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Jacobson, Guetter, Firchau lead 2025-26 All-Journal Boys Basketball

First Team Cole Jacobson, Sr., G, GFW Jacobson finishes his career at GFW as the school’s most prolific scorer, closing his time with the Firebirds with 2,102 career points. Jacobson added 684 career rebounds (second in school history), 286 assists (sixth in school history) and 226 steals ...

New Ulm tennis leans on senior leaders

NEW ULM — New Ulm will look to its strong senior leadership to help them have a strong spring tennis season, with its top three singles players returning from last year. Charlie Weidman, Dan Brownfield and Isaac Dittmer manned the number one, two and three singles spots, respectively, and ...

MVL/NUC sweeps first indoor track meet

MANKATO — Minnesota Valley Lutheran/New Ulm Cathedral placed first on the boys side and on the girls side of a prep indoor track and field meet at Minnesota State University on Tuesday to open its season on Monday. The MVL/NUC boys scored 98 points to lead the meet, followed by New ...

Knights softball swept in BVU doubleheader

STORM LAKE, IOWA — Martin Luther College lost 6-1 and 2-1 in a nonconference softball doubleheader against Buena Vista University on Monday. GAME 1 Kieghtan Rank took the loss for MLC in the first game, allowing six runs, two earned, on 11 hits with three strikeouts in seven innings of ...

MLC baseball swept by BLC in weekend series

MANKATO — Martin Luther College opened the conference basketball season with a trio of losses to Bethany Lutheran College, losing 13-1 in six innings and 10-2 on Saturday and 11-3 on Sunday. GAME 1 Connor Heckendorf took the loss for MLC in Game 1, striking out three while allowing eight ...

New role, no problem

SLEEPY EYE — She may not have shown up at the top of box scores in the scoring department the last two seasons, but Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s senior Natalie Fischer showed up in more ways than one for her team. The senior did her share of scoring earlier on in her varsity career, which ...