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Chatfield Gophers

Chatfield High School
205 Union Street NE
Chatfield, MN. 55923
507-867-4210

Superintendent: Edward Harris
Principal: Eric Nelson
Activities Director: Daniel Schindler
GOPHER SPORTS
Chatfield’s Layne Root looks to trip down Kasson-Mantorville’s Kalin Anderson at 139-pounds. Root won the match by 6-4 decision, but in a battle of #2 in Class A versus #2 in Class AA (as of December 4), Chatfield fell to Kasson-Mantorville 29-26. Photo by Leif Erickson

Wrestling (12/22)

Paul Trende Dec 22, 2025
Wrestling: Gophers and Komets Carry on Early Season Battle For the third straight year, southeast Minnesota wrestling powerhouses Chatfield (#2 in Class A) and Kasson-Mantorville (#2 in Class AA) hooked up for a spirited early-season dual (rankings as of December 4). The Gophers won the past two ballyhooed match ups, in 2023 by way of […]
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Spring Grove/Mabel-Canton’s Izabel Kaufmann is surrounded by Houston players including Rylee Boldt (left #43), Jorja Meyer (back right), and Bella Rodriguez (#4). In a key SEC girls basketball contest, SG/M-C notched a commanding 56-29 win. Photo by Craig Johnson

Girls Basketball (12/15)

Fillmore County Journal Dec 15, 2025

Girls Basketball: Warriors Top Trojans, #8 in AAA Byron Behind Klug’s Big Game Caledonia girls basketball notched two good wins on the week. In TRC action, Scott Sorenson’s group built…

Lanesboro’s Mason Gilbertson gets back on defense to contest the shot of Kingsland’s Max Snikter. The Burros notched wins over Kingsland 70-28 and Chatfield 77-67 on the week while falling to defending SEC-West champ Southland 82-35. Photo by Christine Vreeman

Boys Basketball (12/15)

Paul Trende Dec 15, 2025

Boys Basketball:Warriors Top Trojans and Hermantown, King Records 200th Win  Basketball boys powerhouses Rushford-Peterson and Caledonia went at it and their first of two series on the year. R-P’s guys…

The Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson bench celebrates after Jaden Perez pinned Chatfield’s Jackson Bernard at heavyweight, enabling LARP to upset #2 in Class A Chatfield 39-36. Photo by Sarah Sexton

Wrestling (12/15)

Paul Trende Dec 15, 2025

Wrestling: LARP Stuns #2 Chatfield, Goes 4-0 at Spamtown Duals The scores of their last four matches were 57-15, 58-11, 58-9, and 68-3; Chatfield had its way with LARP wrestling.…

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Hot Shots (12/8)

Paul Trende Dec 15, 2025

Carson Harstad scored 28 points as Chatfield beat W-K 65-55, and 36 points in a 77-67 loss to Lanesboro. Five Burros made double figures in said game, as Lanesboro won…

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Girls Basketball (12/8)

Paul Trende Dec 8, 2025

Three Rivers Conference Girls Basketball (11/25)  Dover-Eyota 65, Chatfield 46 (C: Amaya Harmening 14 pts, 6 rebs; Grace Schroeder 11 pts; Makenna Dornack 7 pts, 6 rebs; Lexi Kivimagi 6 pts, 6…

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Boys Basketball (12/8)

Paul Trende Dec 8, 2025

2025-2026 Boys Basketball Preview  Boys basketball starts with some section changes. Defending 1A champion Goodhue and 1A runner-up Rushford-Peterson have each moved up a Class to AA. Red Wing moved down…

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Hot Shots (12/1)

Paul Trende Dec 1, 2025

Girls basketball got rolling with Rushford-Peterson and Houston starting well.  The Trojans got two free throws from Alannah Skalet with 16.8 seconds left that proved the different in topping Z-M…

Falcons Get Six All-Mid-South Green Football Selections

Falcons Get Six All-Mid-South Green Football Selections

Paul Trende Dec 1, 2025

Fillmore Central (5-0, 10-1) topped Lewiston-Altura (4-1, 6-4), Southland (3-2, 5-5), United South Central (2-3, 5-5), NRHEG (1-4, 2-7), and Hayfield (0-5, 1-8) to grab the Mid-South-Green sub-district title, FC’s…

The girls basketball season got started including Grand Meadow playing at Houston. Above, Hurricane senior Jorja Meyer tries to score past Larks Cloey Breitbarth (#25) and Naomi Warmka (#23) in a Houston’s 68-42 win. Photo by Craig Johnson

Girls Basketball (12/01)

Paul Trende Dec 1, 2025

Southeast-Central Yellow Cast Headed by Chatfield/Caledonia Standouts Triton (5-1, 7-3) and Chatfield (5-1, 6-3) shared the Southeast Central ‘Yellow’ sub-district in football with Caledonia (4-2, 9-3) posting the most wins…

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SCHOOL BOARD & NEWS

Chatfield Schools Welcomes Three New Staff

Mary Allen Oct 30, 2023

Chatfield School Board Looks at MCA Results and Enrollment Decline

Mary Allen Sep 18, 2023

Chatfield School Board to start study group for future facility needs

Mary Allen Jul 17, 2023

Chatfield Board approves 2023-2024 budget

Mary Allen Jun 19, 2023

Chatfield School Board hears from the Class of 2023

Mary Allen Apr 17, 2023
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