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Mabel-Canton shooters are conference runners-up

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 1:07pm

The Mabel-Canton trap team finished the spring season in second place among seven squads in the Class 2A, Conference 5 standings with 10,575.5 points, just 272 points behind conference champion Brandon-Evansville (10,847.5), and 368 points in front of Pillager. The Cougars tallied up 2,124.5 points in Week 5, their third-highest score of the five-week regular season.

Cougars girls win two, drop two at sub-section

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 1:06pm

Mabel-Canton was the last softball team eliminated at sub-section while winning two and dropping two in the 1A East Tournament. The No. 3-seed Cougars defeated lower seeds Southland 8-7 (May 21) and Houston 7-3 (May 24) and fell only to the top two seeds – Goodhue 7-2 (May 22) and Wabasha-Kellogg 10-0 (May 24). The Cougars finished the season playing very well. Winning six of the last eight games, M-C closed with a 15-8 record, including a second place 6-3 Southeast Conference record.

Win vs. Southland 8-7

M-C baseball season ends with shutout loss

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 1:05pm

Mabel-Canton closed out the regular season with a May 21 makeup game, a 10-0 road loss at Rochester versus Schaffer Academy. Two days later in the playoffs, the rebuilding season ended for the Cougars at 2-13 with a 14-0 sub-section shutout at Adams versus Southland.

Loss at SA, 10-0

Burro shooters complete conference season

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 1:04pm

The Lanesboro trap team finished up the five-week conference season in fifth place in the nine-team Class 1A, Conference 6 standings. Head coach Dustin Flatten entered the Week 5 standings on time, but a glitch meant the website defaulted to their reserve week score of 521.5.  The Burros finished the season 3,773.5 points. Head coach Dustin Flatten said the glitch really didn’t affect the final standings for Lanesboro all that much either way.

Lanesboro girls add tourney title to SEC golf championship Three girls repeat, two boys All-SEC

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 1:02pm

The Lanesboro golf teams played some of their best golf of the season last week, winding up the dual season with non-conference matches against Kingsland on Monday, May 21, at the Old Barn Resort.

The regular season concluded with the Southeast Conference Tournament, where the Lanesboro girls took first place while the boys were second.

Postseason play began this week with the May 30 and June 4 Section 1A Tournament at Willow Creek Golf Course in Rochester. Look for complete coverage next week.

Split with Kingsland

FCL softball team loses to Houston in sub-section tournament

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 1:01pm

Fillmore Central/Lanesboro came into the sub-section tournament as the No. 4 seed but couldn’t handle the offense of the No. 5 seeded Houston team. 

The ‘Canes knocked out 13 hits and scored 19 runs to down the Lady Falcons 19-4. Houston’s offense was also aided by eight FC/L errors on defense.

Falcons lose sub-section baseball game to Lancers

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 1:00pm

The Fillmore Central/Lanesboro baseball team lost its first-round tournament game to La Crescent 5-0 last week, ending the 2018 season at 5-9. 

FC/L did not play a bad game against La Crescent, but just couldn’t get any offense going in the game.  The Falcon pitchers only gave up five runs, with three of them earned and two unearned. 

FC gals win conference golf championship

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 05/31/2018 - 12:59pm

Grace Miller, Fillmore Central senior, was medalist with an 18-hole score of 78, as she led her team to the 2018 Three Rivers Conference Tournament championship. 

The Lady Falcons had a team score of 368, out-distancing second place Caledonia (385) by 17 strokes.  Lewiston-Altura (410) was third, followed by La Crescent (424), St. Charles (460), Plainview-Elgin-Millville (462), and Southland (545).  Wabasha-Kellogg, Rushford-Peterson, Dover-Eyota and Kingsland all had players in the tournament but did not have enough players for a team score (incomplete).

Cougar girls sweep four heading into sub-section

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Wed, 05/23/2018 - 12:43pm

Before a successful start in the sub-section tournament, the Mabel-Canton softball wrapped up the regular season with a May 14 non-conference loss at Class AA Lewiston-Altura by a score of 10-5,  followed by two SEC doubleheader sweeps - at home on May 16 versus Glenville-Emmons/Alden-Conger by scores of 12-8 and 15-3, and one day later at Schaffer Academy 30-3 and 19-0. The Cougars (14-6) finished second in the SEC at 6-3.

Sub-section

M-C boys split with G-E/A-C, head into sub-section

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Wed, 05/23/2018 - 12:41pm

The Mabel-Canton baseball team’s offense was a little up-and-down during the final week of the regular season. M-C did not score against a pair of freshmen pitchers during a doubleheader at Austin against Lyle/Pacelli, which the Cougars lost 11-0 and 19-0 on Tuesday, May 15.

However, the Cougars scored 14 runs while splitting a May 16 home twin-bill against Glenville-Emmons/Alden-Conger the next day, losing the first game 5-2 before taking the nightcap in a slugfest 12-10.