Wrestling: LARP Stuns #2 Chatfield, Goes 4-0 at Spamtown Duals The scores of their last four matches were 57-15, 58-11, 58-9, and 68-3; Chatfield had its way with LARP wrestling. The 68-3 score came in last year’s team section semifinals, as it was one of the Gophers’ wins on the way to a state runner-up finish. But to start the 2025-2026 wrestling season, at a triangular in … [Read more...]
Hot Shots (12/8)
Carson Harstad scored 28 points as Chatfield beat W-K 65-55, and 36 points in a 77-67 loss to Lanesboro. Five Burros made double figures in said game, as Lanesboro won the second half 50-35. Lyric Stadtler scored 22 points as Spring Grove beat LeRoy-Ostrander 81-51. Cardinal Reid Hungerholt had 27 points in defeat. Emery Bartel scored 26 points as the Lions beat Houston 62-36. … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (12/8)
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)
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...]
2025-2026 Wrestling Preview
The wrestling season starts with all five Journal-covered programs returning state entrants. Girls wrestling continues to grow, as the post-season individual tournament will now be eight section tournaments versus combining two sections for a super-section. Section One’s finals will be in Rochester. The state wrestling meet thus expands to a four-day affair. Team action starts … [Read more...]
Hot Shots (12/1)
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)
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...]
Sports (11/24)
South-East All-District Football
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...]
Lanesboro Semester Tests Questioned
The Lanesboro School Board heard concerns about the current semester test policy from the public at their November 12 regular board meeting. Jeff Lepper, who has three children in Lanesboro Schools and is an educator himself, said he supports semester tests, but feels that they should not be used as a punishment for missing school. Lepper declared that nothing new was being … [Read more...]