SPRINGFIELD — With a 4-0 record, the Springfield Tigers have had as good a start as any football team in the state. Not only did the Tigers break a school record with 80 points against Canby in the season opener, but they also redeemed its section finals loss against Murray County Central ...
GIBBON — Anytime a football team sees a change in coaching, players and schemes, it’s natural for that team to have some growing pains. The Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Firebirds have faced their share of challenges already this season in Travis Vorwerk’s first year at the helm as head ...
Friday night in their game with the New Ulm Eagles, Belle Plaine took the opening drive of the game and used a 74-yard, 10-play scoring drive to take a fast 6-0 lead over the Eagles. That ended up being their longest drive of the game until they went 13 plays late in the third quarter and early in the fourth quarter before turning the ball over on downs in a 14-12 New Ulm win. And it was the Eagles defense that stopped a game-tying 2-point conversion with just over a minute to play in the game. “We had some moments [early] when we let them get behind us in the back end,” New ...
VOLLEYBALL MVL 3, MAPLE RIVER 0 NEW ULM — Minnesota Valley Lutheran swept Maple River 3-0 in a South Central Conference volleyball match on Tuesday. Jenna Bates led the Chargers with 15 kills and nine digs, while Olivia Hammer had seven kills and 10 digs. Ellie Kaesermann had eight kills and two blocks, while Graysie Black had 31 set assists, seven digs and five aces with two blocks. Taryn Gunderson added seven digs. MVL (15-5) plays at St. Clair on Thursday. SPRINGFIELD 3, GFW 2 SPRINGFIELD — Springfield edged Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop 28-26, 25-14, 18-25, 19-25, 15-8 in a ...
NEW ULM — After being swept by a tough Renville County West team on Monday night, the Wabasso Rabbits were looking to take the positives from that defeat into their Tomahawk Division match with New Ulm Cathedral on Tuesday. That worked out for the Rabbits as they earned a sweep of their ...
NEW ULM — While New Ulm head coach Christine Skoglund would have preferred a sweep, she was still happy with how the Eagles closed out a 25-12, 22-25, 25-19, 25-20 win over Waseca in a Big South Conference volleyball match on Tuesday. “It took almost my whole bench,” Skoglund said. “I had a lot of new substitutes today, and they did a great job when the substitutes when in. But we also needed to get our hitting back to normal from that second set, which we did. But in the third set, we even needed to do better on defense, which we did that fourth set. New Ulm had to rely on ...
