BOYS BASKETBALL Sleepy Eye 72, GFW 70 WINTHROP — Sleepy Eye eked out a 72-70 win over Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop in a Tomahawk Division boys basketball game on Friday. Braylon Nelson led the Indians with 22 points and three rebounds, while Chase Zufall had 20 points and seven rebounds. ...

Travis Rosenau (Journal Sports Editor): As a proud but often foolishly optimistic Minnesota Vikings fan, seeing former Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold sign with a new team and proceed to make the Super Bowl the very next season after his time in Minnesota brings mixed feelings. A part of me ...

NEW ULM — Minnesota Valley Lutheran completed its season sweep of Sibley East with a 60-47 win Friday in a South Central Conference girls basketball game. MVL had previously beaten Sibley East 51-45 on Jan. 27, so the larger margin of victory represented an improvement for the Chargers. ...

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Eagles managed to keep the red-hot Fairmont Cardinals in check throughout much of Friday night’s Big South Conference boys basketball crossover game, but too many empty possessions and turnovers had the Eagles on the wrong side of the things in the end. A late ...

BOYS BASKETBALL GFW 65, Cedar Mountain 51 MORGAN — Cole Jacobson set a single-game school record for Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop by scoring 48 points during a 65-51 win over Cedar Mountain in a Tomahawk Division boys basketball game on Thursday. Owen Swenson and Luke Bastian both added 5 ...

NEW ULM — When Brooklyn Lewis turned a Marshall turnover into a basket, it cut the Tigers’ lead to 26-19 midway through the first half. But that was the closest the Eagles got the rest of the game. Marshall followed up that basket with a 19-0 run en route to a 85-45 win over the ...