SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Tigers know they’re expected to throw the ball and throw it often. When the top-seeded Tigers started Saturday afternoon’s game with a handoff to Paytin Johnson that he took 71 yards for a score, all bets were off. Behind a quick and steady run game and a ...

GFW 26, Cleveland 7 CLEVELAND — The No. 1-seeded Cleveland Clippers had momentum and recent history on their side heading into a Section 2A Football Tournament semifinals game with the fourth-seeded Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Firebirds. The Firebirds didn’t care. Much to the surprise ...

ARLINGTON — After getting some momentum back with a dominant second-set win to even Thursday night’s Section 2A Volleyball Tournament quarterfinals match, the No. 3 Cedar Mountain Cougars couldn’t get past a scrappy defense by the No. 6 BOLD Warriors after that. The Warriors ended up ...

MANKATO — The New Ulm Eagles’ cross-country season came to end Thursday at the Section 2AA Cross-Country Championships at Benson Park. New Ulm freshman Benjamin Oswald ran a PR time of 24:09.4 to take 71st, while Jack Oswald finished second (24:44.8) and Lincoln Kruz finished 73rd with a ...

NORWOOD YOUNG AMERICA — Minnesota Valley Lutheran qualified a pair of runners to the Class A State Cross-Country Meet this year following Thursday afternoon’s Section 2A Cross-Country Championships at Baylor Park. The top two teams at the meet and next best six individuals qualified for ...

NEW ULM — It will be a rematch of the first week of the regular season when the New Ulm Cathedral Greyhounds meet the Red Rock Central Falcons on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Lamberton in a Section 2, Nine-Man Semifinals game. In their first meeting back on Aug. 28 in New Ulm, the Falcons downed ...