Grand Meadow (23-7), Kingsland (19-9), and Lanesboro (19-9) were the top teams in the SEC. The All-SEC girls basketball team is thus headed by players from the Larks, Knights, and Burros. Section runner-up Grand Meadow gets two 1st Team All-SEC picks and two 2nd Team All-SEC selections. Sisters Kendyl Queensland (5’9” Jr. G) and Lauren Queensland (5’9” Fr. F) make the 1st Team. … [Read more...]
All-Three Rivers Conference Girls Basketball
Players from above-five-hundred Chatfield (19-9) and Caledonia (17-11) squads head the All-TRC cast. The Warriors get three All-TRC picks, Ava Privet (5’10” Jr. G), Alexis Schroeder (5’4” Jr. G), and Paige Klug (5’10” junior G/F). All three repeat as making All-TRC. All three averaged double-digit points per game. Privet paced Caledonia with around 12.0 PPG. With her deep … [Read more...]
#1 Caledonia Downs #4 PEM in Three OTs to Claim 1AA Title!
Well, where do you start? The game pitted #1-ranked top-seeded Caledonia (27-1) versus #4-ranked second-seeded Plainview-Elgin-Millville (28-1). The teams each entered with a lone loss and on a combined 23-game winning streak. It was for the section 1AA title. It had a number of twists and turns and went to triple overtime. It was almost over in regulation, as the eventual … [Read more...]
24-win Lion boys were elite defenders, ball-handlers
Before the turn of the century, Wade Grinde – the young Spring Grove head boys basketball coach - said the most important statistic was defensive shooting percentage or in other words, how difficult did the Lion defense make it for the opponent to take good shots - and score. In Grinde’s 27 years at the helm, his Lions of 2022 posted the second-best season for both field goal … [Read more...]
Athlete of the Week: Eli King & Jackson Koepke
Lions Reach Semifinals, Fall to Vikings
Spring Grove’s boys made the section semifinals, but saw their season end there. Solum Surges Lions Past Kenyon-Wanamingo in Quarters For the second time in two playoff games, Spring Grove (4-seed, 23-4) played a team nicknamed Knights. For a second time, Lions were greater than Knights. Versus Kenyon-Wanamingo (5-seed, 21-6) in a 1A quarterfinal, SG had to navigate one … [Read more...]
Trojans Make 1A Semifinals, Fall Agonizingly in Overtime to Goodhue
Rushford-Peterson’s boys made their second straight 1A semifinal. They then fell agonizingly in overtime. Trojans “Poisons” Too Much for Rebels Eighth-ranked Rushford-Peterson (2-seed, 21-4) used a pick-your-poison offensive attack to down Southland (7-seed, 17-6) in a 1A quarterfinal. The Rebels fell to R-P 61-52 in the regular season, a game where the Trojans hit 11 … [Read more...]
Turnovers Doom GM Girls in Section Finals
For half of the game, Grand Meadow’s girls (3-seed, 23-6) played #3 Hayfield (1-seed, 30-0) about even. It was the other half that didn’t go so well at all. The favored Vikings got off to a good start and ended emphatically to take out GM in the 1A girls basketball section title game. Hayfield 5’11” forward Aine Stasko was the story early in the game. With GM concentrating its … [Read more...]
Caledonia’s Boys to Play PEM for 1AA Title
Their performances versus Triton and Lewiston-Altura weren’t lights out. But wins are wins and Caledonia boys basketball posted 1AA quarterfinal and semifinal victories to make the 1AA championship game. Last year’s 1AA section champs will defend their title. It’ll be two one loss ranked teams going head-to-head. Warriors Ease by Snakes in Quarterfinals It wasn’t a … [Read more...]
Spring Grove boys turned away by No. 1 Hayfield in section semi-final
The Spring Grove boys could not catch up after state-ranked No. 1 Hayfield (28-2) separated with an 8-0 first-half scoring spurt and went on to win, 54-40, during a 2022 Section 1A semi-final at Rochester. The Lions (24-5), state-ranked No. 10, with the No. 4 section seed, handled the ball better than they had the previous game, but not as well as they had most of the season. … [Read more...]