The 2025 football season saw three area teams win section titles and make state. Mabel-Canton (11-1) ended a four-plus decades long drought in starting the year 11-0 and winning the Section 1 9-Man title, making state for the first time since 1981. Fillmore Central (10-1) started the year 10-0, grabbing its third 1A title in four years. Caledonia (9-3) added another state … [Read more...]
2026 Prep Volleyball Preview
A year ago, was another strong season for area volleyball teams. Chatfield (Section 1AA) and Fillmore Central (Section 1A) each repeated in winning their respective section titles. The Gophers (27-8) and Falcons (27-7) each went to state, bringing home hardware. Elsewhere, TRC champ Caledonia (26-6), SEC-East champ Mabel-Canton (29-4), and SEC-West champ Grand Meadow (22-7) won … [Read more...]
Cougars, Trojans, Cardinals Capture State Clay Target Titles
Mabel-Canton in Class 4A, Rushford-Peterson in Class 3A and LeRoy-Ostrander in Class 2A, each won a state team championship at the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League’s annual state trap extravaganza at Alexandria. They were the first state clay target titles for a Journal-area team since Spring Grove captured three straight in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Going forward, … [Read more...]
School Board Talks Future of Wrestling at Kingsland
The Kingsland School Board met for their first meeting of the summer on Monday, June 15, 2026, with a full agenda. The hot topic of the meeting was the 2026-2029 Cooperative Athletics Agreement. “We work with Grand Meadow, LeRoy-Ostrander and Southland Schools (GMLOS) to provide activities for sports that individually our schools wouldn’t have enough kids to have a program … [Read more...]
State Track and Field: Goergen Walks Away with Two Titles to Lead GMLOKS
He is the first Journal-covered track and field athlete to win two individual state titles in the same season since RPH’s Noah Carlson grabbed three in 2015. Southland junior, GMLO-KS runner, Tate Goergen had himself a big couple days at the state track and field meet. He started in the prelims, where Goergen tied the all-time Class A 800-meter record time of 1:50.72 also set … [Read more...]
Track and Field: Boldt and Goergen Dominance Highlight 1A Meet
At the 2026 Section 1A track and field meet, a total of 44 kids from RPH, Chatfield, LFCMC, GMLOKS, and Caledonia/Spring Grove qualified for state. RPH’s girls were team champ, and nine Tro-Canes made state. Chatfield (12), LFCMC (11), and GMLOKS (10) got double-digits kids to state. Two sprinters … [Read more...]
Track and Field (5/20)
Sub-Section 1 Meet (St. Charles boys (283) topped Cotter/HL (267.75), RPH (213.5), LFCMC (161.25), D-E (142.75), LC/H (134), L-A (82.75), Cal/SG (61), and Schaeffer (15). RPH 1A meet qualifiers: Chace Drazkowski (1st Shot Put > 55’10 ½” - meet record; 1st Discus > 145’8”), the 4x800 (1st 8:38.97 > Landon Dahl, Hunter Rislov, Aaron Ploetz, Isaac Rasmussen), Lucas … [Read more...]
1A and 1AA Softball Playoffs (5/18 – 5/21)
(1AA Play-In) 17-seed Fillmore Central/Lanesboro (1-19) 3, 16-seed Triton (3-16) 4 (FCL finishes at 1-20) (1AA Round of 16) 14-seed GMLOK (6-11) 0, 3-seed Cotter/Hope Lutheran (16-6) 10 [5] (GMLOK: Zoey Chase 1-2. The Ramblers scored six in the bottom of the first. GMLOK had just one hit. The Bulldogs finish at 6-12.) (1A Round of 16) 10-seed Spring Grove (7-9) 2, … [Read more...]
1A and 1AA Baseball Playoffs (5/20 & 5/23)
(1AA Round of 16) 13-seed Chatfield (9-11) 0, 4-seed Caledonia (13-8) 7 (Cal: Jack Schmitz 3-3, 2B, R; Jacob Klug 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 R; Tyson Ginther 1-3, 2 RBI; Will Allen 5 1/3 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 8 K, Win, 2-3, RBI, R; Landon O’Heron 1 2/3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K; Chase Hauser 1-2, 2 R. Chat: Ryan Eickhoff 2-4; Sean Kirchner 6 IP, 10 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, Loss. Chatfield … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
At the Sub-1 track and field meet, RPH’s Chace Drazkowski won both throw events, setting the meet record in the Shot (55’10 ½”). LFCMC’s Parker Krage set the record in the Pole Vault (12’9”). Cal/SG’s Coby Hammell surpassed a meet record in the 100 (11.17). On the girls’ side, RP/H’s Aubry Boldt won three events (Triple Jump - 36’7 ½”; Long Jump - 18’0 ½”; 110-hurdles), setting … [Read more...]