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Tigers prep for 4th straight 3A finals

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By Jake McNeill sports@nujournal.com MARSHALL — For the fourth consecutive season, the Springfield football team is headed to the Section 3A championship game with the hope of earning its fourth consecutive state tournament berth. The top-seeded Tigers won each of their last three ...

Fueled-up Firebirds ready for section finals

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NEW PRAGUE — This past Saturday, Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop took down the top seed in the Section 2A Football Tournament, downing Cleveland 26-7 to avenge its loss to the Clippers earlier in the season. Fourth-seeded GFW has a chance to avenge another loss this Friday in the Section 2A ...

Red Rock readies for Rabbits

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By Travis Rosenau trosenau@nujournal.com COTTONWOOD — For it being the first year of a renewed rivalry between Red Rock Central and Wabasso, there couldn’t be a much more fitting way for the teams to meet one more time this season. Before the Wabasso Rabbits became a nine-player ...

MLC’s Koschnitzke repeats as UMAC Special Teams POTW

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Courtesy of Adam Hussman/MLC SID ST. PAUL – For the second consecutive week, Martin Luther College’s Micah Koschnitzke was voted UMAC Special Teams Player of the Week (October 20-26) announced on Tuesday. Koschnitzke was instrumental in the Knights’ securing a 38-28 road victory at ...

Rabbits reflect on semifinals shootout, triumph over Cougars

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WABASSO — When the Wabasso Rabbits hosted the Cedar Mountain Cougars this past Saturday in a Section 2, Nine-Player Football Tournament semifinals game, fans in attendance got to experience the textbook definition of what a playoff game should be. The back-and-forth battle featured five ...

Mustangs move on, top Knights in 4

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ST. PETER — No. 1 Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart advanced to the Section 2A Volleyball Tournament Championship with a 25-14, 21-25, 25-21, 25-16 win over No. 4 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s on Tuesday. “We really had to focus on our defense,” BLHS setter Elizabeth Ovitt said. “Knowing that ...