September 2024

Send in your Halloween stories!

Stacey Angermeyr reached out to me with the idea of doing a Halloween series encouraging community members to submit photos of their past Halloween costumes and stories from their days of trick-or-treating or costume creating process to be featured in the paper during the month of October.

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Cardinal netters top Trojans

Redwood Valley captured three of the fourt singles matches to top Worthington 5-2 in recent Big South Conference girls tennis action.The Cards would get a 6-2, 6-0 win from Kaelynn Welsh at second singles, a 6-1, 7-5 win at third singles and Anais Cournoyer would earn a tough 7-6, 6-4 win at fourth singles.In doubles, Julia Lang and Grace Blare rolled to a 6-3, 7-5 win.Aubree Keehl and Kiki Goodthunder rallied to post a 4-6, 7-6, 10-3 win at second doubles.Elle Iverson and Faith Bruns fell in straight sets at third doubles and Lily DeBlieck dropped a 6-2, 6-2 match at first singles.The Cards also played host to Luverne and would fall 6-1.Welsh lost a competitive 6-3, 6-4 match at second singles and Cournoyer would pick up the lone win with a 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 win at fourth singles.Harper Helgeson and Bruns fell 6-1, 7-5 at third doubles.

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Cardinal runners competitive at Mustang Invitational

The state-ranked Redwood Valley girls and boys cross country teams finished third and fourth respectively Saturday at the Tom Watson Mustang Invitational held in North Oaks.The Cardinal girls would finish with 72 team points to place just behind second place TCIGIS (58) and champion Maple Grove (39).Leading the way was Addie Thomes who would would finish second with a season best time of 19:41.Lola Luze knocked 34 seconds off of her season best to finish in third (19:50) and Ellie Nelson added a personal best time of 19:53 to place fifth.Freshman Reese Prescott knocked 37 seconds off of her personal best to finish in seventh (20:13).Madi Munsell (22:40) was 56th and Annie Lunde (23:06) was 81st with a season best (23:06).Aleena Vestouvanh and Avery Monson both set personal best times for the JV while Klaira Horejsi and Ming Lin had season bests.The Redwood Valley boys meanwhile would place fourth with 104 team points.Roseville (43) was the team champion followed by Maple Grove (71) and TCIGIS (84).Senior Kilen Cilek continued his strong stretch with another first place finish setting a personal best time of 15:59.Fellow senior Will Ahrens was right behind in second with a time of 16:04 and Landyn Nordby had a season best time of place ninth (17:10).Clayton Salmon (17:35) was 17th, Tyler Robinson 24th (17:53), Elway Berg (18:37) and Aidan Salmon (18:45) were 51st and 58th with season bests.Lane Breitkreutz set a personal best time to finish 63rd (18:53) and Ben Jorgenson was 64th (18:54).The Cardinals also recently swept the titles at the LQPV Invitational in Madison.The girls were led by the 1-2-3 finishes of Thomes (19:58), Luze (20:24) and Nelson (20:24).Prescott (21:07) was seventh, Mary Slavin 13th (21:57), Munsell 16th (22:07) and Heather Panitzke (23:23) 25th.The Cards had 26 team points to easily outdistance rival Canby (61).The Cardinal boys would roll to the title over MCC (21-75).Cilek (16:23) and Ahrens (16:40) went one-two with Nordby (17:18) placing fifth.Robinson (17:50) was seventh, Clayton Salmon ninth (18:17), Jorgenson 17th (18:46) and Breitkreutz 23rd (19:15).Berg (18:56) and Aidan Salmon (19:33) went one-two to lead the JV.The Cardinals will host their own home Invitational today at the Redwood Falls Golf Club.

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