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2025 IN PREP SPORTS

WINTER Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial Area’s Nick Slater becomes the third Nicollet wrestler to win a state championship, coming in first at 189 pounds while helping his team to a third-place finish in the 2025 team state tournament. On Jan. 17, 2025, Cedar Mountain’s Aubrey Steffl ...

Biedenbender excited to return to MVL

NEW ULM — Dave Biedenbender already has a book full of memories and accomplishments at Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School, but now he’s preparing to add a new chapter. After coaching and teaching at MVL from 2000-2015, Biedenbender will return to MVL next school year to be the ...

GETTING TO KNOW Noah Mertz

Interview by Ari Selvey Mertz helped the Eagles secure a 64-63 win over Minnesota Valley Lutheran in the third-place game of the Kwik Trip Holiday Boys Basketball Tournament on Monday at Bethany Lutheran College, scoring 10 points in the effort. Q: What is your favorite Christmas ...

GETTING TO KNOW Ellie Dake

Interview by Travis Rosenau Dake is 9-0 on the season for the New Ulm Area wrestling team, taking first in the 170-pound brackets at both the Buffalo Wild Wings Hutchinson Girls Invitational and the Hopkins Athens Girls Wrestling Invitational. She is ranked sixth in the state in girls ...

Davis, Sellner, Kluis reminisce at Legion Baseball HOF

NEW ULM — Three former American Legion baseball players — Judd Davis, Bobby Sellner and Tanner Kluis — were formally inducted into the New Ulm Legion Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday at a ceremony at the New Ulm Legion Clubrooms. All three talked about the support given to them by ...

Second-half adjustments lead Eagles past Tigers

NEW ULM — New Ulm extended a 34-31 lead to a 43-31 advantage in the second half of a nonconference girls basketball game against Hutchinson, eventually coming away with a 53-41 win on Friday. “We kind of realized that we weren’t doing amazing and it wasn’t our night with our press,” ...