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SMSU finishes fourth at National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

Mustang softball pulls out split vs. Minn. State

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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 in ...

Cooreman steps down after nine years as Wabasso wrestling coach

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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 ...

‘They are always in your corner’

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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

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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 ...