Chatfield wrestling won its last two TRC duals to go unblemished through the league. The final two obstacles were Dover-Eyota and FCLMC. For all intents and purposes, it came down to Chatfield and the Eagles. The Wolves do not field a full team. Battles between the Gophers and D-E have been fierce lately. Last year, Chatfield won 34-32. A year previously, Chatfield won 35-31 in … [Read more...]
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Spring Grove’s girls beat L/P and Southland to guarantee a share of the SEC title. The Lions (14-1, 20-5) lead Houston (12-2, 15-9). The teams meet in a season finale. Fillmore Central’s girls (6-6, 14-9) went 2-0 on the week including upsetting a short-handed Caledonia (11-2, 15-7) squad. Josie Foster had 25 in defeat. Kammry Broadwater scored 22 in FC’s other win over St. … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball
Boys Basketball: Hurricanes Buck Forward-Back Trend The 2023-2024 season has been a return to competitiveness for Houston’s boys. All year, Jake Merchlewitz’s group has been alternating wins and losses in groups of ones and twos. Finally, Houston amassed three straight wins. A 64-50 win at TRC Wabasha-Kellogg (10-9) was a good victory. Morgan Rohweder scored 22 points (6-13 … [Read more...]
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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...]
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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...]
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...]
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Caledonia’s boys went 2-1 on the week. Mason King scored 21 and Garrett Konz 20 in a win over L-A. The Warriors (#4 in AA) did lose to Stewartville (#8 in AAA). Team Cal (7-0, 12-3) sits a half game back of La Crescent (8-0, 12-5) in the TRC-East. Winners of 10 of 12, R-P’s boys (4-3, 13-4) went 2-1 including beating St. Charles 103-94! Carson Johnson scored 20 versus the … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball
Three Rivers Conference Boys Basketball (1/15 - 1/19) #4 in AA Caledonia 89, Dover-Eyota 70 (C: Reid Klug 18 pts; G. Konz 17 pts; Lewis Doyle 16 pts; Will Hahn 12 pts; Ethan Stendel 8 pts; Noah Treptow 8 pts; Ben Stemper 8 pts. The Warriors are 8-0 when scoring 80-plus points) Cotter 61, Chatfield 47 (Ch: C. Harstad 11 pts (3-3 threes), 4 stls; Brayden Fretland 8 pts, 5 … [Read more...]
Non-Conference Boys Basketball (1/16 – 1/20)
Chatfield 65, Houston 70 (H: M. Rohweder 31 pts (10-19 FGs, 6-7 threes, 5-6 FTs), 9 rebs, 3 asts, 3 stls; C. Geiwitz 9 pts, 7 asts; Zach Olson 9 pts, 8 asts; A. Wedl 8 pts, 12 rebs. C: C. Harstad 24 pts (5-11 threes), 4 asts, 5 stls; Ryan Rindels 12 pts; Cole Novotny 10 pts, 9 rebs; Masyn Kreter 9 pts. Chatfield closed the gap after the Hurricanes built a 45-25 halftime lead … [Read more...]