Landon Skalet threw for 5 TDs, sophomore Kobe Lind caught three, as R-P football opened by beating Kingsland 54-12. James Hongerholt ran for three TDs, as Houston beat AC/GE 38-6. Sophomore Carson Kiehne ran for three TDs, Tyler Raaen had two sacks, a 58-yard interception return, and a blocked punt, as FC beat Hayfield 31-0. Chatfield scored 21 points in the fourth quarter, … [Read more...]
Football Week 1 (9/30 & 9/31)
Houston 38, AC/G-E 6 (H: J. Hongerholt 10-152, 3 TDs rushing, 3-6, 32 yards passing; J. Millen 11-139, TD rushing, 3-32 receiving; J. Fishel 14-58, TD rushing. Up 22-6, Hurricanes put it away with 16-0 fourth) Kingsland 12, R-P 54 (RP: L. Skalet 17-22, 224 yards, 5 TDs passing; K. Lind 9-119, 3 TDs receiving, 58-yard interception return; E. Sense 11-70, 2 TDs rushing, … [Read more...]
Volleyball (9/27 – 10/1)
Kingsland 3, L/P 1 > 25-16, 20-25, 29-27, 25-22 (L: L. Buchholtz 19 kills, 20 digs; Ellie Buchholtz 11 kills, 10 assists, 6 aces; Alyssa Link 19 assists, 8 digs; Nora Jahn 16-17 serving, 3 aces; Taylor Zimmerman 14-14 serving, 10 digs) SA 0, M-C 3 > 25-7, 25-15, 25-13 (MC: Lauren Wyffels 14 assists, 10 digs, 13-13 serving, 5 aces; Avery Davis 9 kills; Maddy Michels 8 … [Read more...]
Cross Country (9/27 & 9/30)
W-K Gallup (LARP’s boys took 4th, Kingsland 9th (of 9). L. O’Hare (7th) and Aidan Ellinghuysen (13th) finished top 20 for LARP, which had seven in the top 50 (of 129) total. Kingsland and LARP girls were incomplete with no runners in the top 25) Stewartville “Bill Glomski” Invite (Chatfield girls took 5th, LFC’s 9th (of 13). Kingsland was incomplete. Gophers Beatrice … [Read more...]
The Austin Roadblock
This season marked the fifth straight year Chatfield softball made the Section Final Four in Austin. The Gophers task was a high one; win four games over two days. It’s the fifth straight year their season ends in Austin. Chatfield (1AA East Runner Up, 18-3) got one win, beating Byron (1AA West Runner-Up, 15-7) in the loser out game. The contest was scoreless for six … [Read more...]
Perfection, No-No, No Gatorade; Gophers Make Austin Again
Head Coach Mark Eickhoff didn’t get bathed in Gatorade. Chatfield softball couldn’t repeat as 1AA East champions. But courtesy of a 1AA East Runner-Up finish, the Gophers are headed to Austin for a fifth straight year. Chatfield’s sub-section trek started with a re-match against Caledonia/SG. The Warriors (8-seed, 6-11) upset the Gophers (1-seed, 15-2) to end the regular … [Read more...]
Baseball (5/21 – 5/23)
M-C 0, Schaeffer Academy 10 [5] (MC: Drew Wyffels 2-2) (1AA East) 6-seed FC/L (5-8-2) 0, 3-seed La Crescent (13-7) 5 (Falcons got one hit, finish 5-9-2) (1AA East) 5-seed Chatfield (9-8-1) 3, 4-seed PEM (10-7-1) 9 (C: B. Ihrke 3-4, RBI; Max Aug 2-3, 2B, RBI, R; Terron Ostby 2-4, R; Jake Mandt RBI, R. Gophers finish 9-9-1) (1AA West) 5-seed Byron (6-11) 12, 4-seed GMLOK … [Read more...]
Gopher Softball TRC West Champ
They had an impressive spurt. It came to an end. Amidst it, Chatfield softball (15-2) clinched its fourth straight TRC West title. The Gophers ran their win streak to nine with a doubleheader sweep of Southland, a win over R-P. Belle Berg (3-4, HR, two 2Bs, 5 RBI, 2 R) and Lexi Chase (3-4, two 2B, RBI, 2 R) did big work in a game one 13-0 win (five innings) versus the … [Read more...]
