high school hockey

The semifinals are set in the Section 1A Boys Hockey Tournament. No. 1 seed Northfield rolled past No. 9 La Crescent 7-1 and No. 4 Mankato East blanked No. 5 Red Wing 5-0 to set up their match-up Saturday morning at 11:30 at the Rochester Rec Center...

The Faribault Falcons used a sophomore goalie making his first career varsity start Tuesday night and fell to Albert Lea 9-1 in opening round Section 1A action. Austin Beytein has not been playing goalie very long and turned in a very good first period...

Section 1A coaches emailed in their section seeds Sunday morning and the Northfield Raiders are the top seed. The Co-Big Nine Conference champions with Rochester John Marshall finished their regular season pulling into a tie with the Rockets after a 10-2 win over Faribault on Saturday night...

The Austin Packers came to Faribault with a lot of confidence after defeating the Falcons 4-0 just a few weeks ago in Austin, and had a happy bus ride home after a 3-1 Section 1 Class A victory. Faribault head coach Alli Miller told me after her team's win over Owatonna last Saturday that she did not want to play the Packers because they have the ingredients to make a run in the playoffs... Read M

Hayfield connected on seven three-point baskets in the first half and held Triton to six field goals in the second half in an Hiawatha Valley League boys basketball contest in Dodge Center on Monday night. Leading the way was 5-foot-11 junior Drew Olive with a career-high 27 points...

Going into Saturday night's last game of the regular season between Faribault and Owatonna it seemed clear cut. The winner would be the No. 3 seed in the Section 1 Class A Tournament beginning Wednesday. After all, both teams had 30 points in the Big Nine Conference playing the same opponents...

A bouncing puck shot by a Faribault eighth-grader proved to be the difference in a 2-1 victory over Owatonna at the Falcons Nest on Saturday night. It was the final game of the regular season for the Big Nine and should secure a No. 3 seed for Faribault in the section tournament, which starts Wednesday...

The Faribault and Albert Lea boys hockey teams were tied at two goals apiece in the third period when the Tigers scored three unanswered goals to win. Albert Lea got the first goal of the game and Faribault's Brett Vogelsberg tied the game with a second period goal at the Faribault Ice Arena...

Faribault Falcon sophomore Payton Putrah scored the first three goals of the game and added an assist in a 6-0 win over Albert Lea on Thursday night. It was Putrah's first four-point game of the season. Putrah has 19 goals and 13 assists in 24 games and has scored in 17 of the games...

Here is a listing of the area high school scores as of 11PM.