An “O” and a “0” aren’t technically the same thing.  For Chatfield softball, the “oh” represents a “zero” in the loss column.  Mark Eickhoff personally had some really sad news on the week.  His varsity head coaching career is, however, all smiles, all wins.  Chatfield began by slamming W-K 14-1 in five innings.   Belle Berg (2-4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, 3 R) hit her third home run in … [Read more...]

An “O” and a “0” aren’t technically the same thing.  For GMLOK softball, they’ve done the same thing as Chatfield.   The Bulldogs racked up a couple more wins to also stay undefeated.  Versus D-E, GMLOK went ahead with a 3-run fourth inning.  The Eagles closed to down 3-2 heading to the bottom of the sixth.  GMLOK got an insurance run (4-2), which they needed.  They eked out a … [Read more...]

The state champion Fillmore Central girls are the county’s golf headliner.  The Falcons graduated one senior (Laura Donney) and lost their coach (Lane Powell).  Assistant Aaron Mensink takes over.  His cast is led by stand-outs, sophomore Grace Miller (Section Champ, 8th at state) and freshman Madison Scheevel (3rd at Sections, 7th at state).  Top 16 section finishers Tayah … [Read more...]

After being offered previously, Mabel-Canton football coach Karl Urbaniak has agreed to coach the 2017 Vikings/MFCA High School All-Star game as U.S. Bank Stadium (in December).  GMLOKS girls track and field won their third meet in as many tries (Hayfield Invite).  All four gal-relay teams took first.  The 4x200, 4x400, and Amelia Staat (800) stayed first-place perfect (3/3) … [Read more...]

Chatfield 6, W-K 4 (C: B. Ihrke 3-3, two 2Bs, 3 R; Spencer Mandt 1-4, 2B, 3 RBI, R; Robert Crouch 1-3, RBI, 5 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 8 K, 0 BB, Win) GMLOK 6, D-E 11 (4 ½) (GMLOK: Drew Copley 2-3, two 2Bs, 2 RBI, 2 R; Zach Myhre 2-2, 2B, RBI, 2 R; Brenn Olson 1-3, 2 R.  Game called per weather and darkness.  Eagles were home team) SC 10, Chatfield 0 (C: R. Crouch 1-3, 2B.  … [Read more...]

Houston 5, R-P 1 (H: A. Chapel 2-3, 3B, ITP-HR, 2 RBI, 2 R; A. Dulek 2-4, two 3B, RBI, R; Becca Lee 2B, RBI, R; Richelle Botcher 7 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 7 K, 3 BB, Win,  RP: Alli Oian 1-3, RBI; Savannah Skalet 1-4, R, 7 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 0 BB, 10 K, Loss) SG/Cal 7, R-P 3 (RP: A. Oian 3-4, RBI; Ellie Dahl 2-4, R; Peyton Hoiness 2-2; Anna Kjos 2-3, R.  Trojans: 0-4) … [Read more...]

Chatfield Open (Gopher teams took second (of 3).  1st’s: M. Bell (200/L-Jump), Kyra Dokken (H-Jump), Ben Muller (200), Nolan Salerno (300-H), Brady Woltz (3,200), the girls 4x100 (Megan Hopp, Macy Pederson, Abby Jorgenson, Rylee Burnett) and 4x200 (Hopp, Pederson, Dokken, Bell), the boys 4x100 (Austin Swancutt, Isaiah Froese, Nathan Meeker, Muller), 4x200 (Swancutt, Muller, … [Read more...]

(B) La Crescent 187, R-P 194 (RP: Hayden Stensgard 45*; Luke Rasmussen 46.  Trojans top three beat Lancers top three); (G) LC 203, RP 293 (Lancers top four beat Trojans best) (B) D-E 274, Kingsland 201 (K: Simon Broadwater 42*, Wyatt Pruter 47); (B) D-E Inc., Kingsland 312 … [Read more...]

GMLOKS girls track has a number of very good athletes.  Former state discus qualifier, Kingsland graduate Aaron Thauwald, walked into a good situation when he took over the head position this year.  In their second meet, the girls notched their second team win.  GMLOKS (165) topped RPH (128) at the Tro-Canes’ first invite of the year.  Chatfield also competed, taking fifth (of … [Read more...]

For a high school coach, seniors and experience hopefully equals win.  John Fenske’s GMLOK softball team had all three the first week of the season.  Lindsay Welch (1-3, HR, RBI, 2 R) hit her first varsity home run, Gretchen Corson was 3-for-5 (2B) with 4 RBIs, as GMLOK beat PEM 13-5.   Kori Kruegel (3-4, 2B, 3 R) and Alayna Meskill (7 IP, 10 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, Win) were … [Read more...]