It can be called a rivalry by this point. SEC-East girls foes Houston and Mabel-Canton have now gone to overtime three straight years. Underdog M-C (3-10) led Houston (11-2) with around three minutes to go, 38-33. The ‘Canes attacked the hoop and got to the free throw line, to build a 41-38 lead with 0:25 left. With under ten ticks, M-C had the ball still down three, but … [Read more...]
R-P Boys Run Streak to Six
Section 1A beware (not that they aren’t anyway); R-P boys basketball is again looking like R-P boys basketball. Tom Vix’s Trojans defended and offended their way to wins on back-to-back nights in Rushford, bringing their win tally to six in a row. The Trojans subdued Spring Grove in a re-match of last year’s 1A East title game. Short of down 2-0, R-P led the duration. SG … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Chatfield’s Jake Mandt stayed undefeated (26-0) and won his third tournament of the year, the Stewartville Invite. The #1-guy in the state at 145 racked up four pins for his title. Jake has (unofficially) a 47-match win streak. He hasn’t lost in over a year, at the 2016 Rumble on the Red. Seth Goetzinger (18-7) went 4-1 to take second. LARP wrestling took third (of 14) at … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball (1/8 – 1/13)
M-C 46, Alden-Conger 47 (MC: Drew Wyffels 11 pts, 4 assists, 5 stls; Blake Henry 8 pts, 9 rebs; Pierce Lind 8 pts, 7 rebs; Brenden Kerns DNP. Threes: M-C 2-19, A-C 6-11. Lind made a put back with 10 seconds to give M-C the 46-45 lead. Knights made a contested shot at the buzzer for the win) PEM 64, FC 51 (FC: Luke Ristau career-high 14 pts; Brock Walsh 8 pts; Nate Haugerud … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (1/8 – 1/12)
FC 46, Lanesboro 19 (FC: Paige Donlinger 8 pts, 7 rebs; Emma Breitsprecher 6 pts, 6 rebs. L: Bailey Ruen 6 pts, 7 rebs. Ten Falcons scored; eight with either two or three made field goals. Halftime score was 27-5) La Crescent 55, Kingsland 61 (K: L. Buchholtz 23 pts, 13 rebs, 6 stls; Ellie Buchholtz 10 pts, 4 stls) G-E 10, Houston 60 (H: A. Rostad 21 pts (5-10 threes); B. … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/9 – 1/13)
FCLMC 18, W-K 52 (Wolves forfeited six weights, won one forfeit. Eric Kunz (170) won by fall, Caden Anderson (126) a 6-0 decision. FCLMC is 0-4 versus TRC foes, 1-8 overall) Stewartville Invite (Chatfield took fifth of six. Places two (GMLOS 122.5) through five (Gophers 113.5) were separated by less than ten points. New Hampton (176.5) took first. Jake Mandt (145) went … [Read more...]
(Can’t) Quite Really Figure
Vince Lombardi once famously asked, “what the hell is going on out here?” In section 1A boys’ basketball, it’s a good question. As of January 5, 1A’s top three perennial powers, the schools that have represented the section in each of its last four title games, R-P, Goodhue, and SG, all were ranked outside the QRF’s top four. The section’s top four QRF-teams were … [Read more...]
Looking For Wins
The 2017 portion of the 2017-2018 basketball season was a bit tough on FCJ covered teams. Ten of fourteen posted sub-500 overall records. Eight of those sub-500 squads took on each other early in 2018. Laying Down the Second Half Lawston A Lanesboro (2-6) at R-P (2-7) girls game was a free-throw-line tale of two halves. The visiting Burros went 13 of 21 in the first half, … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Chatfield wrestling beat D-E 42-23. The Gophers improved to 4-0 (TRC foes) and 7-1 (overall). LARP wrestling (2-2, 4-3) beat FCLMC (0-3, 1-6) in a county-county dual. FCLMC’s Eric Kunz won 160-pounds at the Flanagan Invite. Houston boys basketball (2-3, 5-6) went 3-0 on the week. James Hongerholt had 23 points in a 65-62 win over Klawock City, Alaska. Alex Van Gundy had … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball (1/2 – 1/6)
Klawock City (AK) 62, Houston 65 (H: J. Hongerholt 23 pts; M. Schutte 21 pts; Alex Van Gundy 14 pts) Houston 64, Kee (Lansing, IA) 53 (H: A. Van Gundy 28 pts; Brady Happel 14 pts; J. Hongerholt 14 pts) Lanesboro 51, L/P 75 (L: C. Schwichtenberg 23 pts (7-8 FTs), 6 rebs; Andrew Luck 13 pts) M-C 58, Hayfield 69 (MC: D. Wyffels 20 pts (3-9 threes), 10 assists; Ryan Kuhn 9 pts. … [Read more...]