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Girls Basketball (12/15)

December 15, 2025 by Fillmore County Journal Leave a Comment

Spring Grove/Mabel-Canton’s Izabel Kaufmann is surrounded by Houston players including Rylee Boldt (left #43), Jorja Meyer (back right), and Bella Rodriguez (#4). In a key SEC girls basketball contest, SG/M-C notched a commanding 56-29 win. Photo by Craig Johnson

Girls Basketball: Warriors Top Trojans, #8 in AAA Byron Behind Klug’s Big Game Caledonia girls basketball notched two good wins on the week. In TRC action, Scott Sorenson’s group built a 32-21 halftime lead on east foe Rushford-Peterson and prevailed 62-41. Aubrie Klug led the way with 19 points (4-4 FTs). Nicole Banse added 18 points (4-5 FTs). R-P was led by Torryn … [Read more...]

Boys Basketball (12/15)

December 15, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Lanesboro’s Mason Gilbertson gets back on defense to contest the shot of Kingsland’s Max Snikter. The Burros notched wins over Kingsland 70-28 and Chatfield 77-67 on the week while falling to defending SEC-West champ Southland 82-35. Photo by Christine Vreeman

Boys Basketball:Warriors Top Trojans and Hermantown, King Records 200th Win  Basketball boys powerhouses Rushford-Peterson and Caledonia went at it and their first of two series on the year. R-P’s guys entered the contest returning pretty much everyone, while the Warriors were nearly a full-scale reboot after graduation took a big toll from last year’s great state qualifier. … [Read more...]

Wrestling (12/15)

December 15, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

The Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson bench celebrates after Jaden Perez pinned Chatfield’s Jackson Bernard at heavyweight, enabling LARP to upset #2 in Class A Chatfield 39-36. Photo by Sarah Sexton

Wrestling: LARP Stuns #2 Chatfield, Goes 4-0 at Spamtown Duals The scores of their last four matches were 57-15, 58-11, 58-9, and 68-3; Chatfield had its way with LARP wrestling. The 68-3 score came in last year’s team section semifinals, as it was one of the Gophers’ wins on the way to a state runner-up finish. But to start the 2025-2026 wrestling season, at a triangular in … [Read more...]

Gymnastics (12/6)

December 15, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Byron Meet (The Warriors placed fourth among four teams (Byron, Pi-ZM, K-M/Triton) in their season opener at the Jean Harris Invite at Byron. In all around, Vivian Kittleson was fifth and Harper Myrah seventh among 46 gymnasts. The Warriors’ highest two scores came in floor exercise with Myrah fifth with an 8.9 and Kittleson seventh at 8.8. The team’s highest finishes were … [Read more...]

Hot Shots (12/8)

December 15, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

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Carson Harstad scored 28 points as Chatfield beat W-K 65-55, and 36 points in a 77-67 loss to Lanesboro. Five Burros made double figures in said game, as Lanesboro won the second half 50-35. Lyric Stadtler scored 22 points as Spring Grove beat LeRoy-Ostrander 81-51. Cardinal Reid Hungerholt had 27 points in defeat. Emery Bartel scored 26 points as the Lions beat Houston 62-36. … [Read more...]

Fall Sports Awards

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton middle hitter Kinley Soiney has signed a letter of intent to play college volleyball at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota. The 2025 SEC Player for the Year, four-time All-SEC pick, three-time All-State pick, and Cougar all-time kill leader (2,205) is surrounded by her teammates. Photo by Heather Kleiboer

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Girls Basketball (12/8)

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

LeRoy-Ostrander’s Mabel Johnson tries to stop Lanesboro’s Jensyn Storhoff from taking her drive into the paint amidst the Burros’ 46-33 season-opening SEC win in girls basketball. Photo by Ron Mayer

Three Rivers Conference Girls Basketball (11/25)  Dover-Eyota 65, Chatfield 46 (C: Amaya Harmening 14 pts, 6 rebs; Grace Schroeder 11 pts; Makenna Dornack 7 pts, 6 rebs; Lexi Kivimagi 6 pts, 6 asts. It was the Eagles third game, the Gophers’ first. D-E’s Aby Griebenow went for 25 (pts) and 27 (rebs). Chatfield got out-rebounded 70 to 31. Gophers > 0-1, 0-1)  Cotter 26, … [Read more...]

Boys Basketball (12/8)

December 8, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

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2025-2026 Boys Basketball Preview  Boys basketball starts with some section changes. Defending 1A champion Goodhue and 1A runner-up Rushford-Peterson have each moved up a Class to AA. Red Wing moved down to AA. The section thus has 17 teams, the Wildcats, Trojans, Wingers, Caledonia, Cannon Falls, Chatfield, Cotter/Hope Lutheran, Dover-Eyota, La Crescent/Hokah, Pine Island, … [Read more...]

Mabel-Canton Awards (12/1)

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

Mabel-Canton announced its volleyball awards. Individual team award winners are (L to R) Gwen Rein (Hardest Worker), Kinley Soiney (Hardest Worker, Most Valuable Player), and Tylar Wenthold (Team Player). Photo by Heather Kleiboer

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Hot Shots (12/1)

December 1, 2025 by Paul Trende Leave a Comment

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Girls basketball got rolling with Rushford-Peterson and Houston starting well.  The Trojans got two free throws from Alannah Skalet with 16.8 seconds left that proved the different in topping Z-M 56-54.  R-P then beat John Marshall 66-39, both games at the Dover-Eyota Tourney.  The Trojans (0-0, 2-0) had three and four girls in double figures in the two games.  They hit 11 of … [Read more...]

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