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Boys Basketball (12/22)

December 22, 2025 by Paul Trende

Mabel-Canton’s Kale Eiken looks to release a shot in the lane over primary Kingsland defender KD Reiland. The Cougars beat Faribault B.A. 70-60, the Knights 60-27, and Postville 77-56 to post a 3-0 week and improve to 4-1 on the season. Photo by Heather Kleiboer

Boys Basketball: Cougars Post Three-Win Week Against opponents from far and wide, Mabel-Canton boys basketball posted a three-win week. Hosting the furthest opponent (to the north), Faribault B.A. on Monday, M-C trailed 40-39 in the second half before they had an 18-3 run to lead 57-43. The spurt keyed a 70-60 victory. Turnovers were key, as B.A. had 23, M-C just six. Russ … [Read more...]

Hot Shots (12/22)

December 22, 2025 by Paul Trende

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LARP wrestler Christian Zibrowski went 4-0 and took first at 127-pounds at the Northfield Tourney. Ranked #10 in state, he improved to 10-0. Rushford-Peterson beat La Crescent/Hokah 88-40, as junior point guard Cayden Lea had 19 points including surpassing 1,000 for his career. Grant King went for 26 (pts), 11 (asts), and 7 (stls) as Caledonia topped 100 points in beating FC … [Read more...]

Wrestling (12/22)

December 22, 2025 by Paul Trende

Chatfield’s Layne Root looks to trip down Kasson-Mantorville’s Kalin Anderson at 139-pounds. Root won the match by 6-4 decision, but in a battle of #2 in Class A versus #2 in Class AA (as of December 4), Chatfield fell to Kasson-Mantorville 29-26. Photo by Leif Erickson

Wrestling: Gophers and Komets Carry on Early Season Battle For the third straight year, southeast Minnesota wrestling powerhouses Chatfield (#2 in Class A) and Kasson-Mantorville (#2 in Class AA) hooked up for a spirited early-season dual (rankings as of December 4). The Gophers won the past two ballyhooed match ups, in 2023 by way of Miles Mulhern’s pin at heavyweight and a … [Read more...]

Girls Basketball (12/22)

December 22, 2025 by Paul Trende

Lanesboro point guard Jensyn Storhoff drives, surrounded by four Spring Grove/Mabel-Canton defenders (from left), Carlie Halverson, Kylie Hammel, Lauren Hammel and Kinley Soiney. The Burros avenged a 2025 section play off loss with a key SEC victory, 61-52. Photo by Lee Epps

Girls Basketball: Warriors Improve Win Streak to Five Caledonia girls basketball posted two inter-division TRC wins to improve its win streak to five. At Fillmore Central (1-0, 3-0), the Warriors (2-0, 3-1) got a battle from the Falcons for the first half. Despite starting the game up 10-2 and then leading 31-21 later, the Warriors advantage was cut to 31-28 late in the … [Read more...]

Caledonia School Board Says Goodbye to Spencer Yohe

December 22, 2025 by Kaitlin Longhauser

Boardmember Spencer Yohe’s last board meeting. He would like to be remembered for his integrity. Photo by Kaitlin Longhauser

Caledonia Public School Board members met Monday, December 15 at Caledonia Elementary School. Boardmember Mike Peterson called the meeting to order at 5:34 p.m., led with the Pledge of Allegiance, then conducted roll call. All board members, principals, Superintendent Craig Ihrke, and Community Education Director Gretchen Juan were present. Caledonia Middle/High School … [Read more...]

Girls Basketball (12/15)

December 15, 2025 by Fillmore County Journal

Spring Grove/Mabel-Canton’s Izabel Kaufmann is surrounded by Houston players including Rylee Boldt (left #43), Jorja Meyer (back right), and Bella Rodriguez (#4). In a key SEC girls basketball contest, SG/M-C notched a commanding 56-29 win. Photo by Craig Johnson

Girls Basketball: Warriors Top Trojans, #8 in AAA Byron Behind Klug’s Big Game Caledonia girls basketball notched two good wins on the week. In TRC action, Scott Sorenson’s group built a 32-21 halftime lead on east foe Rushford-Peterson and prevailed 62-41. Aubrie Klug led the way with 19 points (4-4 FTs). Nicole Banse added 18 points (4-5 FTs). R-P was led by Torryn … [Read more...]

Boys Basketball (12/15)

December 15, 2025 by Paul Trende

Lanesboro’s Mason Gilbertson gets back on defense to contest the shot of Kingsland’s Max Snikter. The Burros notched wins over Kingsland 70-28 and Chatfield 77-67 on the week while falling to defending SEC-West champ Southland 82-35. Photo by Christine Vreeman

Boys Basketball:Warriors Top Trojans and Hermantown, King Records 200th Win  Basketball boys powerhouses Rushford-Peterson and Caledonia went at it and their first of two series on the year. R-P’s guys entered the contest returning pretty much everyone, while the Warriors were nearly a full-scale reboot after graduation took a big toll from last year’s great state qualifier. … [Read more...]

Gymnastics (12/6)

December 15, 2025 by Paul Trende

Byron Meet (The Warriors placed fourth among four teams (Byron, Pi-ZM, K-M/Triton) in their season opener at the Jean Harris Invite at Byron. In all around, Vivian Kittleson was fifth and Harper Myrah seventh among 46 gymnasts. The Warriors’ highest two scores came in floor exercise with Myrah fifth with an 8.9 and Kittleson seventh at 8.8. The team’s highest finishes were … [Read more...]

Hot Shots (12/8)

December 15, 2025 by Paul Trende

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Carson Harstad scored 28 points as Chatfield beat W-K 65-55, and 36 points in a 77-67 loss to Lanesboro. Five Burros made double figures in said game, as Lanesboro won the second half 50-35. Lyric Stadtler scored 22 points as Spring Grove beat LeRoy-Ostrander 81-51. Cardinal Reid Hungerholt had 27 points in defeat. Emery Bartel scored 26 points as the Lions beat Houston 62-36. … [Read more...]

Girls Basketball (12/8)

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende

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...]

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