The Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston soccer girls (4-9-2, 1-8-1 TRC) closed the regular season with a 2-2 overtime conference tie at La Crescent -Hokah on Oct. 5, followed two nights later by a 9-0 non-conference home rout of Triton and then on Saturday, a come-from-behind 5-4 non-conference road victory at Lake City. Ayshia Gay scored six goals in only two appearances while … [Read more...]
Soccer boys fall to Lancers, take No. 6 seed into playoff rematch
The Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston soccer boys closed the regular season with a 3-1 home loss to La Crescent-Hokah on Oct. 5. Austin Meyer scored a second-half goal for the Warriors while goalkeeper August Allen made 10 saves on the other end of the field. The Lancers led 1-0 at halftime and went on to complete a season conference sweep. Joey Schreier supplied a goal and an … [Read more...]
Spring Grove girls grab three SEC wins in three nights
The Spring Grove volleyball girls swept three conference matches in three straight nights, all by 3-0 scores – on the road at Lanesboro on Oct. 5 and the next night at Houston before hosting Kingsland. The showdown with the Burros decided which of the two would stay closest on the heels of league-leading and state-ranked Mabel-Canton. Spring Grove freshman Kendal Van Minsel … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
R-P football (#9 in Class A) stayed perfect with a 66-12 win over Cotter. The Trojans (4-0, 5-0) lead the Southeast-East. Lanesboro football (#3 in 9-Man) stayed perfect with a 54-13 win over Kingsland. Seth Semmen, Orion Sass, and J.T. Rein combined to rush for nearly 400 yards in the game. The Burros (5-0, 5-0) lead the South-East. Houston football (1-4, 1-4) got its … [Read more...]
Rislov/LARP Win at St. Charles
Tuesday the 21st of September, five Journal-covered cross country programs ran only against another Journal-covered programs amidst two meets in Rushford and Harmony. On Thursday, September 30, all five squads descended upon the St. Charles Invite. The top 10 (particularly boys) was littered with Journal-covered athletes. Five of the top six runners were either from LARP, … [Read more...]
Warriors VB Posts Impressive Non-Conference Wins
The latter portion of their TRC schedule is going to have Caledonia volleyball facing some big matches. But it is safe to say “they are back” after last season’s disappointing campaign. Scott Koepke’s group had just two matches on tap for the week of Monday, September 27, both of the non-conference variety. They might have posted their best two wins of the season so far. … [Read more...]
Burros/Cougars Part Deux
Someday, an SEC team will beat Mabel-Canton in an SEC league game. It will happen, someday. Lanesboro hoped that day would be in 2021. Last year they took M-C to five sets. Earlier in the season, Julie Schreiber’s Burros had M-C down big in games two and three, but fell in three sets. The re-match saw the Burros (6-1, 13-3) come in with maybe their strongest team in recent … [Read more...]
Falcon VB Comes From Behind to Beat Trojans
In a key TRC game, Rushford-Peterson volleyball (4-1, 12-5) hosted Fillmore Central (6-0, 10-7). Per homecomings, the game was played a 1 p.m. in front of most of the Trojans student body and a bunch of FC’s. It turned into a tense five-set affair. The story of games one and two was R-P’s serving and/or FC’s serve receive. The Trojans had six game one aces, as the Falcons … [Read more...]
FC Football Shuts Out Rockets
For a second straight week, Fillmore Central football (2-1, 3-1) posted a key sub-district win. This time, the victim was Randolph (2-1, 3-1) in a battle of second place teams. The Falcons defense shut-out the Rockets while collecting three turnovers. FC’s offense wasn’t super potent, but it made enough big plays. Chris Mensink’s group scored a touchdown on each of its … [Read more...]
Turnovers Aid Larks Past Cards
The final difference in the game was eight points. Grand Meadow (2-1, 3-1) had 12 points off turnovers. Those miscues by #10 in 9-Man LeRoy-Ostrander (2-1, 3-1) proved pivotal in a match-up of South-East sub-district rival reams. The first half was explosive, though L-O fell into a hole early. GM’s first drive was capped by a 50-yard Taylor Glynn to Dustin Copley screen … [Read more...]