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Red’s recap: Portner enters Cathedral record books

NEW ULM — New Ulm Cathedral’s Alex Portner’s six touchdowns in the 57-6 win over Renville County West Wednesday night tied Adam Schnobrich’s single-game mark set in 2011 and along with 242 yards rushing. Portner now also holds the career touchdown mark of with 45, breaking the old mark of 40 set by Ted Skillings. Portner holds another career mark with a current total of 2,816 career rushing yards, which breaks the former record of 2,272 set by Erik Olsen in 2006. This season thus far, Portner has run for 1,135 yards and 23 touchdowns. Cathedral head football coach Denny Lux ...

Area roundup: Knights clinch perfect division record

TUESDAY PREP VOLLEYBALL ST. MARY’S 3, CATHEDRAL 0 NEW ULM — Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s clinched a perfect conference record with a 25-18, 25-5, 25-17 sweep of New Ulm Cathedral in a Tomahawk Division volleyball match on Tuesday. St. Mary’s (20-3-1, 8-0) will travel to play Cleveland in the Tomahawk-Valley Conference volleyball championship match on Monday. Morgan Mathiowetz led the Knights with 15 kills, eight digs and five aces, while Audra Hoffmann had nine kills, 10 digs and five aces. Nell Weiss had four kills and four aces, while Brynne Ibberson had 29 set assists and ...

Second-half woes slow Chargers in loss to Knights

NEW ULM — Against a powerful Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial football team on a five-game winning streak entering Wednesday night, Minnesota Valley Lutheran matched up with the Knights’ physicality well enough to take a 7-7 tie into halftime. The Knights continued to wear away at the ...

Slow start, missed tackles hurt Eagles in loss

ST. PETER — While New Ulm was able to find some success on offense in the second half of a Southeast District, Red Subdistrict football game against St. Peter, the Eagles were unable to overcome a 21-8 halftime deficit, falling to the Saints 31-21 on Wednesday. The Eagles were without ...

Area football roundup: Tigers rout RTR

WEDNESDAY PREP FOOTBALL SPRINGFIELD 41, RTR 0 TYLER — Springfield rolled Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 41-0 in a Mid-South District, Purple Subdistrict football game on Wednesday. Parker Kuehn had 243 yards and three touchdowns passing and added 28 yards and two touchdowns rushing for the ...

Red’s recap: Greyhounds celebrate record-high scoring night

The 71 points scored by the New Ulm Cathedral football team Friday night in a 71-7 win over Mountain Lake Area was a new school record. The previous record was 69 scored in 2011 in Heron Lake-Okabena. “We had eight different players score touchdowns in the game,” Cathedral head coach Denny Lux said. “And offensively we played just about perfect in the first half (leading 58-0). With our offensive line it did not matter who was carrying the ball and defensively we really swung to the ball — we set the tone early in the game.” Lux said with the big lead at halftime, he was ...