Spring Grove’s girls beat L/P and Southland to guarantee a share of the SEC title. The Lions (14-1, 20-5) lead Houston (12-2, 15-9). The teams meet in a season finale. Fillmore Central’s girls (6-6, 14-9) went 2-0 on the week including upsetting a short-handed Caledonia (11-2, 15-7) squad. Josie Foster had 25 in defeat. Kammry Broadwater scored 22 in FC’s other win over St. … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball
Boys Basketball: Hurricanes Buck Forward-Back Trend The 2023-2024 season has been a return to competitiveness for Houston’s boys. All year, Jake Merchlewitz’s group has been alternating wins and losses in groups of ones and twos. Finally, Houston amassed three straight wins. A 64-50 win at TRC Wabasha-Kellogg (10-9) was a good victory. Morgan Rohweder scored 22 points (6-13 … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Camden Hungerholt, a 6’1” junior G from LeRoy-Ostrander, scored his 1,000th career point in a loss to Lanesboro at home on January 25. This was not mentioned in last week’s sports. Hungerholt averages 23.9 PPG for the Cardinals. M-C’s Cayden Tollefsrud scored 24 points in a win over Grand Meadow, surpassing 2,000 for his career. He then scored 39 in a win over Houston, as the … [Read more...]
Chatfield School Board Approves Trap Coaches
At the February 7 school board meeting, board members Jill Harstad, David Sovinski, Josh Thompson and Tom Keefe were present as well as Superintendent Ed Harris, principals, Shane McBroom and Eric Nelson, and Trista O’Connor, business manager. Student Senate members Kylie Sinn and Jorja Fishbaugher were also present. Board members Mark Johnsrud and Katie Priebe were … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/30 – 2/3)
FCLMC Triangular > Riceville 30, FCLMC 36 (FCLMC won forfeits at 107 (August Pfeffer) and 114 (Lane Sass). Riceville took five forfeits. There were two double forfeits (127, 145). The Wolves won the four wrestled matches all by fall, Connor Wingert (139), Boston Wright (152), Kane Larson (160), and Cole Sass (172) and they led 36-16 after 172); Stewartville 59, FCLMC 7 … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball (1/29 – 2/2)
Three Rivers Conference Boys Basketball (2/2) Chatfield 46, Dover-Eyota 64 (C: C. Harstad 22 pts (3-6 threes, 9-17 FGs), 5 rebs; Brayden Fretland 12 pts. Chatfield led 16-9 late in the first half (3:30) but then trailed 21-18 at halftime. Gophers > 0-10, 2-19) Cotter 57, #15 in AA Caledonia 70 (C: Reid Klug 15 pts, 7 rebs; Ethan Stendel 11 pts, 14 rebs; Garrett Konz 15 … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (1/29 – 2/2)
Southeast Conference Girls Basketball (1/30 - 2/2) Lyle/Pacelli 24, Lanesboro 54 (L: Jensyn Storhoff 16 pts (4-10 threes), 4 asts, 5 stls; Ellie Howard 9 pts (3-12 threes). Burros hit nine threes (9 of 30) to L/P’s one (1 of 9) as the Burros ended a five-game losing streak) Southland 28, Houston 56 (H: A. Kingsley 22 pts (9-13 FGs), 4 stls; Aubry Boldt 13 pts (6-10 FGs); … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball: Gophers Upset Dover-Eyota
Chatfield’s girls (5-6, 11-10) notched their best win of the year by upsetting rival #16 in AA Dover-Eyota (11-2, 18-4) on the road. Freshman Lexi Kivimagi hit a big three to give the Gophers a 52-46 lead with about 1:30 to play. The Eagles then pulled to within down two (52-50) with four straight points. D-E then had two cracks at it, missing one shot in the final 0:15 … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Houston’s boys got 27 points from Morgan Rohweder in beating G-E 67-59, then 36 points from the junior on nine made threes in beating L/P 78-53. Their loss on the week was 65-63 in OT to Kingsland (11-3), where Rohweder had 23 points. Knight Jayden Brink hit seven threes and scored 28 to lead all scorers. Rohweder averaged 28.7 PPG over the three games on 20 of 30 made threes! … [Read more...]
Wrestling: Gophers Win Lake City Tourney
With 12 wrestlers in the top two and seven bringing home titles, #1 in Class A Chatfield took first at the Lake City Tourney (255.5). Rival Dover-Eyota (185.5) was the nearest foe. Class AAA Lean and Mean squads Northfield (135.5) and Mayo (133.5) took third and fourth of ten teams. Javier Berg (114), Hunter Polikowsky (127), Gage Bartels (133), Carson Rowland (152), Kail … [Read more...]