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Coach Briggs reflects on Eagles’ state wrestling run

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NEW ULM — The New Ulm Area Eagles wrestling team did a lot more this season than make the state wrestling tournament for the first time since 1999. While winning a lot of matches this season and going on to make state was a crowning achievement, the Eagles also won the interest of several ...

Area roundup: GFW tops Sleepy Eye in 2A playoffs

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BOYS BASKETBALL GFW 76, Sleepy Eye 65 GIBBON — No. 7 Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop topped No. 10 Sleepy Eye 76-65 in the Section 2A Boys Basketball Tournament on Tuesday. Cole Jacobson scored 43 points for the Firebirds, while Owen Swenson had 9 and Kaden Rieke had 8. Robert Romberg led the ...

Cedar Mountain boys fall to Jaguars in playoffs

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GRANADA — The No. 17-seeded Cedar Mountain boys basketball team fell 72-62 to 16th-seeded Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman/Martin Luther on Friday in the first round of the Section 2A boys basketball playoffs. The loss ended the Cougars’ season with a 5-21 mark, while the Jaguars advance ...

NUA cleans up BSC wrestling honors

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The Big South Conference released its All-Conference Wrestling Team, with 10 New Ulm Area wrestlers represented. Chase Wilson, Regan Johnson, Alex Portner, Kane Johnson, Tegan Kral, Elijah Rieser, Lane Ruch, Candon Briggs, Ellie Dake and Karli Horner were all selected to the team from NUA. ...

Eagles take out Scarlets

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MANKATO — No. 5 New Ulm used a hot start and a strong finish to take down No. 4 Mankato West 61-56 in a Section 2AAA Boys Basketball Tournament quarterfinals game Tuesday. West was the team that took out New Ulm in last year’s section tournament, and New Ulm was able to flip the script ...

Chargers fall to Cyclones in OT playoff game

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NEW ULM — Samuel Freitag’s 3 with 1:16 left in overtime gave No. 10 St. Clair a 59-56 lead and the Cyclones went on to top No. 7 Minnesota Valley Lutheran 59-57 Tuesday night in a Section 2AA boys basketball playoff game. Hunter Winkler led the Cyclones (14-13) with 18 points. Blake ...