MARSHALL – Last season, the Southwest Minnesota State University football team kicked off the year with some excitement, with the Mustangs stormed back to defeat the ranked University of Minnesota Duluth 42-38 in front of their home crowd. Unfortunately for SMSU, the rest of the season was ...
MARSHALL – Last season, the Southwest Minnesota State University soccer team battled through some close losses and tough matchups on its way to a 6-11-1 record. With multiple starters returning, the Mustangs are shifting their focus to a new season under head coach Erin ...
MARSHALL – Southwest Minnesota State's women's volleyball team (4-0) will look to stay perfect this weekend as they travel to Denver Colo., for another weekend of tough competition in the annual Colorado Premier Challenge with matches against No. 20 Tampa and No. 8 Ferris State scheduled for ...
MARSHALL – Southwest Minnesota State University (0-1, 0-0 NSIC South) hits the road for the first time in 2017 facing MSU Moorhead (1-0, 0-0 NSIC North) tonight, starting at 7:05 p.m. at Scheels Field at Nemzek Stadium in Moorhead. •The game will be televised live regionally on Midco ...
OLATHE, Kan. - The Southwest Minnesota State University women's golf team struggled Wednesday in the final round of the Central Region Preview, shooting a 344, to finish with a 95-over-par 671 and record a 16th place finish at the 17-team, 36-hole invite. Augustana won the team title, which ...
MARSHALL – The Marshall boys and girls cross country teams are coming off a season that saw the boys team take home the Big South Conference crown and place third in the section meet while the girls earned a fourth place finish at the state meet. This season, with a mixture of youth and ...
MARSHALL – This fall, there will be a lot of firsts for both the Marshall boys and girls soccer teams, with both teams getting a new head coach and the girls having a program built out of scratch. Boys The 2017 soccer season will be Matt Versaevel’s first year serving as the head ...
MARSHALL - A youth movement will be full effect this year for the Marshall swimming team. This year’s squad has no seniors on the roster. Instead, they’ll rely on the leadership from eight juniors, including team captains KC Boerboom and Makenzie Enderson. The other six juniors are Bridget ...
MARSHALL – Despite netting only one win last season, the Marshall girls tennis team saw improvement and growth amongst their players. This season, the Tigers will look to continue that improvement under the direction of head coach Alex Cleppe. This year’s roster will bolster a handful of ...
GRANITE FALLS – All week Yellow Medicine East coach Leah Fadness preached to her team about eliminating mistakes. The Sting didn't appear to heed the coach's message during the first set against Russell-Tyler-Ruthton on Tuesday. The Sting committed 15 errors in the first set and lost 25-22 to ...
MARSHALL – The Marshall boys soccer teams' undefeated streak was unfortunately halted Tuesday. The Tigers couldn't get ahead of Worthington, who shut down Marshall 7-4. Marshall's head coach Matt Versaevel said that the team came out with a rusty start. "The first half we came out pretty ...
By Sam Thiel sthiel@marshallindependent.com MARSHALL – The Marshall tennis team fell to Hutchinson 7-0 on Tuesday. At No. 1 singles, Marshall’s Drew Carver fell to Sydney Mandelkow 6-2, 6-0 while Jordyn Guerrero fell to Maddie Roepke 6-0, 6-0. Marshall’s Eden Knudson fell to Alex ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Southwest Minnesota State University women's volleyball team remains at No. 2 in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Top-25 Poll released on Monday following a 4-0 weekend to start the season. Fellow NSIC competitor and reigning National Champions, ...
OLATHE, Kan. - The Southwest Minnesota State University women's golf team opened the 2017 fall season Tuesday shooting a first round score of 39-over-par 327 at the Central Region Preview at Prairie Highlands Golf Club. SMSU is currently in 13th place in the 17-team invite but just eight ...
GRANITE FALLS - Many volleyball teams have played their season openers and the majority of the teams have played two or three matches. When Russell-Tyler-Ruthton travels to Granite Falls to take on Yellow Medicine East they’ll be playing their second game of the year. YME will be playing in ...
PRINSBURG — Minneota swept Central Minnesota Christian 3-0 (25-5, 25-9, 25-7) on Tuesday. Lydia Sussner led the Vikings with 12 kills and four blocks. Morgan Kockelman recorded one ace and 33 set assists, while Abby Hennen added 10 digs and one ace. Minneota (3-0) will play in the ...
PENSACOLA, Fla.- The second ranked Southwest Minnesota State volleyball team finished off a perfect 4-0 weekend with wins over Southern Indiana and West Florida on Saturday from the UWF Fieldhouse. No. 2 SMSU vs. Southern Indiana No. 2 SMSU held Southern Indiana to just .040 hitting and ...
TOPEKA, Kan.- Southwest Minnesota State remains in search of its first goal of the season after dropping its second game of the weekend at Washburn, 2-0 on Saturday afternoon. For the second consecutive game, SMSU conceded an early goal and played from behind for a majority of the ...
SIOUX FALLS – The Marshall boys and girls cross country teams competed at the Augustana Twilight on Friday. On the girls side, Morgan Radel finished seventh with a time of 19:10.05 while Kaia Sueker came in ninth with a time of 19:15.09 and Natalee Sample finished 10th (19:23.65) and ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Southwest Minnesota State women's and men's cross country teams opened the 2017 season on Friday night competing at the Augustana Twilight in Yankton Trails. Kayla Jansky was the SMSU women's team top finisher, placing 91st out of 310 runners in the 5K race with a ...