LUVERNE — The Luverne Cardinals defeated the Fairmont Cardinals, 5-2, during Big South Conference dual-meet tennis action on Tuesday. Claire Nemmers and Maggy Totzke won their respective singles matches for Fairmont. Nemmers took a 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 win over Carissa Cunningham at the second ...
FAIRMONT — “When the lights went on, we woke up,” Fairmont Area head girls soccer coach Matt Nielsen said with a smile. Trailing 1-0 on the scoreboard and 11-2 in the shots-on-goal statistical category, Cardinal senior striker Brooke Hunwardsen’s curling kick flipped the switch on ...
FAIRMONT — The United South Central Rebels girls tennis team combined for a singles sweep to deliver a 6-1 nonconference loss to the Fairmont Cardinals during the Cardinals’ home opener on Monday. “We’ve just got young players that need to learn how to handle a player that plays ...
SLEEPY EYE — The Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s Knights swept the Martin Luther/ Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman Jaguars in three volleyball games Monday night. The Knights recorded a 25-16 game win to open the match and followed in the second and third games, 25-11 and 25-22. Emma Becker led ...
BELLE PLAINE — The Belle Plaine Tigers engineered a doubles sweep to pace a 5-2 nonconference win over the Blue Earth Area Bucs during girls tennis action on Monday in Belle Plaine. Tigers’ No. 1 doubles netters Lilly Olson teamed with Caitlin Preusser for a 6-0, 6-3 win over Malarie ...
FAIRMONT — Playful bribery does have a place in high school sports. Kenna Nguyen converted Lyla Lor’s second assist of the game into an insurance goal with 2:37 remaining in regulation to seal the Osseo Orioles’ 3-0 victory over the Fairmont Area Cardinals on Saturday at Kot Soccer ...
WINDOM — After splitting the initial two games, the Luverne Cardinals reeled off back-to-back wins to defeat the Fairmont Cardinals, 3-1, during season-opening Big South Conference volleyball cross-over action Saturday. Luverne posted respective game scores of 25-13, 11-25, 25-7, 25-9, over ...
HAMBURG — Bazil Zuehlke and Cody Rutledge literally packed a lethal 1-2 offensive punch for the Bemidji Blue Ox during second-round Minnesota Class ‘C’ state amateur baseball tournament action on Sunday in Hamburg. Zuehlke went 2-for-3 with a double and a game-best three RBIs, while ...
FAIRMONT — Mat Mahoney enters his 11th season at the Fairmont football helm with his eyes on the prize that has eluded his Cardinals during the last two fall campaigns — a sectional championship and a Class AAA state bid. “I think we’ll be right there in the mix for the section ...
FAIRMONT — The Class A, No. 3-ranked Fairmont Cardinals girls cross country team literally made the right strides to start the season, winning the Early Bird Invite on Friday. The Cardinals improved their score of 12 from last year’s race to earn 10 points, followed by Lake ...
NORWOOD — Buffalo starting pitcher Carter Vogt scattered seven hits over 8 1/3 innings to guide the Bulldogs to a 6-2 second-round Minnesota Class ‘C’ state amateur baseball victory over the Fairmont Martins on Friday night in Norwood. Fairmont, the Region 13 champion, ends its season ...
ST. JAMES — The youthful Fairmont Cardinals girls tennis lineup posted a 1-2 record during the St. James Area Quadrangular on Friday in St. James. Fairmont captured four team points to one during its dual meet with Montevideo to officially garner its first team triumph of the season before ...
MILFORD, Iowa — The Okoboji Pioneers opened the Iowa prep football season with a 6-0 non-district win against the North Union Warriors on Friday night in Milford, Iowa. After the Warriors and Pioneers battled to a scoreless tie at halftime, including North Union limiting Okoboji to only six ...
FAIRMONT — Fairmont mentor Haley Loerts literally has to look up to seven of her varsity volleyball players this fall. The fourth-year Cardinals’ head coach, however, knows first hand that a half dozen or so hitters standing 5-feet-11 or taller does not always translate into victories on ...
NORTHROP — The Martin Luther/Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman Jaguars volleyball team showed its youth against the Sleepy Eye Public Indians, but had enough senior leadership to make up for it. Senior defensive specialist Alex Schuder smacked down the match-winning kill to lead the Jaguars ...
ST. PETER — St. Peter sophomore midfielder Amelia Carlson produced a game-best hat trick to squeeze the hometown Saints to a season-opening 4-2 Big South Conference soccer victory over the Fairmont Area Cardinals on Thursday in St. Peter. Striker Joni Becker triggered the Cardinals’ first ...
FAIRMONT — Matt Nielsen returns to the Fairmont Area Cardinal girls soccer sideline for his 12th varsity season with “a chip and a chair” philosophy this fall. “It’s an old saying in my family,” Nielsen said in reference to Jack Straus bouncing back to win the 1982 World Series of ...
FAIRMONT — Jarrod Daniel, Leyton Becker, Noah Becker, Dom Armitage, Tyler Head and Cameron Militello all graduated from the Fairmont Area Cardinals boys soccer program in May. With each playing a major role for the team, the team must now find ways to replace them. “We lost a lot of key ...
FAIRMONT — The Fairmont Martins have their sights set on one location: Green Isle. After capturing the Region 13C championship, the team is looking to make a deep run in the Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Tournament to ultimately get to the championship game in Green Isle on Sept. ...
MAPLETON — The Maple River Eagles girls tennis team opened its season by posting a 5-2 non-league victory over the Fairmont Cardinals on Tuesday in Mapleton. No. 3 singles player Brittany Bass outslugged Katelyn Langworthy, 6-4, 6-2, to generate one of Fairmont’s team tallies, while ...