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Girls Basketball (12/8)

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

LeRoy-Ostrander’s Mabel Johnson tries to stop Lanesboro’s Jensyn Storhoff from taking her drive into the paint amidst the Burros’ 46-33 season-opening SEC win in girls basketball. Photo by Ron Mayer

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)

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Fillmore County Journal - Fillmore County Sports - High School Basketball

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...]

Hot Shots (12/1)

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

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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)

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

The girls basketball season got started including Grand Meadow playing at Houston. Above, Hurricane senior Jorja Meyer tries to score past Larks Cloey Breitbarth (#25) and Naomi Warmka (#23) in a Houston’s 68-42 win. Photo by Craig Johnson

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...]

South-East All-District Football

November 24, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton (8-0, 11-1) claimed the South-East football title over Spring Grove (6-2, 8-3), Kingsland (6-2, 6-3), Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons (5-3, 6-4), Houston (5-3, 5-4), LeRoy-Ostrander/Lyle/Pacelli (4-4, 5-5), Wabasha-Kellogg (3-5, 4-6), Grand Meadow (2-6, 2-7), Lanesboro (1-7, 1-8), and Faribault Bethlehem Academy (0-8, 1-8). The Cougars get a league high five … [Read more...]

Kingsland Board Hears Audit, Awards 2026 Project Bids

November 24, 2025 by Paula Barness Leave a Comment

On Monday, November 17, Luke Greden, of CLA Rochester, presented the 2025 fiscal year audit to the Kingsland School Board. The general fund revenue totaled $8,550,597 with 71.7% coming from state aid, 15.5 from property tax, 3.2% from federal aid and 1.4% from earnings on investments. “Overall, a very healthy year for the general fund,” Greden expressed. The general … [Read more...]

Volleyball (11/10)

November 10, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Caledonia volleyball saw its season end in the 1AA title match to Chatfield via 3-1 loss (17-25, 22-25, 25-18, 20-25). The Warriors, the TRC champions, also finish as 1AA runner-up with a 26-6 record. They have just two seniors. Photo by Paul Trende

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 

November 3, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Fillmore County Journal - Fillmore County Sports

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) 

November 3, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton libero Lauren Burke pops up an attack in the Cougars’ Round of 16 volleyball match with Houston. Via 3-0 sweep, #6 in Class A M-C moved on to the 1A quarterfinals in Rochester. Photo Heather Kleiboer

(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...]

Football (11/3)

November 3, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Fillmore Central defender William Boettcher has United South Central’s Kolt Bullerman in his grasp while Falcons Joseph Otto (#77) and Jeramiah Bushman (#55) look to help on the tackle. FC topped the Rebels 34-7 to move on to their fifth straight 1A title game. Photo by Paul Trende

Football: Warriors Dominate to 1AA Finals  Caledonia opened the season with a 21-14 upset loss to Rushford-Peterson. They opened the season 1-2, losing to Triton 13-3 in week three too. Those days are eons ago. The Warriors are hot. They have not lost since week three including blasting foes in the 1AA quarters and semis. Versus St. Charles (6-seed, 2-6) in the quarters, … [Read more...]

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