Their participation numbers are great. Their finishes, both team-wise, and individually are high. LARP boys cross country is in the midst of its best run of FCJ Sports Era. Matt Kingsbury’s guys have the section’s top runner, and team-wise, are a perennial top five finisher. At the Pine Island Invite, LARP grabbed the team title (21) handily over nearest for Lourdes (74) in … [Read more...]
Cougars Start 17-0, Take on Class A Showcase
Every other county team, and most other teams’ period, had long since lost. Mabel-Canton volleyball made it through about the first month of the season without a defeat, starting the year 17-0. The week of September 16 featured a couple more ho-hum SEC wins, then a serious bump in competition, the Class A Showcase. The Cougars easily dropped Lyle/Pacelli and Houston in … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Kandace Sikkink had 16 kills and 16 assists as FC volleyball (3-1, 8-7) beat PEM. Lanesboro beat Kingsland to improve to 5-3, 10-11. Julie Schrieber’s group in renaissancing (went 2-12, 6-25 in 2018). Alyvia Eide had 36 digs, though R-P lost in four sets to Cotter. Teammate Kaleah Davis totaled 21 kills and 11 aces in the loss to Cotter, a win over La Crescent. Peyton Berg … [Read more...]
Football
L-A 14, FC 0 (FC: Zach Haugerud 17-28, 228 yards, INT passing; Grant Kennedy 8-127 receiving; Carson Kiehne 3-40 receiving, 3-33 rushing; Alec Sikkink 16-39 rushing. LA: Cole Mundt 20-255, 2 TDs rushing (97-yard TD run). Key sequence in first half; FC was stopped on 4th and goal at the three. Mundt ran 97-yards on L-A’s next play for the game’s first score. Falcons had … [Read more...]
Volleyball
R-P 3, La Crescent 0 > 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 (R-P: K. Davis 9 kills, 6 aces; Kaylee Ruberg 8 kills; Alora Wilkemeyer 7 kills; Isabelle Kahoun 25 assists; Lakyn Rasmussen 4 kills, 14 digs; A. Eide 12 digs; Elly Malone 4 kills, 8 digs) Chatfield 1, L-A 3 > 15-25, 25-22, 7-25, 12-25 (C: Paige Erickson 10 kills, 3 blks; P. Berg 17 digs; Teagan Allen 15 assists; Zayda Priebe … [Read more...]
Cross Country
Winona “Jim Flim” Invite (Onalaska (74) beat Faribault (84) for boys’ team title. LARP (136) took 7th, Chatfield 10th (of 14 teams). Winona’s Carter Briggs (16:23.6) and Belle Plaine’s Drew Hastings (16:43.5) took first and second, LARP’s Luke O’Hare (16:50.7) third. Tyler Rislov (17:30.5) took 10th for LARP (of 96 runners). Onalaska (27) beat Faribault (104) for the girls’ … [Read more...]
Conversion Lifts R-P to 8-7 Win
What’s that old saying? It all comes down to this. For Rushford-Peterson football, it literally all came down to a couple plays late (on their last possession) in the game versus Goodhue. Both resulted in scores, giving Davin Thompson’s group a good early season win. In a battle between two rivals who seemingly always play each other very tight, it was defensive … [Read more...]
Cross Country (9/10 & 9/14)
D-E Invite (Lake City (33) beat LARP (40) to take boys’ title. LFC took 7th (of 7). L. O’Hare (17:24.2) won his second straight meet, besting PEM’s Samson Hagen (17:43.5). LARP’s T. Rislov (17:43.6) narrowly took third. LARPers Ricky Buchanon (10th), Grady Hengel (12th), and Andrew Hoiness (14th) finished top 15 (of 79). LFC didn’t have a top 25 runner. Lake City (34) … [Read more...]
Volleyball (9/10 – 9/14)
Chatfield 3, La Crescent 0 > 25-19, 25-16, 25-15 (C: Devann Clemens 9 assists, 14-14 serving, 6 digs; Paige Erickson 3 kills, 5 blks, 3 aces; Abi Hinckley 8 digs, 3 aces; Peyton Berg 7 digs, 3 aces; Kielan LaPlante 7 kills; Zayda Priebe 5 kills) FC 3, Southland 0 > 25-7, 25-14, 25-9 (FC: Hadley Yoder 14 kills; Krista Jorgenson 9 kills; K. Sikkink 8 kills, 23 assists, … [Read more...]
Second Half Propels ‘Canes Past Burros
The first half score was 12-8. The second half score was 32-6. Houston football found its running game in the second stanza and powered past Lanesboro in a week three South-East football contest. Cody Hungerholt’s Houstonites never trailed. The ‘Canes scored the game’s first 12 points, getting a Mikkel Schutte to Wyatt Walters 44-yard TD pass on their first possession, a … [Read more...]