Sports

For a brief spell during the second set, the Pipestone Area Schools’ volleyball team had the lead. That was much to the delight of first-year head coach Shelly Hennager. “We passed well, and that allowed us to run our big offense,” Hennager commented. “Taryn (Tuinstra) had three of the best swings she’s hit.” Tuinstra found seams between Westbrook/Walnut Grove’s blocking […]

ST. PETER — The Southwest Minnesota Christian School boys’ soccer team saw its season come to a close Saturday. St. Peter downed SWC, 3-1, in the Section 2A semifinals. The Saints will take on top-seeded Tri-City United (14-5) in the 2A championship at 5 p.m. Thursday from the Wescott Sports Complex in Austin. The winner will advance to the 2A […]

The Little Arrows youth wrestling program will be conducting sign-ups on two days, Monday, Oct. 20 and Monday, Oct. 27. Sign-up sessions will run from 6-7 p.m. both nights in the Pipestone Area Schools middle school/high school commons area (1401 Seventh Street SW). A membership fee is $20, with a maximum of $50 for an entire family with three or […]

CORALVILLE, Iowa — Former Luverne and University of Minnesota hockey player Jaxon Nelson has a new home. Nelson will be playing for the Iowa Heartlanders, a member club of the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) affiliated with the National Hockey League’s Minnesota Wild. The ECHL is a developmental league. Earlier this year, Nelson was not tendered a qualifying offer from […]

Pipestone County Pheasants Forever chapter will present its 17th annual youth/mentor hunt on Saturday, Oct. 25. The hunt will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The event offers youth ages 11-17 the opportunity to learn safe hunting practices and gain hands-on experience in the field while preserving Minnesota’s hunting heritage. Participants will meet at 9 a.m. at Luann’s Gas […]

MARSHALL — Malayna Hemmen is currently a sophomore on the Southwest Minnesota State University women’s cross country team. Hemmen was a standout multi-sport athlete at Elkton-Lake Benton. This past weekend, Hemmen ran for the Mustangs at the Dordt University Classic in Sioux Center, Iowa. She recorded a time of 29:38 in the women’s varsity 6,000-meter race, and SMSU placed 16th […]

The Elk Nation Hall of Fame banquet was conducted at the Elkton (S.D.) Community Center on Saturday, Oct. 4. Several athletes were inducted into the Elkton School hall of fame that evening. Here’s the group (from left), Lisa (Koch) Nicholas, coach Ervin Gebhart, Cameron Harming, Cole DeRuyter, coach Mark Harming, Quinn Fargen and Deb (Stein) Mahanke. The ceremony was complete […]

INFORMATION CALENDAR Friday, Oct. 17 Football    7 p.m., Elkton-Lake Benton at Hamlin, Hayti, S.D.  Marching Band 8:30 a.m., Elkton-Lake Benton at Sioux Valley Marching Festival, Volga, S.D. Saturday, Oct. 18 Marching Band All Day, Pipestone Marching Arrows at Quad City Marching Competition, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D. Volleyball All Day, Elkton-Lake Benton at Dakota Valley Conference Tournament, at […]

Last year, the Pipestone Area Schools and Southwest Minnesota Christian volleyball teams played a five-set classic. Fast forward to the 2025 encounter, with the Arrows sweeping the Eagles 25-20, 25-11, 25-23. In all fairness, scrappy SWC made PAS work hard to win that third and final set. “I think they were playing with ‘nothing to lose,’” PAS head coach Shelly […]