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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
MLC 42, WESTMINSTER 12
NEW ULM - Martin Luther College quarterback Brady Turriff and tight end Noah Huebner each set single-game program records during Saturday afternoon’s 42-14 UMAC win over Westminster.
The duo connected on eight completions, 165 yards and five touchdowns during the rout. Huebner’s five-TD game broke Ryan Kolander’s single-game receiving TD record that was set in 2009 against Maranatha Baptist. Turriff’s final line was 25-for-28, 363 yards and six touchdowns, breaking Greg Holzhueter’s record of five set in 2007 against Blackburn.
The past two weeks, Turriff has thrown for 727 yards and 10 TDs while Huebner has had 342 yards receiving and eight TDs.
The Knights once again jumped out to a halftime lead. It was 21-7 going into the break thanks to two Huebner touchdowns along with an 8-yard strike to Trenton Heyn in the final minute of the half.
Unlike the two weeks prior, the Knights finally put away their opponents in the second half, scoring three times in the third quarter to close out the contest. Jude Pederson continued his productivity, catching seven passes for 98 yards while Benjamin Vasold chipped in 66 yards receiving.
Arthur Robinson found more space in the second half. He finished the day with 81 yards on 19 carries.
The early offense helped force the Blue Jays into more passing situations, which allowed the Knights’ front-seven to put quarterbacks Trey Thomas and Anthony D’Amico under immense pressure. MLC’s defense had six sacks to go along with 10 tackles for loss. Matthew Kieselhorst and Daniel Reinke each had a pair of sacks while Joseph Dahlberg recorded 1.5 sacks. Jonah Mittelstadt made two tackles for loss.
One of the game’s key moments came at the start of the second quarter with the game tied at 7. Vasold muffed a punt, which gave Westminster the ball at the MLC 43. The Blue Jays drove all the way inside the MLC 10 before the defense forced three-straight incompletions. On the field goal attempt, the snap was low and the holder could not get the ball down, leading to a loss of 14 yards and a turnover on downs.
The Knights offense went on a nine-play, 79-yard scoring drive.
MLC has now won three-straight UMAC games and will look to exact revenge at Northwestern next week.
MEN'S CROSS-COUNTRY
MLC MEN WIN UMAC TITLE
WINTHROP - The MLC men’s cross-country team is UMAC champions for the first time since 2008. That same year was also the last time MLC had an individual champion in Nathan Loersch. On Saturday, freshman Logan Korthals joined that club of UMAC individual champions.
The Knights knocked off preseason favorites UW-Superior by five places with a team score of 34. MLC had all five counting runners finish inside the top 13, including four runners inside the top 10. All five counting runners also ran career-best times.
Korthals nearly set a new record time for the UMAC Championship and also ran the second-fastest time in program history with a 25:47.9. His time was about four seconds slower than the conference meet record and is second in program history to only Doug Gurgel’s time of 25:41 back in 1994.
Behind Korthals, Silas Ebeling and Eliott Heiderich finished fifth and sixth, respectively. Ebeling ran in 26:18.3 and Heiderich finished in 26:41.5.
Two more freshmen rounded out MLC’s lineup in Thomas Moldenhauer and Andrew Holz. Moldenhauer finished in ninth place with a time of 27:14.7 and Holz was 13th in 28:04.9.
WOMEN'S CROSS-COUNTRY
MLC WOMEN TAKE 3RD
WINTHROP - MLC women’s cross country had three of the top seven finishers in the UMAC on Saturday afternoon, but could not match the depth of Crown or Northwestern, finishing in third place as a team at the 2026 UMAC Championship.
Sophomore Grace Hahm ran a PR time of 23:23.0 to finish in third place overall and top on the team. Junior Jemimah Habben clinched her third-straight top-eight UMAC finish with a season-best time fo 23:46.1. Freshman Claire Fischer ran her best race of the season to finish in seventh with a time of 24:02.2.
Sophomore Carys Wendland and freshman Anna Haakenson rounded out the counting runners for MLC with Wedland finishing in 22nd place with a time of 26:42.5 and Haakenson taking 26th and running in 26:54.5.
The Knights have finished inside the top three at the conference championship for five straight seasons.
MEN'S SOCCER
UW-SUPERIOR 10, MLC 1
NEW ULM - The MLC men's soccer team closed its season up against UW-Superior on Saturday afternoon, losing 10-1 to the UMAC Champions.
The game featured three goals in the first 2:14. The Yellowjackets scored twice in a 15-second span before Joshua Krenke netted his fourth goal of the season on an assist from Abraham Schlomer. That would be one of just two shots on target for the Knights in the match.
Superior continued to pile on the pressure, getting of 39 shots with 21 finding the target. Nicholas Russ and Samuel Bigelow split the match in the net. Russ made seven saves and conceded three while Bigelow made four saves during Superior’s seven-goal second half.
MLC honored its seniors, Jonah Uhlenbrauck, Silas Gawrisch, Jacob Gabb, Matthew Nelson and Noah Walta, before the match.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
UMM 3, MLC 0 (FRIDAY)
CROWN 3, MLC 0 (SATURDAY
NEW ULM - The MLC volleyball team was swept by the University of Minnesota Morris on Friday and Crown on Saturday, eliminating the team from postseason contention.
The Knights have a 2-8 UMAC record with two matches remaining. Crown is 5-6, a mark that MLC cannot reach.
Morris dominated MLC to the tune of 25-11, 25-16, 25-17 on Friday night. Once again, freshmen Kenzie Loberger and Hannah Rimpel shined in defeat, notching seven and five kills, respectively. Rimpel led the team with a .286 hitting percentage while Loberger hit .231. Rimpel also had three blocks. Elsa Brauer also chipped in five kills.
The Cougars used early runs to put away the first two sets quickly. In the third set, MLC hung with Morris until the middle of the set, after which, Morris closed the set on a 12-5 run.
On Saturday night, Crown won 25-14, 25-18, 25-20 to spoil MLC’s senior night, honoring Ella Walz, Anna Kieselhorst, Elsa Brauer and Natalie Ritter.
Loberger led the Knights with nine kills, but hit just .034 against the stingy Crown defense. Rimpel led the team with a .231 hitting percentage, but was given just 13 opportunities.
The Polars went on an 8-1 run near the middle of the first set and then jumped out quickly in sets two and three and were in control the entire match.
One of the highlights of the weekend was Kieselhorst vaulting herself into fourth place in program history for career digs. She now has 1,207.