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SMSU defeats reigning DII champion MSU

MARSHALL — When the Southwest Minnesota State University mens basketball team hosted Minnesota State for a non-conference matchup on Saturday afternoon, the visiting Mavericks were ranked No. 1 in the National Association of Basketball Coaches poll. Yet, it was the hometown Mustangs that ...

Catch them if you can

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneota cruised its way to a 45-0 shutout of Parkers Prairie Saturday in the Class A State Football Semifinals at US Bank Stadium, its second shutout of the state tournament in two games. The team looks to be in a class of its own in Class A, even among other state ...

Mustangs cruise past Augsburg 101-51 in home opener

MARSHALL — With a combined 51 rebounds, 53 bench points and 11 steals, the Southwest Minnesota State University women’s basketball team outperformed Division III Augsburg in all aspects of Saturday’s dominant 101-51 non-conference win for its home opener in the R/A Facility. SMSU has now ...

New season, same situation

MINNEAPOLIS — For the fourth year in a row, the Minneota Vikings are heading to the state semifinals. While the Vikings have gone on to advance to the state finals in each of the last three, they still have work to do in order to do the same this year when they take on Parkers Prairie today ...

Pelz qualifies for 500 free finals at Class A state meet

ST. PAUL — The Class A state swim and dive preliminaries were held at the University of Minnesota on Thursday and Friday. Marshall’s Finley Pelz competed in two events and Autumn Deutz in another, with Pelz advancing to today’s state finals in the 500-yard freestyle event. Pelz finished ...

DeMuth’s hat trick leads Tigers past Delano/Rockford

MARSHALL — Peyton DeMuth netted a first-period hat trick in the Marshall girls hockey team’s home opener against Delano/Rockford on Saturday afternoon to get Red Baron Arena rocking in its first varsity action of the season. Marshall rode the momentum of the early scoring barrage to a 5-3 ...