The Blooming Prairie girls basketball team didn’t allow Bethlehem Academy to score its 10th point until the second half and never let the Cardinals get closer than 16 points in the second half, cruising to a 46-28 win on Saturday, Jan. 16.
The Awesome Blossoms got off to a fast start and led 20-8...
Making a big life decision is never easy and finding the right university for academics and athletics makes it even harder, but despite those obstacles Owatonna girls basketball star Sarah Kingland has found the right school for both of her passions. She recently announced she’ll be continuing her...
The Owatonna football team has won five straight section championships and recently the Huskies’ coaching staff members have started to receive recognition for their team’s success.
A couple seasons ago, Head Coach Jeff Williams was named the Minnesota High School Coach of the Year, and this...
Even during a shortened season, the play of Blooming Prairie’s Micalyn Trihus and Sierra Larson stood out to opposing Gopher Conference volleyball coaches who voted them Second-Team All-Conference and Honorable Mention All-Conference, respectively.
Trihus was awarded Second-Team All-Conference in...
By all accounts, the Owatonna wrestling team had a very successful 2019-2020 season, winning the section championship via a dramatic last-period pin and winning fourth place at the team state tournament. Now, the question this season’s team will have to answer is: Can they achieve the same level of...
It was a volleyball season unlike any other and that’s especially true for two New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva (NRHEG) volleyball players, but for a much better reason than COVID-19.
That’s because senior Kendall Johnson was named second team All-Conference, while fellow senior Grace Tufte...
This past summer members of the Blooming Prairie football team weren’t sure if they’d get to play during the fall season, but once they got it back their commitment to excellence never wavered. They went undefeated, dominated the section championship game and had seven players named to the Mid-...
The annual New Year’s Day Dive in Owatonna wasn’t quite the same this year.
For the first-time in the event’s 57-year history, neither Troy Matejcek nor his father, Don Matejcek, took the frigid plunge. The elder Matejcek founded the annual event in 1963 and his son is now president of the...
After being paused the past six weeks, youth sports are finally back!
Its return, along with the move to hybrid or in-person learning, gives students a more typical school routine.
“It’s something that provides some sort of normalcy to their lives, which is something they haven’t had much of the...
The Medford football team had its most successful season since 2013 by going 6-2 and winning the Section 2AA third place game and now thanks to its contribution to the team’s success 10 Tigers have been selected to the Mid-Southeast White All-District Team or All-District Honorable Mention.
The...