Caledonia/Spring Grove junior sprinter Reid Bjerke won both speed events, the 100-meter dash and the 200M, at the quadrangular track meet at Dover-Eyota on March 13. Chris Pieper remains undefeated in high jump after four meets, clearing 6-foot even in this latest effort. The Warrior boys placed third and the girls fourth in the team standings. The top five places in each event … [Read more...]
Golf Teams Descend Upon a Bluff
It is an oxymoron. A majority of the “Journal 11” golf teams all descended upon an ascension. Wabasha-Kellogg hosted a mid-season tourney that featured eight girls’ ,nine boy’s teams including Chatfield, Fillmore Central, Lanesboro, Houston, Caledonia, and LARP. The event was held up on the hill, at Wabasha’s Coffee Mill Golf Course, overlooking the Mississippi River (hence … [Read more...]
Cal/SG boys place first in five events at L-A Invitational
Mitchell Reynolds and Chris Pieper each scored team points in four events as the Caledonia/Spring Grove boys who finished one point out of second place at the Lewiston-Altura Invitational Track and Field Meet on May 7. Eighth grader Fischer Wait won the 400-meter dash (personal-best 56.40 seconds), and Logan Banse won the shot put competition (42 feet, 3 inches), ran on the … [Read more...]
Spring Grove wins a pair, drops three during busy baseball week
Spring Grove won two games and lost three - in that order - during a challenging week that included four games away from home. The Lions returned from a long Monday, May 3 bus ride to Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons with an 11-0, run-rule win. The next afternoon at home, the boys rallied to subdue a winless, but hard-fighting Houston team, 6-4. On Friday in Spring Valley, … [Read more...]
Warrior Baseball Wins Seventh Straight
Fresh off Caledonia boys state basketball runner-up finish, many of the same guys have helped the Warriors to a great start to the baseball season. Team Cal ran off three more wins the Week of May 26. On Tuesday, St. Charles came to town. Brad Augedahl’s group won 16-3 in five innings. It was their fourth straight 10-plus-run win (by a combined 58-6 score). The Warriors … [Read more...]
Cougar standout next pursues school spirit as collegian
Mabel-Canton senior cheerleader Katelyn Kleiboer will be eliciting school spirit next year at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). She was selected after a day-long evaluation and competition at the McLeod Center on campus at Cedar Falls. The first round was an evaluation of tumbling, motions and memorization of the fight song and a cheer. Round two involved physical stunts. … [Read more...]
Pieper wins high jump, Wait 400M run for C/SG boys
Chris Pieper matched a personal record with a winning 6-foot, 2-inch high jump and eighth grader Fischer Wait won the 400-meter run with a personal-best time of 56.59 seconds as the Caledonia/Spring Grove boys finished second in a triangular track meet at Rushford on April 30. With an injury-limited lineup, only four Warrior girls made the trip and finished third in the team … [Read more...]
Lions turn back second Cougar rally, 6-5
Spring Grove could not protect its first three-run lead, but the Lions went back ahead by three and held on to turn back visiting Mabel-Canton, 6-5, on April 20. Mabel-Canton, after erasing the first three-run deficit, had a two-run rally fall short later with the tying run on base in the final seventh inning. The Lions’ second scheduled game of the week, versus Southland, was … [Read more...]
Warrior Baseball Posts Three Lopsided Wins
It was a week of shortened games for Brad Augedahl’s Caledonia Warriors. Team Cal went on the road twice and posted 10-plus-run wins three times versus Class A TRC foes. At #10 in Class A Wabasha-Kellogg, the #10 in AA Warriors rode Thane Meiners on the mound. The junior didn’t give up an earned run and struck out 12 batters in picking up the win (6 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, … [Read more...]
Lion baseball enjoys, endures run-rule results
The Spring Grove boys were delayed by two days of cold temperatures, but once on the diamond, they experienced two extremes of opponents and results - a 10-run-rule, home 11-1 win over winless Schaeffer Academy a day before a run-rule 17-0 loss at undefeated, state-ranked Randolph. It was the Rockets fifth shutout in eight games and fifth time they have scored 17 or more … [Read more...]