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River Valley girls earn 1st win of season

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MANKATO — The River Valley girls earned their first win of the young season at the Loyola/Cleveland indoor track and field invitational at Minnesota State Mankato on Tuesday, placing first out of five teams in the meet while the boys team tied for second. The River Valley girls won the meet ...

MVL/NUC boys, girls control opener

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MANKATO — The Minnesota Valley Lutheran/New Ulm Cathedral track and field teams stared the season off strong, with both the boys and the girls teams placing first in an indoor prep track and field meet Monday. The boys team placed first with a score of 114, followed by United South ...

KNUJ holds 63rd annual Player of the Year Event

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NEW ULM — The 63rd annual KNUJ Player of the Year Event was held at the Best Western Plus on Tuesday night, with three KNUJ area athletes taking home trophies for their standout winter seasons of athletics. The KNUJ Girls Basketball Player of the Year was Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s sophomore ...

Column: Haymow hoop dreams

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March Madness has begun and I can truly say this is my favorite time of the entire year. I grew up with a love of basketball that began in the early 1970s on our small hobby farm located 30 minutes south of the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Our large gambrel style barn was a working ...

Tomahawk battles Red Rock in All Jamboree Basketball event

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WINTHROP — The annual Tim Orth Foundation All Jamboree Basketball event will take place this Friday night at Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop High School, pitting players from the Tomahawk-Valley Conference, Tomahawk Division against players from the Red Rock Conference. Approximately 60 players ...

Kettner named new boys basketball head coach at MVL

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By Jim Bastian sports@nujournal.com NEW ULM — Kory Kettner, who has been an assistant basketball coach to Minnesota Valley Lutheran’s Craig Morgan from 2016-2018 and then this past season, has been named to replace Morgan as head boys basketball coach for the Chargers next ...