The Kasson-Mantorville golf team has been waiting forever to get their season underway. With golf being the most weather-dependent sport of the season, the KoMets patiently waited for seven weeks as the snow melted and the courses dried out.

The Kasson-Mantorville track and field team took their schedule into their own hands last week. After the weather forced the KoMets to just have one meet over the first six weeks of the season, they acted quickly once Mother Nature began to cooperate and headed up to a meet in Cannon Falls on April 21.

The Kasson-Mantorville softball team is now 2-0 on the season as it picked up a come-from-behind victory against Osseo on April 19. The victory had a gritty feel for the KoMets as they navigated around an early deficit thanks to some solid pitching and timely hitting.

After weeks of waiting an opportunity finally arrived for the Kasson-Mantorville softball team to hold its season opener. While the opportunity didn’t come without some pulling of strings to have its matchup with Triton switched from a home game to a road contest, the KoMets showed that it was worth the wait slugging four home runs in a 10-0 victory over the Cobras.

Kasson-Mantorville graduate Jason Rhoten was honored last month when he was inducted into the NCAA Division II Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Rhoten had a tremendous collegiate career at Minnesota State, Mankato which was capped off by winning the national championship at 157 pounds in 2008.

The Kasson-Mantorville powerlifting team held its final meet of the season by traveling to Appleton, Wisconsin for the USAPL National High School Powerlifting Meet from March 22-25. The four day meet featured 600 lifters from across the nation as well as six females and three males representing K-M.