Five of seven Journal covered football teams picked up wins week six. Three improved to 4-2. R-P (2-1, 4-2) clobbered W-K 46-14. Sophomore QB Malachi Bunke completed 9 of 10 passes for 154 yards and 4 TDs while Triton Meldahl amassed 200-plus total yards including four long TDs (44, 46, 53, 59 yards). He’s ran for 100-plus yards in five consecutive games (911 yards on the … [Read more...]
Football (10/4)
Houston 40, M-C 7 (H: A. Van Gundy 6-139, TD receiving (59-yard TD catch), 7-45, TD rushing; Ben Walters 4-73, 2 TDs rushing (47-yard TD run), 2 sacks, fumble recovery; Wyatt Walters 10-55, TD rushing, 47-yard TD catch (100-plus total yards in five straight games); M. Schutte 9-11, 199 yards, 2 TDs passing. M-C: Gavin Johnson 19-116, TD rushing; Dawson Wilder 17-70 rushing. … [Read more...]
Volleyball (10/1 – 10/5)
Lanesboro 3, Houston 0 > 25-21, 25-22, 25-20 (L: K. Ruen 12 kills, 8 digs; Jessie Schreiber 8 kills; S. Taylor 7 kills, 11 digs, 21-23 serving, 7 aces; E. Cambern 27 assists, 9 digs; Payton Benson 15 digs, 3 aces; Malia Tessum 9 digs; Sophia Simes 8 digs. H: Casey Porter 7 kills, 10 digs; Tessa Peterson 6 kills; Emma Geiwitz/Allison Papenfuss 5 kills; Becca Rostad 8 digs) … [Read more...]
Cross Country (10/1 & 10/3)
Chatfield Invite (RACE (97:45.8) nipped Chatfield (97.46.3) for the boys’ team title. Kingsland took sixth (of 7). Gopher freshman T. Lanning (18:57) took first (first career varsity win). Chatfield’s Alex Wright (5th, 19:22.2), Brady Woltz (7th, 19:37.2) and Evan Wright (10th, 19:46.9) also finished top ten (of 77), while Logan Thompson (15th, 20:03) was top 20. … [Read more...]
Gophers Bounce Back, Backer a Big Effort
Chatfield football started the year with two wins, freshman tailback Sam Backer making a big early splash. The Gophers then dropped back-to-back contests to Triton (16-14) and Caledonia (41-8). In week five, Jeff Johnson’s group got back on track behind their big o-line and young running back. The frosh did non-frosh things, rushing 24 times for 273 yards and 4 TDs … [Read more...]
Volleyball Matches Get Competitive
It was a week of long volleyball matches. Journal covered teams played three five-set affairs and four four-set affairs. Monday saw Kingsland and Houston resume their match from a week earlier. Houston led 1-0 before postponement per floor condensation. The Hurricanes led the match 2-1 before the Knights took the final two sets for the comeback 3-2 win (21-25, 25-21, 21-25, … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Kandace Sikkink had 16 kills and 16 assists as FC volleyball (3-1, 8-7) beat PEM. Lanesboro beat Kingsland to improve to 5-3, 10-11. Julie Schrieber’s group in renaissancing (went 2-12, 6-25 in 2018). Alyvia Eide had 36 digs, though R-P lost in four sets to Cotter. Teammate Kaleah Davis totaled 21 kills and 11 aces in the loss to Cotter, a win over La Crescent. Peyton Berg … [Read more...]
Football
L-A 14, FC 0 (FC: Zach Haugerud 17-28, 228 yards, INT passing; Grant Kennedy 8-127 receiving; Carson Kiehne 3-40 receiving, 3-33 rushing; Alec Sikkink 16-39 rushing. LA: Cole Mundt 20-255, 2 TDs rushing (97-yard TD run). Key sequence in first half; FC was stopped on 4th and goal at the three. Mundt ran 97-yards on L-A’s next play for the game’s first score. Falcons had … [Read more...]
Volleyball
R-P 3, La Crescent 0 > 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 (R-P: K. Davis 9 kills, 6 aces; Kaylee Ruberg 8 kills; Alora Wilkemeyer 7 kills; Isabelle Kahoun 25 assists; Lakyn Rasmussen 4 kills, 14 digs; A. Eide 12 digs; Elly Malone 4 kills, 8 digs) Chatfield 1, L-A 3 > 15-25, 25-22, 7-25, 12-25 (C: Paige Erickson 10 kills, 3 blks; P. Berg 17 digs; Teagan Allen 15 assists; Zayda Priebe … [Read more...]
Cross Country
Winona “Jim Flim” Invite (Onalaska (74) beat Faribault (84) for boys’ team title. LARP (136) took 7th, Chatfield 10th (of 14 teams). Winona’s Carter Briggs (16:23.6) and Belle Plaine’s Drew Hastings (16:43.5) took first and second, LARP’s Luke O’Hare (16:50.7) third. Tyler Rislov (17:30.5) took 10th for LARP (of 96 runners). Onalaska (27) beat Faribault (104) for the girls’ … [Read more...]