Brandonn Traut, of Benson, got his T-shirt autographed by former Minnesota Twins outfielder Dan Gladden at the Twins Winter Caravan stop here Thursday. (Staff photo by Bruce Olson)
The Montevideo boys basketball team scored West Central Conference South wins over Benson and Yellow Medicine East the past week, running their conference record to 8-0 and their conference mark to 13-4.
The Montevideo wrestling team finished 10th in a strong 12-team field at the West Central Conference individual tournament at New London-Spicer Saturday.
The Montevideo Gold Dusters finished third in high kick and fourth in jazz in the West Central Conference competition at Albany last Thursday.
The Montevideo girls basketball team dropped road games to MACCRAY and Yellow Medicine East the past week.
For the first time since 2006, the Montevideo boys swimming and diving team has defeated Melrose/Sauk Centre in a dual meet.
Redwood Valley remained unbeaten by handing Montevideo a non-conference loss on Thursday, but the Thunder Hawks bounced back to defeat Morris/Chokio-Alberta here Tuesday to take sole possession of first place in the West Central Conference South.
The Montevideo wrestling team dropped all four of their matches the past week.
Continuing their improved play over the past two weeks, the Montevideo girls basketball team scored West Central Conference South wins over Benson and Morris/Chokio-Alberta.
The Montevideo Gold Dusters will head into troday’s (Thursday) West Central Conference competition at Albany with confidence after finishing first in high kick and second in jazz competition at New London-Spicer on Saturday.
Sam Ostendorf (left) and Brennon Anderson, both of Montevideo, squared off during the youth wrestling tournament sponsored by the Montevideo Mat Club on Sunday. The annual event drew a large field of young grapplers from around the area. (Submitted photo)
For the second time this season, the Montevideo boys swimming and diving team handed an outmanned Morris team a loss, this time by a 104-61 score last Thursday at the University of Minnesota-Morris pool.
The Minnesota Twins Winter Caravan will be stopping in Montevideo on Thursday, Jan. 26, at VFW Post 380. Representing the Twins will be pitcher Anthony Swarzak, infielders Trevor Plouffe and Chris Parmelee, broadcaster Dan Gladden and T.C. Bear.
The Montevideo boys basketball team improved their record to 10-3 overall and 4-0 in the West Central Conference South with conference wins over Lac qui Parle Valley and ACGC the past week.
Winning trophies at Master Jon’s tournament at New London-Spicer last month were Montevideo Tae Kwon Do students (front, from left) Alex Bauman, Isabelle Rosin, Grace Rosin, Cole Brady, (back) Drake Bartunek, Morgan Toft and Caleb Anderson. The Montevideo Tae Kwon Do club will give another demonstration at halftime of Friday’s home girls basketball game. (Submitted photo)
Playing some of their best basketball of the season, the Montevideo girls defeated Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg and nearly knocked off Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City, the first place team in the West Central Conference South.
The Montevideo Gold Dusters placed third out of six teams in a high kick competition at Marshall on Saturday. Montevideo finished behind Marshall and Albert Lea and ahead of Willmar, Belle Plain and New Ulm. “We were really pleased with the performances on Saturday,” said coach Sharon Forde. “Willmar and Belle Plain beat us in Hutchinson, so to beat them now shows us we are progressing.” Montevideo was fourth out of five teams in jazz competition. The Gold Dusters will compete at New London-Spicer on Saturday at noon. (Submitted photo)
Montevideo’s swimming and diving team finished fourth in a strong field in the Section 4A True Team meet on Saturday at Hutchinson.
Montevideo athletic director Bob Grey (left) and Thunder Hawks football coach Dave Vik hold a check for $1,000 that was given by the Minnesota Vikings to the Montevideo athletic fund in honor of Vik being named WCCO Prep Coach of the Week for the week of Oct. 10-15. (Staff photo by Bruce Olson)
There was no conference title or section championship on the line, but Friday’s non-conference game between Montevideo and Dawson-Boyd had a tournament atmosphere to it.
