Larks, Burros and Johnsons Highlight All-South-East Squad With the Fillmore County Journal expanding its coverage to include Grand Meadow, Spring Grove, and LeRoy-Ostrander, the naming of the All South-East “East” sub-district team takes precedent. Seven of the teams in the sub-District fall under the “Journal 10” umbrella. Section title game foes GM and Lanesboro each get a … [Read more...]
Three Falcons, Three Gophers, Two Trojans Make All-TRC
Volleyball Post-Season Wrap-Up It was a shortened year of volleyball with no post-season, but two of the three ‘‘Journal 10” squads from the TRC had excellent seasons and boasted a trio of All-Conference picks. Fillmore Central boasts a pair of repeat picks in seniors Maddie Krage (5’6” OH) and K.J. Corson (5’3” libero). Krage was the Falcons’ go-to hitter. She was … [Read more...]
Cougars, Burros Headline All-SEC List
Volleyball Post-Season Wrap-Up In the Southeast Conference, the league’s top two teams, Mabel-Canton and Lanesboro, combine to boast nine of the 19 All-SEC picks. Leading the way are four players from the SEC East champion Cougars squad. Senior Kenidi McCabe (5’5” setter/OH) heads the list, making All-SEC for a fourth straight year. She is also the SEC Player of the … [Read more...]
Volleyball Lions persevere through pandemic for another winning season
It was the sixth consecutive winning season for coach Kelsey Morken and the Spring Grove volleyball girls, who finished at 8-4, including a 5-4 conference mark to tie for third place in the six-team SEC East Division race. Considering two break-even seasons, it has been a dozen seasons since the Lions finished below.500, the longest non-losing streak in program history. The … [Read more...]
Lion netters close with wins against Rockets, ‘Canes
Spring Grove closed out the home volleyball schedule with a 3-1 payback win over Randolph on November 18 and then finished the virus-shortened season with a November 19 road triumph at Houston. The 2020 season that started late also ended early, due to public health concerns. Late-season scheduled matches with Grand Meadow and Lanesboro were among many area athletic events … [Read more...]
Fall Sports Thrown Asunder
The week of Monday, November 16 brought a definitive end to the fall sports campaign. The day after that Tuesday’s initial playoff football games, Governor Tim Walz put a four-week pause on high school sports starting Saturday the 21st, per a rise in COVID cases across the state. Volleyball’s regular and post seasons went up in smoke. Teams that could, played their last … [Read more...]
Section 1 9-Man Football Play-Offs
Lions Score Late, Take Section Opener Over ‘Canes Spring Grove (4-seed, 4-2) did not lead Houston (5-seed, 2-4) until the final half-minute. A 21-yard touchdown pass from Isaac Griffin to Reid Bjerke completed a 93-yard, 13-play drive for the Lions’ 20-14 win in a Section 1 9-man football quarter at Blayne Onsgard Memorial Field. The drive remained alive, when on … [Read more...]
Cougars Grab SEC-East Title, Finish Perfect
Mabel-Canton volleyball entered the year with hopes of winning a 1A East title, maybe a Section 1A title, and proceeding on to state. The latter was dashed because of COVID even before the season started. The former two then also got dashed. M-C beat Houston in a sweep (25-15, 25-7, 25-22) to begin the week. Kenidi McCabe (15 kills, 10 assists, 6 digs), Jordyn Newgard (7 … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Kingsland (3-0, 5-2) and Grand Meadow (4-0, 5-3) volleyball were co-awarded the SEC-West volleyball division title. Only inter-division games counted as SEC league contests. The teams didn’t play each other. L-O (4-2, 5-4) finished third. Fillmore Central (7-1, 9-1), Chatfield (5-1, 7-4), PEM (5-1, 8-2), and Cotter (3-1, 4-2) quad-shared the TRC volleyball title. Chatfield … [Read more...]
Volleyball (11/16 – 11/20)
Chatfield 3, Rochester-John Marshall 2 > 25-23, 25-17, 23-25, 10-25, 18-16 (C: Zayda Priebe 14 kills; Mollie Henry 7 kills; Paige Erickson 6 kills, 6 blks, 6 digs; Peyton Berg 5 kills, 25 digs; Sydney Allen 16 assists, 8 digs; Devann Clemens 14 assists, 9 digs; Abi Hinckley 12 digs. Hinckley (28 of 30) and Berg (23 of 25) combined to go 51 of 55 on serve receive. The … [Read more...]