A year ago, LARPH boys cross country was a perpetual meet first place contender. Matt Kingsbury’s group won the 1A Meet itself, to make state. They graduated two great runners in Tyler Rislov and Andrew Hoiness, but LARPH is still potent. At the Dover-Eyota Invite, LARPH took first (50) over Lake City (68) and RAACE (75). GMLOS (97) took fifth and LFC (143) sixth of seven … [Read more...]
#3 Warriors Defend Their Way to Win
Caledonia football is back in the top ten, ranked #3 in AA. Carl Fruechte’s Warriors defended that high ranking by shutting down Dover-Eyota in a Southeast-White affair. Through three quarters, the Eagles had just one first down. It came by way of a 15-yard Warrior roughing the snapper penalty. D-E mounted nothing against the Caledonia defense, led by #55 Grant Ness, who … [Read more...]
Section Individual Wrestling
Warriors Get Five to State Led by Ross’s Return Caledonia/Houston wrestling had a solid team season. At the 1A individual tournament, Shea Mahoney’s group did better, getting five state entrants, the second most of any team (save 1A champ D-E). The Warriors (186) actually bested D-E (184), Goodhue (180), and Chatfield (174) for the team title. Brandon Ross’ return … [Read more...]
Third Period Comeback Dooms Chatfield Wrestling’s State Hopes
It was a thrilling, to-the-wire dual and match. It was a devastating loss for Chatfield wrestling. The #1-seed Gophers (#8 in A, 14-1) met rival Dover-Eyota (3-seed, #9 in A, 18-8) for the 1A wrestling team title. After 13 weights, the score sat tied 30-30. This wasn’t unexpected. When the Gophers and Eagles met in the regular season, Chatfield led 32-31 heading to … [Read more...]
Dual to Decide TRC Decided at Heavyweight
Maybe the two best wrestling teams in the Three Rivers Conference met up in Eyota for a triangular that decided the league race. Chatfield (#8 in A, 7-0, 11-1) and Dover-Eyota (#11 in A, 4-0, 12-7) were the headliners in a tri that also included Wabasha-Kellogg. The Gophers versus Eagles battle was the main event and it came down to the last match. Chatfield got off to a … [Read more...]
Warrior Girls Notch Two Big Section Wins
Section 1AA girls’ basketball is going to be a dogfight. As of January 10, nine teams had at least eight wins. Scott Sorenson’s Caledonia Warriors joined that group by authoring a week where they beat two eight-win 1AA foes. All told, they went 3-0 to move their win streak to four. The Warriors first dropped TRC West leading Dover-Eyota (5-1, 10-3) by a 61-53 final. Alexis … [Read more...]
Cross Country (9/29 & 10/1)
Chatfield Invite #3 (The host Gopher girls (23) beat La Crescent/Hokah (33) and W-K (80). LCH had the top runner, Lydia Rosendahl (21:24). Chatfield had runners 2-3-4-5; Tessa McMahon (21:53), Aletta Strande (22:22), Belle Carr (22:42), and Abbi Gillespie (22:50). Katelyn Dornack (9th, 23:43) was their fifth scoring runner. LC/H’s boys (22) took first over Chatfield (38) … [Read more...]
Gophers Host First C-C Meet of the Season
In their first cross country event of the year, Chatfield went to Lake City and ran a triangular with the Tigers and Dover-Eyota. On the girls side, the Tigers were the defending Section 1A Champs. Jayna Harstad’s Lady Gophers made a big impression, narrowly winning that triangular 27 to 29. In hosting their first triple of the year with PEM and LFC, Chatfield’s girls again … [Read more...]
Soccer (9/14 – 9/18)
(B) Dover-Eyota 6, Cal/SG/Hou 1 (Again, the Warrior boys gave up an early goal to the visitors, two minutes, 49 seconds into the match. Late in the first half, undefeated D-E (5-0, 5-0 TRC) added a pair of goals within 38 seconds to take a 4-0 lead into intermission. Down 6-0, C/SG/H received a goal from sophomore Austin Meyer to close the scoring with 24 minutes remaining.) … [Read more...]