October 2024

The state-ranked Redwood Valley boys and girls cross country teams continued their push towards the postseason with wins Thursday at the BOLD Invitational.The Cardinal girls rolled to the title with 20 team points to easily outdistance second place GFW (68) in the nine team race.The Cardinal varsity had five of their top seven all set personal best times as well as a season best.Leading the way once again was junior Addie Thomes who knocked 16 seconds off of her personal best to win in 19:03.Ellie Nelson took 36 seconds off of her prior best to finish second in 19:17, Lola Luze took three seconds off of her best to finish in fourth (19:38) and freshman Reese Prescott knocked 22 seconds off of her prior best to finish fifth (19:51).Newcomer Mary Slavin had a strong race as well as she took 1:16 off of her season best time to place 10th in 20:41.Madi Munsell was 12th (21:26) and Heather Panitzke knocked 53 seconds off of her personal best to finish 13th (21:56).Vanessa Johnson led the JV with a first place finish with a season best time (22:20), Aleena Vestouvanh was second with a personal best time of 22:24, Annie Lunde was third and Klaira Horejsi fifth.The Cardinal boys meanwhile also dominated, finishing with 20 team points to roll past second place Sibley East (62) in the nine-team event.Will Ahrens was the winner with his time of 15:29 while Kilen Cilek finished second (15:59) and Landyn Nordby third (16:38) with a season best time.Clayton Salmon knocked out a personal best time of 16:55 to place fifth, Tyler Robinson was ninth (17:23), Aidan Salmon added a personal best to finish 12th (18:00) and Elway Berg also had a personal best in finishing 13th (18:09).Ben Jorgenson and Lane Breitkreutz both had personal bests to finish 1-2 for the JV and Cheng Lin knocked 50 seconds off of his personal best finish third.Joe Gerke and Thomas Gerke finished four-five for the Cards.Redwood Valley was back in action today in Perham before gearing up for the Big South Conference race on Tuesday in Blue Earth.

Redwood Valley senior Ethan Louwagie set a new Cardinal record with five passing touchdowns in a 56-7 rout of hapless Sibley East Friday night at Inglis Field.Louwagie broke his own record set a year ago against Windom and surpassed Mitch Irlbeck who had four touchdown passes in a game twice back in 2016.He would finish the game 12-for-17 passing for 235 yards and five scores.The Cards (4-2) racked up 443 yards of total offense and dominated the Wolverines (0-6) from the get-go as they ended a two-game losing streak.Louwagie would hook up with Zack Lundeen on a 22-yard strike to open the scoring and then hit Lane Cooper on a 23-yarder to make it 15-0 Cards after one quarter of play.He would throw three more touchdown passes in the second quarter, a 12-yarder to Zach Wilson, an 11-yarder to Andrew Peterson and a 68-yard bomb to Wilson as Wilson finished the night with five catches for 127 yards and two scores.In the third quarter, Reese Regnier would find the endzone on a 2-yard run and Max Dillon added a 39-yard touchdown scamper.Cooper would cap off the Cardinal scoring the fourth quarter when he scooped up a fumble and rumbled 92 yards for a score.Lundeen had two catches for 40 yards, Lucas Fuhr added two catches for 25 yards, Cooper had one catch for 23 yards, Peterson one for 11 yards and Ryder Crawford had one catch for nine yards.The rushing attack was led by Duran Kramer with five carries for 32 yards, Cooper had three carries for 48 yards, Dillon had two carries for 40 yards, Fuhr added three carries for 27 yards, Peterson had two carries for 17 yards, Casen Myers added two carries for 11 yards Jordan Schnobrich had one carry for five yards, Kooper Johnson added one carry for eight yards, Regnier had one carry for two yards and Tevin Sivixay had one carry for four yards.Defensively the Cards were led by Wilson with a fumble recovery, an INT and two solo tackles.Cooper had 10 tackles (five solo) and a fumble recovery for a score, Johnson had seven tackles (four solo) and a tackle-for-loss, Kramer added seven tackles (four solo), Jax Hennen had five tackles and a tackle-for-loss, Collin Johnson had four tackles, Jordan Matson added four tackles and a tackle-for-loss, Adam Mohr had four tackles and Peterson added a forced fumble and four tackles.The Cardinals travel to MVL (2-4) on Friday and wrap up the regular season on Wednesday the 16th at home against Luverne.Currently the Cards are looking at the number three seed in the upcoming Section playoffs.