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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...]

Rushford- Peterson Voters Will Decide Building Question

November 24, 2025 by Wanda Hanson Leave a Comment

The R-P Education Interventionist Program class prepping to present one of their builds to the board. Photo by Wanda Hanson

At the November 17 Rushford-Peterson School Board meeting, the board approved in a 5 to 1 vote to call for a vote on the proposed building referendum. The decision followed a lengthy discussion by the board with each member explaining their thinking before voting. Chris Grindland shared his research on future enrollment and population projections in Fillmore County. “Based … [Read more...]

Cross Country: LARPH Boys Win First Class A State Title, LFC’s Rakosnik Takes 11th 

November 10, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Lanesboro/Fillmore Central’s Autumn Rakosnik took on the Class A state cross-country meet. The sophomore took an impressive 11th place in a faster time than last year’s 9th place finish. Photo by Paul Trende

There is no question.  Section 1A was the best at the State Class A boys meet at Les Bolstad Golf Course in Falcon Heights.   The top two teams and top three individuals were from the section.  Heading the cast are the state champion team from Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston. Matt Kingsbury’s group reached the top of the mountain.   A climb that began in 2019 (15th), … [Read more...]

New Rushford-Peterson Teachers

November 10, 2025 by Wanda Hanson Leave a Comment

Rushford-Peterson Schools had five new teachers join the staff this year. Taylor Allen, kindergarten; Belle Berg, fourth grade; Jodi Monerson, K-4th grade music; Grace Dahl, grades 9-10 math; and Robbie Strand, MSHS business and head football coach.  Taylor Allen, the new kindergarten teacher, used to always play school with her siblings growing up. During COVID, Taylor … [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...]

Cross Country (11/3)

November 3, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

The Section 1A champion #1 in state in Class A Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston boys cross-country team and its coaches. The Card-Tro-Canes won their third straight title (fourth in five years) with their lowest team score in their seven-year state era. Photo by Christine Vreeman

Boys Cross Country: #1 LARPH Wins Third Straight 1A Title It is undoubtedly their best team in their seven-year state run. Despite their main adversary Cotter/Hope Lutheran being ranked #3 in state, top-ranked LARPH boys cross country was a cut above. They posted their lowest team score, and largest margin of victory, of their four section titles the past five seasons. Of … [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...]

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