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Lanesboro shooters move up with better scores

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:44am

The Lanesboro High School trap shooters showed marked improvement when the airborne clay targets were no longer sharing the sky with snowflakes. The Burros were 197 birds better (1,030) in the second week of conference competition than they were in the first week (833). In Conference 2A-1, LHS moved up to fifth place only 19 points out of fourth.

Lauren Zoellner and Logan Jensson shared individual honors last week, each connecting with 46 out 50 clay critters. Zachary Torgerson was only one bird back at 45.

Lanesboro/M-C golfers split with Falcons

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:42am

For the Lanesboro/Mabel-Canton golfers, last week's tour began with a non-conference dual at Harmony versus Fillmore Central. "It was cold, wet and miserable out there, but they were able to finish all nine," said L/MC coach Krissy Overland. "Scores reflected the weather and were not what we were hoping for, but our boys were able to beat the Fillmore Central boys by three strokes." (211-214)

With several veterans back from last year's state runner-up season, the Falcon girls coasted past the mostly inexperienced L/MC girls.

First Cougar baseball win follows losses to both Lions

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:38am

Editor's note: Just before this edition went to press, the Mabel-Canton baseball boys (1-9, 0-8 SEC) won the first time this season - a dramatic 5-4, walk-off home win against Wabasha-Kellogg. Complete coverage of that victory will be in next week's News Leader.

The Mabel-Canton baseball team dropped two Southeast Conference games last week, including an 11-1 decision at Spring Grove on Monday, April 29. A home game the next day against Glenville-Emmons/Alden-Conger was postponed due to rain.

M-C girls, Carolan one-hitter shuts out Schaeffer

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:34am

The Mabel-Canton Cougars only wound up with one softball game last week but will make up for it this week. Mabel-Canton scored 23 runs on 15 hits in blanking a young Schaeffer Academy squad on Friday, May 3, sweeping the two-game, regular-season series.

The game with Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons on Tuesday, April 30, was postponed, and no makeup date has been set as of press time.

Shortly before this edition went to press early this week, the Cougars (4-3, 4-2 SEC) fell 6-5 at Caledonia/Spring Grove. Complete coverage will be in next week's News Leader.    

Cougar trap team fires through week two

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:28am

The Mabel-Canton trap team shot well as 12 shooters finished over the 40 mark in week two of the regular season.

Jack Arneson finished the week with a team-best score of 48 out of 50. Austin Snell and Dawson Wangen each hit 47 birds.

Colton Heintz-Kuderer and Emma Middendorf each scored a 46. Dawson Kleiboer added a 45. Robert Michels hit 43 targets. Saijal Slafter, Tracer Tollefsrud and Brady Yoder all scored a 42. Tanner Marquardt hit 41 targets, and Maddy Michels had a 39.

Falcons get first softball win, set to play five games this week

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Fri, 05/03/2019 - 2:50pm

The Fillmore Central/Lanesboro softball team got its first win of the season this past Monday over Rushford-Peterson.  In fact, it got two wins, winning both games of a scheduled double-header, 4-3 and 4-3 (9 innings).

In the two really exciting games against Rushford-Peterson, the Lady Falcons got both wins without two key players, Kelsey Biel and Krista Jorgenson.

Game one

FC golfers split golf match

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Fri, 05/03/2019 - 2:48pm

The girls won and the guys lost in their dual-meet competition with La Crescent-Hokah last week.

“Madison Scheevel strikes again, one-under-par 35, leading us to the 203-213 win,” said coach Aaron Mensink.

The other players for Fillmore Central, and their scores: Taylor Bushman (48), Hailey Lange (53), Marissa Topness (67) and Chloe Morem (67).

Wabasha-Kellogg was also involved in the match, but didn’t have any varsity players.

The boys lost to La Crescent-Hokah 215-154. 

LFCMC girls dominate discus at Vern Herman Invite

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Fri, 05/03/2019 - 2:47pm

Lanesboro/Fillmore Central/Mabel-Canton took three of the top four places in discus and won both specialty co-ed relay races at the Vern Herman Invitational, hosted by Plainview-Elgin-Millville on April 23. In the eight-team standings, the LFCMC boys were fourth and the girls fifth. Host P-E-M swept both team titles.

There were no team points tabulated at the nine-team La Crescent-Hokah Lancer Booster Club Invite on April 26

Girls at P-E-M

Burro trap team shoots through falling snow

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Fri, 05/03/2019 - 2:01pm

It was a greater challenge than usual as the Lanesboro trap team fired their first conference shots into a sky filled with falling snow as well as clay targets. The Burros were somewhat shorthanded due to both the weather and schedule conflicts.

Coach Dustin Flattum said the weather "dropped the scores a bit," but he stressed he was "really happy with the way the shooters managed the adverse conditions. We hope better weeks are ahead."

After this first week of the five-week conference season, the Burros begin in sixth place among the seven teams in Class 2A-Conference 1.

M-C boys fall to Bulldogs, Athletics, Hurricanes

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Fri, 05/03/2019 - 1:56pm

The Mabel-Canton baseball team is still looking for that elusive first win of the regular season. The Cougars were scheduled to play Onalaska Luther on Monday, April 22, but that’s been moved by rain to May 11. The Cougars lost at home to new SEC member Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostrander/Kingsland on Tuesday 14-2. M-C lost a conference game at Lyle/Pacelli on the road on Thursday, 17-7 in six innings.

The Cougars dropped the season series against Houston after a 12-2 loss in five innings on Friday afternoon. The Cougars ended the week 0-7 (0-6 SEC) overall.