A dramatic week for Caledonia baseball stoked a massive win streak. At Lourdes, victory was in peril following a five-run fourth that put the Eagles up 7-2. But the Warriors responded with a nine-run fifth. Ten straight reached to start the inning. Hunter Goetzinger and Owen Denstad had a two-run doubles. The Warriors exited up 11-7. Lourdes came back with three in their half … [Read more...]
Basketball Awards
Hot Shots
Chatfield softball went 2-1 on the week, notably beating rival St. Charles 15-6 and Lake City 11-1 while falling to Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial 5-3. Freshman Makenna Dornack was 4-for-4 with four RBI and four runs versus the Saints and 2-for-5 with five RBI versus the Tigers. Rylee Urban collected both wins, striking out nine versus Lake City. She improved to 5-1 on the … [Read more...]
Track and Field (4/15 & 4/18)
La Crosse-Logan Meet (Caledonia/Spring Grove’s boys (85) took fourth behind Holmen (242), La Crosse-Logan (160), and Arcadia (87) with Tomah and La Crescent/Hokah also competing. C/SG’s girls took sixth (of six). C/SG boys’ firsts: Josh Beardmore (100 > 11.00), Fischer Wait (200 > 22.69), the 4x100 (43.37 > Owen Staggemeyer, Eli Staggemeyer, Beardmore, Wait), and the … [Read more...]
Baseball/Softball: Warrior Teams Run Combined Streaks to 14
Caledonia’s baseball and softball teams each continued their great starts to the season. By the end of the week, each moved its win streak to seven. Shawn Bauer’s diamond dudes continued to win things with their pitching. Across three games, 20 innings, they gave up just three total runs. In a home non-conference affair with Wisconsin’s Blair-Taylor, the Wildcats leadoff man … [Read more...]
Baseball/Softball: Comebacks Denote GMLOK/M-C Series
GMLOK’s baseball and softball teams played at Mabel-Canton and each game was denoted by a seventh inning comeback. On the baseball diamond, one of, if not the biggest last inning comebacks in “Journal Sports” history occurred. Mabel-Canton led GMLOK 8-2 heading the Bulldogs’ top of seventh inning when Eric Mundfrom’s squad went wild with an inning and a rally they will not soon … [Read more...]
Softball: Hurricanes Finally Get Past Rebels
A year ago, the SEC’s top two softball teams, Houston and Southland, played each other three times. The SEC champion Rebels came out on top in all three affairs, 6-1, 6-4, and 2-0. The later loss came in the play-offs and ended Houston’s season. In the teams’ first meeting this year, Josh Swenson’s Hurricanes finally got a win over the Rebels. In a 3-3 game in the fifth inning, … [Read more...]
Golf: Chatfield Guys, Caledonia’s Hauser Win R-P Tourney
This year’s golf schedule includes a lot of tournaments. Rushford-Peterson held one at Ferndale Course. The boys event featured the Trojans plus “Journal-covered” teams Chatfield, Lanesboro, Caledonia and Houston as well as Lewiston-Altura and Dover-Eyota. Paul Wagner’s Gophers (345) continued their nice season by claiming the title over nearest foes R-P (365) and Lanesboro … [Read more...]
Golf
Three Rivers Conference Golf (4/15) (B) Chatfield 170, St. Charles 183 (C: Carson Harstad 41*, Colton Johnson 42, Brayden Fretland 43, Devin Reinhardt 44, Gage Bartels 45. SC: Logan Overkamp 41*, Sawyer Wendt 46, Marcus Rinard/Owen Maloney 48s. Chatfield boys > 3-0, 3-0); (G) Chatfield 214, St. Charles 202 (C: Mya Henry 50, Taylor Ask 53, Charleigh Larson 55. SC: Lily … [Read more...]
