By Patrick Andrews The Monday, September 18 Kingsland School Board meeting primarily covered the upcoming ICS facilities assessment, policy adoption, a vacant school board seat, a new school logo, and levy certification. Kingsland Schools will soon be adopting a new school logo design. School board members expressed their intent to reserve its reproduction within the … [Read more...]
Football: Knights Get Off to Best Start in Over Two Decades
Kingsland football downed Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons 54-14 in a week three South-East match-up. The win propelled the Knights to their first 3-0 start to the season in two decades. In a battle of Knights, Kingsland had it in the bag early, leading 54-6 after three quarters. Beau Wiersma (12-245, 5 TDs rushing, 2-34 receiving) led the charge on the ground. Kaaleem Reiland … [Read more...]
Cross Country: GMLOS Boys Take Second at Hayfield Invite
Second place finishes highlighted the Hayfield cross country invite, as it pertained to “Journal-covered” teams GMLOS and Chatfield. On the guys side, McKenzie Bradley’s GM group notched a team second place finish (63) by tying with Pine Island (63) but losing sixth runner tie-breaker. PI’s sixth took 30th, GMLOS’ 35th. Chatfield also competed, taking fifth of eight total … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Kaaleem Reiland accounted for 349 total yards (126 rushing, 223 passing) and 6 total TDs as Kingsland football moved to 2-0 by beating Red Rock Central 63-21. LeRoy-Ostrander volleyball (3-1, 6-2) went 4-1 on the week including taking second at the Hayfield Invite. Cardinal setter Jenna Olson had 32 assists in a win over Kingsland. The Knights came back from down 0-2 to … [Read more...]
South-East Football (9/8 & 9/9)
Hills-Beaver Creek 22, Lanesboro 14 (L: Mason Howard 10 of 21, 109 yards, TD, INT passing, 14-53, TD rushing; Kaden Stettler 5-50, TD receiving; Boston Wright 14-68 rushing. H-BC led 22-0 at halftime only for Burros to close to down 22-14 in the fourth quarter. But the last score came late enough where H-BC then could run out the clock. Lanesboro > 0-1, 0-2) Red Rock … [Read more...]
SEC Volleyball (9/5 & 9/7)
Schaeffer Academy 0, Spring Grove 3 > 25-9, 25-4, 25-8 (SG: Joelle Halverson 8 kills; Kendal VanMinsel 16 assists, 6 aces; Emerson Ingvalson 6 kills; Hailey Norman 5 kills; Isabel Kaufmann 5 aces; Jada Strinmoen 6 assists, 5 aces) Lanesboro 3, Houston 0 > 25-16, 25-15, 26-24 (L: Jensyn Storhoff 11 kills, 9 digs; Claire Keasling 19 assists, 3 aces; Ellie Howard 9 digs; … [Read more...]
Volleyball: Bump-Set-Spike Roundabout
The first full week of the volleyball regular season featured five matches between nine of the teams covered under the “Journal-Sports” banner. LeRoy-Ostrander hosted Mabel-Canton, Kingsland hosted Lanesboro, Spring Grove hosted Houston, Kingsland hosted Grand Meadow, and Fillmore Central hosted Rushford-Peterson. Additionally, one squad defended a tournament title while their … [Read more...]
Football: Knights Overcome 22-point Deficit to Down M-C
The 2010s were largely forgettable for Kingsland football. The last two years they have re-emerged to competitiveness under maybe their most known football player ever, Matt Kolling (the top RB on their 1995 state title team). This year there are thus higher expectations. The Knights return as many All-District players as any other team in the South-East. And a season-opening … [Read more...]
2023 Football Preview
Like every other two years since the MSHSL went to the format, the 2023 high school football season starts with district realignment. In Class AA, the Southeast-White is now Cale-donia, Chatfield, La Crescent/Hokah, Dover-Eyota, St. Charles, Cannon Falls, and Triton. The Lancers and Bombers enter from the Southeast-Red. Goodhue and Lewiston-Altura move to the Mid-Southeast. … [Read more...]
2023 Cross Country Preview
Last year saw area cross country programs put together a strong collective campaign. LARPH’s boys made state for the fourth consecutive season, going as Section 1A runner-up. Kingsland sent two individual boys representatives to state in section champ Garrison Hubka and Cole Kruegel. L/FC’s Isaac Snyder also made state on the guys side. On the girls side, Chatfield had a strong … [Read more...]