miner 9 pts; Audrey … [Read more...]
Lions, Burros Split Series atop SEC East
The Spring Grove boys and the Lanesboro girls maintained/reattained their leads in their respective SEC East Division races as the Lion and Burro basketball teams played their first series of the year. At Spring Grove, defense was the key as the Lions boys (3-0 SEC) dismissed the Burro boys, 70-34. Meanwhile at Lanesboro, rebounding propelled the Burro girls (3-1 SEC) past … [Read more...]
FCLMC Hosts Annual Holiday Tourney With Chatfield, GMLOS, and LARP
Four of the five Journal 11 wrestling programs brought their singlets to Harmony for the annual FCLMC Holiday wrestling tourney. The Wolves, Chatfield, LARP, and GMLOS were joined by Zumbrota-Mazeppa plus smaller contingents from Triton, La Crescent/Hokah, W-K, Winona-Winona/Cotter, and Decorah. Z-M came out on top team-wise (247) over the Gophers (237.5), Screamin’ Eagles … [Read more...]
Knight Girls Big Winners in Key SEC Battles
The week of Monday, December 13 had a trio of SEC girls games with big early season SEC standings ramifications. The top four squads (arguably) all had at least one match-up with another top team; GM played at Kingsland, Lanesboro played at Kingsland, at GM played at Houston. The Knights-Larks battled was headlined by defense, specifically, Kingsland’s half-court zone. GM … [Read more...]
Lark Boys Run Streak to Four, Beating Knights/Canes
It wasn’t the best start to a season for a program that’s been pretty good in recent history. Grand Meadow’s boys opened the season with a 30-point loss at FC then a rivalry loss to Southland 60-51. They started 0-2. But a four-game win streak has been the rebuttal. Dakotah Rostad’s guys notched two wins the week of Monday the 20th over league foes. They took down Kingsland, … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
It was a week of overtime basketball games. Chatfield’s girls fell to PEM 65 to 60 in double OT in a key TRC-West affair. In a key East game, Caledonia’s girls fell 76-71 to Cotter in overtime despite Sadie Treptow scoring 25 points and Ava Privet 20. FC’s boys fell to North Fayette at the Border Battle, 68-65 in overtime, despite Jayce Kiehne’s 25 points. The sophomore also … [Read more...]
Wrestling (12/9 – 12/11)
FCLMC Triangular > FCLMC 48, Triton 30 (Wolves took 113 (Clayton Knutson), 120 (Rhoda Swartzentruber), and 132 (Jeremiah Bushman) by forfeit. Kane Larson (106), Orion Sass (170), Oliver Hoeltzle (182), and Bodey Wright (195) won by fall. Kyle Daniels (138 > 4-2) and Boston Wright (145 > 9-5) won by decision. Wolves built leads of 30-6 after 145 and 42-18 after 195. … [Read more...]