GMLOKS Teams Sweep Home Meet For a fourth time this year, GMLOKS girls track and field won a meet. For a third time, the boys did so, as each swept a home event. The girls (265) topped Blooming Prairie (71.5), Hayfield (70.33), L/P (57), K-W/Goodhue (54.5), RACE (51.66), and Randolph (34). Chantle Reiland (100 > 12.80), Brynlee Koenigs (200 > 28.96), Brynna Nelson (400 … [Read more...]
Softball (5/5)
#5 Caledonia Tops Chatfield, Cotter Twice, Takes Control of East Caledonia softball (5-1, 6-1) proved itself the top ‘C’ school in the TRC this year with a trio of wins over formidable foes Chatfield and Cotter/Hope Lutheran. In a key conference-division leaders battle with the Gophers (5-0, 7-0), a pair of unearned first inning runs were pivotal. Warrior Adrienne Lange … [Read more...]
Teacher Appreciation Week
Chatfield Public Schools Kirk Affeldt 9 years, 5th Grade Kirsten Armstrong 26 years, 4th Grade Reading Renee Bakken 30 year, Preschool Tom Bance 31 years, Elem. Phy Ed Brian Baum 35 years, HS Health Karla Becker 38 years, Speech/Special Education Carmen Berge 22 years, Kindergarten Josh Berhow 16 years, 2nd Grade Ann … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
GMLOKS’ track and field teams each easily won the eight-team Medford Meet. Bently Wiersma notably won the Long Jump and Triple Jump for the boys. The girls have now won three straight outdoor full meets while the boys have won two of those events. Chatfield girls track and field won the seven-team Lewiston-Altura Meet. Jaelyn LaPlante (200, High Jump, 4x200) won three events. … [Read more...]
Track and Field (4/14 & 4/15)
Lewiston-Altura Meet (Chatfield’s girls (63) topped nearest foe La Crescent/Hokah (52). The boys (45) took third behind co-champs Dover-Eyota (49) and Lewiston Altura (49). Wabasha-Kellogg, Alma-Pepin, and St. Charles also competed. Gopher gal firsts: Jaelyn LaPlante (200 > 27.03; High Jump > 4’10”), Lexi Kivimagi (400 > 1:04.60), Charlotte Oeltjen (3,200* > … [Read more...]
Baseball (4/28)
Falcons Top D-E and PEM, End TRC Streak Last year was a tough one for Fillmore Central/Lanesboro baseball. They took on the season with essentially a junior varsity and the result was a winless TRC campaign and a 1-20 overall record. Those things will not happen this year. Josh Jones’ crew notched back-to-back wins over TRC foes to end that losing streak. Hosting … [Read more...]
Softball (4/28)
Softball/Baseball: GMLOK Hosts Tight Games With Houston; Bulldog Softball Goes 3-0 On a Monday night, baseball and softball teams from Houston and GMLOK played high-scoring to-the-wire affairs, battling each other, and windy and cool conditions. On the softball diamond, the by-record underdog Bulldogs (2-2, 3-4) controlled things (most of the way) versus the #6 in A … [Read more...]
Golf (4/28)
Girls Golf: Warriors End FC’s Regular Season TRC Streak Fillmore Central girls golf has been a juggernaut for a decade. They entered the year having won 10 straight 1A titles. They have gone unblemished through the TRC-East the last three years. But that streak came to an end hosting the last team to win a TRC-East title not nicknamed Falcons. Caledonia ended the FC’s … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Isaac Underbakke laid down a sacrifice bunt to score the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth (and he collected the pitching win) as Mabel-Canton baseball topped Alden-Conger/G-E 6-5 in eight innings. Tyson Stevens and Sam Howard each hit home runs, but GMLOK gave up a three-run bottom of the seventh to fall short of an upset bid versus #9 in A Southland, losing 8-7. … [Read more...]
Golf (4/21)
Three Rivers Conference Golf (4/7 - 4/11) (B) Caledonia 198, Rushford-Peterson 183 (C: J.T. Hammell 41*, Carson Klug 49. R-P: Jace Dvorak 44, Gus Hoiland/Will LaFleur 46s, Jaxson Meldahl 47, Kellen Drinkall/Sam LaFleur 48s); (G) Caledonia 208, R-P Inc. (C: Maggie Herman 49*, Jazzlyn Hauser 51, Emersyn Klug 53, Ellison Harms/Hayden Harms 55s. R-P had one golfer. At the … [Read more...]