Randolph 0, Kingsland 3 > 25-16, 25-17, 25-19 (K: E. Buchholtz 21 kills, 3 blks; A. Link 27 assists; S. Beck 6 kills; A. Webster 14 digs; Anika Reiland 10 kills. Knights are 5-5, 5-11) … [Read more...]
Trojans Drop 60 in a Half
It was a mismatch from the beginning. Cotter football is in a serious gulley. R-P football is a strong program that has yielded good teams for decades nearly uninterrupted. The score was going to be lopsided. But the Trojans put 60 on the Ramblers, in the game’s first two quarters. In a contest that had a one hour, forty-minute first half, and about a 40-minute second … [Read more...]
Hurricane Walter(s)
In week three, Houston football rode senior running back Wyatt Walters to a 44-14 win over Lanesboro. In week four, it was Ben Walters who got all the glory. The 5’10” 200-pound senior scored all of the Hurricanes’ touchdowns in a lopsided win at Lyle/Pacelli. Cody Hungerholt’s group took a 16-0 lead into intermission, but scored 24 more unanswered points in the third … [Read more...]
O’Hare/Rislov Lead LARP to PI Title
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...]