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No. 5-ranked Maple River ends B.E. Area’s hoops season

MANKATO — The Maple River Eagles showed everyone why they are the No. 5 team in the Class AA boys basketball rankings and the No. 1 seed in the Section 2AA, South Sub-Section playoffs. The Eagles’ inside-outside game overwhelmed the No. 4-seeded Blue Earth Area Bucs 60-36 in a sub-section ...

Williamson, Anderson guide MCW past USC in South Sub-Section semifinal

ST. PETER — Wyatt Williamson produced a near-perfect double-double performance, while teammate Zach Anderson proved almost perfect at the free throw line to stampede the Martin County West Maverick basketball team into next week’s Section 2A, South Sub-Section championship ...

Fairmont 12U hockey nets 1st-ever state bid

FAIRMONT — History in the making. Fairmont’s 12U girls hockey team earned the program’s first-ever trip to the state tournament by capturing runner-up honors during last weekend’s regional event in Worthington. Fairmont (33-6-1) opens the Minnesota Hockey 12U B State Tournament ...

Mavericks tame Tigers in Section 2A hoops quarterfinal

SHERBURN — Springfield’s daunting task during Tuesday night’s Section 2A, South Sub-Section basketball quarterfinal — stop a pair of 1,000-point plus career scorers from Martin County West. Zach Anderson and Mitchell Weber combined for 53 points — including six 3-pointers, 17 ...

Bucs oust Cyclones; Loyola claws Jaguars in playoffs

BLUE EARTH — Senior Ashton Lloyd was too much to handle in the paint as he posted a near double-double with 17 points and nine rebounds to help the No. 4-seeded Blue Earth Area Bucs boys basketball team beat the No. 5-seeded St. Clair Cyclones 77-52 in a Section 2AA, South Sub-Section ...

MCW, BEA, GHECTML hoopsters set for sectional tipoffs

FAIRMONT — Minnesota high school basketball madness in March continues tonight at an area hardwood court near you ... or probably, less than a 45-minute drive away. If it’s offense that gets you sitting on the edge of the bleachers, then the South sub-sections of both the Section 2A and ...