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Boys Basketball:

Chanhassen 79 Red Wing 67- The Wingers played well on the road against the Missota Conference leaders but the Storm used their overall team depth and hot shooting to grab the win.

The Wingers trailed 32-20 with five minutes left in the first half but the Storm went on a 14-4 run to end the half and led 46-34.  Red Wing started the second half with a 7-0 run to close the gap to 46-41.  Chanhassen responded and opened up a 16 point lead but the Wingers cut the lead to 70-62 with 3 1/2 minutes left.  The Storm then turned the ball over but the Wingers couldn't capitalize and Chanhassen hit free thorws down the stretch to seal the win.

6'5" senior Kevin Jensen scored 16 points for the Storm and went over the 1000 point mark in his career.  Jensen now has 1002 career points.  Cole Otto had 15 points.  Brandon Arnold and Joey Stark had 10 pojts apiece.  The Storm shot 57% on the evning including 9 of 18 on three point shots.

Freshman Ty Buck hit six three point baskets and led Red Wing with 21 points.  Joel Newman added 16 and Isaac Toivonen 15.

Chanhassen is now 13-4 overall and 5-0 in the Missota.  Red Wing is 5-11 overall and 1-4 in the Missota.

Rochester Lourdes 63 Lake City 53

Goodhue 62 Triton 53

Cannon Falls 57 Zumbrota-Mazeppa 51

Fillmore Central 50 Wabasha-Kellogg 39

Plainview-Elgin-Millville 52 St. Charles 48

Pepin-Alma 49 Melrose-Mindoro 43

New Richmond 48 Ellsworth 46

Girls Basketball:

Chanhassen 56 Red Wing 47- The Storm used their depth to wear down the Wingers in the second half in their Missota Conference matchup at the Larry Sonju Gymnasium.

Th game was tied 24-24 at the half but the Storm picked up their defensive intensity in the second half as the Wingers struggked to make shots.  The Wingers also had three players foul out in the second half, Marisa Toivonen, Tesha Buck and Mc Kenna Schaffer.

Lauren Shifflett led Chanhassen with 17 points and Mikki Prince adde 14.  Tesha Buck had 17 points, Macy Kelly 13 and Marisa Toivonen added 12 points,11 rebounds and four blocked shots.

The Wingers have lost three straight games and are 14-5 overall and 4-3 in the missota while Chanhassen is 15-3 overall and 7-0 in the Missota.

Goodhue 72 Triton 33 (Wildcats now 17-2)

Rochester Lourdes 67 Lake City 47

Zumbrota-Mazeppa 68 Cannon Falls 41

St. Charles 44 PlainView-Elgin-Millville 43

Colfax 56 Plum City 32

Boys Hockey:

North St. Paul 3 Red Wing 1- The Wingers fell to the Polars at Prairie Island Arena and lost a player for two games as a result.

Jack Gorman scored at 2:42 of the first period for the Wingers for their only goal.  Tyler Oliver tied the game at 7:07 of the period for the Polars.  The teams skated through a scoreless second period but then the penalty bug doomed the Wingers in the third period.

The Wingers Anthony Kimmes was assessed a five minute major for checking from behind and a 10 minute misconduct penalty at  6:47 of the third period.  The Polars Danny Otis picked up a minor penalty 14 seconds later so the teams played 4 on 4 for two minutes.  After Otis' penalty expired Kimmes penalty still was in effect so the Polars went back on the pwer play and Mark Meister scored the game winner at 11:02 of the period.  Tyler Oliver added an insurance goal at 11:02.  Kimmes will miss then next two games because of the checking from behind major.

North St. Paul had 42-26 shots on goal advantage with Preston Blaney racking up 39 saves for Red wing.  The Wingers are 8-8-1 on the year and play at Chaska next Tuesday.

Saturday Sports Schedule:

Girls Hockey:

Red Wing #8 in Class A rankings at Blake #6 in Class A rankings 3pm

Girls Basketball: Goodhue vs. New Richland-hartland-Ellendale-Geneva 6pm at Carleton College

Boys Basketball: Cannon Falls at Blue Earth Area

Boys Swimming & Diving: Red Wing invite with Mankato West, Austin, Bloomington Kennedy and Winona 10am diving 1pm swimming at the Twin Bluff Middle School Pool.

Wrestling:

Lake City Invite. Goodhue at Robbinsdale Cooper Invite, Ellsworth at Forest lake Invite

Boys Hockey:

Northfield 3 Red Wing 2- Penalties told the story of the Wingers loss at Northfield Thursday night.

