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NUBBA 5th grade boys take 1st at Albert Lea tournament

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Submitted photo/information The fifth-grade New Ulm Basketball Association (NUBBA) boys team traveled to Albert Lea for a tournament and brought home 1st place. The day started with a back-and-forth battle with West Fork, pulling off the win 40-36. The team faced Albert Lea and got out to a ...

Morgan Mathiowetz reaches 3,000 points

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NEW ULM — Six and a half minutes into the second half of a Tomahawk Division girls basketball game between Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s and New Ulm Cathedral, St. Marys’ Morgan Mathiowetz made a second-chance 3-pointer. That shot put her at exactly 3,000 career points, a threshold crossed by ...

Chargers struggle finding shot in loss to Bluejays

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NEW ULM — Getting an extra day off doesn’t always bode well for a team, and Minnesota Valley Lutheran saw that play out on Saturday afternoon. After having their Friday night game postponed due to weather, the Chargers were unable to find their shot throughout much of Saturday’s ...

Turnovers plague Eagles in loss to Bluejays

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NEW ULM — New Ulm Eagles head boys basketball Michael Poncelet said that Friday night’s game against the Waseca Bluejays was their worst played game of the year. The Eagles were guilty of a season-high 24 turnovers that the Bluejays turned into 26 points as Waseca ran by New Ulm 84-69 ...

Area roundup: Lewis leads New Ulm past Waseca

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GIRLS BASKETBALL New Ulm 79, Waseca 38 WASECA — Brooklyn Lewis scored 32 points for New Ulm on Friday night to lead the Eagles to a 79-38 rout over Waseca in a Big South Conference girls basketball game. Lewis also had nine steals, while Leah Brustad had 16 points and seven rebounds. ...

Wilfahrt’s 22 leads Cathedral by Sleepy Eye

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SLEEPY EYE — While both teams displayed solid defense on Friday night, the New Ulm Cathedral Greyhounds got enough offense to close out the first half and carried that into the second half on the way to a 47-36 win over Sleepy Eye in a Tomahawk Division girls basketball game. Shay Wilfahrt ...