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Knights roll to Tomahawk-Valley title repeat

NICOLLET — Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s left no doubt Tuesday as the Knights repeated as Tomahawk-Valley Conference girls basketball champions with an 82-35 win over Nicollet. “It feels great,” St. Mary’s senior Natalie Fischer said. “We set our expectations super high at the start of ...

Chargers fall to Cyclones despite Brau’s career night

NEW ULM — Despite a career-high 35 points from Pierson Brau on Tuesday night, the Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers struggled to stop a three-headed monster in the form of St. Clair’s Austin Ward, Hunter Winkler and Sam Freitag. Ward, Winkler and Freitag combined to score 68 of the ...

MLC’s Wenz wins UMAC women’s basketball POTW again

Courtesy of Adam Hussman/MLC SID ST. PAUL – On Tuesday, Wilhelmina Wenz was voted the UMAC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week (2/9-2/15) was one of four MLC student-athletes to be awarded UMAC Athlete of the Week, along with Adam Loberger, Gideon Heins, and R.J. Perry. Despite MLC falling to Crown and Minnesota Morris this past week, Wenz showed up in each game. The sophomore finished with a double-double against Crown (11 points, 12 rebounds) to add to her breaking the MLC single-season record in rebounds (241). Wenz leads all UMAC players in rebounds per game (10.0) and ...

Knights fall to Rams’ comeback in season finale

NEW ULM — Although the Martin Luther College Knights brought a solid defensive effort Wednesday, a cold night of shooting saw their season come to an end as the North Central University Rams earned a 61-54 win in an Upper Midwest Athletic Conference women’s basketball game. The loss ...

Firebirds hold off Wolverines on new Gibbon home floor

By Ari Selvey aselvey@nujournal.com GIBBON — In the debut of the new Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop gym of the new high school in Gibbon, the Firebirds started things off right with a 54-44 win over Sibley East in a nonconference girls basketball game on Monday. “That was one of the first ...

Eagles overcome poor shooting to top Raiders

NEW ULM — Brooklyn Lewis paced four Eagles in double figures with 21 points as New Ulm downed Central 70-61 Monday night in a non-conference girls basketball game. Maggie Joyce added 15, Riley Wilson 12 and Leah Brustad 10 as the Eagles improved to 17-8 on the season. Brooklyn Lewis is ...