Northfield was 2-6 on the power play while the Wingers never had a power play opportunity in the contest.

Adam Yetzer's power play goal at 10:29 of the first period gave the Raiders a 1-0 lead. Andrew Scofield's goal at 2:42 of the second period put the Raiders up 2-0. The Wingers quickly responded and tied the game with two goals 51 seconds apart. Marcus Dodge lit the lamp at 3:09 and Ryan Rehder converetde a nice pass from Alex Rezansoff to make it 2-2 at the 4:00 mark.

Red Wing's Anthony Kimmes took an elbowing penalty just 15 seconds into the third period and the Raiders potted the game winner on Adam Yetzer's power play tally ay 1:51 of the period.

The Wingers pressed for the game tying goal the rest of the way but couldn't get the equalizer against Northfield goalie Isaac Tjaden, who had 29 saves. Preston Blaney had 23 saves for Red Wing.

Northfield is 10-7-1 on the season and 3-4-1 in the Missota. Red Wing is 8-7-1 overall and 5-3-1 in the Missota . Red Wing hosts North St. Paul at 7pm tonight at Prairie Island Arena.

Girls Hockey:

Red Wing 6 Northfield 3- The Wingers beat their Missota rivals with a three goal third period and kept their Missota Conference championship hopes alive.

The Wingers led 2-0 after the first period on goals by Nicole Schammel and Emily Segora. The Raiders rallied to tie the game 3-3 after a wild second period. Annie Pumper scored at 1:21 of the period and then tallied a shorthanded goal at 5:33 to make it 2-2. The Wingers Nicole Schammel scored at 6:27 of the period on the same power play to put the Wingers up 3-2 but Northfield got a power play chance and Sarah Behr's goal at 7:24 of the period made it 3-3.

The Wingers dominated the third period and 8th grader Maddy Hardyman's power play goal at 7:26 proved to be the game winner. Paige Haley added an insurance goal at 13:15 and added an empty net goal with 23 seconds left.

Red Wing outshot Northfield 20-6 in the third period and 52-28 for the game. Lisa Nibbe had 25 saves for the Wingers.

Red Wing is 15-5-1 on the season and 9-1 in the Missota Conference. The Wingers, ranked #8 in the State in Class A, play at #6 Blake Saturday at 3pm. The Wingers return home for a showdown with Chaska/Chanhassen next Tuesday at 7pm in a game that will decide the Missota Conference champion. Chaska/Chan is 9-0-1 in the Missota and beat Red Wing 5-3 at Chaska in their first meeting back on January 3rd.

Wrestling:

Goodhue Triangular: Goodhue 36 Pine Island 34, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 46 Pine Island 31, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 34 Goodhue 31

Boys Basketball:

Boyceville 64 Plum City 59- Chase Luebker scored 22 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter but the Blue Devils comeback effort fell short Thursday night.

Girls Basketball:

Pepin-Alma 60 Eleva-Strum 53- Ali Murray's 24 points led the Eagles to the win. P-A is 9-3 overall and 3-1 in the Dairyland Small Conference.

Boys Swimming & Diving:

Red Wing beat Shakopee Thursday night at the Twin Bluff Middle School Pool. The Wingers are 6-0 on the season and host their invite Saturday.

Boys Basketball Tonihgt;

Red Wing (5-10) at Chanhassen (12-4) 7:10pm pre-game 7:30pm tip off on Bluff Country 1250 KCUE and on line at www.1250kcue.com with "Action" Jack Colwell.

The Wingers try to upend the Missota Conference leading Storm on the road tonight.

Rochester Lourdes (10-6) at Lake City (10-6) 7pm on Lake Hits 95 with Mark O'Connor.

Goodhue at Triton

Cannon Falls at Zumbrota-Mazeppa

Kenyon-Wanamingo at Pine Island

Fillmore Central at Wabasha-Kellogg

Plainview-Elgin-Millville at St. Charles

New Richmond at Ellsworth

Melrose-Mindoro at Pepin-Alma

Girls Basketball:

Chanhassen (14-3, 5-0 Missota) at Red Wing (14-4, 4-2 Missota) 7:30pm- It's another big conference foe for the Wingers as Chanhassen is ranked #6 in the State Class AAAA rankings.

Lake City at Rochester Lourdes

Triton at Goodhue (16-2)

Zumbrota-Mazeppa at Cannon Falls

Pine Island at Kenyon-Wanamingo

St. Charles at Plainview-Elgin-Millville

Ellsworth at New Richmond

Colfax at Plum City