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Area roundup: Knights top 3rd-ranked Panthers

GIRLS BASKETBALL St. Mary’s 85, NRHEG 71 Fourth-ranked Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s overcame third-ranked New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva 85-71 in a nonconference girls basketball game on Thursday. Morgan Mathiowetz led the Knights with 47 points, nine rebounds, five assists and three steals, while Olivia Schieffert had 20 points, five rebounds, eight assists and three steals. Audra Hoffmann added 10 points, eight rebounds and three steals. Camryn VanMaldeghem had 46 points in the game for NRHEG. No. 1 St. Mary’s (25-1) plays No. 16 Madelia in the first round of the ...

Blackhawks rally by Firebirds

GIBBON — In a dual between two of the area’s top scorers in Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop’s Cole Jacobson and Madelia’s Kaydon Firchau, both players put on a show Friday night in the new GFW High School gymnasium. But between the two players’ combined 68 points in the game, neither ...

GETTING TO KNOW Carson Kettner

Interview by Travis Rosenau Kettner, who joined the 1,000-point club for his career at Nicollet High School this past January, also helped his Raiders defeat Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 85-65 this past Monday in a Tomahawk-Valley Conference crossover boys basketball game. During the win over St. ...

GETTING TO KNOW Taylor Berkner

Interview by Travis Rosenau Berkner led the Sleepy Eye girls basketball team to a dominant 80-55 win over Cleveland on Monday in the team’s regular season finale, finishing with 31 points, six rebounds, four steals and three assists. Q: What is your favorite restaurant? A: My favorite ...

Anderson joins 1,000-point club; Lewis shooting for 2,000

Some basketball history was made Tuesday night and more high school basketball history may be made Friday on the local scene. Tuesday night, New Ulm Cathedral’s Eli Anderson became the 61st player to score 1,000 career points when he scored 29 for the Greyhounds in a road game at Cleveland for 1,003 career points currently. Anderson, who became the 21st Greyhound to crack the 1,000-career point barrier, said that his 1,000th point came on a free throw. “There was about 13 minutes left in the game,” he said. “It felt good — there was a lot of stuff leading up to that. It has ...