The season is just barely started, but SEC boys squads Mabel-Canton and Houston can now put one high-pressure game on their resumes. The teams battled wire-to-wire in a game of interesting trends. M-C started 7-1, as Drew Wyffels cross-courted the ‘Canes 1-3-1 trap to Blake Henry often early. Houston replied with a 16-4 run to lead 17-11. The six point leads were the … [Read more...]
Trojan Teams Sweep Border Battle
It was a work-in-progress second week for Rushford-Peterson’s basketball teams. Each lost contests on school nights. A big boys 1A East title game re-match with Spring Grove was re-scheduled per electrical issues. But on Saturday, Trojan squads trekked to Decorah for the first weekend of the second season of the Border Battle. Each came up victorious. At Luther College, … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Ross Herber (106 > 12-1 MD, 17-2 TF, FF), Reece Riebel (138 > pin, pin, 16-0 TF), Dominic Jenkins (145 > 13-11 in SV-1, FF, pin) and Noah Herber (182 > three pins) all went 3-0 in helping LARP wrestling finish second (2-1) at the Byron Quad. The Screamin’ Eagles (3-1) loss was 38-32 to the host Bears. FC’s girls got four in double figures to beat L-A. The … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball (12/1 – 12/9)
Kingsland 53, La Crescent 60 (K: Zach Bubany 18 pts, 4 stls; Wyatt Pruter 14 pts (4-10 three’s); Jordan Beck 6 pts, 9 rebs. Knights led 38-31 at intermission. The Knights top three shooters by volume went 13 for 46, or 28%) Kingsland 72, Southland 47 (K: I. Meisner 22 pts (8-14 FGs, 6-9 FTs), 9 rebs, 5 assists; W. Pruter 15 pts (3-8 three’s); Z. Bubany 10 pts. A night … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (12/1 -12/9)
Caledonia 56, R-P 39 (RP: Kjersta Hinz 15 pts (5-9 FGs, 5-6 FTs), 7 rebs; L. Lawston 9 pts (5-6 FTs). RP: 35 TOs) L-A 48, FC 66 (FC: Alleigh Meyer 13 pts (6-11 FGs), 4 rebs, 3 assists, 3 stls; Courtney Nelson 13 pts (7-8 FTs); Paige Donlinger 11 pts; Emma Breitspecher 10 pts, 7 rebs, 4 stls) Kingsland 62, Southland 48 (K: L. Buchholtz 22 pts, 10 rebs, 5 assists, 4 … [Read more...]
Wrestling
Byron “Dave Scharberg Memorial” Quad > Byron 38, LARP 32 (Match was tied 26-26 after 182, but Screamin’ Eagles forfeited 195 and 220. R. Riebel (138) and N. Herber (182) won by fall. R. Herber (106 > 12-1) and Gable Speltz (120 > 13-1) won by MD. Sam Schwendinger (126 > 6-1) and D. Jenkins (145 > 13-11 in SV 1) won by decision. Byron FF’ed 285); LARP 38, D-E … [Read more...]
Wrestling Preview
Chatfield wrestling rebounded last year. A year after going 3-15, the Gophers went 7-6 (6-3 versus TRC foes). Travis Bartels’ group lost to D-E in the 1A quarters. The top returnee, in his high school swan-song, is senior Jake Mandt. The three-time state placer was last year’s 145-pound section and state Class A champion (31-2). Mandt is 137-19 the past four years. The … [Read more...]
Cougar Boys Up Scoring to 2-0 Start
The first week of boys and girls basketball action saw county teams play 22 total games. Only one posted a 2-0 start. A year ago, Mabel-Canton’s boys had a best offensive showing of 64 points. They topped 60 just five times. Versus Glenville-Emmons, M-C ripped the Wolverines on the glass and posted an 83-55 victory. M-C had 58 rebounds to G-E’s 29 (27 to 9 offensive … [Read more...]
Falcons Girls Control Trojans
The last time FC and R-P’s girls met, the Falcons ended the Trojans hopes of a 1A East repeat. FC beat R-P in last year’s 1A semis. Most of those teams’ critical pieces graduated. Levi Olstad’s squad nonetheless brought enough back to post a near from-start-to-finish early season victory. R-P’s only lead was 1-0. In an up-and-down high-speed contest that featured 45 fouls, … [Read more...]
Gopher Girls Comeback Versus Rebels
The last two times Chatfield and Southland’s girls met in basketball, Rebel stand-out McKendry Kennedy was the story. The (then) junior combined for 49 points, as Southland swept last year’s series (59-36, 62-48). In the Gophers season opener, they held Kennedy in check, and overcame a double-digit deficit to post a win. Southland led by as many as 12 in the first half … [Read more...]