Sports
It was a full week for the Blue Devils Long Prairie-Grey Eagle-Sauk Centre girls hockey team with three games.
They lost to the Fergus Falls Otters (5-0) Monday, won against International Falls Broncos (2-1) Friday, and lost against the Willmar Cardinals (6-0) Saturday.
Fergus Falls
It was a...
There couldn’t have been more different offenses competing at the State Class A Semi-finals than the Browerville-Eagle Valley Tigers vs the Bird Island-Olivia-Lake Lillian District Warriors. BOLD passed up the Tigers scoring 56-7 to move onto the State Championship game. B/EV completed their 11-2...
The cross country sections meet was moved to a day later due to flooding on the hilly course, but on Oct. 25 mud still splattered uniforms at Pierz Gulf Course.
Long Prairie-Grey Eagle will have one individual advance to state with Caroline Kuehne placing second out of 148 runners. Her time was 19...
“Long Prairie-Grey Eagle volleyball went two games into play-offs before concluding their season.
First they played Swanville October 24 at home and won in a five set battle. It was a close point by point game with good movement all around.
The first set was a fine example of that. LPGE led by a...
October 22 Long Prairie-Grey Eagle traveled to face off against West Central Area for the first play-off game and lost 42-6 to conclude their season.
Seeded at fourth and fifth, WCA breezed by LPGE in the first half with a 28-0 lead. In the second quarter LPGE’s quarterback was hit hard.
The...
The Browerville-Eagle Valley volleyball team matched up against the Long Prairie Grey Eagle Thunder Friday, October 25, to determine which team would move on in the 5A tournament. The Tigers will move on having ended the Thunder's season with a 3-0 victory.
Game one seemed to have the Tigers...
Browerville/Eagle Valley’s Bill Buhl and Harvey Christensen prepped the wet muddy field to make it playable against Kirkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg as a part of the Section 4A semi-finals Saturday, October 26. The Tigers won against the Fighting Saints, 34-13.
“This was a very physical and intense game...
The Upsala Swanville Area Patriots lost against the Benson Braves 29-12 in the Section 4A quarterfinal October 22 putting an early end to their playoff season.
“The game was obviously very disappointing.” Coach Loven explained, “The kids played hard, but it seemed that everything that could go...
Swanville took on Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa October 21 at home and lost in three sets (9-25, 6-25, 6-25).
Rebekah Muhlenkamp led with three kills. She also had four solo blocks and six amazing digs. Lauren Miller had five set assists. Lucia Bryce and Lauren Miller each had four good serves.
It...
The last eight years have been quite a ride that gave me the great pleasure of covering sports and community events for the Leader. That’s why it was hard to make the decision to announce my departure.
I never knew I wanted to cover sports at a newspaper. After college, the position opened up and...