Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland/Southland Head Coaches: Rebecca Young (boys), Aaron Thauwald (girls).  2024 Season: GMLOKS’ girls won their fifth straight 1A True Team title and were state runner-up by 1.5 points. The GMLOKS boys took third at the 1A Meet and made state by “Wild Card,” their fourth straight state appearance. They took seventh. Individually, Sam … [Read more...]

Trojans Fight Past Knights, Shoot Down Rebels, Make 1A Title Game Rushford-Peterson boys basketball’s last trip to the 1A finals was 2017-2018.   For Trojans fans, ones used to state trip after state trip in the early 2010s, that probably seems like an eternity.  The 2017-2018 team was their last to make the big dance.  R-P has lost three 1A semifinals contests since.  But … [Read more...]

Girls Basketball: #5 Warriors Whip Their Way to 1AA Title Game Both games were won handily.  There was no semifinals disappointment.  Top-ranked #5 in AA Caledonia (1-seed, 24-3) plowed through Zumbrota-Mazeppa and Cotter to make the 1AA finals.  In the quarters, the Warriors did not exactly shoot well from deep in the first half, making five threes in 20 attempts (25%).  But … [Read more...]

Aubrie Klug scored 28 points as top-seed #5 in AA Caledonia beat 16-seed La Crescent/Hokah 85-25 in the 1AA girls playoffs.  The Warriors (24-3) move on to face 9-seed Z-M (13-14).  Section 1A 2-seed SG/M-C topped L-O 71-38 behind Siri Konkel’s 18 (pts) and 11 (asts).  Jensyn Storhoff went for 21 (pts) and 13 (stls) as 7-seed Lanesboro topped 10-seed BP 57-33.  The Lions (21-5) … [Read more...]

Six Game Win Streak Propels R-P Over 20 Wins It has been a good year for a young Rushford-Peterson boys basketball team.  A 3-0 week brought their win streak to six, as Chris Drinkall’s Trojans surpassed 20 wins on the year.  R-P sandwiched TRC wins over La Crescent/Hokah and Cotter around a non-conference victory over Grand Meadow.  Versus the Lancers, sophomore Carson … [Read more...]

Lions Subdue Southland, Secure Share of SEC Title Spring Grove/Mabel-Canton claimed a share of a second straight SEC championship, avenging one of their two league losses with a 60-45 home win over third-place Southland (9-5 SEC, 16-8). The Lions (12-2 SEC, 20-5) are co-champs with Grand Meadow (12-2, 22-2). SG/MC trailed, by as many as eight points, for all except 24 … [Read more...]

19 Area Athletes Punch Trips to State Chatfield, LARP, FCLMC, and GMLOS wrestling squads took on the Section 1A guys individual tournament while Cale-donia/Houston competed at the 1AA event.  All five programs had kids qualify for state.  Chatfield tied a school-record (from last year) with nine individual entrants, Jameson Priebe (107), Logan Pearson (114), Javier Berg … [Read more...]

LARP wrestling topped Dover-Eyota 38-27 in the 1A quarters to clinch its first trip to Rochester and the team semifinals in the Journal Sports era (since 2011). Section 1AA 6-seed Caledonia/Houston was tied with 3-seed Pine Island 27-27 before falling by fall at heavyweight to lose 33-27. Kinley Soiney scored 20 points and became Mabel-Canton’s all-time leading girls scorer as … [Read more...]

Boys Basketball: #3 Warriors Week Includes Defending and Dunking #9 Bombers Caledonia boys basketball came into the week as the top-ranked state team in Section 1AA. A massive section game was one of three on tap for the week. Brad King’s group started with exorcizing the demon that was a 64-60 loss a year ago at neighbor La Crescent/Hokah. The Warriors beat the Lancers … [Read more...]

#1 Chatfield Dominates it Way to Repeat 1A Title It is the most dominant one-year Section 1A run, both in terms of points scored, and fewest points given up, in the last 17 years (since such things are cataloged on theguillotine.com). It the most dominant two-year run in 1A in the same period. In the 2025 1A finals, Chatfield senior Carson Rowland authored a pin to beat … [Read more...]