Last year, Kingsland football won a game, a big step after a string of winless seasons. Big step two; a huge comeback win. In a battle of 0-5 teams, Cotter led the Knights 30-6 in the second quarter. Kingsland then scored 27 unanswered points! Touchdown runs by Dallas Jones (47 yards) and Nick Ramaker (1 yard) made it 30-20 at halftime. Jones’ third TD run made it 30-26 … [Read more...]
#6 Trojans Drop First at #10 Goodhue
It was the second signature Mid-Southeast-East match-up of the season. A week after state-ranked BP won at state-ranked Goodhue, 6th-ranked R-P (5-0) visited the 10th ranked Wildcats (4-1). The Trojans were constantly up against field position in the first. Four Goodhue drives all started in and/or made deep R-P territory. Twice the Trojans defense held inside the ten. The … [Read more...]
Folz Foils Houston Again
A year ago, Alex Folz propelled Spring Grove to a 26-6 win over Houston in a match-up of undefeated ranked teams. This year’s big contest, SG (5-0) ranked #1, Houston (5-0) ranked #5, was even more dominated by the 5’10” 195-pounder. After spotting SG a 13-0 lead, Houston got a 51-yard James Hongerholt TD run to pull to down 13-6. It was as close as they would get. After an … [Read more...]
Football
Lanesboro 41, L/P 0 (L: Carson Schwichtenberg 6-30, 2 TDs rushing, 9-15, 87 yards, TD passing; J.T. Rein 13-93, TD rushing; Nate Betz 7-57, TD rushing; Connor Ruen 8-29, TD rushing, 16-yard TD reception. Burros: 2-3, 3-3) #7 USC 22, FC 13 (FC: Josh Peters 12-20, 143 yards, 2 INTs passing, 29-88, 2 TDs rushing; Carson Kiehne 4-57 receiving. USC led 14-0. FC closed to 14-13 … [Read more...]
Volleyball
FC 0, W-K 3 > 20-25, 14-25, 20-25 (FC: S. Schrüfer 9 kills, 9 digs; M. Scheevel 23 assists, 10 digs; P. Donlinger 9 kills; K.J. Corson 9 digs. Falcons-South suffer first TRC loss. Each team was TRC undefeated coming in) D-E 3, Chatfield 1 > 22-25, 27-25, 23-25, 23-25 (C: Belle Berg 7 kills, 12 digs; T. Allen 23 assists; Alanna Goetzinger 11 kills; A. Hinckley 20 digs, … [Read more...]
Cross Country
Chatfield Invite (Chatfield’s boys and girls took 3rd beind Stewie and Rochester Area Home School. Kingsland’s boys took 6th (of 7 complete), the girls were incomplete. Alex Wright (9th), Treyton Lanning (12th), Evan Wright (15th), and Brady Woltz (19th) finished top 20 for the Gophers (of 60). Stewie’s Alex Lawrence (17:56.6) took first. Gopher girls Aletta Strande (9th), … [Read more...]
‘Canes Stay Perfect in Double OT
It was the game of week five. Randolph (3-1) football travelled to #5 in 9-Man Houston (4-0). The teams engaged in a tit-for-tat track meet. Regulation saw four ties; 8, 16, 24 and 38. There were six lead-changes. Houston led 16-8, 30-24, and 38-32; Randolph 8-0, 24-16, and 32-30. James Hongerholt’s 1-yard TD (plus Joey Fishel run) in the fourth gave team double-H the … [Read more...]
Another Big Week for O’Hare, LARP Boys CC
It’s been awhile since Matt Kingsbury’s L-A/R-P cross country has had a team win a meet. An individual winning a meet has been a different story. Top male runner Luke O’Hare entered the Pine Island Invite a two-time meet champion this year already. He added a third top finish while LARP (35 > 1-2-8-11-13) bested Stewartville (49 > 3-7-9-14-16) and Pine Island (58 > … [Read more...]
#7 Gophers Test #1 Warriors
It was a match-up of undefeated state-ranked teams, #1 Caledonia (5-0) at #7 Chatfield (5-0). The Gophers pulled a rarity, playing the Warriors competitively. They held the vaunted Caledonia offense (46.5 PPG) in check. Chatfield intercepted Caledonia QB Noah King three times. Carson Larrabee majorly screwed up two Warrior punts. The Gophers hit the Warriors. The Warriors … [Read more...]
Let’s All Go Five
On Thursday, September 27, three county volleyball teams went the distance, two in a rare way. Rushford-Peterson, in its second meeting with D-E (this time of the conference variety), led 2-0 only for the Eagles to force a fifth game. R-P took the rubber-set for a 3-2 win (25-10, 25-23, 28-30, 23-25, 15-8). Lauren Lawston (18 kills, 14 digs), Peyton Hoiness (26 assists, 21 … [Read more...]