The December 16 Fillmore Central School Board meeting began with the annual Truth in Taxation presentation given by Superintendent Heath Olstad. The presentation included charts that detailed where the funding for the school comes from and how it is used as well as information on how tax levies work. The board approved the 2026 levy at a total of $2,304,078.75. $1,614,055.37 of … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (12/15)
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)
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...]
Wrestling (12/15)
Wrestling: LARP Stuns #2 Chatfield, Goes 4-0 at Spamtown Duals The scores of their last four matches were 57-15, 58-11, 58-9, and 68-3; Chatfield had its way with LARP wrestling. The 68-3 score came in last year’s team section semifinals, as it was one of the Gophers’ wins on the way to a state runner-up finish. But to start the 2025-2026 wrestling season, at a triangular in … [Read more...]
Hot Shots (12/8)
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...]
Boys Basketball (12/8)
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
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...]
Hot Shots (12/1)
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
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)
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...]