Ranked football teams rolled. Carson Rowland accounted for four total TDs (three rushing, one passing) as #3 in AA Chatfield whipped La Crescent/Hokah 52-8. Ethan Stendel accounted for four TDs (two rushing, two passing) as #5 Caledonia posted its fourth shut-out, blanking St. Charles 28-0. Chatfield (5-0, 6-0) leads the Southeast-White over Caledonia (4-1, 5-1) and #9 Cannon … [Read more...]
Football (10/14)
TD-Pass Hat Trick Propels #10 FC to First Place Fillmore Central football has owned the Mid-Southeast-Blue division the last two years. It seems it will be a hat trick for the Falcons. It took a hat trick, of touchdown passes, to put the Falcons in driver’s seat. In a big week six showdown, Chris Mensink’s Falcons (4-1, 4-1) took on Lewiston-Altura (4-1, 4-1) on the road in … [Read more...]
Volleyball (10/17)
Lions Take Set From #4 M-C, Cougars Win in Four For all intents and purposes, the SEC-East title was on the line as #4 in Class Mabel-Canton (9-0, 25-2) hosted Spring Grove (9-1, 15-5). The Lions have been about the only SEC team to test M-C over the years. That said, the Cougars whipped through SG 3-0 (25-22, 25-15, 25-18) on September 5. But like last year, the Lions got … [Read more...]
Cross Country (10/14)
Norms Hold True at Heartland Run For a second time this year, Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson/Houston cross country hosted a meet. At the top, a lot of this year’s running norms held true. LARPH boys won. LFC’s girls won. Their top runner, Autumn Rakosnik won. Starting with Matt Kingsbury’s host boys, it was not even remotely close. LARPH was one spot away from a perfect … [Read more...]
Soccer (10/3)
(G) Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston 1, Dover-Eyota 7 (Macy Krause scored for the Warriors on a corner kick from Siri Konkel) (B) Dover-Eyota 1, Cal/SG/Hou 0 (It was the second loss to the Eagles this season by the same score) B) Cal/SG/Hou 1, Stewartville 6 (The regular season ended with this non-conference game in which Jacob Hernandez scored for the Warriors. With the … [Read more...]
Frauenkrons Named Hurricane Heroes
The Frauenkron family - Byron, Anna, Ethan and Elliot - were acknowledged as Hurricane Heroes at the October 3 Houston School Board meeting. Superintendent Mary Morem related that Ethan and Elliot helped pour concrete at the school and called her to come see the finished product late one night. The boys were busy power washing the concrete in the dark using headlights so the … [Read more...]
Cross Country: #4 LARPH Boys, #8 LFC Girls Win St. Charles Meet
Journal-covered cross country teams LARPH, LFC, Chatfield, GMLOS and Kingsland all took part in the St. Charles cross country meet. The host Saints, Stewartville, Dover-Eyota, La Crescent/Hokah and PEM also competed. The boys side had nine full teams and the girls side 10. LARPH’s boys (27) won their second meet of four competed by easily topping nearest foes Stewartville (66) … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Maddox Rodriguez ran for 165 yards and 4 TDs and Lee Klunder 100 yards and one TD as Houston football (2-3, 2-3) beat AC/G-E 42-28. The duo are stepbrothers. Jonah Bunke ran for 172 yards and a TD as R-P (2-3, 2-3) beat Hayfield 54-6. Torryn Schneider had 16 digs and 5 aces on 25-25 serving as R-P volleyball beat La Crescent/Hokah 3-1. Spring Grove volleyball notched SEC wins … [Read more...]
Soccer (9/24 & 9/27)
(B) Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston 0, St. Charles/Lewiston-Altura/Lanesboro 6 (G) SC/L-A/L 4, Cal/SG/Hou 2 (For the Warriors, Macy Krause scored with an assist crossing pass from Siri Konkel. Josie Foster scored with an assist from Addie Fruechte) (B) La Crescent/Hokah 0, Cal/SG/Hou 5 (Warriors are 0-8-1 in league play, 1-10-1 overall) (G) Cal/SG/Hou 0, La Crescent/Hokah 6 … [Read more...]
Volleyball (10/7)
#4 Caledonia Runs Win Streak to Eight Coming off a 6-4 start to the year, Caledonia volleyball has been on a tear and it continued with a two-win week. The Warriors (4-2, 12-4) and Fillmore Central (4-1, 8-9) usually play tight matches. But this year marked the first since 2019 the match was not a 3-1 affair. Coming off the Class AA Showcase title, Dan Reinhart’s gals were … [Read more...]