Mabel-Canton baseball’s season ended with a 13-8 loss to top-seed NRHEG. At 13-11, M-C posted its highest win total since 2005’s team went 15-9. Caledonia baseball topped PEM 9-6 in a 1AA loser-out game, as Max Schmitz was 4-for-4 and Jacob Klug scored four times. Schmitz then homered but Caledonia’s season ended 7-1 to Rochester-Lourdes. At the Section 1AA golf meet, … [Read more...]
Softball: Gophers Top Z-M in Last At Bat, Bow to Cotter
Chatfield softball (2-sed, 17-7) continued its playoff campaign heading back to Rochester for a loser-out game with Zumbrota-Mazeppa (6-seed, 15-10). The Cougars had the Gophers down to their last out. Z-M scored the only run through 6 ½ innings, using an error and two hits in the fourth to take a 1-0 lead. They got runners to scoring position in each of the first four … [Read more...]
Softball: #2 Hurricanes Can’t Solve Weis’ Pitching, Repeat as 1A Runner-Up
Houston softball will long remember the name of Laney Weis. In two playoffs games, after an undefeated regular season, the Southland senior pitcher was a riddle the Hurricanes could not solve, twice. Houston (1-seed, 22-0), ranked #2 in A, began its week in Austin for the “chair” game with their rival the Rebels (2-seed, 18-2). Southland’s two losses were both to the … [Read more...]
Track and Field: Boldt and Goergen Dominance Highlight 1A Meet
At the 2026 Section 1A track and field meet, a total of 44 kids from RPH, Chatfield, LFCMC, GMLOKS, and Caledonia/Spring Grove qualified for state. RPH’s girls were team champ, and nine Tro-Canes made state. Chatfield (12), LFCMC (11), and GMLOKS (10) got double-digits kids to state. Two sprinters … [Read more...]
1A Golf: Trojan Teams Sweep 1A Titles, Brogle Wins Boys Crown
The mecca for Section 1A golf resides in Rushford-Peterson in 2026. The Trojan boys, the same as last year’s state fourth place squad, did as expected and repeated. But the girls got past Lanesboro to also win a 1A title. Simultaneously, Burro junior Jack Brogle grabbed his third consecutive 1A individual championship. The R-P guys (651) topped second place Blooming … [Read more...]
Softball: #3 Warriors Twice Rally Past Ramblers for First Ever State Trip
They twice gave up big innings, and twice dug out. Versus a team headed by the state’s winningest softball coach ever, Pat Bowlin (over 800), Caledonia had to rally twice against Cotter/HL. And Chad Augedahls’s Warriors did so both times, the second in a nine-inning game. Caledonia earned its first ever state berth in softball. On Memorial Day Monday, the #3 in Class AA … [Read more...]
Track and Field (5/20)
Sub-Section 1 Meet (St. Charles boys (283) topped Cotter/HL (267.75), RPH (213.5), LFCMC (161.25), D-E (142.75), LC/H (134), L-A (82.75), Cal/SG (61), and Schaeffer (15). RPH 1A meet qualifiers: Chace Drazkowski (1st Shot Put > 55’10 ½” - meet record; 1st Discus > 145’8”), the 4x800 (1st 8:38.97 > Landon Dahl, Hunter Rislov, Aaron Ploetz, Isaac Rasmussen), Lucas … [Read more...]
Southeast Conference Golf (5/18 & 5/19)
(B) Houston 181, Glenville-Emmons Inc. (H: Nolan Nelson 41*, Elijah Hunt 45, Arlo Hunt 46, Treyton Kubitz 49. Houston > 2-8 SEC, 2-10 overall.); (G) Houston Inc., G-E Inc. (GE: Kiley Broderick 57*. Houston > 1-8-1, SEC, 1-10-1 overall. At the par-36 Northwood CC.) (B) Southland 176, GMLO 175 (GMLO: Lincoln Lunning 41, Tyler Farlinger 42, Parker Armagost 45, Graham … [Read more...]
Three Rivers Conference Golf (5/18)
(B) Lewiston-Altura 182, PEM 165, Chatfield 162 (C: C. Harstad/C. Ask 37s*, Kane Larson 41, Lincoln Goldsmith 47, Owen Collett 49. PEM: Carter Holst 38, Brady Haack 41, Jared Kahn/Brady Wehrs/Aiden Noehl 43s. LA: Riley Wigdahl 44, Will Eggert/Bennett Bonow 45s; Eli Plass 48.); (G) L-A 252, PEM 273, Chatfield 195 (C: Sydnie Kreter 45, Brynn Tweten 48, Taylor Ostby/Zaylee Boyum … [Read more...]
1A and 1AA Softball Playoffs (5/18 – 5/21)
(1AA Play-In) 17-seed Fillmore Central/Lanesboro (1-19) 3, 16-seed Triton (3-16) 4 (FCL finishes at 1-20) (1AA Round of 16) 14-seed GMLOK (6-11) 0, 3-seed Cotter/Hope Lutheran (16-6) 10 [5] (GMLOK: Zoey Chase 1-2. The Ramblers scored six in the bottom of the first. GMLOK had just one hit. The Bulldogs finish at 6-12.) (1A Round of 16) 10-seed Spring Grove (7-9) 2, … [Read more...]