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Lanesboro Burros

Lanesboro High School
100 Kirkwood St. E
Lanesboro, MN. 55949
507-467-2229

Superintendent: Matt Schultz
Principal: Brett Clarke
Activities Director: Bret Klaehn

BURRO SPORTS

For a second straight year, Chatfield wrestling grabbed the Bi-State team title, not only in the Division III portion, but overall. With a champion (Jameson Priebe), a runner-up (Carson Rowland), a third place (Javier Berg) and five other placers, the Gophers defended their championship from last year. Photo submitted

Wrestling (1/6)

Paul Trende Jan 6, 2025

Girls Wrestling: Christenson’s Title Highlights Area Girls at Bi-State A year ago, at the first ever girls Bi-State wrestling tournament, GMLOS had five placers and Chatfield two. Bulldog Diann Smith’s third place finish was the best finish. This year’s large event had the two squads back in action in La Crosse. Each had five girls’ […]

Fillmore Central’s Bridon Bahl and Rushford-Peterson’s Cole Thompson battle for a rebound at the Trojans’ holiday tourney. R-P whipped FC 86-39. Photo by Paul Trende

Boys Basketball (1/6)

Paul Trende Jan 6, 2025

Trojans Series with FC and Lanesboro Highlights Shoot-For-Three Games Rushford-Peterson hosted their Holiday 3-Coops Shoot-For-Three tournament. The Trojans played boys/girls series with Fillmore Central and Lanesboro. R-P’s teams had little…

Rushford-Peterson’s Emily Helgemoe sends up the floater most notably over Fillmore Central’s Sophia Bronner (#24) at the Trojans’ holiday tourney. R-P beat the Falcons 58-34 to sweep the season series. Photo by Paul Trende

Girls Basketball (1/6)

Paul Trende Jan 6, 2025

Larks Run Streak to Six With Overtime Win They are currently on the longest win streak of the 21 basketball teams covered by the Fillmore County Journal. But to get…

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Hot Shots (12/30)

Paul Trende Dec 30, 2024

LARP wrestling notched wins over Triton (36-33), Waseca (48-28), and Rochester-Century (45-21) at the Cobras triangular, then beat Lake City (55-12). The Screamin’ Eagles (2-0, 11-0) stayed perfect on the…

Devon Williams of Spring Grove and Carter Geiwitz (#5) of Houston vie for a rebound. Williams led Spring Grove’s scoring with 11 points while Geiwitz passed out a game-high seven assists, as Houston notched their first win over the Lions in eight tries, 56-40. Photo by Lee Epps

Boys Basketball (12/30)

Paul Trende Dec 30, 2024

Grand Meadow Ends 31-Game Losing Streak Last season, a young Grand Meadow boys team went 0-27. Adding in a couple losses to end the 2022-2023 campaign, and a couple more…

Rushford-Peterson’s Nadia Happel collects on her take to the basket past Chatfield’s Mya Henry in the teams’ TRC matchup. R-P notched two wins on the week, including topping the Gophers 75-51, to improve to 4-2 on the year. Photo by Paul Trende

Girls Basketball (12/30)

Paul Trende Dec 30, 2024

Southeast Conference Girls Basketball (12/17 – 12/20) Houston 46, Southland 43 (H: A. Boldt 20 pts (8-9 FTs); Avery Kingsley 12 pts; Emily Botcher 10 pts. Houston won despite going…

LARP’s Owen Lange (13-0 on the year) tops the podium after winning the 127-pound weight class at FCLMC’s holiday wrestling tourney. GMLOS’ Parker Armagost (left), who took third, is also pictured. Photo by Paul Trende

Wrestling (12/30)

Paul Trende Dec 30, 2024

Wrestling: #1 Chatfield Tops #4 LCWM, Wins FCLMC’s Tourney The Chatfield wrestling machine kept rolling with a dominating top five dual matchup victory and a team win at FCLMC’s annual…

Spring Grove’s Zach Brumm attacks from the block over Kingsland’s Max Erdman in the teams’ SEC match-up in Spring Valley. A super close game saw the Lions pull away late for a 65-50 victory.

Boys Basketball (12/23)

Paul Trende Dec 23, 2024

Hurricanes Notch Notable Early Win Over Schaeffer Academy Schaeffer Academy entered the contest riding high after beating usual SEC-East top dog Spring Grove. The Rochester Lions entered undefeated (4-0, 4-0)…

Hot Shots

Paul Trende Dec 23, 2024

FCLMC’s Kane Larson notched four tech falls and a pin to win the 175-pound weight class at the 15-team La Crosse-Logan wrestling tourney. Ranked #5 at 172 in Class A,…

Chatfield’s Alden Pearson has the leg of Kasson-Mantorville’s Broc Vaughn in the combatants 145-pound bout. Pearson’s 5-0 decision win was one of eight victories for the Class A #1 Gophers in their 39-15 win over the Class AA #1-ranked KoMets.

Wrestling (12/23)

Paul Trende Dec 23, 2024

Chatfield Tops KoMets in Battle of Top Ranked Teams Kasson-Mantorville’s commentator called it the “Super Bowl of Section 1 wrestling.” For the second straight year, highly-ranked wrestling programs, Chatfield, #1…