Blake Hubbard had his second straight huge game, rushing for 268 yards, 3 TDs, and three conversions on just 13 carries as Grand Meadow downed W-K 60-18. The Larks rushed for eight touchdowns. R-P football fell at Dover-Eyota 21-7. Each team walked out with 5-2 records. Hunter Wollenburg caught seven passes for 102 yards and a score but L-O/L/P lost to South-East leader AC/G-E … [Read more...]
Volleyball: Gophers Perform Reverse Sweep of R-P, Bicknese Gets1,000th Kill
Chatfield volleyball’s week was highlighted by another huge milestone for their esteemed five-year senior, plus a five-set comeback win. Hosting Rushford-Peterson, the Trojans put the Gophers in a hole by taking sets one and two each 25-23. Game one had ten ties, the last at 22-22 before Jenny Lee’s group scored three of the last four points. Behind five Cora Bicknese kills … [Read more...]
Cross Country: LARPH Boys Top Cotter/HL at PEM
For yet another year, Section 1A boys cross-country adversaries #3 in Class A LARPH and #2 in A Cotter/Hope Lutheran squared off at the PEM “Jodi Rahman” Invite late in the year. For the second straight year, LARPH came out on top. Matt Kingsbury’s group (49) topped the Ramblers (68) with W-K (90), Stewartville (127), LFC (128), D-E (128), St. Charles (176), Chatfield (178), … [Read more...]
Three Rivers Conference Volleyball (10/6 & 10/8)
Rushford-Peterson 0, #4 in A Fillmore Central 3 > 25-12, 25-21, 25-13 (FC: M. Zwart 17 kills; Hannah Vaalemoen 9 kills, 12 assists; Josie Corson 17 digs; B. Dierkes 22 assists, 24-26 serving, 6 aces; Lauren Dahly 5 kills; Ava Larson 11 digs; Norah Nagel 8 kills, 5 digs, 5 aces. RP: Brielle Schneider 3 kills, 12 digs; Grace Ekern 6 assists, 11 digs; Addison Drinkall 7 digs; … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Bently Wiersma ran for 223 yards and four TDs as Kingsland football (3-3 SEC, 3-3 overall) topped W-K 51-20. Chatfield’s Hunter Polikowsky notched his fourth straight 100-yard rushing game (128 yards, TD) as Chatfield (4-2 Yellow, 4-2 overall) beat St. Charles 21-10. Fillmore Central volleyball, up to #2 in Class A in the latest poll, notched wins over R-P and LC/H each 3-0 … [Read more...]
Football: Trojans Ride Reserve QB, Scoring Surge, to Fifth Straight Win
In a Southeast-Yellow sub-district affair, visiting Rochester-Lourdes got a 4-yard Chase Carroll TD run to make the score 14-12 with 1:37 in the first half. But when the clock read zeros at intermission, R-P led 28-12. They then scored right out of intermission for a 21-to-0 surge that swung an otherwise back-and-forth game. After Carroll moved the Eagles within two, R-P got a … [Read more...]
Cross Country: LFC Girls First Highlights LARPH’s Lewiston Run
Coming off a second-place team finish to Class AA Stewartville at the St. Charles Meet, Ellen Cullen’s Lanesboro/Fillmore Central girls group grabbed top placing at LARPH’s second home run of the year. At Lewison’s Heartland Golf Course, the Burros (58) bested nearest foes LARPH (69), La Crescent/Hokah (89), and PEM (92) with D-E (103), St. Charles (139), GMLOS (141), and … [Read more...]
Volleyball: Trojans Top Saints, Eagles
Rushford-Peterson volleyball won its two matches on the week to get on the plus-side of .500. They beat St. Charles 3-0 (25-17, 25-17, 25-19) behind the defensive efforts of Addison Drinkall (23 digs, 16-16 serving, 2 aces) and Kenley Snyder (18 digs). Grace Ekern (3 kills, 25 assists, 3 aces), Alannah Skalet (13 digs), Sydney Rye (10 kills), Brielle Schneider (9 kills), and … [Read more...]
Football: Strand’s Trojans Win Fourth Straight, Top Chatfield 28-14
Senior quarterback Creighton Hoiness hit senior flanker Carson Johnson three times in the game. All three went for big yards and resulted in points indirectly or directly, as R-P (2-1, 3-1) took down Chatfield (2-1, 3-1) in a key Southeast-Yellow week five contest. The four biggest offensive plays, 40 yards or more, were all made by the Trojans. In the first quarter, Hoiness … [Read more...]
Cross Country: LARPH Stars Each Take First at St. Charles Meet
It does not happen too often that a cross-country team has the individual male and female champion at a meet. That type of thing has become common place this year for Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston. Matt Kingsbury has had a lot very good guy runners over the years, but … [Read more...]