PREP VOLLEYBALL St. Mary’s 3, MLA/C 0 COMFREY — The Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s Knights volleyball team opened their 2025 season with a win on Thursday night, sweeping the Mountain Lake Area/Comfrey Wolverines 25-18, 25-22, 25-18. Josie Helget led the Knights with 31 set assists, while ...

NICOLLET — Leah Bode, formerly a standout three-sport athlete for the Nicollet Raiders, has known for a while what she’s wanted to do with the next chapter of her life after graduating Nicollet High School in 2025. While she could have pursued a collegiate athletic career in any of the ...

By Samantha Davis sports@nujournal.com GRANITE FALLS — In both team’s season opener to kick off fall athletics, the Wabasso volleyball team locked in defensively to secure a win over Yellow Medicine East in straight sets of 25-11, 25-12 and 25-20 Thursday night in a non-conference ...

NEW ULM — After letting a close first set get away from them Friday evening, the Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers were reenergized the rest of the way. That new-found energy led to a new-found confidence which gave the Chargers a four-set win in a nonconference volleyball season opener ...

NEW ULM — New Ulm Cathedral stayed with it after going down two sets to one to win 25-16, 23-25, 20-25, 25-23, 15-11 over Madelia in a Tomahawk-Valley Conference crossover volleyball match on Friday. “We talked a lot about confidence and working together,” Cathedral’s Shay Wilfahrt ...

FERGUS FALLS — During his time as a member of the New Ulm Eagles boys basketball team, Nick Risen worked and waited for his opportunity to get more varsity playing time. While the Eagles recently had multiple 1,000-point career scorers and a stable starting rotation for several years, ...