Playoffs (1AA-West) 5-seed Dover-Eyota (7-10) 5, 4-seed GMLOK (15-3) 1 (GMLOK: Lydia Voeltz 1-2, RBI; Alexys Harwood 1-3, 2B; Lucie Voight 1-3, R; Emily Miner 7 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 9 K, Loss. DE: Kegen Coulson 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 K, Win; Jayden Dahl 3-4, 2B, RBI, 2 R. Game was tied 1-1 after three. D-E went ahead with an unearned run in the fourth. Only two … [Read more...]
Baseball (5/23 – 5/28)
Three Rivers Conference Lewiston-Altura 1, Fillmore Central/Lanesboro 5 [5] (FCL: C. Ferrie 1-2, RBI, R; D. O’Connor 1-3, 2B, RBI; Peyton Olson 1-2, RBI; T. Sexton 4 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, Win); FC/L 6, L-A 10 [5] (FCL: C. Ferrie 2-3, 2 RBI, R; D. O’Connor 1-3, 2B, 2 R; J. Peterson 1-3, 2 RBI; Garrett Gossman 1-2, R. Cardinals started with a six-run first. Both games … [Read more...]
Trojan Baseball Makes 1A Final Six
Rushford-Peterson baseball played three playoff games stretching over three days (due to a weather re-schedule). Jordan Aug’s squad posted a pair of wins to make the “second week” of the 1A section tournament. The Trojans (5-seed, 8-1) first hosted Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton (12-seed, 4-12) in the Round of 16. After spotting JWP a 2-0 first inning lead, the Trojans scored the … [Read more...]
Burro Boys, GMLO’s Glynn Highlight SEC Golf Meet
Boys golf was on display at the Southeast Conference Meet. Krissy Overland’s Lanesboro Burros (362) bested nearest foe Southland (376) for the league title, with Kingsland (403) taking third, G-E (426) fourth, GMLO (427) fifth, and Houston (554) sixth (of six complete teams). The Burros didn’t have anyone in the top three. They placed five guys in the top eleven. Kaden Stettler … [Read more...]
Two relays, Stendel win track and field events for Caledonia/Spring Grove
Caledonia/Spring Grove won two of the three boys relays, won the high jump and collected six of the top nine long jumps at the Cotter Invitational in Winona on May 19. There were six teams competing, but no team scores were computed. Winning the high jump is nothing new, but it was not the usual winner. Conference champion Chris Pieper did not enter, but Warrior freshman Ethan … [Read more...]
Spring Grove wins pair, drops two to close regular season
For the Spring Grove boys, the final week of the regular season began as expected with a comfortable May 17 double-header sweep of winless Schaeffer Academy with almost identical scores of 13-3 and 13-2. However, the 11-10 home upset setback to Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons was not expected after the Lions had won convincingly, 21-10, earlier in the season at Glenville. The May … [Read more...]
Pieper repeats as TRC high jump champion
Chris Pieper repeated as the conference high jump champion, clearing a personal-record 6-feet, 5-inches for Caledonia/Spring Grove at the May 14 Three Rivers Conference Track & Field Meet at Dover-Eyota. His previous best effort was the 6-feet, 4-inches while winning the TRC title last year. Pieper has won the high jump at all six meets he has entered in 2022. The versatile … [Read more...]
Spring Grove drops SEC showdown, splits at R-P tourney
Spring Grove dropped out of a first-place tie with a 4-2 loss to visiting Southland on May 13, one day before splitting a pair of games at the 2022 Rushford-Peterson Classic. All four tournament games were run-rule blowouts, including a Spring Grove split. The Lions fell to R-P, 13-3, before taking the third-place game against Goodhue, 15-4. That was the boys’ sixth game in six … [Read more...]
Spring Grove tied at the top with two SEC wins
Spring Grove remained atop the four-team logjam in the Southeast Conference baseball race with a pair of critical SEC wins – one by a comfortable margin and the other a nailbiter. With make-up games packing the schedule, there were three games in three days, first the lone loss in a closely-contested, non-conference May 9 clash versus Martin County West at a neutral site in … [Read more...]
Softball (5/9 – 5/14)
Three Rivers Conference Rushford-Peterson 9, Fillmore Central/Lanesboro 13 (FCL: E. Anderson 4-4, 2B, 4 RBI, 3 R; Lauren Mensink 3-4, 3 R; J. Storhoff 2-5, 2 RBI; Haley O’Connor 2-4, RBI, 2 R; Kaci Ruen 2-3, 2B, 2 R; Kelsey Biel 2-3, 5 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 5 K, Win. R-P: Aviana Anderson-Ingram 3-5, 2B, 3 RBI; L. Hoiness 3-4, 3B, RBI, R; C. Boyum 3-3, 2B, RBI, 3 R; B. … [Read more...]