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...]
Girls Basketball (12/8)
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...]
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...]
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...]
Volleyball (11/10)
Volleyball: #4 Chatfield Tops #5 Caledonia for 1AA Title The top two seeds in Section 1AA held true until the finals. The top two teams, #5 in AA Caledonia (1-seed) and #4 Chatfield (2-seed) squared off to go to state. Both won 3-1 in the quarters, 3-0 in the semis. Warriors Fend Off D-E, Avenge 2024 Loss to Cotter In a rematch of one of the two TRC matches in … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
In volleyball play off play-in games, 16-seed Hayfield topped 17-seed Kingsland 3-1. Knight Paisley Robinson had 20 digs in defeat. The Knights finish at 4-19. Fifteen-seed Houston beat 18-seed Schaeffer Academy, 3-0. Section 1A top seed #4 in A Fillmore Central then topped the Vikings 3-0 while 8-seed Spring Grove beat 9-seed Southland 3-0 in Round of 16 games. Claire … [Read more...]
Section 1A and 1AA Volleyball Playoffs (Play-ins, Round of 16)
(1A Play-in) 17-seed Kingsland (4-18) 1, 16-seed Hayfield (3-18) 3 > 25-22, 10-25, 12-25, 23-25 (K: P. Robinson 20 digs; Kalyn Stier 6 kills, 4 digs; Chloe Drury-DeBoer 9 digs; Emma Howard 7 assists, 8 digs; Jill Moore 6 digs.) (1A Play-in) 18-seed Schaeffer Academy (5-20) 0, 15-seed Houston (9-15) 3 > 25-8, 26-24, 25-21 (H: Olivia Yohe 3 kills, 25 assists, 6 digs; … [Read more...]