High school sports are supposed to be innocent. Kids play for the fun, for their parents and families, for the glory, and to learn lessons like discipline, dedication, team-work, and perseverance. The teenage years are supposed to be a carefree time in life. But tragedy doesn’t know an age. On back-to-back nights in Mabel, Cougar basketball players took the court days … [Read more...]
Gophers/Bulldogs Battle For TRC Wrestling Title
For wrestling, the TRC has two divisions, East and West. With some help from a postponement, West co-leaders PEM (8-0, 18-6), and Chatfield (8-0, 11-1) met in primetime (Saturday, 7 p.m.) to conclude the regular season. The dual for TRC supremacy was decided by a single point. It came down to the final weight. Chatfield got wins from Seth Goetzinger (106 > 12-5 D), Cael … [Read more...]
‘Cane Girls are SEC-East Champs
Houston girls basketball had already clinched a share of their first SEC-East title prior to a league match-up with L-O. The ‘Canes beat the Cards in December 66-32. A re-match was similarly lop-sided. Alyssa Rostad scored 28 points (4-5 threes, 6-7 FTs, 5 rebs, 4 assists, 6 stls) to lead Houston to a 79-39 win. Dale Moga’s ‘Canes are stand-alone SEC-East champs. Amber … [Read more...]
Lutes Lifts FC Past Lions
On January 29, FC boys basketball beat L-O for their first win over a plus-500 team in almost a year. It took just 10 days to top another good SEC team. Versus Schaeffer Academy, Aaron Mensink’s group (3-10, 5-15), trailed 38-32 with under 3:00 left. Josh Peters then hit a three (38-35). After a big Matt Lutes block, the senior scored, making it 38-37 (1:51). Schaeffer … [Read more...]
Knights Steal it From Lions
Spring Grove’s girls led Kingsland 57-50 with a little over two minutes to go, only for Kingsland to rally for a nice victory. The Knights ended on an 8-0 run. Freshman Ellie Buchholtz had six of those points. Senior Kori Kruegel had the game winning bucket (from E-Buchholtz) with about ten seconds left. Lion Lauryn Bohr took a shot with 0:02 but it was no good. The … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Landon Skalet hit ten three’s and averaged 18.5 PPG, as R-P boys’ basketball (9-5, 17-5) ran their winning streak to eight by beating Houston and L-A. The Trojans are now #14 in Class A. Hurricane James Hongerholt scored 20 in defeat. Andrew Luck had a career-high 20 points, Carson Schwichtenberg the game-winning three, as Lanesboro beat Alden-Conger in overtime, 51-50. … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball (2/5 – 2/10)
#14 in A R-P 64, Houston 48 (RP: L. Skalet 18 pts (5-9 threes), 5 stls; Ben Ansell 14 pts (7-12 FGs); Kobe Lind 12 pts; Jake Paulson 8 pts, 5 assists, 4 stls. H: J. Hongerholt 20 pts, 9 rebs; Alex Van Gundy 18 pts (4-7 threes)) S.A. 43, Lanesboro 39 (L: C. Schwichtenberg 12 pts, 7 rebs. Burros trailed 39-32, got to within 39-37, but no closer) Kingsland 42, D-E 50 (K: … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (2/5– 2/10)
D-E 46, Kingsland 35 (K: L. Buchholtz 15 pts, 12 rebs; Ellie Buchholtz 9 pts, 13 rebs. FTs: D-E 18-28, K 7-15) #4 in A Goodhue 69, R-P 35 (RP: L. Lawston 21 pts (10-14 FGs)) Lanesboro 31, Schaeffer Academy 52 (L: Emily Snyder 13 pts, 5 rebs) #9 in AA Stewartville 72, Chatfield 48 (C: Alanna Goetzinger 14 pts (6-11 FGs), 8 rebs. S: Erin Lamb (frosh) 29 pts)) FC 36, … [Read more...]
Wrestling (2/8- 2/10)
Chatfield 74, FCLMC 6 (Wolves forfeited seven weights. Grady Schott (126), Chase Ketterhagen (132), and A.J. Karver (195) had pins for Chatfield, S. Goetzinger (106 > 15-0) and D. Goldsmith (170 > 21-6) tech falls, C. Bartels (113 > 10-1) a major decision. Caden Anderson (120) had FCLMC’s only win (pin). Wolves: 0-4 vs TRC-East, 0-9 vs TRC all, 2-15 overall) St. … [Read more...]
Houston GBB Clinches East Share
Before the 1991-1992 season started, the Southeast Conference was born. Eleven different schools have won or shared out-right or East/West division titles in girls basketball since. Caledonia, M-C, SG, R-P, and Lanesboro have all done so multiple times. Geographically between them all has been Houston. A Hurricane girls team has never been SEC champion. Until now. … [Read more...]