19 Area Athletes Punch Trips to State Chatfield, LARP, FCLMC, and GMLOS wrestling squads took on the Section 1A guys individual tournament while Cale-donia/Houston competed at the 1AA event. All five programs had kids qualify for state. Chatfield tied a school-record (from last year) with nine individual entrants, Jameson Priebe (107), Logan Pearson (114), Javier Berg … [Read more...]
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LARP wrestling topped Dover-Eyota 38-27 in the 1A quarters to clinch its first trip to Rochester and the team semifinals in the Journal Sports era (since 2011). Section 1AA 6-seed Caledonia/Houston was tied with 3-seed Pine Island 27-27 before falling by fall at heavyweight to lose 33-27. Kinley Soiney scored 20 points and became Mabel-Canton’s all-time leading girls scorer as … [Read more...]
Basketball (2/24)
Boys Basketball: #3 Warriors Week Includes Defending and Dunking #9 Bombers Caledonia boys basketball came into the week as the top-ranked state team in Section 1AA. A massive section game was one of three on tap for the week. Brad King’s group started with exorcizing the demon that was a 64-60 loss a year ago at neighbor La Crescent/Hokah. The Warriors beat the Lancers … [Read more...]
Wrestling (2/24)
#1 Chatfield Dominates it Way to Repeat 1A Title It is the most dominant one-year Section 1A run, both in terms of points scored, and fewest points given up, in the last 17 years (since such things are cataloged on theguillotine.com). It the most dominant two-year run in 1A in the same period. In the 2025 1A finals, Chatfield senior Carson Rowland authored a pin to beat … [Read more...]
Lanesboro’s FFA Week Summary
By Kristi Ruen The Lanesboro FFA Chapter has been busy with career development events, award applications and many fun activities for members. The chapter now boasts over 115 members who all enjoy the fun, friends and awards that FFA has to offer. The year started with six members exhibiting at the Minnesota State Fair FFA Livestock Show. Soon members were busy … [Read more...]
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Grand Meadow’s girls beat Houston 65-30 and L/P 57-19 to run their win streak to 11. Gracie Foster had a triple-double (12 pts, 14 rebs, 10 asts) versus the ‘Canes, 22 points versus the Athletics. Spring Grove beat Decorah 62-51 for the Lions’ 12th straight win. Via a SG loss to Lanesboro, GM (10-2, 19-2) leads SG (9-2, 17-4) in the SEC. R-P’s girls hit 17 threes in beating … [Read more...]
Basketball (2/17)
Basketball: Warrior Teams Each Top R-P, Secure TRC-East Titles, 20 Wins With a little school synergy, Caledonia’s basketball teams each secured out-right TRC-East basketball titles versus Rushford-Peterson. The boys game saw the visiting Trojans (8-3, 15-3) lead the #3 in AA Warriors (10-0, 19-2) late in the first half, 24-20. But Cal senior guard Mason King then hit three … [Read more...]
Wrestling (2/17)
Girls Wrestling: Ferrie, Eickhoff and Steinkamp Earn State Trips at 1/2 Meet Area girls teams GMLOS, Chatfield, FCLMC and LARP were among those taking to the mats at Rochester-Century High School for the Section 1/2 individual wrestling meet. Nine Bulldogs, eight Gophers, three Wolves, and two Screamin’ Eagles competed to try to make state. In a tough meet featuring two of … [Read more...]
Lanesboro Schools Hires Own Business Manager
At their regular meeting February 12, the Lanesboro School Board approved the hiring of Garrett Stadsvold as its full-time business manager beginning February 16. Stadsvold will work four days a week on site and remotely the remaining day. This approval came immediately after the board cancelled a contract for such services with School Management Services (SMS) which originally … [Read more...]
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FCLMC’s Kane Larson (172-pounds) and Cole Sass (189-pounds) won titles at the Pine Island Tourney. Larson set the Wolves’ all-time win record at 157. Houston’s Morgan Rohweder had two big scoring games, as he tossed in 42 points in a 95-61 win over Lyle/Pacelli and 31 in a 56-49 loss to Kingsland. Max Erdman went for 20 (pts) and 15 (rebs) in defeat. Carter Geiwitz scored 23 in … [Read more...]