In a battle between the top two teams in the SEC-West over the past few years, Grand Meadow’s defense held Kingsland majorly in check in picking up a key SEC win in a league without divisions this year. Kingsland mustered some offense in the first half, though the Larks led 26-17 at intermission. But the Knights were held to nine second half points as GM picked up their best … [Read more...]
Wrestling: 10-0 LARP Sweeps Quad with GMLOS, Cal/Hou, and Westfield
Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson wrestling continued its foray into the recent world of undefeatedness via a quadrangular sweep at GMLOS which also included Caledonia/Houston and Westfield. Tim Tekautz and Darrin Hegland’s group has just one ranked wrestler (#9 at 107 Christian Zibrowski), but they are physically stacked enough up and down the line-up that no team has beat … [Read more...]
Southeast Conference Girls Basketball (1/4 & 1/5)
Lyle/Pacelli 18, Spring Grove 64 (SG: K. Soiney 20 pts, 4 rebs, 5 stls; Siri Konkel 14 pts, 3 rebs, 4 asts, 3 stls; Kylie Hammel 11 pts, 5 rebs, 3 asts; Emerson Ingvalson 8 pts, 5 rebs, 7 asts, 4 stls. The Lions scored the first 14 points of the game, and the sophomore Soiney scored her 1,000th career point. SG > 5-0, 9-2) Grand Meadow 64, Schaeffer Academy 43 (GM: L. Foster … [Read more...]
Wrestling: Chatfield Takes an Impressive Second at “The Clash”
On back-to-back weekends, La Crosse hosts big wrestling tourneys. One week after the individual Wisconsin/Minnesota Bi-State tourney, squads flocked for “The Clash XXI” team-based duals. Thirty-two teams from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Arizona, Missouri, California, and Connecticut competed across two days. To show the strength on said tourney, Minnesota Class A … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball: Knights Stay Perfect, SEC’s Only Perfect Team
John Fenske’s Kingsland boys kept up their fantastic start by posting two SEC wins despite not having All-SEC guard Jayden Brink (ankle). Kingsland only led winless GM 26-20 at halftime, but turned it on in the second 18-minutes for the 58-30 win. The Larks had just 10 second half points. Max Erdman (14 pts, 10 rebs, 4 stls) and Sam Snitker (10 pts, 5 rebs) got to … [Read more...]
Non-Conference Boys Basketball (1/2 – 1/6)
Goodhue 80, Fillmore Central 76 in 2 OT (FC: J. Kiehne 23 pts (7-11 FGs, 9-11 FTs), 5 asts; L. Hellickson 21 pts (4-9 threes), 11 rebs, 3 blks; G. Kennedy 11 pts, 18 rebs; Josh Haugerud 8 pts. G: Luke Roschen 32 pts (7-15 threes), 17 rebs, 7 asts. FC led 51-37 in the second half before suffering a 6:47 scoring draught where the Wildcats ran 16-0 to lead 53-51. Kennedy had two … [Read more...]
Boys Basketball: Trojans Get to 10 Wins, Bunke Tops 1,000
Rushford-Peterson’s boys had an eventful week. They won two games. Versus PEM, Chris Drinkall’s bunch authored a comeback to earn their 10th victory. Their senior shooter surpassed 1,000 career points. R-P first easily handled LeRoy-Ostrander 88-45. Dawson Bunke (20 pts, 5-8 threes, 5-5 FTs) and Will LaFleur (19 pts, 7-9 FGs, 5-7 threes) combined for 10 threes and 39 points. … [Read more...]
Gymnastics (1/4)
West Salem/Aquinas/Bangor 140.575, Caledonia/Houston/Spring Grove 128.350 (Sabrina Lisota earned a 9.100 score on the balance beam, the highest beam score under the current coaching staff. That was good for second place, the highest finish for the Warriors. In all-around, Harper Myrah (31.950) placed fourth and Vivian Kittleson fifth among 10 athletes. Cal/SG/Hou > 2-10) *The … [Read more...]
Three Rivers Conference Boys Basketball (1/5)
#5 in AA Caledonia 75, Wabasha-Kellogg 55 (C: L. Doyle 20 pts; Reid Klug 18 pts; Garrett Konz 12 pts; Will Hahn 8 pts. Caledonia led 29-24 at halftime, out-scored W-K 46-31 in second half. Juniors Mason Klug and Ethan Stendel did not play) Fillmore Central 72, Dover-Eyota 62 (FC: G. Kennedy 24 pts (11-16 FGs), 10 rebs, 3 asts, 3 stls, 4 blks; L. Hellickson 20 pts (4-8 … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/5 -1/6)
The Clash XXI (Caledonia/Houston competed in this 32-team two-day dual-meet tourney, going 1-5, taking 31st place. Owen Denstad and Isaac Blocker were two of 46 wrestlers to go 6-0. Braxton Lange picked up his 100th career win at the event) > Bracket D Quarters > D-III #3 Bettendorf 56, Caledonia/Houston 16 (Denstad (145) and Aiden Burns (107) had pins for the Warriors, … [Read more...]