Sports

Zach Elward, of Hayfield was the Adams Graphix WISSOTA Street Stock Feature Winner last week at the Chateau Speedway.

High temps heat things up at Chateau

The hottest weather of the summer greeted fans and drivers July 19 for week 10 of racing action at Chateau Speedway in Lansing. Friday night’s action was sponsored by Motor Supply Company of Austin and Albert Lea as well as R and S Racing of Albert Lea. All the Kids in attendance were treated to...

The Byron girls 4x100 relay team of Payton Sampson, Kirsten Nelson, Katie Lambrecht, Olivia Amundson punched their ticket to state with a qualifying time of 50.33 seconds in the Section 1A Meet in Winona.

Byron’s 4x100 girls relay team and Austin Freerksen head to state

The Byron track and field team will have five representatives for the Minnesota Class A Track and Field Meet this week as Austin Freerksen qualified in the long jump and the girls 4x100 meter relay team punched their ticket to St. Paul with another strong performance. Freerksen is making his way to...

The Kasson-Mantorville girls golf team shot a school record 353 at a HVL match in Pine Island on May 16. The KoMets’ score was helped out by Elizabeth Fagerlind’s round of 72.

K-M girls set another school record score

For the second time this season, the Kasson- Mantorville girls golf team hit a new low. In most cases, that would be a bad thing, but in the game of golf, hitting a low is the mark of a tremendous season. The KoMets’ new low happened last week as K-M headed to Pine Island for the third HVL match of...

The Byron girls track and field team take a team photo after winning the HVL Championship for the eighth straight season at the HVL Championship Meet in Dodge Center on May 11. The Bears also won the Section 1AA True Team championship and will take part in the Class AA True Team Meet on Saturday in Stillwater.

Byron girls heading back to state meet

The Byron girls track and field team has established itself as a power over the years and as it headed into a week that had the Section 1AA True Team meet and the Hiawatha Valley League Championships, this is the time of the year where the Bears save their best for last. This year was no exception...

Aaron Winkle (left) and Brode Hegge go for the block against Rochester Mayo.

Boys volleyball continues to take off in second season

One year ago, several schools in the state of Minnesota started a movement to have boys volleyball sanctioned as a sport in the Minnesota State High School League. As with many sports in their infancy, last year served as a test run for the 23 schools that took part in it and as the season went...

Avery Irish was one of many KoMets that had a good week in the plate as K-M took two of three games.

K-M’s offense comes alive

The Kasson-Mantorville softball team had a great week at the plate, which led them to a pair of Hiawatha Valley League victories over Goodhue and Pine Island. Although they came up short against a strong Lourdes team to complete the three- game sweep, their offense left enough optimism that K-M can...

The Triton track and field team takes off at the beginning of a race in Medford.

COBRAS HAVE AN ELITE WEEK

If there was a week to be proud of what the Triton track and field program has accomplished, last week would have been a great example. The Cobras were solid as a team and even as the boys won the team title at the Hayfield Viking Invitational, one of their own was competing with the state’s best...

Hayfield first baseman Easton Fritcher hauls in a pickoff attempt in the bottom of the first inning against Triton on Apr. 16.

Hayfield runs winning streak to five

Hayfield baseball team had a tough game against Waterville-Elysian- Morristown. The Vikings would fall in that game by a score of 13-1and it was the equivalent of a horse stumbling out of the gate. However, the baseball season is a marathon and one bad game can only dictate a season if a team lets...

Dodge County boys hockey heading to Class A

Since being founded, the Dodge County boys and girls hockey programs have been miscast at the high school level. Due to the seven schools (Kasson-Mantorville, Byron, Triton, Pine Island, Zumbrota-Mazeppa, Hayfield and Blooming Prairie) that comprise the Dodge County program, the sum of half the...

Nell Graham bends over the bar during an attempt in the high jump. The senior would take victories in the high jump, long jump and 800 meter run.

COBRAS SPRING FORWARD

The Triton track and field team opened their 2019 season by getting a head start on their competition as they headed to Winona for the Lewiston-Altura Early Bird Invitational on Mar. 25. The meet featured eight teams from Southeastern Minnesota as well as La Crosse Aquinas and La Crosse Logan and...