When New Ulm High School’s Connor Foley scored 27 points Friday night against Waseca, he passed Luke Schmidt’s (1995) career total of 1,211 and became the New Ulm boys’ all-time career leading scorer with 1,229 points. Foley had 860 points coming into this season and has scored 369 points so far. Meleah Reinhart holds the overall career scoring mark at New Ulm High School with 1,842 points.

Junior guard Joey Batt currently has 1,446 points for the Eagles girls’ basketball team.

Foley is looking at several colleges for basketball. But he also has options for college football as a tight end. Moorhead State has shown a lot of interest in him, as well as North Dakota State. Foley took a football recruiting trip to Bemidji State on Saturday.

1,000-POINT SCORERS: There is a clarification as to 1,000-point scorers for New Ulm Cathedral and Minnesota Valley Lutheran. There are three players from the former New Ulm Holy Trinity and 11 from New Ulm Cathedral for a total of 14 who have scored 1,000 career points.

Also, MVL has six more 1,000 career point scorers than reported last week for a grand total of 19 that have broken that mark.

They are Jake Firle, Karissa Kramer, Anna Munsen, Jacob Hoffman, Nick Fischer and Nate Siemers.

But I need help in getting the records accurate. If anyone knows the career point totals of these players, please contact me.

LOSS MAY PUT EAGLES BOYS’ HOCKEY ON ROAD: The 5-0 loss to Luverne Thursday night in a Big South Conference hockey game may well have sent the Eagles on the road for their upcoming first round playoff game.

“I am pretty sure we are going to be locked in at a five seed and be on the road,” New Ulm boys’ hockey coach Ryan Neuman said. “I would guess that we will be on the road in Marshall.”

Neuman, whose team plays at Northfield tomorrow night and then at Minnesota River on Friday, said that Luverne scored two goals on their first two shots of the game.

“And scored three goals in the first three minutes and forty seconds of the game,” Neuman said. “Even if we beat (section opponents at home) Worthington and Windom (February 12th and 13th) we will still be on the road. Litchfield beat Marshall, so I think that the seedings will be Luverne, Litchfield, Hutchinson, Marshall and then us. The seedings are done by the coaches.”

GIRLS’ HOCKEY SEEDS TODAY: By this afternoon, the New Ulm Eagles hockey team should know where they have been seeded in Section 2A.

“The seedings are done by the coaches (QRF has the Eagles as the number one seed) and we are not meeting face-to-face,” New Ulm Eagles coach Kristin Faber said. “We seed everyone but ourselves and I see us as being a two or a three seed. Our (2-0) loss to Hutchinson was huge and we lost to Delano 4-3. I think any of the top four teams in our section are capable of winning if they show up and play. A bounce here or there and we beat Delano and we did not play well in the first half of the game against Hutchinson.”

One and two seeds would receive a bye in the first round with three and four seeds playing at home.

“The top two seeds would then be at home in the semifinals,” Faber said. “I really feel that our playoff success comes down to our defense and our ability to break the puck out of our end. Cassie (Reed, Eagles goalie) is doing well for us and is working hard.”

Faber also said that Ali Beltz, who scored her 62nd goal of the season on Friday, broke Korinne O’Connor’s single season mark of 61.

EAGLES BOYS FALL TO WASECA: New Ulm boys’ basketball coach Steve Foley said that Waseca “is one of the best teams in the state” as the Bluejays downed New Ulm 89-59 Friday night.

“We were only down by 9 points at halftime, but we had a hard time stopping them.” Foley said. “But we turned the ball over 27 times and it is tough to win a game doing that.”

Depth has been a concern recently because of injuries and illnesses.

“We lost (point guard) Noah Hauge who tore his meniscus, had surgery and is out for the season,” Foley said. “And Reece Melby was sick recently and we have had kids who were sick this week and missed practices ­– Jayden Domeier did not play Friday because he was home sick with the flu. We are not deep to begin with, but we did some nice things (Friday). It is a long season and we have four or five weeks left.”

He did say that losing Hauge last week took some adjustment in their rotation. “Then we were without Jayden Friday so it was a struggle offensively because kids are in different spots. We were without our two top point guards.”