Baseball (5/14 – 5/19)
Chatfield 6, Southland 5 [5] (C: B. Ihrke 2-3, 2B, HR (3), 5 RBI, R, 5 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, Win (4-0); Max Aug 2-3, 2 R. Trailing 5-3, Gophers had a 3-run top five, Ihrke a 2-run GW-double); S 1, C 7 [5] (C: M. Aug 2-2, RBI, 2 R; Terron Ostby 2-2, 2B, 2 R; Robert Crouch 5 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, Win; Zach Roline 1-2, 2 RBI) PEM 1, R-P 5 (RP: C. Weidemann 2-4, HR … [Read more...]
Golf (5/14 – 5/18)
(B) Caledonia 207, R-P 221 (RP: Ethan Atkinson 51. Warriors had medalist); (G) C 197, R-P Inc. (B) D-E 197, Chatfield Inc. (C: Riley Mulhern 54. Eagles had top four) (B) R-P 230, L-A 168 (Cardinals had top five scores); (G) R-P Inc., L-A 186 (Trojans had just one golfer) (B) Southland 199, Kingsland 185 (K: Simon Broadwater 37*, Wyatt Pruter 42); (G) S Inc., K Inc. (G) … [Read more...]
Dual Gopher One-Hitters
It’s rare that softball and baseball pitchers from the same school throw one-hit shut-outs the same night. Chatfield’s Lexi Chase and Jake Mandt performed the feat, making of mockery of L-A’s hitting. Chase was Chase in tossing her fifth shut-out of the season (6 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 14 K, Win). She moved to 8-0 (92 K, 2 BB, .149 ERA). Belle Berg hit her fourth home run … [Read more...]
Baseball (5/7 – 5/10)
Chatfield 3, GMLOK 2 [5] (C: R. Crouch 2-3, 3B, RBI, 3 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, Win; Ben Ihrke 2-3, R; J. Mandt 1-3, RBI; Lincoln Salisbury 2-3, R. GM: Reid Kruegel 2-2, R; Zach Myrhe 1-2, RBI, R. Continued contest started on May 1) R-P 16, M-C 1 [5] (RP: D. Dahl 3-4, 4 RBI, 2 R; Payton Hahn 3-4, two 2B, RBI, 3 R; Ben Ansell 3-3, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI, 2 R; Carter Weidemann … [Read more...]
Golf (5/7 – 5/10)
(B) Kingsland 198, St. Charles 200 (K: S.Broadwater 44*, Wyatt Pruter 44, Nathan Lund 50. Saints scores were 45, 46, 54, and 55); Kingsland Inc., SC 216 (K: Madeline Moore 51. Saints had top two) (B) Southland 190, Chatfield Inc. (C: Riley Mulhern 45. S: Max Schmitz 43) (G) Caledonia 189, FC 184 (FC: M. Scheevel 40*, G. Miller 44, Cailey Rindels 49, Taylor Bushman 51. … [Read more...]
Ignore the Blip
Last year, Chatfield softball started the year 22-0. They won’t recreate that this year, but Mark Eickhoff’s #8 in Class AA Gophers had a good week, minus one quickly redeemed blip. Chatfield played St. Charles in a double-header, crushing the Saints 16-2 in game one (five innings). The Gophers had a 14-run first. Kim Greiner (2-4, 2B, 4 RBI, R), Belle Berg (2-5, HR #2, 2 … [Read more...]
Baseball (4/30 – 5/4)
Coulee Christian 2, M-C 3 (MC: Logan Richardson 2-4, 2 RBI; Dawson Wilder 2-3; Parker Ingvalson 2-4, 2B, R, 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R 3 BB, 4 K, Win. In the seventh, a Richardson’s RBI-single scored Spencer Arnold for the M-C walk-off win) St. Charles 5, Chatfield 14 [5] (C: Robert Crouch 2-3, RBI, 2 R; M. Aug 1-2, 2B, 3 RBI, R; Zach Roline 1-2, 2B, 2 RBI, R; Ben Ihrke 4 IP, 6 H, 4 … [Read more...]