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BL-Hector ready for first trip to Big Dance

In the past, talking about Buffalo Lake-Hector and the girls state basketball tournament in the same sentence is like putting ketchup on peas. It just isn’t something that ever comes up in a conversation.

• Girls State Basketball Tournament Schedule

Nothing foreign about basketball to BLH’s Mikkola

When Buffalo Lake-Hector students heard the school was getting a female foreign exchange student/athlete from Finland this year, they probably expected a hockey player. What they got was a 5-foot-11 point guard who handles the ball well and prefers passing over scoring.

• Maija Mikkola

MACCRAY has 1 more hurdle to reach state

MARSHALL — Being unbeaten and top-ranked always puts a bulls eye on your back. Whether anyone can hit the target remains to be seen.

MACCRAY moves into 3A final vs. Ellsworth

MARSHALL — It gets harder for a team to stay warm if the fire goes out.

• Crowded

Boys Basketball: Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop sinks Montevideo in 3AA-North final

MARSHALL — In a game involving the Thunderbirds and the Thunder Hawks, someone’s season had to come to a booming halt.

LQPV not concerned with underdog role

Not many are giving Lac qui Parle Valley a chance to even stay with Pipestone in the Section 3AA girls basketball championship, let alone beat them.

• Still in control

BLH one step from state trip

There have been many “firsts” with the current Buffalo Lake-Hector girls basketball team this winter. They are the first Mustangs girls hoops team to win more than 15 games in a season; currently sporting a 25-4 mark. They are also the first to win more than one playoff game, the first to win a sub-section title and the first to be ranked in the state. And, more importantly, they are the first to have the BLH fans buzzing in the neighboring communities.

• Inside presence

Platow handled pressure at state like mat veteran

Dominick Platow had little choice but to feel the pressure in the first state tournament wrestling match of his career last Wednesday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. After all, the coaches reminded him he was being thrown into the wolves.

• Dominick Platow

Two from NLS among six from area earning third-place medals at state

ST. PAUL — Aside from having four state champions, the area also boasts six third-place finishers at the state individual wrestling tournament Saturday at Xcel Energy Center.

• Shawn Hatlestad
• Cam Schafer
• Kurt Timmons
• John Nething
• Kody Kalkbrenner
• John Weeding
• Eureka! Four strike gold
• LCWM tops Paynesville in Class A consolation final

Four from area are state wrestling champs

ST. PAUL - Ryan Thompson of Benson, Joel Bauman of Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg, Brandon Manderschied of Minnewaska and Dusty Caspers of BOLD all won Class A state individual wrestling titles on Saturday at Xcel Energy Center.

Columns

Once upon a time there were no sore arms

If throwing at least six innings in a baseball game while limiting your opponent to three runs or less now constitutes a “quality start”, imagine what you would call Dennis Roisum’s start 42 years ago.

Bonds gave up chance to redeem himself

When Hank Aaron was closing in on Babe Ruth’s career home run record 33 years ago, he had to endure hate mail, death threats and derogatory remarks everywhere he went. Not because he was a classless individual. Mainly because he was a black man about to overshadow a white man’s accomplishments.

• Steroid cloud hovers

Razink keeps hitters guessing and missing

Taking a look at Katie Razink’s statistics would lead one to believe there are flames shooting out of the back of the ball when she pitches. It would make you convinced that her fastball is so explosive that a hitter looks like they are trying to hit butterflies on a windy day.

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Tragedy reunites 1989 BLH volleyball team

Seventeen years after placing third in the Class A state volleyball tournament, many members of that Buffalo Lake-Hector team, including head coach Susan Alstrom, reunited.

Wrestling continues to hold its head high

Back in the stone ages when I was in high school, instead of dangling a carrot in front of a horse to make it go, we would dangle a French fry in front of a wrestler and he would follow us anywhere.