Sports

Byron’s Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2022 announced

Byron High School’s 14th annual Hall of Fame induction will take place on Saturday October 8. The 2022 inductees will be introduced at half time of the Byron vs Red Wing football game. This game will start at noon. There will be a formal induction of the 2022 class in the high school commons in...

Season wraps up at Chateau Speedway

The 66th anniversary season of racing action came to a conclusion Friday at Chateau Speedway in Lansing. While the track will be used by SMP Promotions a couple times this fall yet for a pair of Enduros, the regular classes of cars saw their final laps last weekend. The action saw four of the...

Bears celebrate Homecoming with parade

Photos by Karen M. Jorgensen It was an exciting week for Byron Bears last week as they celebrated Homecoming, culminating in the Friday night game against Winona. Top, the Bears football team accepted the cheers of the crowd as they rode in the Homecoming parade. Middle photos, the band, the...

Go Bears!

Photos by Karen M. Jorgensen Top, the Homecoming queen crown was placed on the head of Makana Schroeder during the Friday pepfest. Second row left, fans fueled up before the game at the Byron Bears food truck; right the Homecoming court posed for a picture after the pepfest. Third row left, there...

Byron boys’ soccer earn tie in double overtime

A matchup between last season’s Section 1 Class AA #1 seed Winona and #2 Seed Byron could not be decided after 80 minutes of regulation time and two 5-minute overtimes on Thursday, September 6. In a very evenly matched, hard-played contest, Byron out shot Winona 20-10, but that did not translate to...

Hayfield cross-country teams at home Invitational 2022

Hayfield’s cross-country teams sponsored a home Invitational Meet on Tuesday, September 6, at the Oaks Golf Course. Results of Hayfield runners: Girls (5,000 Meter Run): 14 Maggie Hansen, 24:16.92; 22 Melody Walker, 25:28.27; 23 McKenna Selk, 25:41.32; 24 Becca Tempel, 25:49.33; 29 Aviana Alexander...

Photo by Vanderpool Studios Byron #17 Adam Glynn runs tries to evade a Falcon tackle.

Bears, KoMets see football wins, Hayfield, Triton lose

Byron’s Bears and Kasson-Mantorville’s KoMets both chalked up victories in the second week of the high school football season while Hayfield and Triton ended up on the short end of the scores. Bears’ Matt Frigaard bats down two-point try, seals victory Byron’s football team sure knows how to...

Area volleyball teams have successful week

It was a successful week for local volleyball teams as they all chalked up wins. Volleyball Bears smother Rockets The Byron volleyball girls defeated the Rochester John Marshall Rockets, 3-0, on Tuesday, September 6. Set scores were 25-21, 25-14, and 25-15, 25. Byron Stats: Gabby Gartner, 2 aces...

Weather forces cancellation of memorial race at Chateau

It’s one of the marquee events every year on the schedule for Chateau Speedway. For just the second time in the history of the event it will not be run as Mother Nature took the checkers Friday night. The event did not run in 2018 either with scheduling issues revolving around the change of...

Season champions crowned at Chateau Speedway

It was the final night of the regular season September 2 at Chateau Speedway in Lansing powered by Garlick’s Water. That meant Track Champions would be crowned at the end of the night in the regular six classes. Coming into the night one of the classes would be decided by a driver who just had to...