NEW ULM — A pretty start to the second half turned ugly for the Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers on Monday night, but they were able to get the job done in the end. After seeing a 24-point lead chiseled down to 3 late, the Chargers held off the Blue Earth Area Buccaneers 66-61 in a ...

By Jake Olson jolson@fairmontsentinel.com SHERBURN – Nicollet’s interior scoring and defensive pressure were too much for Martin County West on Monday night as the Raiders avoided a late second-half surge and topped the Mavericks 59-51 in a Valley Division girls basketball ...

HOPKINS — New Ulm Area’s Ellie Dake took home first place at 170 at the Hopkins Athena Invitational on Saturday. Dake pinned Forest Lake’s Savana Stans in 36 seconds before winning by fall over Hastings’ Lily Watts in 1 minute. In the championship match, Dake won by fall over ...

NEW ULM — New Ulm held a 41-40 lead over second-ranked Class AA Belle Plaine at halftime but fell 92-80 by the final buzzer Tuesday in a Big South Conference boys basketball game on Tuesday. The Eagles went up by as much as 9 points in the second half, but a late surge by the Tigers gave ...

NEW ULM — Tuesday’s game came down to the special teams. Minnesota Rivers’ Noelle Simonette’s power-play goal at the 11:27 mark of the second period gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead and Macey Portner’s open-net goal with 20 seconds left in the game sealed the deal as Minnesota River ...

I was made aware that the list of the top 50 scorers in the New Ulm area, printed in The Journal’s 2025 Winter Preview, was missing a significant player. Winthrop’s Nancy Trebbensee, who graduated from Winthrop High School in 1980, not only qualifies for the list, but scored 2,446 career ...