Norms Hold True at Heartland Run For a second time this year, Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston cross country hosted a meet. At the top, a lot of this year’s running norms held true. LARPH boys won. LFC’s girls won. Their top runner, Autumn Rakosnik won. Starting with Matt Kingsbury’s host boys, it was not even remotely close. LARPH was one spot away from a perfect … [Read more...]
Cross Country: #4 LARPH Boys, #8 LFC Girls Win St. Charles Meet
Journal-covered cross country teams LARPH, LFC, Chatfield, GMLOS and Kingsland all took part in the St. Charles cross country meet. The host Saints, Stewartville, Dover-Eyota, La Crescent/Hokah and PEM also competed. The boys side had nine full teams and the girls side 10. LARPH’s boys (27) won their second meet of four competed by easily topping nearest foes Stewartville (66) … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Maddox Rodriguez ran for 165 yards and 4 TDs and Lee Klunder 100 yards and one TD as Houston football (2-3, 2-3) beat AC/G-E 42-28. The duo are stepbrothers. Jonah Bunke ran for 172 yards and a TD as R-P (2-3, 2-3) beat Hayfield 54-6. Torryn Schneider had 16 digs and 5 aces on 25-25 serving as R-P volleyball beat La Crescent/Hokah 3-1. Spring Grove volleyball notched SEC wins … [Read more...]
Soccer (9/24 & 9/27)
(B) Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston 0, St. Charles/Lewiston-Altura/Lanesboro 6 (G) SC/L-A/L 4, Cal/SG/Hou 2 (For the Warriors, Macy Krause scored with an assist crossing pass from Siri Konkel. Josie Foster scored with an assist from Addie Fruechte) (B) La Crescent/Hokah 0, Cal/SG/Hou 5 (Warriors are 0-8-1 in league play, 1-10-1 overall) (G) Cal/SG/Hou 0, La Crescent/Hokah 6 … [Read more...]
Volleyball (10/7)
#4 Caledonia Runs Win Streak to Eight Coming off a 6-4 start to the year, Caledonia volleyball has been on a tear and it continued with a two-win week. The Warriors (4-2, 12-4) and Fillmore Central (4-1, 8-9) usually play tight matches. But this year marked the first since 2019 the match was not a 3-1 affair. Coming off the Class AA Showcase title, Dan Reinhart’s gals were … [Read more...]
Football (10/7)
#7 Lions Hold Off Mountain Lake in Battle of Unbeatens Nine-man seventh-ranked Spring Grove scored all the first-half points, and visiting Mountain Lake Area scored all the points in the second half. But the East Sub-District Lions (4-0, 5-0) held on to win the battle of football unbeatens, 21-12, over the visiting West Sub-District Wolverines (4-0, 4-1). After punting … [Read more...]
Spring Grove Welcomes Five New Teachers
Spring Grove Public Schools is excited to welcome five new teachers to its faculty this year. Each brings a wealth of experience, enthusiasm, and fresh perspectives to the classroom. Riley is the new seventh and eighth-grade social studies teacher, and he also … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Sahara Morken topped 4,000 career assists as M-C volleyball beat Houston 3-0. The senior had 35 helpers and six aces in the match. Spring Grove volleyball used a balanced team approach to notch three SEC sweeps on the week, topping Southland, Lanesboro and LeRoy-Ostrander. Chatfield topped Cannon Falls and Pine Island each via sweep in notable non-conference matchups. Hannah … [Read more...]
Football (9/30)
#6 Warriors Double Rally for Win Over #5 Cannon Falls Early in the second quarter, Caledonia football faced an uphill task. Coming off a ranked-versus-ranked 20-13 loss to Chatfield in week three, the #6 Warriors (2-1) trailed #5 Cannon Falls (3-0) 12-0. But Carl Fruechte’s group double-rallied to post their best win of the year. The Warriors scored three second quarter … [Read more...]
Volleyball (9/30)
Teams Take on Class A/AA Showcases, Warriors Grab AA Title Area volleyball teams Mabel-Canton, Chatfield, Caledonia, Spring Grove, and Fillmore Central once again took on the Class A/AA Showcase tournaments in Burnsville. The Cougars and Gophers were each runner-up last year. This year, the Cougars, Warriors and Gophers each won their pools to make their Gold Brackets. … [Read more...]









