Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office Treniska Quindessa Bonner, 32, Minneapolis, Minn.; 3/1/2017, Exceed Limit 30 mph – Urban District (50/30), Fine $70, Total Fess $230. Shondel Hill, 33, Rochester, Minn.; 12/20/2016, Driving After Revocation, Fine $200, Total Fees $320. Jim R. Kauten, 56, Altura, Minn.; 2/18/2017, Speeding (65/55), Fine $40, Total Fees … [Read more...]
In Double OT, R-P Boys Fall Short of State
What happens when Rushford-Peterson boys basketball plays (well) Rushford-Peterson boys basketball? You get a deliberate, super-defensive, close strategic battle where offense does a lot of yielding. Tom Vix’s Trojans (East Champions, 20-8) took on R-P graduate Matt Halverson’s Goodhue Wildcats (West champions, 27-3) for the Section 1A title; the third section title game in … [Read more...]
7th Annual Girls All-County Team
(1st Team) Brianna Koop (5’8” senior F, R-P): The hooping-Koop’s run is over. Teams no longer have to “cope” with her. “Bri” averaged a career-best 22.4 points (TRC leader) on 49% FGs with 9.4 rebounds (TRC leader) and 3.0 steals. She averaged 14.8/6.2/2.9 as a frosh, 21.2*/9.5*/4.1 as a sophomore (*TRC leader), and 18.1/7.1/2.9 as a junior. It gave her career totals … [Read more...]
Trojan Boys Back Atop 1A East
A year ago, when Rushford-Peterson boys basketball fell for the first time in the 1A East finals since 2009, then junior point guard Luke Rasmussen was among those most despondent. A year later, the senior’s emotions were just a tad bit different. He was the first to lay hands on the 1A East championship trophy. Three games, two barn-burners with shot-for-shot, from the exact … [Read more...]
No Way’ Knights Again, Almost
The semis kicked off with a battle of Kingsland and Spring Grove. The last time the teams hooked up was in a 2015 semifinal. In that game, the underdog Knights (13-14) trailed 62-44 with less than ten minutes left, before going berserk (10 of 11 field goals, five made threes over six possessions). They upset the favored Lions (24-3) in a ridiculously memorable comeback, … [Read more...]
Trojans Subdue W-K
In the second semifinal, Rushford-Peterson (2-seed, 18-8) faced off with Wabasha-Kellogg (3-seed, 15-10). The game featured no berserker. It was methodical Trojans, save for the first few minutes. The Falcons came out and hit their first five shots to lead 12-6. A little defensive change-up on R-P’s part and W-K coming back down to reality; the Falcons hit just one more … [Read more...]
Skalet Wins It!
For the third straight year, #7 SG (1-seed 24-3) faced off with R-P (2-seed, 19-8) for the 1A East title. The Lions entered in rare territory; they’d won three straight over the Trojans (including 53-43 in January). R-P threw the first punch, answering an opening SG three-pointer with a 9-0 spurt. Defensively, they scrapped their typical 1-3-1 half-court trap for a triangle … [Read more...]
FC Girls Section Runner-Up
The last two times a Fillmore County girls teams played Goodhue in a section title game, it wasn’t pretty. R-P fell to the Wildcats 75-38 in 2014 and 85-52 in 2016. The latter game started a Goodhue dominant run. The Wildcats won by 31 (77-46), 39 (74-35), and 25 (89-64) on the way to last year’s Class A state title. They (#2 in state, West 1-seed, 24-4) returned plenty and … [Read more...]
Fillmore County Police Reports
Chatfield Police Department Michelle Marie Copeman, 33, Fountain, Minn.; 12/19/2016, Compose, Read or Send Electronic Message in Motion or Traffic, Fine $50, Total Fees $140. Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office Shannon Lee Grotjahn, 34, Goodview, Minn.; 12/18/2016, Speeding (73/55), Fine $60, Total Fees $150. Brandon Lane Hamersma, 20, Mabel, Minn.; 2/12/2017, Speeding … [Read more...]
Mandt Champ, Tekautz 3rd at State Wrestling
Their once was a (handle-bar moustache) professional wrestler who used his mania to run wild. At the 2017 Minnesota state meet, a (mustached) Chatfield guy authored some mania of his own. Junior 145-pounder Jake Mandt spent most of the year ranked #1 in Class A. A few years back, he wrestled around with Chatfield’s last individual state titlist, Hank Friederichs. Mandt’s fate … [Read more...]