Five Journal-covered wrestlers entered their individual section tournaments ranked in state. Four earned berths to the 2020 state wrestling meet. Chatfield’s Cael Bartels (#2 at 113), Seth Goetzinger (#5 at 145), and A.J. Karver (#7 at 220), LARP’s Ross Herber (#4 at 126) fought their way to St. Paul. Goetzinger makes his third trip, Bartels and Herber their second, Karver … [Read more...]
Wrestling Teams Take on Play-Offs
The 2020 Section 1A and 1AA wrestling team play-offs saw each of the three county programs fighting to move on. FCLMC got the rare play-off win. LARP was up big before upper weights hindered its plight. Chatfield fell by a single point to the eventual section champion. In Class AA, LARP (5-seed, 9-9) took on PEM (4-seed, 13-9) in a quartefinal. Things went the Screaming … [Read more...]
Gopher Wrestling Pulls Double Shut-Out
Shut-outs don’t happen too often in wrestling. Winning every match by a six-point decision is also rare. Both of the above events are certainly aided by a squad simply not having numbers and thus forfeiting. At the St. Charles triangular, Chatfield used low opponent numbers and pulled off both. They double dual shut-out St. Charles, 82-0, and La Crescent, 84-0. The … [Read more...]
Wrestling (2/6 & 2/7)
Winona Tri > LARP 51, Winona 27 (LARP built a 51-6 lead after 170. Screaming Eagles took 106 (Quintin Betthauser), 126 (Ross Herber), 145 (Caleb Mueller), 152 (Kolton Riser), and 170 (Colin Klug) by forfeit, forfeited 120, 182, and 220. Tyler Kreidemacher (113), Gable Speltz (138), and Brennan Corcoran (160) had pins, Carter Jonsgaard (132) a 5-3 decision win); LARP 54, … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/30 & 2/1)
Chatfield 57, W-K 21 (Gophers took 113 (C. Bartels), 132 (Cody Guenther), 145 (Seth Goetzinger), 160 (Campbell Berge), 220 (A.J. Karver), and 285 (Erik Seha) by forfeit. Carson Rowland (106), Luke Ihrke (152), and G. Schott (170) had pins, Kailan Schott (126) won a 3-2 decision) PEM Tri > GMLOS 56, LARP 21 (S-Eagles forfeited 220, took 285 by forfeit (Jaydon Boynton). … [Read more...]
Wrestling
FCLMC Tri > Lake City 60, FCLMC 12 (Wolves took 285 (Stefan Nikoloski) by forfeit, forfeited 120 and 220. Devin Troendle (182) had a pin); La Crescent 16, FCLMC 60 (Wolves took 113 (Connor Wingert), 126 (Ryan Kelly), 138 (Boston Wright), 145 (Caden Anderson), 152 (Carter Hovland), 182 (Michael Barrett), 220 (Zach Krage), and 285 (Nikoloski) by forfeit. Bodey Wright (160) … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/16 – 1/18)
FCLMC Tri > St. Charles 27, FCLMC 40 (Teams double forfeited 106 and 195. FCLMC collected forfeits at 145 (Caden Anderson), 170 (Bodey Wright), and 285 (Stefan Nikoloski). Wolves built 16-6 and 22-12 leads, but dropped 152 and 160 to trail 22-21. FCLMC took three of the last four non-double forfeit matches (two by forfeit) for the win. Connor Wingert (113), Cale Anderson … [Read more...]
Wrestling (1/10 & 1/11)
D-E Tri > Class A #12 Chatfield 27, PEM 40 (Gophers led 15-0 after 120 and 24-10 after 145, but won one match the rest of the way (including forfeiting 170 & 195). Lukas Carrier (113) and Cael Bartels (120) won by pin, Seth Goetzinger by forfeit, Carson Rowland (106 > 2-0), Cody Guenther (132 > 10-4), and Grady Schott (182 > 13-8) by decision); #12 Chatfield … [Read more...]
Upcoming Varsity Sporting Events
(See TRC or SEC pages for specific start times) Mon Jan 20 (GBB) M-C at SG Tues Jan 21 (BBB) D-E at R-P (BBB) PEM at FC (BBB) Chatfield at Cotter (BBB) Lanesboro at Schaeffer Academy (BBB) SG at M-C (BBB) Houston at Alden- Conger (BBB) L-O at Kingsland (GBB) R-P at D-E (GBB) FC at PEM (GBB) Cotter at Chatfield (GBB) M-C at … [Read more...]
Gophers/Bartels Take Second at Bi-State
They very well could’ve been first. But injuries hindered the cause. Nonetheless, Chatfield wrestling took on the massive, super-competitive La Crosse Bi-State Wrestling Invite and had a very solid day. Travis Bartels’ group (153.5) took second in the smallest Division 3 team grouping. Stratford (Wisconsin) took first (282.5) and La Crosse Aquinas third (132.5). Senior … [Read more...]