Grand Meadow Ends 31-Game Losing Streak Last season, a young Grand Meadow boys team went 0-27. Adding in a couple losses to end the 2022-2023 campaign, and a couple more to start this season, the Superlarks losing streak sat at 31. But GM ended said streak at home versus Lyle/Pacelli. The Larks came back from double digit deficits in each half, and they also trailed in … [Read more...]
Wrestling (12/30)
Wrestling: #1 Chatfield Tops #4 LCWM, Wins FCLMC’s Tourney The Chatfield wrestling machine kept rolling with a dominating top five dual matchup victory and a team win at FCLMC’s annual holiday tourney. The #1 Gophers’ second dual of the year was with #4 Lake Crystal-Wellcome-Memorial. The Knights were a state entrant a season ago, taking fifth, but a matchup with the … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (12/23)
#6 Warriors Improved to 6-0 with Three Wins Caledonia’s girls played three games on the week, posting three wins. They scored 206 total points while holding their foes to just 64. At La Crescent/Hokah, it was not pretty for the hosts. The Lancers (0-6) scored just five points and made only one field goal, as Scott Sorenson’s 6th-ranked Class AA group prevailed 73-5. Aubrie … [Read more...]
Wrestling (12/23)
Chatfield Tops KoMets in Battle of Top Ranked Teams Kasson-Mantorville’s commentator called it the “Super Bowl of Section 1 wrestling.” For the second straight year, highly-ranked wrestling programs, Chatfield, #1 in Class A, and Kasson-Mantorville, #1 in Class AA, did battle in an early season dual. The Gophers entered as the defending Class A state champs while the KoMets … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball (12/16)
Three Ranked Teams in Play in Caledonia/R-P Series Caledonia and Rushford-Peterson played their first basketball series of the year. The guys battle pitted #3 Class AA Warriors versus the Class A #9 Trojans. Using their length, Brad King’s group was too much for a young R-P group. The Warriors led 44-32 at intermission and then limited R-P to 5 of 17 shooting in the second … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (12/16)
Larks Fight Past Neighbors, Knights and Rebels Grand Meadow girls basketball had a two-game week, playing familiar faces (from track and field) in squads from Southland and Kingsland. At home versus the Rebels, GM trailed just three times, but the last was at 41-39 with under 3:00 to play courtesy of a Juliette Matheis three-pointer (her one deep make of the game). But down … [Read more...]
Hot Shots (12/16)
Max Erdman had a trio of 20-point nights and averaged 21.8 PPG and 9.8 RPG as Kingsland’s boys went 2-2 on the week, beating Lanesboro 55-38 and GM 72-50. Camden Hungerholt scored 36 points and brother Reid added 20 points as L-O beat Hayfield 70-50. Josh Haugerud scored 22 points as FC beat K-W 57-47. SG’s girls (1-0, 3-1) played two tight non-conference affairs, beating … [Read more...]
Wrestling (12/16)
Gopher Guys Win Lakeville North Tourney Ranked #1 in Class A to start the season, Chatfield wrestling is probably destined to win a weekend individual tourney or two this year. In their first tourney of the season, at Lakeville-North, the Gophers (242) won their first team title, topping nearest foes St. Croix-Central (177.5) and Northfield (175.5). Said event was all bigger … [Read more...]
Hot Shots (12/9)
Aubry Boldt scored 33 points and 32 points on 70% field goals as Houston’s girls (1-1, 3-1) beat L-O 73-42 and W-K 71-38. Jensyn Storhoff scored 21 as Lanesboro beat L-O 51-28. … [Read more...]
Wrestling Preview (12/9)
Wrestling starts with several major rule changes. Firstly, takedowns will be worth three, not two points. Secondly, only one point of contact needs to be on the ground to be recorded as inbounds. Thirdly, there will be two, three, four and five near-fall points awarded (the latter for injured/bleeding defensive wrestlers after four near-falls). Another change relates to the … [Read more...]