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Blackjacks come up short to Montevideo in top-10 battle

No. 2 Montevideo 70, No. 8 Dawson-Boyd 62 MONTEVIDEO — Jaxton Hastad and Gunner Liebl combined for 41 points for the No. 8 Dawson-Boyd basketball team on Thursday night, but it wasn’t enough for the Blackjacks as they fell 70-62 to Class 2A No. 2 Montevideo in a non-conference matchup. Hastad scored a team-high 23 points on 9 of 17 shooting from the field with a pair of 3-pointers. His six assists were also second only to Liebl’s seven assists on one turnover, and he also grabbed five rebounds with a steal. Liebl scored 18 points on 7 of 15 shooting. They were the only ...

A fantastic finish to a Panther career

TRACY — Griffin Zick scored 1,000 points in his final home game as a member of the Tracy-Milroy-Balaton boys basketball team on Tuesday. The senior guard finished the night with a team-high 21 points, leading the Panthers to an 80-60 win over Yellow Medicine East in Camden Conference ...

Marshall girls repeat as Big South champions

FAIRMONT – Fairmont faithful began to rise to their feet. After Brylee Miller found Emelia Klanderud on an in-bound’s cut to the hoop, a once 25-point Marshall advantage had dwindled to 14 with over eight minutes to play in the contest. With the shot-clock winding down, Tiger guard ...

Voigt’s 26 lead Marshall boys to win over Hutch

HUTCHINSON — Oliver Voigt’s 26-point explosion propelled the Marshall boys basketball team to a non-conference win on Tuesday night, taking down Hutchinson 81-59. Voigt shot 12 of 19 from the field in the win and also grabbed 15 rebounds, six of which came on the offensive glass. On the defensive end, he tied Levi Maeyaert with a team-high two blocks and also came away with a steal. Davion Xayarath and Patrick Morman aided Voigt’s scoring with 16 and 15 points, respectively. Xayarath shot 6 of 9 from the field and Morman shot 5 of 10. Marshall led 38-31 at halftime but ...

Marshall finishes as 3AA team runners-up to New Ulm Area

FAIRMONT — The Marshall wrestling team started off the final day of the Section 3AA tournament with a strong 54-11 win over Windom Mountain Lake in the semifinals on Saturday, but wasn’t able to repeat as section champs after falling to New Ulm in the championship dual, 31-23. New Ulm ...

Shadows repeat as state jazz champs

MINNEAPOLIS — The Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd dance team wasn’t short on hardware when it returned from this weekend’s state dance tournament at the Target Center. The Shadows repeated as Class A Jazz champions and also built off last year’s High Kick state title with a runner-up finish this time around. LQPV/DB has now claimed a total of eight state dance championships since 2019, including four in jazz and four in high kick. Yellow Medicine East also returned to the state tournament this year. The Sting were finalists in both jazz and high kick, but were unable to go ...