Sports

Minnewaska used a 23-5 run toward the end of the first half and into the second half to beat the Benson boys basketball team in the Section 3AA opener, 65-52, Saturday night at Minnewaska Area High School.

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The MBA PeeWees competed in the District 15 Tournament, Feb. 12-14 in Long Prairie.  MBA entered the tournament as the top seed and lived up to its ranking by winning three-straight games to win the district title and one of two region berths.

MBA is set to open up the tourney against Crookston at 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 26 at Red Lake Falls...

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A week after earning a berth in the “final four” teams of the section wrestling tournament for the first time in 22 years, the Benson wrestling team will send four wrestlers to the State Wrestling Tournament, set for this Thursday through Saturday at the ExCel Energy Center in St. Paul.

Advancing to the state tourney by virtue of placing in the top two of the Section 5A Individual Wrestling Tournament this past Friday and Saturday at Long Prairie-GE High School, were Jared Knutson at 138 pounds, Grant Ascheman at 145, Aaron Zosel at 152, and Mitch Koosmann at 170.

Mitch Koosmann (pictured, top) has been ranked all season and is currently ranked 10th in state at 170 pounds.  Koosmann won the 170-pound section title this year, beating Brandin Dahl of KMS in the finals, 1-0...

KMS meanwhile, will send six wrestlers to the individual state tourney in addition to sending the entire team for the Class A State Team Tourney, set to begin Thursday (tomorrow).

The KMS boys basketball team played some of its best basketball of the season last week, but still came out on the losing end of three Camden games at Prinsburg last Monday night (69-30), at home to Renville County West in Murdock, Friday (64-50), and at Atwater-CGC, Saturday (87-64).

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The Benson wrestling team ended the regular-season with a 6-11 record after losing a non-conference match to KMS, Friday night in Kerkhoven, 57-9.  One night later, the Braves competed at the Morris Invitational, placing fourth of eight teams and also earning three individual titles by Hunter Mondor, Grant Ascheman, and Mitch Koosmann.

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The Benson girls basketball team dropped three games last week, including non-conference losses to NLS at home last Monday night, 62-37, and a loss at Litchfield, Saturday, 57-33, sandwiched around a 69-32 thumping by Minnewaska Area in WCC play, Thursday night in Benson.

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The KMS boys lost two games last week to drop to 2-18 overall.  Only six regular-season games remain on the schedule for the Saints.
KMS opened up action last week with a 75-62 home loss to Benson last Tuesday night.  A recap of that game can be found in separate story beginning on page 1B.

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The MBA boys hockey team fell three times last week to extend its losing streak to eight games.  The Storm lost to Marshall last Tuesday night in Benson (7-1), at Breckenridge-Wahpeton, Thursday (6-2), and at Red Lake Falls, Friday (5-0).

The Storm have scored just 31 goals so far this season through 19 games, including seven in the last eight games, all losses.

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The Benson boys basketball team picked up two non-conference wins last week to improve to 8-10 overall.

The Braves opened up the week with an 88-80 loss to ACGC, but Benson bounced back with a 75-62 win at KMS, last Tuesday Night, and a 75-52 home win against YME, Friday.

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The MBA Lady Storm are set to open up the playoffs, Thursday (tomorrow) with a Section 6A quarterfinal game at Prairie Centre or Fergus Falls.

MBA fell to Marshall last Tuesday in Benson, 7-2, and was also set to close out the regular-season with a game at Northern Lakes (Pequot Lakes), but results of the that game and stats from the Marshall game were not available.
 

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