By Samantha Davis sports@nujournal.com GRANITE FALLS — In both team’s season opener to kick off fall athletics, the Wabasso volleyball team locked in defensively to secure a win over Yellow Medicine East in straight sets of 25-11, 25-12 and 25-20 Thursday night in a non-conference ...

NEW ULM — New Ulm Cathedral stayed with it after going down two sets to one to win 25-16, 23-25, 20-25, 25-23, 15-11 over Madelia in a Tomahawk-Valley Conference crossover volleyball match on Friday. “We talked a lot about confidence and working together,” Cathedral’s Shay Wilfahrt ...

NEW ULM — After letting a close first set get away from them Friday evening, the Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers were reenergized the rest of the way. That new-found energy led to a new-found confidence which gave the Chargers a four-set win in a nonconference volleyball season opener ...

FERGUS FALLS — During his time as a member of the New Ulm Eagles boys basketball team, Nick Risen worked and waited for his opportunity to get more varsity playing time. While the Eagles recently had multiple 1,000-point career scorers and a stable starting rotation for several years, ...

NEW ULM — New Ulm opened up the new boys soccer season with a 3-1 win over Southwest Minnesota Christian Thursday at New Ulm High School. “We’re working on our formation and what to do off the ball,” New Ulm head coach Tim Plocher said. “A lot of it was situational awareness, ...

NEW ULM— All season long, the New Ulm Brewers have been ranked in the top 10 in Class B by the Minnesota Baseball Association after a reshuffling of teams bumped them up from Class C last off-season. And after rolling through the new District 8B tournament, the Brewers earned the right to ...