MARSHALL — The fourth-ranked Marshall girls basketball team held St. Peter scoreless for the game’s first seven minutes en route to a dominating 84-41 senior night and Big South Conference win Friday night. The Tigers had 15 3-pointers on the night, with seven different players making at ...
ST. CLOUD — The Southwest Minnesota State University mens basketball team led by 4 points in the final 30 seconds of its Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference matchup against St. Cloud State on Thursday, but that thin cushion proved not to be enough for a win. The Huskies scored 6 unanswered points in the final 21 seconds to down SMSU 49-47, preventing the Mustangs from cutting into the Huskies’ lead in the conference standings. A pair of Jakob Braaten free throws gave the Mustangs a 47-43 lead with 33 seconds left to play when the Huskies went into attack mode. Micah Schlaak ...
MINNEOTA — The Minneota wrestling team showed exactly why its ranked as one of the state’s top team in its final regular-season meet on Thursday. The third-ranked Vikings ran away with a 57-9 win over Windom and a 53-14 win over Pipestone to head into next week’s section tournament with plenty of momentum. Minneota and Quad County will now prepare for next week’s Section 5A team tournament. The first round and quarterfinals will be played at the home seed of the highest seed on Thursday, while the semifinals and championship will be played on Saturday at Ortonville at 12:30 ...
NEW ULM — When Brooklyn Lewis turned a Marshall turnover into a basket, it cut the Tigers’ lead to 26-19 midway through the first half. But that was the closest the Eagles got the rest of the game. Marshall followed up that basket with a 19-0 run en route to a 85-45 win over the Eagles ...
MARSHALL — A strong performance from the Marshall girls gymnastics team wasn’t enough to snag a win in its home finale on Thursday. The Tigers hosted Luverne and St. Peter for a pair of duals — scored separately due to the St. Peter matchup being a makeup from a weather postponement — ...
ST. CLOUD — Audrey Swanson had a record night scoring a career-high 31 points along with scoring her 1,000th point, but the Southwest Minnesota State University womens basketball team came up short on the road in an 82-67 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference loss to St. Cloud State Thursday night. Swanson became the 26th player in the SMSU women’s program to reach the 1,000-milestone mark in the third quarter following a 3-pointer from the left wing. She finished the night shooting 11 of 18 from the floor. Nicole Maenke followed with 11 points with a team-high trio of ...
