February 14 found the members of the Lanesboro School Board listening to Superintendent Matt Schultz present a proposed calendar for next school year. The calendar needs to be somewhat different next year. With the passage of the READ Act by the legislature, Lanesboro needs to build in additional teacher workshop days to train teachers in teaching reading. At this point, … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball: Knights Post Dramatic Three Win Week
Kingsland’s three-win week included two nailbiters. The Knights first handled Grand Meadow 80-26. Jayden Brink (26 pts, 6-15 threes, 6 rebs, 4 asts) and Max Erdman (18 pts, 7-9 FGs, 6 rebs) did work. Parker Johnson (12 pts, 6 rebs) and Courtland Drury-DeBoer (12 pts, 5 rebs, 5 asts) helped. A back-and-forth offensive tussle with Lanesboro had 11 lead changes. Kingsland took the … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Camden Hungerholt, a 6’1” junior G from LeRoy-Ostrander, scored his 1,000th career point in a loss to Lanesboro at home on January 25. This was not mentioned in last week’s sports. Hungerholt averages 23.9 PPG for the Cardinals. M-C’s Cayden Tollefsrud scored 24 points in a win over Grand Meadow, surpassing 2,000 for his career. He then scored 39 in a win over Houston, as the … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/30 – 2/3)
FCLMC Triangular > Riceville 30, FCLMC 36 (FCLMC won forfeits at 107 (August Pfeffer) and 114 (Lane Sass). Riceville took five forfeits. There were two double forfeits (127, 145). The Wolves won the four wrestled matches all by fall, Connor Wingert (139), Boston Wright (152), Kane Larson (160), and Cole Sass (172) and they led 36-16 after 172); Stewartville 59, FCLMC 7 … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (1/29 – 2/2)
Southeast Conference Girls Basketball (1/30 - 2/2) Lyle/Pacelli 24, Lanesboro 54 (L: Jensyn Storhoff 16 pts (4-10 threes), 4 asts, 5 stls; Ellie Howard 9 pts (3-12 threes). Burros hit nine threes (9 of 30) to L/P’s one (1 of 9) as the Burros ended a five-game losing streak) Southland 28, Houston 56 (H: A. Kingsley 22 pts (9-13 FGs), 4 stls; Aubry Boldt 13 pts (6-10 FGs); … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Houston’s boys got 27 points from Morgan Rohweder in beating G-E 67-59, then 36 points from the junior on nine made threes in beating L/P 78-53. Their loss on the week was 65-63 in OT to Kingsland (11-3), where Rohweder had 23 points. Knight Jayden Brink hit seven threes and scored 28 to lead all scorers. Rohweder averaged 28.7 PPG over the three games on 20 of 30 made threes! … [Read more...]
Basketball: A Week of Personal Accomplishments
In a week of personal accomplishments, L-O’s Benita Nolt, FC’s Kammry Broadwater, and GM’s Lauren Queens-land surpassed 1,000 career points. Jayce Kiehne also set the FC boys all-time scoring mark. Falcon Girls’ Win Streak Includes 1,000-Point Scorers Broadwater and Queensland Fillmore Central’s girls continued their winning ways. The Falcons first took out … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball
Three Rivers Conference Girls Basketball (1/22 - 1/25) Chatfield 52, Rushford-Peterson 62 (R-P: E. Ekern 23 pts (5-9 threes, 6-9 FTs); Rebecca Magin 10 pts, 7 rebs; Tayler Helgemoe 9 pts, 13 rebs, 3 blks; Nadia Happel 9 pts; Cassandra Boyum 6 pts, 5 rebs, 5 asts. C: E. Goldsmith 18 pts (6-9 FGs), 5 rebs; Taylor Ask 15 pts (4-10 threes); Lexi Kivimagi 8 pts. FTs: R-P 15 of … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball
Basketball: Spring Grove Teams Streaking Spring Grove’s b-ball teams kept up their excellent seasons with a combined 5-0 week. Taylor Elton’s girls first took on Kingsland. SG trailed 24-20 early in the second half, but rebounded by hitting 8 of 16 trifectas in the stanza. They had a stretch of five possessions with four threes made and a three-point play to build a 38-29 … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball
Three Rivers Conference Girls Basketball (1/15 - 1/19) Chatfield 42, #9 in AA Cotter 73 (Ch: Evy Goldsmith 14 pts, 6 rebs; Kendall Knutson 7 pts, 7 rebs. Cotter was 8 of 24 threes (33%), Chatfield 1 of 9 (11%). The Gophers shot 52% (17 of 33) but had 34 turnovers) #17 in AA Dover-Eyota 50, #13 in AA Caledonia 66 (C: A. Klug 18 pts, 7 rebs, 4 asts, 6 stls; Nicole Banse 13 … [Read more...]