When Daviney Dreckman stepped onto the court for the University of Jamestown women’s basketball team on Nov. 14 in a nonconference game against Dickinson State, it marked 22 months since Dreckman, a redshirt freshman from New Ulm High School, had played a competitive basketball. Dreckman, ...
WINTHROP — Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop took a 29-24 lead at halftime and took that to a 66-42 win over BOLD in a nonconference boys basketball game on Monday. “Defensively in the half court I think our guys really picked it up,” GFW head coach Ryan Jacobson said. “I think we started the ...
NEW ULM — A pretty start to the second half turned ugly for the Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers on Monday night, but they were able to get the job done in the end. After seeing a 24-point lead chiseled down to 3 late, the Chargers held off the Blue Earth Area Buccaneers 66-61 in a ...
By Jake Olson jolson@fairmontsentinel.com SHERBURN – Nicollet’s interior scoring and defensive pressure were too much for Martin County West on Monday night as the Raiders avoided a late second-half surge and topped the Mavericks 59-51 in a Valley Division girls basketball ...
HOPKINS — New Ulm Area’s Ellie Dake took home first place at 170 at the Hopkins Athena Invitational on Saturday. Dake pinned Forest Lake’s Savana Stans in 36 seconds before winning by fall over Hastings’ Lily Watts in 1 minute. In the championship match, Dake won by fall over ...
NEW ULM — Tuesday’s game came down to the special teams. Minnesota Rivers’ Noelle Simonette’s power-play goal at the 11:27 mark of the second period gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead and Macey Portner’s open-net goal with 20 seconds left in the game sealed the deal as Minnesota River ...