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...]