Kingsland girls basketball has won the last two SEC-West titles, capitalizing on Ellie Buchholtz’s junior and senior years. This year, it has had to be a much greater team effort. Courtesy of beating three SEC foes, the Knights are again in the driver’s seat to claim their division. Steve Hauser’s group started by beating Spring Grove 63-34. The Knights led 36-10 at halftime. … [Read more...]

It happens very infrequently that a team plays three ranked foes in a week, nonetheless beats all three. Brad King’s Caledonia boys basketball (#2 in AA, 13-0) had a really good week. It started with a conference battle of TRC division leading undefeateds with Plainview-Elgin-Millville (#8 in AA, 14-0). The Bulldogs came out inspired, things revolving around 6’5” center Aeron … [Read more...]

Cal/SG/Hou 121.600, Byron 136.050 (The Warriors had strong showings in three of the four events. Seventh grader Paizley Lange had the Warriors’ best individual score and highest place with a third-place 8.325 on the balance beam. Seventh grader Avery Augedahl placed fifth in all-around with Lange sixth and seventh grader Vivian Kittleson seventh) Cal/SG/Hou 123, 850, PI/ZM … [Read more...]

Triton Triangular > LARP 65, Triton 18; LARP 57, Medford 19 (Screamin’ Eagles > 4-4) Goodhue Triangular > GMLOS 25, #11 in A Goodhue 54 (Bulldogs won four of the first seven weights to lead 19-18 after 145, but lost six of the final seven weights. Five were by forfeit. A. Quintana (126) and C. Luthe (285) had pins, #2 C. Wiste (138) won by injury forfeit, C. Sheely … [Read more...]

Rushford-Peterson 46, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 66 (R-P: K. Ruberg 20 pts (7-8 FTs), 12 rebs; Ellie Ekern 11 pts (3-5 threes). PEM: Abigail O’Reilly 27 pts. PEM’s lead was 35-28 at half. FTs: R-P 12 of 15 (80%), PEM 18 of 25 (72%)) Fillmore Central 79, Dover-Eyota 89 (FC: Regan Hanson 17 pts (8-13 FGs); Madison Simon 14 pts, 6 rebs; Jersey Ristau 14 pts (4-7 threes); Kammry … [Read more...]

R-P’s boys (#7 in A, 5-2, 9-3) dropped a ranked/ranked battle with PEM (#8 in AA) by a 63-42 final. Nick Eickhoff hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to propel Kingsland over W-K 49-47. GMLOS’ #4 Donavon Felten beat Goodhue’s #2 Maddox O’Reilly 2-1 on the mats. This week’s big boy’s scorers (not listed above): M-C’s Cayden Tollefsrud (38 points, 15 rebounds) versus SA in 61-59 … [Read more...]

Lanesboro boys basketball had a busy three days, as the Burros won home games Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Matt Asleson’s group beat Alden-Conger 65-30. Ten Burros scored as they hit 8 of 20 threes (40%). John Prestemon (18 pts, 9-14 FGs, 7 rebs, 4 asts, 6 stls) led the way. Reece Benson (14 pts, 5-5 FGs, 4-4 threes) had a perfect night shooting. Stephan Schultz chipped in 8 … [Read more...]

The Class A Spring Grove boys upended previously undefeated Class AA La Crescent-Hokah, but the Lions were not able to derail unbeaten Martin County West, which was ranked #1 by the computer and #4 by the press in Class A. The Tuesday 56-41 win versus the Lancers and the 41-33 Friday loss to the Mavericks came between a 72-24 Monday rout of winless Houston and Saturday’s 53-23 … [Read more...]

Caledonia boys basketball stayed perfect on the year, dispatching of two solid TRC squads. They were led by the play of a trio of seniors. Versus Lewiston-Altura (9-2), the Warriors (11-0) overwhelmed a Cardinal team that started the year 9-0. Behind Jackson Koepke’s 20 first half points, Brad King’s group built a 44-29 halftime lead and cruised to an 83-57 win. The senior trio … [Read more...]