ST. PAUL – When the Minneota volleyball team exited the court after last year’s Class A state championship match (3-0 loss to Mayer Lutheran) with a bitter taste in their mouths, they decided to come up with a motto for the 2018 season. That motto, later turned into a hashtag on its ...
ST. PAUL – Last year, the Marshall volleyball team saw its chances at a state championship match appearance cut short when the Tigers fell to North Branch in the Class AA semifinals. When the two teams met once again Saturday in the title match, Marshall looked to avenge the early exit to ...
MARSHALL – With sirens blaring from the local fire trucks and police cars, the Marshall volleyball team was brought back to town in style hours after they earned a runner-up finish at the Class AA state tournament on Saturday. The Tigers were then welcomed with open arms by a large group of ...
MARSHALL – Closing the chapter on a historic career, Southwest Minnesota State University quarterback Blake Gimbel gave the Mustang fans a final performance for the ages in Saturday’s season finale against the Augustana University Vikings in which the fifth-year senior broke not one, not ...
DULUTH - The No. 3-seeded Southwest Minnesota State volleyball team fell 3-1 (25-15, 25-23, 23-25, 25-22) to top-seeded Minnesota Duluth in the championship match of the NSIC Tournament held in the Romano Gymnasium on Saturday night. UMD (27-5), the co-NSIC regular season champions, earn the ...
MARSHALL - Southwest Minnesota State tied a school record with 19 3-pointers and closed the game shooting 66 percent from the field to earn a 96-85 victory over Fort Hays State (Kan.) in men's college basketball on Saturday night at the R/A Facility. The game was part of the NSIC/MIAA ...
HAYS, Kan. - The Southwest Minnesota State women's basketball team fell 82-70 to Missouri Western State on Saturday night in the Mustangs' second game of the MIAA/NSIC Challenge held in the Gross Memorial Coliseum. SMSU shot 33 percent from the field (21 of 63) as MWSU shot 48 percent (31 of ...
MITCHELL, S.D. - The Southwest Minnesota State wrestling team opened its season on Saturday recording a handful of place winners at the Dakota Wesleyan Open. Cortez Arrendondo took home third place with a 5-1 record at 157 pounds, while Jack Ryan also finished 5-1 to earn third place at ...
HUTCHINSON – Marshall's girls swimming and diving team didn't achieve everything it was hoping to Saturday during the Section 3A finals in Hutchinson, but it didn't leave empty handed. Junior swimmer Nyssa Bentz will make her third trip to the Class A state swimming meet in Minneapolis next ...
ST. PAUL – For the Marshall volleyball team, close matches has seemed to be a contributing factor to their season. With one match separating the Tigers from a state championship appearance, Marshall knew it was going to have to put together a special performance. Standing in their path was ...
ST. PAUL – All season long, the Marshall volleyball team has shown its grit and never-say-die attitude. When the Tigers came to the Class AA Tournament, they were faced with a difficult opponent in Park Rapids Area in the quarterfinal round. Marshall ultimately prevailed, using a hard-fought ...
NEW ULM – Digging deep and leaving it all on the field, the Russell-Tyler-Ruthton Knights took No. 1 ranked Spring Grove to the brink of defeat in Friday night’s frigid 9-man state quarterfinals matchup but fell short as the Lions put together a game-winning touchdown drive in the final ...
ST. PAUL – The Minneota volleyball team knew things weren’t going to come easy against No. 4 seed Ada-Borup/West. Not against another one-loss team and especially not with a trip to the state championship match on the line. So when the two red-hot programs met in the Class A semifinals ...
ST. PAUL – The Minneota volleyball team hadn’t lost an opening set all season. So when the Vikings found themselves on the opposite end of a 25-23 Set 1 loss to Ada-Borup/West in Friday’s Class A semifinals, Minneota began to feel a little adversity. That adversity was felt even greater ...
MARSHALL – A late second-half run helped Emporia State defeat Southwest Minnesota State 83-74 on Friday. The Mustangs held a 64-57 lead with 8:17 remaining, but the Hornets went on a 26-10 run the rest of the way to seal the win. Ryan Bruggeman led SMSU with 18 points and seven ...
DULUTH – The Southwest Minnesota State University volleyball team secured its spot in the NSIC Tournament championship match with a five-set victory (25-16, 25-17, 23-25, 26-28, 15-9) over the No. 2 seed Northern State University on Friday night. Southwest Minnesota State University faces ...
ST. PAUL – For the Marshall volleyball team, close matches has seemed to be a contributing factor to their season. With one match separating the Tigers from a state championship appearance, Marshall knew it was going to have to put together a special performance. Standing in their path was ...
ST. PAUL – Marshall’s trip to the state tournament this year is a special one. It’s the 28th time the Tigers have reached state in their program history, which is a Minnesota State High School League record. Marshall coach Dan Westby said they take a lot of pride in that number and that ...
ST. PAUL – Down early in the second set of their Class A quarterfinal match against New York Mills, Minneota volleyball coach Hayley Fruin was forced to burn a pair of timeouts and try and re-align her gameplan back on track. Her players, who had given the Vikings a quick lead in the match ...
ST. PAUL – During their opening-round match against New York Mills, the Minneota volleyball team had to find a spark in some sort of form if they were going to advance to the semifinal round. The Vikings were held in check for the most part with their hitting, with only one player reaching ...