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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...]

Football (11/10)

November 10, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton seniors (left to right) Mason Yoder, Michael Kime, Darian Hershberger, Milton Hutchinson, Isaac Underbakke, Kale Tollefsrud, and Nate Nordsving (plus an occluded Kenny Hutchinson) are all smiles after beating Spring Grove 16-0 in the 9-Man section 1 title game and earning M-C its first football state berth since 1981. Photo by Heather Kleiboer

Football: Cougars Blank Lions 16-0 For First State Berth Since 1981 The year was 1981.  Ronald Reagan was president.  Dallas was a popular television show.  “Raiders of the Lost Ark” introduced the world to Indiana Jones.  The Oakland Raiders won the Super Bowl.  Changing the channel on a television required turning a knob on the device.  Current Mabel-Canton volleyball … [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...]

Volleyball (10/27)

October 27, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Grand Meadow’s Gracie Foster flicks the ball just past Mabel-Canton’s Ella Halverson in the teams’ SEC finale. Both teams entered the match undefeated in league play, but the Cougars (28-3) won both the above meeting 3-0, and the SEC East-West Showcase game, between the teams a night later. Photo by Paul Trende

Volleyball: Warriors Finish TRC Unblemished, Top Byron, Get #1 Seed Already guaranteed a share of the Three Rivers Conference title, #5 in Class AA Caledonia volleyball took down Wabasha-Kellogg to clinch a perfect run through league play, and they ended the regular season by topping Byron. At Wabasha, Cal easily handled the Falcons 3-0 (25-10, 25-8, 25-10). Avery Augedahl … [Read more...]

Cross Country (10/27)

October 27, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

The 2025 Three Rivers Conference Meet boys (repeating) team champion squad from Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston (left to right): Brennan Kunst, Will Jewison, Aaron Ploetz, Isaac Rasmussen, Trey Hegland, Grayson Speltz and Hunter Rislov. LARPH topped Cotter/Hope Lutheran 30 to 35 with all the above runners finishing top 13 (of 117 total competitors). Photo by Paul Trende

Cross Country: LFC Girls Win First TRC Crown Since 2016 For the first time since 2016, LFC girls cross country claimed the TRC Meet team title. Ellen Cullen’s group (78) outdid nearest foes PEM (94), Chatfield (104), and Dover-Eyota (120) while GMLOS (161) took sixth, LARPH (204) ninth, and Kingsland 11th (of 11 teams). Naturally leading the Burros was sophomore Autumn … [Read more...]

Football (10/27)

October 27, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton’s Breyvn Tollefsrud is in the open with a bit of a convoy from blockers Isaac Underbakke (left) and Darian Hershberger (right). The Cougars topped Wabasha-Kellogg 37-14 to clinch an 8-0 regular season. Photo by Heather Kleiboer:

Football: #3 Falcons Complete Perfect Regular Season Quinci Kaase had a career game and #3 in Class A Fillmore Central (7-0) was on a different level in toppling Class AA St. Clair/Mankato-Loyola (3-4) in a season finale. Kaase took six carries for 167 yards and 2 TDs while also catching a pair of passes for 60 yards and two more TDs. He scored on runs of 32 and 62 yards, … [Read more...]

Hot Shots

October 27, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Fillmore County Journal - Fillmore County Sports

Chatfield football (6-1), ranked #8 in AA, fell hard at #6 in AAA Pine Island (7-0), 30-0. The Gophers (6-2, 6-2) share the Southeast-Central Yellow with Triton (6-2, 6-2). Chatfield is Section 1AA’s 1-seed. They get a first round bye and will play either 4-seed Rochester-Lourdes (5-3) or 5-seed Dover-Eyota (4-4). Kingsland volleyball got 33 digs from Paisley … [Read more...]

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