GIRLS BASKETBALL: Arrow seniors cap careers with 4th-place finish at state
MINNEAPOLIS — Back in fifth grade, there were more than 40 of them. Eight years later, only a half-dozen remained.
RELATED CONTENTGIRLS' BASKETBALL: Braham rallies past Pipestone Area in Class AA semifinals
MINNEAPOLIS — It was a performance worthy of a steak dinner.
RELATED CONTENTGIRLS' BASKETBALL: Separated by 17 miles, PA, SWC have close bond
MINNEAPOLIS — Pipestone Area’s Breanna Houselog and the rest of the Arrow girls’ basketball players sat in the stands on Thursday and watched their friends from Southwest Christian play in the Class A girls’ state basketball tournament’s first round.
MW SOFTBALL: Lady Jays finish 2-1 in softball tournament
ROSEMOUNT — In one day of games, the Minnesota West softball team doubled its season win total.
BOYS' BASKETBALL: The streak continues: Ellsworth heads to state
MARSHALL — In what will certainly go down as an instant classic, the Ellsworth Panthers claimed an exhilarating 76-71 victory over the MACCRAY Wolverines in the Section 3A high school boys’ basketball championship game in front of a full house at an electrifying R/A Facility on the campus of Southwest Minnesota State University Thursday night.
RELATED CONTENTBOYS' BASKETBALL: Unbe-Levi-able! Gotto sinks game-winner
MARSHALL — In what was described later by regional executive secretary Jim Lasley as the kind of shot every kid practices in their back yard, Windom’s Levi Gotto did the remarkable — sinking a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that launched the Eagles to a Section 3AA boys’ basketball championship and a trip to Williams Arena.
RELATED CONTENTGIRLS' BASKETBALL: SWC bows out of Class A state tourney
MINNEAPOLIS — She had a black eye and the wind had just been knocked out of her, but Kayla Broekhuis wasn’t going down that easily.
RELATED CONTENTOUTDOORS: Human nature and the carry law
WORTHINGTON — I have often said that no one is immune from an occasional bout of human nature.
Windom, Ellsworth advance to state tournament
MARSHALL - It wasn't easy for Windom or Ellsworth. But when the dust settled on both the Section 3AA and 3A boys' basketball tournament, the results were the same: Windom and Ellsworth are going to state.
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Arrows hold Mainstreeters to less than 20 percent shooting in opening-round victory
MINNEAPOLIS — Wednesday was a good day to wear green, and not just because it was St. Patty’s Day.
RELATED CONTENTBOYS' BASKETBALL: Ellsworth, MACCRAY meet tonight for state trip
MARSHALL — In what appears to be a classic matchup on paper, the Ellsworth Panthers and the MACCRAY Wolverines will clash tonight in the Section 3A boys’ basketball championship game.
RELATED CONTENTGIRLS' BASKETBALL: Southwest Christian makes first trip to state since 1985
MINNEAPOLIS — Obviously, making state is great.
RELATED CONTENTBOYS' BASKETBALL: Windom ready to tangle with similar Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop squad
WINDOM — Having once again earned three consecutive sub-section high school tournament basketball victories, the now-experienced — but still young and talented — Windom Eagle boys are back in the Section 3AA championship game.
RELATED CONTENTMW SOFTBALL: Minnesota West softball team returns from successful trip to Arizona
WORTHINGTON — For the first time in four years of taking her Minnesota West softball team south for a spring trip, head coach Rosalie Hayenga-Hostikka didn’t come home with a zero in the win column.
JCC, W/ML/B-O lead All-Southwest Conference wrestling selections
WORTHINGTON — Fresh off its Class A state wrestling title, Jackson County Central placed eight wrestlers on the All-Southwest Conference team.
