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BLAST: Edgerton wins District 8 in 1963
EDGERTON – A week ago, Southwest Minnesota Christian High School, based in Edgerton, won its fifth Class A boys’ basketball state championship.
After a runner-up finish in 2012, the Eagles – who won four straight titles from 1999-2002 – capped a remarkable 30-1 season with a well-played 81-73 victory over Maranatha Christian Academy of Brooklyn Park in the first of four championship games at Target Center.
By Les Knutson , March 30, 2013
BLAST: Jackson, Edgerton emerge as 1963 district champions
WORTHINGTON — Silverberg’s was selling Minnesota Twins’ youth jackets for $3.99 (sizes 3 to 6x) and sizes 8-16 were priced at $4.99, Schafer’s Grocery was selling three pounds of hamburger for $1.00, a two-pound can of Butternut coffee for $1.15 and nine cans of Campbell’s Tomato Soup for 99 cents, a single issue of the afternoon edition of the Daily Globe was 10 cents and “West Side Story” was showing at the State Theatre in Worthington.
By Les Knutson , March 20, 2013
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BLAST: More 1963 March Madness
WORTHINGTON – As the state of Minnesota still wondered and pondered the results of the closely-contested governor election from four months ago (November, 1962), the 16 surviving area high school boys’ basketball teams were squaring off in tournament play in both District 7 and 8, anticipating action on the big Worthington floor with its large seating capacity.
By Les Knutson , March 12, 2013
BLAST: Area loaded with fine teams in 1963
WORTHINGTON — A train with Strategic Command troops of the United States Air Force was stationed in Heron Lake, Bob Cousy and Bill Russell were piling up assists and rebounds, respectively, for the Boston Celtics on their way to another NBA championship and “I Will Follow Him” by Little Peggy March was climbing Billboard’s Top 40.
By Les Knutson , February 28, 2013
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BLAST: Bluehawks win ‘em all in 1948
OKABENA — Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey was campaigning to become a U.S. Senator, the Cleveland Indians won the World Series over the Boston Braves in six games, Southwestern Minnesota farmers were enjoying a banner harvest (both yields and prices), a nickel could buy you a bottle of pop and every Saturday morning, Okabena High School industrial arts teacher and coach Dudley Townsend repeated his routine.
By Les Knutson , November 28, 2012
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Bulldogs attained perfection
BREWSTER — As the world was captivated by the Cuban Missile Crisis and “The Monster Mash,” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and The Cryptkickers, had replaced the Four Seasons’ classic “Sherry” as Billboard’s top-selling single, the Brewster Bulldogs were completing a dream season as high school football players.
By Les Knutson , November 14, 2012
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: 1989 state title highlights remarkable Storden-Jeffers girls’ basketball dynasty
JEFFERS — In the mid-1960’s, an English rock band, known as the Dave Clark Five, had a song entitled “Everybody Knows.”
As the boys’ state high school basketball tournament is underway in Minneapolis and the Ellsworth Panthers are playing in the elite event for a fourth straight time — and their fifth in the past seven years — that song title could well apply to the type of representation that our area makes when an opportunity comes along.
By Les Knutson , March 25, 2009
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