Kingsland football honored the tragic passing of would-be senior teammate Nathaniel Drees just days before fall practice began, with a season-opening win over Faribault B.A. In a game that was preceded by a tribute to Drees, with a lightening delay, and with a final score of 48-8 Kingsland, Matt Kolling’s group did not make it completely academic until a massive fourth quarter. … [Read more...]
Volleyball: Burros Play Houston, Kingsland, and M-C
Volleyball action on the week centered around Lanesboro. The Burros played at Houston, then hosted Kingsland and Mabel-Canton. The match in Houston was the best of the three. The teams split the opening two sets. Lanesboro won game one 25-13 and Houston took game two 25-18. Bella Rodriguez notably served 10 straight points in the set to put the Hurricanes ahead 21-9. Game three … [Read more...]
2026 Prep Football Preview
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...]