Both Mabel-Canton and Houston claimed conference championships during the 2026 spring high school trap season. Rushford-Peterson, Kingsland and LeRoy-Ostrander were runners-up in their respective clay target conferences while Spring Grove had a third-place campaign. It was a third straight league title for Hurricanes. The Cougars have won two straight and four of their last … [Read more...]
Golf (5/26 – 5/28)
(B and G) Section 1AA Meet (Caledonia’s girls were one of five teams to make Day 2. They (693) took fifth behind champion Lake City (659), Red Wing (671), Rochester-Lourdes (679), and PIZM (685). PIZM’s Neva Anderson (40/37/42/36 > 155) was meet medalist over RW’ s Hallie Johnson (38/39/40/39 > 156) by one stroke. Lourdes’ Paige Moeschler (38/40/37/43 > 158) took … [Read more...]
Baseball Playoffs (5/25 & 5/26)
(1A Loser-Out) 11-seed Mabel-Canton (13-11) 8, 1-seed New Richland/Hartland/Ellendale/Geneva (13-6) 13 (M-C: Nolan Garness 2-5, 3 RBI, 2 R; Milton Hutchinson 3-4, RBI, R; Kale Eiken 2-4, 2 RBI; Brevyn Tollefsrud 2-4, RBI; Kale Tollefsrud 1-4, 2 R; Darian Hershberger 5 IP, 11 H, 12 R, 7 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, Loss; Isaac Underbakke 2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K. The score was 5-5 … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Mabel-Canton baseball’s season ended with a 13-8 loss to top-seed NRHEG. At 13-11, M-C posted its highest win total since 2005’s team went 15-9. Caledonia baseball topped PEM 9-6 in a 1AA loser-out game, as Max Schmitz was 4-for-4 and Jacob Klug scored four times. Schmitz then homered but Caledonia’s season ended 7-1 to Rochester-Lourdes. At the Section 1AA golf meet, … [Read more...]
Softball: Gophers Top Z-M in Last At Bat, Bow to Cotter
Chatfield softball (2-sed, 17-7) continued its playoff campaign heading back to Rochester for a loser-out game with Zumbrota-Mazeppa (6-seed, 15-10). The Cougars had the Gophers down to their last out. Z-M scored the only run through 6 ½ innings, using an error and two hits in the fourth to take a 1-0 lead. They got runners to scoring position in each of the first four … [Read more...]
Softball: #2 Hurricanes Can’t Solve Weis’ Pitching, Repeat as 1A Runner-Up
Houston softball will long remember the name of Laney Weis. In two playoffs games, after an undefeated regular season, the Southland senior pitcher was a riddle the Hurricanes could not solve, twice. Houston (1-seed, 22-0), ranked #2 in A, began its week in Austin for the “chair” game with their rival the Rebels (2-seed, 18-2). Southland’s two losses were both to the … [Read more...]
Track and Field: Boldt and Goergen Dominance Highlight 1A Meet
At the 2026 Section 1A track and field meet, a total of 44 kids from RPH, Chatfield, LFCMC, GMLOKS, and Caledonia/Spring Grove qualified for state. RPH’s girls were team champ, and nine Tro-Canes made state. Chatfield (12), LFCMC (11), and GMLOKS (10) got double-digits kids to state. Two sprinters … [Read more...]
1A Golf: Trojan Teams Sweep 1A Titles, Brogle Wins Boys Crown
The mecca for Section 1A golf resides in Rushford-Peterson in 2026. The Trojan boys, the same as last year’s state fourth place squad, did as expected and repeated. But the girls got past Lanesboro to also win a 1A title. Simultaneously, Burro junior Jack Brogle grabbed his third consecutive 1A individual championship. The R-P guys (651) topped second place Blooming … [Read more...]
Softball: #3 Warriors Twice Rally Past Ramblers for First Ever State Trip
They twice gave up big innings, and twice dug out. Versus a team headed by the state’s winningest softball coach ever, Pat Bowlin (over 800), Caledonia had to rally twice against Cotter/HL. And Chad Augedahls’s Warriors did so both times, the second in a nine-inning game. Caledonia earned its first ever state berth in softball. On Memorial Day Monday, the #3 in Class AA … [Read more...]
Track and Field (5/20)
Sub-Section 1 Meet (St. Charles boys (283) topped Cotter/HL (267.75), RPH (213.5), LFCMC (161.25), D-E (142.75), LC/H (134), L-A (82.75), Cal/SG (61), and Schaeffer (15). RPH 1A meet qualifiers: Chace Drazkowski (1st Shot Put > 55’10 ½” - meet record; 1st Discus > 145’8”), the 4x800 (1st 8:38.97 > Landon Dahl, Hunter Rislov, Aaron Ploetz, Isaac Rasmussen), Lucas … [Read more...]