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Madison Beseman and Cole Pfeiffer.
Swanville High School is pleased to announce its February Athletes of the Month: Cole Pfeiffer for boys basketball and Madison Beseman for girls basketball. Coaches’ Comments: “Cole Pfeiffer has been selected as the boys basketball Athlete of the Month for February.  Cole averaged 13 points, seven...
LPGE is taking its first step in the process of moving from Class 2A to 1A in up to six of their offered sports. Jonathan Young, head girls basketball coach and school counselor, went over the District’s reclassification appeal at last Monday’s Board of Education work session. The appeal will be...
Junior guard Blake Fossland had another good night of outside shooting, connecting on six three-pointers to fuel his team high 20 points.
LPGE suffered a season ending loss to No. 3 state-ranked and top seed Melrose during the opening round of the Section 6AA West playoffs last Thursday night. The firepower of the Dutchmen was on display as they went on a giant first half run to put the score out of reach in an 88-51 win. After the...
Swanville’s Troy Evans drove to the hoop against a pair of Kimball defenders in Saturday’s subsection semifinal game.
  The season came to a close for the Swanville boys last Saturday night, but like they have done all season long, they went down fighting. Eight games this season have been decided by single digits or less, and that was the case when they met No. 2 seed Kimball in Little Falls in the Section 5A...
Tiger senior Brendan Emery (34) stretched out to block a shot attempt during Saturday’s game in Little Falls.
The top seed Tiger boys opened up Section 5A South postseason play at home last Thursday when they hosted No. 8 Onamia. Browerville/Eagle Valley maintained control of the game from start to finish in an 86-51 blowout win. The Tigers wasted little time jumping on the visiting Panthers as they scored...
Two familiar foes squared off to open up their Section 5A postseason tournament as No. 3 Swanville hosted No. 6 Upsala last Thursday night. Despite some resilient play from the visiting Cardinals, the Bulldogs managed to pick up their third win of the season over their opponent, this time by a...
Mason Gode recently competed in the Minnesota State Wrestling Tournament.
Eighth grader Mason Gode was the lone representative from the LPGE/Browerville/Eagle Valley wrestling team during last week’s state tournament. Gode wrestled in two matches last Friday, falling in both. Making his first state appearance, he fell in the opening round to Dayne Morton (25-2) of Sibley...
Senior Kimberly Estrada (11) was fouled on her way to the basket during Thursday’s loss at Osakis.
A third time was not a charm for the LPGE girls last Thursday night when they met Osakis for the third time of the season when the two teams opened up the Section 6AA postseason.  While the Thunder kept close early, the Silverstreaks turned things around in a hurry to pick up a 71-35 playoff win on...
LPGE sophomore Gabe Abraham (R) drove to the hoop against a defending Tanner Rieland (L) in Sauk Centre on Saturday.
The week started off right for the LPGE boys as they traveled to Paynesville and picked up a 67-42 win over the Bulldogs. After carrying just a three-point lead into halftime, the Thunder wasted little time putting the game away as they got going on both ends of the floor. The first half saw LPGE...
The Upsala girls were tested by the height and size of Kimball. Cardinal junior Stef Pohlman (R) defended the post against Cubs’ junior Katie Merchant (L) during their game in Sauk Rapids on Saturday.
The season came to a close for the Upsala girls last Saturday when they fell 69-42 to top seed Kimball when the two teams met for the Section 5A South semifinals in Sauk Rapids. The Cardinals struggled against the height and size of the Cubs, as Upsala gave up a few inches at each position on the...

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