In the past few months, there was worry Payton Anderson might not be able to wrestle his senior season for the Class AA No. 3-ranked Fairmont/Martin County West Red Bulls. Now, he’s signed to continue his career with the Augustana University Vikings in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. “For a ...
ARMSTRONG — The North Union Warriors combined full-court basketball-hawking defense with unselfish passing and accurate shooting to trample the North Iowa Bison during a Friday night Top of Iowa Conference clash. Morningside College commit Chloe Lofstrom produced a game-best double-double ...
ARMSTRONG — The 3-pointers fell in the second half and the North Union Warriors took a 63-58 Top of Iowa Conference basketball victory over the North Iowa Bison on Friday night in Armstrong. North Union hit 5 of 12 3-point shots in the third and fourth quarter to build from a halftime tie ...
WELCOME — The Martin County Area Magic literally floored a second consecutive Big South Conference gymnastics rival during a three-day span. Anna Bachenberg and Sabrina Segar packed a 1-2 scoring punch in the all-around competition, respectively, to power Martin County Area to a ...
WASECA — Rachel O’Connor made 25 saves and the Fairmont Area Cardinals girls hockey team took its second win of the season, 5-4, over the Waseca Bluejays on Thursday night in Waseca. The Cardinals took an early lead over the Bluejays in the Big South Conference matchup when Joni Becker ...
TRUMAN — Sydney Hauger posted 20 points to help lead the Springfield Tigers. Springfield beat the Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman/Martin Luther Jaguars 45-32 in nonconference girls basketball action Thursday night in Truman. Taylor Augustin scored eight points to help the ...
FAIRMONT — One point and a criteria decision kept the Red Bulls out of the state tournament last season one year after finishing second in Class AA. This year the Class AA No. 3-ranked Fairmont/Martin County West Red Bulls will use that loss as motivation. “Our ultimate goal is to make ...
JACKSON — Alaina Wolff produced a team-best 28 points, including four of Jackson County Central’s single-game school-record 14 trifectas, to help the Huskies defeat the Martin County West Mavericks in a season-opening basketball shootout, 91-75, Tuesday night in Jackson. Maci Farmer ...
7th-grade boys hoops split two FAIRMONT — The Fairmont seventh-grade boys basketball teams split a pair of games with New Ulm on Tuesday in New Ulm. Hadan Toomer netted 17 points to guide the Cardinals’ A-team to a 48-18 victory. New Ulm downed Fairmont in the B-team game, 37-21. ...
FAIRMONT — High-intensity defense transformed into instant offense. Madysen Allen created a game-best eight steals as Fairmont’s full-court, pick-pocket defense forced 33 Windom Area turnovers to help engineer the hometown Cardinals’ 57-38 season-opening basketball victory over the ...
FAIRMONT — Carsen Musser saved the Fairmont Area Cardinals from defeat. Musser amassed 66 saves in the Cardinals’ 3-2 hockey win over Minnesota River on Tuesday night at Martin County Arena. Musser held the Bulldogs off the scoreboard with 25 first-period and 30 second-period saves, ...
FAIRMONT — A three-goal spurt in the second period gave Minnesota River a lead it would not relinquish. The Bulldogs girls hockey team beat the Fairmont Area Cardinals 7-2 Tuesday night in Martin County Arena. Keely Olness helped power the Bulldogs, accounting for three points on two ...
WELCOME — Anna Bachenberg, Sabrina Segar, Hailee Schuett and the Martin County Area Magic gymnasts earned 17 of the top 20 individual spots to deliver a win in Beraiah Peterson’s head coaching debut Tuesday night. Bachenberg, Segar and Schuett swept the top three all-around spots to pace ...
SLEEPY EYE — Adam Heckman literally soared to new heights during Monday night’s season-opening basketball game. Heckman utilized every inch of his 6-foot, 5-inch frame to pour in a career-best 30 points to complement grabbing a game-best 15 rebounds to power the Truman/Martin ...
PeeWees rally for late victory FAIRMONT — Eric Determan produced both the tying and game-winning goals to cap the REMAX Total Realty PeeWee hockey team’s 7-6 comeback victory over Luverne on Saturday. Trailing 6-2, REMAX generated four unanswered third-period goals, including ...
WELCOME — For the first time in more than three decades, there will be a new head coach teaching the sport of gymnastics on the equipment in Welcome. Beraiah Peterson, a former club and high school standout, replaces legendary mentor LeeAnn Steen at the Martin County Area Magic’s ...
The Fairmont Cardinals boys basketball team won’t be hurting for experience this season. The Cardinals enter the 2019-20 season with 12 seniors on the roster, along with four juniors and one sophomore. Fairmont head coach Jared Thompson said having a team loaded with upperclassmen brings ...
FAIRMONT — A dozen prep athletes take their positions in a straight-line formation, listening to their coach’s verbal instructions. Cue the music. When they hear the beat and feel the rhythm, what once was a singular file uses precision footwork to transition into smaller pairs or ...
FHS alumni hoops tourney Friday FAIRMONT — The Fairmont Cardinals’ 7th annual staff and alumni basketball tournament will tip off at 9 a.m. Friday at Cardinal Gym. Teams will be comprised of former Fairmont athletes graduating from 1990-2018. The last game is scheduled for a 2 p.m. ...
FAIRMONT — Four Waterville-Elysian-Morristown free throws during the final 14 seconds of regulation prevented No. 7-seeded Fairmont from upending the No. 2-seeded Bucs in last season’s Section 2AA, South Sub-Section basketball quarterfinals. Then-senior Taylor Crissinger produced 18 ...