Breaking News

Local Sports

Area football roundup: Chargers win 3rd straight

FRIDAY PREP FOOTBALL MVL 35, WINDOM AREA 0 WINDOM — Minnesota Valley Lutheran rolled Windom Area 35-0 in a Mid-South District, Brown Subdistrict football game on Friday. Ben Riesgraf led the Chargers with 169 yards and three touchdowns rushing, while Chase Tweit had 10 yards and a score on the ground. Eli Schauland added a touchdown rushing. Defensively, Brecken Smith had an interception, and Emmanuel Edwards blocked a punt. MVL (3-1, 3-0) hosts Jackson County Central on Friday. SPRINGFIELD 21, DAWSON-BOYD 10 DAWSON — Springfield defeated Dawson-Boyd 21-10 in a nondistrict ...

Week 4: Eagles look to defend turf on Homecoming

Two New Ulm teams — the New Ulm Cathedral Greyhounds and the Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers — are coming off wins last week while the Eagles of New Ulm High School will look to rebound from a disappointing road loss in the fourth week of high school football. The marquee matchup happens when unbeaten New Ulm Cathedral travels to unbeaten Wabasso for a Nine-Player South District, West Subdistrict game at 3 p.m. on Saturday. On Friday night, the MVL Chargers look to extend their winning streak to three games as they hop on the bus to Windom Area for a 7 p.m. Mid-South District, ...

Storm roll by Greyhounds in sweep

SLEEPY EYE — After starting the week with a pair of defeats, the Sleepy Eye Storm were more than ready to roar back against New Ulm Cathedral on Thursday. With a clean game and consistent attack, the Storm rolled by the Greyhounds for a 25-21, 25-19, 25-9 sweep in Tomahawk Division ...

SEU looks for another Homecoming hurrah

SLEEPY EYE – After Merrick Mathiowetz pulled out all the stops to help give Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s a Homecoming to celebrate last Friday, it could easily be Keeyan Netzke or Carson Uecker giving Sleepy Eye High School a Homecoming to remember also this Friday. Those are just a handful of ...

New Ulm finds footing in 2nd half against Waseca

NEW ULM — In a sloppy and slippery game that matched the weather, New Ulm found itself with a 3-2 lead over Waseca with 15 minutes to play in the second half of a Big South Conference boys soccer game Thursday. From that point on, the Eagles outscored the Bluejays 5-1 as the flood of goals ...

Red’s recap: Chargers celebrate 1st win over Pipestone since 2006

The last time that a Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers football team beat Pipestone was 20 years ago in 2006 when they clipped the Arrows 26-7. MVL’s losing streak to Pipestone ended this past Friday night in a dominating fashion with a 20-0 road shutout for the Chargers’ second straight win. “It has been a while since we beat them there,” Chargers head coach Jim Buboltz said. “That is a tough place to play — it is a long ways away. I was really happy with our players again.” And it was a game that the Chargers totally dominated on both sides of the ball — ...