The Kasson-Mantorville/Triton powerlifting team opened their season on Saturday at Adams-Friendship High School in Wisconsin. The meet was a Wisconsin state meet and featured 120 lifters competing from nine different schools.

The Dodge County Wildcats have a big challenge coming into this week, as they’ll face three teams that are in the upper echelon of Class AA. With Breck (ranked second), Chaska (10th) and Eden Prairie (fifth) on the schedule, it’s a chance for the Wildcats to show that they can play with some of the top teams in the state.

Early in the season, the Triton Cobras boys basketball team has been able to stay competitive, but when games get too close, you can only test fate so many times. The Cobras came up on the short end after a successful tournament a week ago by falling to Bethlehem Academy 56-53 in Fairbault last Tuesday night.

ere will be times whern a team needs to learn some small lessons. In order to succeed, the team needs to be able to apply those lessons quickly and use that knowledge moving forward.
For the Dodge County girls hockey team, its first lesson came at the Academy of Holy Angels Thanksgiving tournament in Richfield, where the team fell to Benilde-St. Margarets on Friday night, but rebounded to defeat Holy Angels on Saturday.

In the game of basketball a lot of things can go wrong, but still give you an opportunity to win the game. For example, someone stepping up from the bench can offset a rough night by a scorer. A poor effort from the free throw line can be overcome by some hot shooting as well.

This column series has largely focused on what sports can teach us about life. There are, however, some things we do in sports that never seem to find their way into real life. I’ve compiled my top five list below. 
Spanking teammates