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Fall Sports Awards

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton middle hitter Kinley Soiney has signed a letter of intent to play college volleyball at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota. The 2025 SEC Player for the Year, four-time All-SEC pick, three-time All-State pick, and Cougar all-time kill leader (2,205) is surrounded by her teammates. Photo by Heather Kleiboer

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Girls Basketball (12/8)

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

LeRoy-Ostrander’s Mabel Johnson tries to stop Lanesboro’s Jensyn Storhoff from taking her drive into the paint amidst the Burros’ 46-33 season-opening SEC win in girls basketball. Photo by Ron Mayer

Three Rivers Conference Girls Basketball (11/25)  Dover-Eyota 65, Chatfield 46 (C: Amaya Harmening 14 pts, 6 rebs; Grace Schroeder 11 pts; Makenna Dornack 7 pts, 6 rebs; Lexi Kivimagi 6 pts, 6 asts. It was the Eagles third game, the Gophers’ first. D-E’s Aby Griebenow went for 25 (pts) and 27 (rebs). Chatfield got out-rebounded 70 to 31. Gophers > 0-1, 0-1)  Cotter 26, … [Read more...]

Boys Basketball (12/8)

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

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2025-2026 Boys Basketball Preview  Boys basketball starts with some section changes. Defending 1A champion Goodhue and 1A runner-up Rushford-Peterson have each moved up a Class to AA. Red Wing moved down to AA. The section thus has 17 teams, the Wildcats, Trojans, Wingers, Caledonia, Cannon Falls, Chatfield, Cotter/Hope Lutheran, Dover-Eyota, La Crescent/Hokah, Pine Island, … [Read more...]

2025-2026 Wrestling Preview

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

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The wrestling season starts with all five Journal-covered programs returning state entrants. Girls wrestling continues to grow, as the post-season individual tournament will now be eight section tournaments versus combining two sections for a super-section. Section One’s finals will be in Rochester. The state wrestling meet thus expands to a four-day affair. Team action starts … [Read more...]

Mabel-Canton Awards (12/1)

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton announced its volleyball awards. Individual team award winners are (L to R) Gwen Rein (Hardest Worker), Kinley Soiney (Hardest Worker, Most Valuable Player), and Tylar Wenthold (Team Player). Photo by Heather Kleiboer

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Hot Shots (12/1)

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

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Girls basketball got rolling with Rushford-Peterson and Houston starting well.  The Trojans got two free throws from Alannah Skalet with 16.8 seconds left that proved the different in topping Z-M 56-54.  R-P then beat John Marshall 66-39, both games at the Dover-Eyota Tourney.  The Trojans (0-0, 2-0) had three and four girls in double figures in the two games.  They hit 11 of … [Read more...]

Falcons Get Six All-Mid-South Green Football Selections

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Fillmore Central (5-0, 10-1) topped Lewiston-Altura (4-1, 6-4), Southland (3-2, 5-5), United South Central (2-3, 5-5), NRHEG (1-4, 2-7), and Hayfield (0-5, 1-8) to grab the Mid-South-Green sub-district title, FC’s fourth straight sub-district title.  The Section 1A champ Falcons’ All-District group is headed by a pair of individual award honorees.  Kane Larson (6’1” 190 Sr. … [Read more...]

Girls Basketball (12/01)

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

The girls basketball season got started including Grand Meadow playing at Houston. Above, Hurricane senior Jorja Meyer tries to score past Larks Cloey Breitbarth (#25) and Naomi Warmka (#23) in a Houston’s 68-42 win. Photo by Craig Johnson

Southeast-Central Yellow Cast Headed by Chatfield/Caledonia Standouts Triton (5-1, 7-3) and Chatfield (5-1, 6-3) shared the Southeast Central ‘Yellow’ sub-district in football with Caledonia (4-2, 9-3) posting the most wins and winning Section 1AA.  Rochester-Lourdes (3-3, 7-4), Dover-Eyota (2-4, 4-5), Rushford-Peterson (1-5, 3-6), and St. Charles (1-5, 2-7) rounded out the … [Read more...]

Sports (11/24)

November 24, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Chatfield’s Hannah Tweten recently signed a letter of intent to play college beach volleyball at Florida Southern College. She is pictured with dad Brent Tweten and Coach Kristi Rindels. Photo submitted

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Volleyball (11/24)

November 24, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Six area girls earned All-State in volleyball. Above (left to right) are Class AA honorees Cora Bicknese and Harper Goldsmith of Chatfield, then Class A honorees Kinley Soiney of Mabel-Canton, Madi Zwart and Kyla Hellickson of Fillmore Central. Caledonia’s Aubrie Klug (not pictured) was also AA All-State. Photo by Lonnie Morken

Standout Chatfield, FC, and Caledonia Players Head All-TRC Volleyball List The top four teams in the Three Rivers Conference in volleyball were Caledonia (10-0, 26-6), Fillmore Central (9-1, 27-7), Chatfield (8-2, 27-8), and Rushford-Peterson (7-3, 18-6) while Winona-Cotter (6-4, 25-8), Lewiston-Altura (5-5, 15-13), Dover-Eyota (4-6, 19-11), Wabasha-Kellogg (3-7, 9-16), … [Read more...]

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