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SMSU finishes fourth at National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament

TUCSON, Ariz. — The No. 6 seed Southwest Minnesota State wheelchair basketball team closed its season on Saturday morning suffering a 61-50 loss to No. 5 seed the University of Illinois in the third-place game of the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament inside the McKale Center. SMSU, which defeated Eastern Washington and Arizona in the first two games of the tournament before suffering a loss to Auburn in Friday's semifinals, ends the season with a record of 13-11 overall. SMSU was in control for much of the first half in Saturday's game, including holding a ...

Mustangs drop hard-fought doubleheader vs. first-place WSU

MANKATO — The Southwest Minnesota State University softball team dropped a pair of hard-fought battles against first-place Winona State in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference play on Friday. Winona State scored the winning run in the seventh inning of the first game to down SMSU 4-3, and ...

‘They are always in your corner’

MINNEOTA — The Minneota wrestling program had a historic and memorable 2025-26 season, making it to the state tournament as a team for the first time in a decade and finishing with a 30-3 record. Leading the helm of the Vikings’ success were co-head coaches Matt Buysse and Matt Myrvik, the ...

Vikings’ DeVlaeminck named Independent Wrestler of the Year

MINNEOTA — Adam DeVlaeminck was nothing if not consistent as a member of the Minneota wrestling team. The Vikings senior qualified for the state tournament each of the last five years, capping off his final season with a third-place state finish, an All-State Tournament nod and our selection ...

Mustang softball pulls out split vs. Minn. State

MANKATO — Jordyn Marsh’s dominant pitching performance helped the Southwest Minnesota State University softball team pull out a split against Minnesota State on Thursday. The Mustangs fell 9-1 in five innings in the doubleheader opener, but came on strong in the second game for a 3-1 win ...

Cooreman steps down after nine years as Wabasso wrestling coach

WABASSO — It’s not easy to fill the shoes of a Hall of Fame wrestling coach like the late Gary Hindt, but Cole Cooreman had a pretty reliable source telling him to not worry about that when he took over coaching the Wabasso varsity wrestling program in 2017, that source being the Hall of ...