The Caledonia boys have a had good season. However, injuries to starters Reid Klug and Lewis Doyle left the Warriors not at full strength for a good chunk of the year. But Brad King’s group (11-1, 19-4), ranked #18 in AA to start the week, is healthy and ended the season with two wins. The first was a big one versus TRC-East leading #17 in AA La Crescent (13-0, 19-6). In the … [Read more...]
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Boys Wrestling: 13 Qualify for State Headed by Nine Gophers
At the 1A individual meet, section team champion Chatfield continued its excellent season by qualifying nine guys for state. LARP and FCLMC each got one entrant. In Class AA, Caledonia/Houston qualified two. The Gophers pulled the super-rare feats of getting all 13 of their wrestlers to the semifinals and eleven to the finals. All 13 finished top three. Claiming section … [Read more...]
Fillmore County Police Reports
Chatfield Police Department Jacob Gerald Ricard, 28, Chatfield, Minn.; 11/14/2023, Speeding (39/30), Fine $40, Total Fees $130. Fillmore County Sheriff’s Office Jackson Jonathan Isa Arend, 18, St. Paul, Minn.; 2/8/2024, Driver Must Carry Proof of Insurance When Operating Vehicle, Fine $200, Total Fees $290. Laurie A. Bjertness, 60, Harmony, Minn.; 12/8/2023, Driving … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
In a Round of 16 1AA girls’ game, 3-seed Caledonia beat 14-seed La Crescent/Hokah 65-30 behind Aubrie Klug’s 26 points. The Warriors (19-8) next play 6-seed Lake City (14-13). In Round of 16 1A games, 3-seed R-P topped 14-seed Schaeffer 62-19 for the Trojans 20th win (20-7), as Nadia Happel scored 22 points. Six-seed GM beat 11-seed Lanesboro 45-30, as Lauren Queensland scored … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball: Gophers Come Back From Down 10 Late to Win in OT
Chatfield (10-seed, 14-12) trailed Zumbrota-Mazeppa (7-seed, 10-16) in a 1AA Round of 16 game by 10 with 1:45 to go. Kyle Tollefson’s Gophers then scored the final 10 points, getting big threes by Lexi Kivimagi and Taylor Ask, the latter tying the game 65-65 (0:28). Z-M missed two one-and-one’s late to aid the comeback. They also missed a game-winning last shot. The game went … [Read more...]
Spring Grove Boys Mangle Mavericks, 66-32
Jacob Olerud had an 18-point, 10-rebound double-double as the Spring Grove boys whipped Martin County West, 66-32. MCW High School, located in Sherburn, along Interstate 90, serves the communities of Trimont, Welcome and Sherburn. Basketball is a Class A program in Section 2. The Mavericks were state-ranked when they defeated Spring Grove 41-33 two years ago. They dropped to … [Read more...]
Lion Boys Extend Grand Meadow Misery
The Spring Grove boys’ 85-24 victory extended their winning streak over Grand Meadow to 49 games and extended the misery for this year’s young Superlarks, who remain winless after 24 games. Coming in after two straight losses to state-ranked teams, the Lions slipped in the state rankings from No. 3 down to No. 12. But Wade Grinde’s guys have now improved to 20-3 (16-2 SEC), … [Read more...]
Spring Grove Boys Rip Rochester STEM
The Spring Grove Boys cruised to a 95-36 home win over a new program, Rochester STEM Academy. It was 52-14 at halftime as the Lions improved to 19-3. Any established program who scheduled the Cobras (2-19) was permitted to play 27 games, one more than the usual season limit. Both teams shot well beyond the 3-point arc with the Cobras hitting 8 of 20 (40%) and the Lions 12 of … [Read more...]
Lion Boys Edged by R-P in record four overtimes
The score was tied at halftime, the end of regulation and the end of three overtimes before the state-ranked No. 17 Rushford-Peterson boys finally prevailed in four overtimes over visiting, state-ranked No. 3 Spring Grove, 82-79. In decades of record-keeping, the Lions had never before played a four-overtime game. Jaxon Strinmoen, who scored his 1,000th career point in the … [Read more...]
Spring Grove Boys Stunned by Southland Buzzer-Beater
Class A state-ranked No. 3 Spring Grove led No. 13 Southland for most of the second half, but Noah Bauer hit a 3-pointer with under two seconds to play in the Rebels’ euphoric 52-50 home win. Inbounding with only 1.3 seconds left, SG amazingly got off a shot (that missed the mark). The score was tied seven times; there were seven lead changes. Grove trailed by eight points … [Read more...]