For a fifth time in six weeks, Chatfield football had to battle, this time at Lewiston-Altura. The Gophers rebounded from their first loss (Caledonia) with a late game win. L-A came out with two big pass plays, then an Evan Daley 2-run TD run for a 7-0 lead. Chatfield had an 11-play second quarter drive. Carson Larrabee’s 1-yard TD run (on 4th and goal) made it 7-6 L-A at … [Read more...]
#5 Cougars Out-Snarl Lions, Claw East Title
With two SEC matches left, M-C volleyball holds a two-game lead in the East. They are guaranteed a share of the division. The Cougars got by their last best test at Spring Grove, a battle of 20-2 teams. Lonnie Morken’s crew snuck out game one (25-23), dropped game two (13-25), the rare convincing set win over M-C. The visitors then rallied to take games three (25-18) and … [Read more...]
Close Proximity Volleyball
The first week of October featured multiple volleyball games between FCJ covered teams. R-P beat Chatfield 3-1 (19-25, 25-17, 25-16, 31-29). The Gophers were down 22-16 in game four only to tie at 24. It took R-P eight match points to post victory. Jaelyn Connaughty (10 kills, 16 assists, 9 digs), Alyvia Eide (30 digs), Peyton Hoiness (21 assists, 14-14 serving, 4 aces), … [Read more...]
Knights Rally From Down 24
Last year, Kingsland football won a game, a big step after a string of winless seasons. Big step two; a huge comeback win. In a battle of 0-5 teams, Cotter led the Knights 30-6 in the second quarter. Kingsland then scored 27 unanswered points! Touchdown runs by Dallas Jones (47 yards) and Nick Ramaker (1 yard) made it 30-20 at halftime. Jones’ third TD run made it 30-26 … [Read more...]
#6 Trojans Drop First at #10 Goodhue
It was the second signature Mid-Southeast-East match-up of the season. A week after state-ranked BP won at state-ranked Goodhue, 6th-ranked R-P (5-0) visited the 10th ranked Wildcats (4-1). The Trojans were constantly up against field position in the first. Four Goodhue drives all started in and/or made deep R-P territory. Twice the Trojans defense held inside the ten. The … [Read more...]
Folz Foils Houston Again
A year ago, Alex Folz propelled Spring Grove to a 26-6 win over Houston in a match-up of undefeated ranked teams. This year’s big contest, SG (5-0) ranked #1, Houston (5-0) ranked #5, was even more dominated by the 5’10” 195-pounder. After spotting SG a 13-0 lead, Houston got a 51-yard James Hongerholt TD run to pull to down 13-6. It was as close as they would get. After an … [Read more...]
Football
Lanesboro 41, L/P 0 (L: Carson Schwichtenberg 6-30, 2 TDs rushing, 9-15, 87 yards, TD passing; J.T. Rein 13-93, TD rushing; Nate Betz 7-57, TD rushing; Connor Ruen 8-29, TD rushing, 16-yard TD reception. Burros: 2-3, 3-3) #7 USC 22, FC 13 (FC: Josh Peters 12-20, 143 yards, 2 INTs passing, 29-88, 2 TDs rushing; Carson Kiehne 4-57 receiving. USC led 14-0. FC closed to 14-13 … [Read more...]
Volleyball
FC 0, W-K 3 > 20-25, 14-25, 20-25 (FC: S. Schrüfer 9 kills, 9 digs; M. Scheevel 23 assists, 10 digs; P. Donlinger 9 kills; K.J. Corson 9 digs. Falcons-South suffer first TRC loss. Each team was TRC undefeated coming in) D-E 3, Chatfield 1 > 22-25, 27-25, 23-25, 23-25 (C: Belle Berg 7 kills, 12 digs; T. Allen 23 assists; Alanna Goetzinger 11 kills; A. Hinckley 20 digs, … [Read more...]
Cross Country
Chatfield Invite (Chatfield’s boys and girls took 3rd beind Stewie and Rochester Area Home School. Kingsland’s boys took 6th (of 7 complete), the girls were incomplete. Alex Wright (9th), Treyton Lanning (12th), Evan Wright (15th), and Brady Woltz (19th) finished top 20 for the Gophers (of 60). Stewie’s Alex Lawrence (17:56.6) took first. Gopher girls Aletta Strande (9th), … [Read more...]
‘Canes Stay Perfect in Double OT
It was the game of week five. Randolph (3-1) football travelled to #5 in 9-Man Houston (4-0). The teams engaged in a tit-for-tat track meet. Regulation saw four ties; 8, 16, 24 and 38. There were six lead-changes. Houston led 16-8, 30-24, and 38-32; Randolph 8-0, 24-16, and 32-30. James Hongerholt’s 1-yard TD (plus Joey Fishel run) in the fourth gave team double-H the … [Read more...]