Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston Soccer Preview The Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston soccer girls return nine starters from last year’s team that went 4-11-2 (1-8-1 TRC). And that does not include All-Conference, leading scorer Loisah Gay (14 goals), who will miss her junior season with injury. All-Conference goalkeeper/forward Josie Foster is back along with two All-TRC … [Read more...]
Area Players/Coaches Compete in Volleyball All-Star Series
On Wednesday, July 24, the Minnesota Volleyball Coaches Association put on its All-Star match at Mounds View High School. The event was held in conjunction with the Coaches Association’s annual summer clinic. Six area athletes and two coaches took part in the event; Mabel-Canton’s Kinley Soiney and Sahara Morken along with their coach Lonnie Morken, Chatfield’s Harper … [Read more...]
Caledonia’s Wait, Chatfield’s Mauseth Receive Big Coaching Awards
Caledonia/Spring Grove boys track and field coach Reese Wait, pictured above left (far left) with his state title winning team, recently received the U.S. Track and Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association boys track and field Coach of the Year Award for Minnesota. Said award is sponsored by the Marine Corp and recognizes the best high boys and girls coaches, at both the … [Read more...]
Baseball
Three Rivers All-Conference Baseball Caledonia (15-0, 19-3) ran the table in the TRC, winning the East over La Crescent/Hokah (12-3, 18-7), Winona-Cotter (9-6, 12-9), Lewiston-Altura (8-7, 9-12), Rushford-Peterson (4-11, 10-15), and Fillmore Central/Lanesboro (0-15, 1-20) while Dover-Eyota (8-6, 13-8) and PEM (8-6, 10-11) shared the West over Chatfield (7-7, 9-11), St. … [Read more...]
Three Rivers All-Conference Softball
Caledonia (14-1, 24-4) won the TRC East softball title ahead of Winona-Cotter (12-3, 17-8), La Crescent/Hokah (8-7, 10-11), Lewiston-Altura (6-9, 12-12), Rushford-Peterson (2-13, 6-15), and Fillmore Central/Lanesboro (0-15, 4-17) while Dover-Eyota (11-3, 15-8) took the East over Chatfield (9-5, 15-9), St. Charles (9-5, 14-11), Wabasha-Kellogg (6-8, 15-11), and PEM (3-11, 5-16). … [Read more...]
Girls Golf: FC Shares Class A Title
It will be remembered because it is a state title. It will also be remembered because it ended abruptly. Fillmore Central girls golf took on their 10th consec-utive state tourney. What looked to be a tense finish was then halted by lightening. Meet organizers then had to do some figuring to determine the state champion, as teams had not completed the final hole(s). FC and … [Read more...]
State Track & Field
Area track and field conglomerates Caledonia/Spring Grove, Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kings-land/Southland, Lanes-boro/Fillmore Central/Mabel-Canton, and Rushford-Peterson/Houston plus standalone Chatfield took on the state Class A meet. Three of those schools had a least one state champion while the lowest top finish for all five was third. Another standout group of area … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Chatfield’s Carson Harstad took 10th place at the 1AA golf meet, finishing one stroke from tying for the final state spot. Caledonia gal Jazzlyn Hauser took 13th at the meet. Caledonia baseball, after going 19-1 in the regular season with 19-straight wins, went 0-2 in the playoffs, losing 4-2 each time. They finish at 19-3. Spring Grove baseball entered the week in the 1A … [Read more...]
Baseball
Trojans Down JWP, Make 1A Final Four After posting two wins in their first three playoff games to make a Memorial Day elimination game, Rushford-Peterson (10-seed, 9-14) took on Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton (9-seed, 11-11). The Bulldogs playoff highlight was knocking off top-seeded Southland 7-4 in the quarters. They entered their game with the Trojans having just lost to … [Read more...]
Track and Field: 38 Area Athletes Qualify for State
The Section 1A individual track and field meet was denoted by a couple things. Area teams Caledonia/Spring Grove, GMLOKS, RP/H, LFCMC and Chatfield were all busy, each qualifying at least four kids for state. Making state by standard was a common theme though each squad had a section champ. Warriors Mostly Speed Their Way to State, to Team Runner-up C/SG’s teams … [Read more...]