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...]
Gophers Softball Reloads to 4-1 Start
Last year could’ve been a year of great things for Chatfield softball. An annulled season per COVID changed all that, ending the senior class of 2020’s softball story without a true culmination. The 2021 season started with a lot of new faces on the team, but those players guided the Gophers to a 4-1 week, a strong start to the season. At Pine Island, Chatfield only managed … [Read more...]
Spring Grove baseball: “walk-in” win over GMLOK; losses at W-K and L/P
Spring Grove’s Isaac Griffin was exceptional on the mound in what was a classic pitchers’ duel until it turned out to be a pitchers’ nightmare for visiting Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland. The Lions’ 2-1, “walk-off, walk-in” conference win on April 15 was sandwiched between less satisfying road setbacks - a 12-3 non-conference loss at Wabasha-Kellogg on April 12 and an … [Read more...]