The Tri-City United Titans hosted two dual meets last week at TCU High School and dominated in all of them.
Coach Brian Mikel said the wins were against some good schools and that it put the Titans’ record at 16-3.

The TCU boys’ basketball team dropped a conference game to the Belle Plaine Tigers with a score of 49-56 on Tuesday in Belle Plaine.
Titan Coach Austin Pinke said his team got down early, going into the half with a 19-33 deficit. However, after the break, the Titans rebounded scoring 30 points to the Tigers’ 23 points. But it wasn’t enough to make up for the first half’s loss.
“We did not hang our heads,” Pinke stated. “We climbed back in the second half to take a three-point lead but couldn’t hang on. It was great effort from the boys!”

After a week off from shutting out Fairmont, the Minnesota River Bulldog Hockey Team was back on the ice Tuesday, Jan. 22. Their hustle from the gate helped propel them to a 6-4 victory over the New Ulm Eagles and a 9-1 win over Austin on Saturday, Jan. 26.
“We did a great job of coming out of the gate fast. We had some great hustle plays that turned into goals early,” said Bulldog Coach Shea Roehrkasse of the game against New Ulm.

Five wrestlers from the TCU team went undefeated at the Minnesota River Conference Tournament last weekend in Arlington.
Nick Johnson (120 pounds), Caleb Whipps (126), Tyler Schroer (182) Sam Miller (195) and Jose Reyes (220) defeated their opponents.
In Johnson’s matches, the grappler defeated two opponents with pins in the first and third matches in 4:49 and 1:07. In his second match against a wrestler from Norwood Young America (NYA), Johnson won with a 16-1 technical fall.

The New Prague Adapted Floor Hockey team won its season opener Tuesday, Jan. 15, claiming an 8-0 win over the South Suburban Jets in Bloomington.
New Prague took a 4-0 lead in the first period, with Seth Dorner getting three goals and Garret Gagner one.
Gagner, Evan Minar and Chase Smith each scored in the second and Blake Perry tallied a goal in the third to make it an 8-0 final.
Breanna Stark was solid in the net, stopping all 21 shots she faced.
Dorner added two assists and Gagner one.

The Tri-City United Wrestling Team scored two easy wins when they met two Minnesota River Conference teams last week in Norwood Young America (NYA).
Class after class, the TCU team dominated on the mat. The first was against home team NYA who put up a fight, but were eventually defeated by the Titans, who won the match 58-15.
NYA won only three of the rounds: Joash Lord (138 pounds) won a decision over Hunter Rutt, Sam Meeker (195) won by a forfeit and Sean Franck (285) pinned Robert Bastyr.

The number 58 was not good for the TCU Boys’ Basketball Team last week. The boys’ team recorded two more losses last week.
In close battles, they fell to the Medford Tigers 58-65 on January 15 and to the Le Sueur-Henderson Giants 58-69 on Thursday, Jan. 17.
Against the Tigers, the Titans entered the contest with a 1-12 record to the Tigers’ 0-10 winless season. However, after a close back-and-forth game, the Titans gave the Tigers their only win on the season so far.

The Minnesota River Bulldogs shutout visiting Fairmont on Tuesday, Jan. 15 with a 9-0 score.
The Minnesota River team saw scoring from nine different players on its team. Coach Shea Roehrkasse said the entire team played well and supported each other throughout the game.

The Tri-City United Girls’ Basketball Team added another win to its record after it defeated Belle Plaine on January 15 with a score of 55-47.
According to coach Eric Specht, after the girls dropped points early in the game, they reduced the deficit by two points at the half with a score of 26-28.
The second half is where the girls got the win with a lot of confidence and a plan to wear down the Tigers.
“Our girls got down ten early and slowly chipped away,” Specht stated. “Defensively, I thought our press wore down Belle Plaine during the second half.”

The Tri-City United Wrestling Team saw success on Thursday and Friday at Watertown-Mayer and Hayfield high schools.
On Thursday, the grapplers went to Hayfield for a dual meet against the Westfield Razorbacks and the Maple River Eagles. The Titans were victorious against both teams, beating the Razorbacks 54-13 and the Eagles 39-17.
To see more on this story pick up the January 17, 2019 print edition of the Montgomery Messenger.

The Tri-City United Girls’ Basketball Team beat the Le Sueur-Henderson Giants 62-34 on Thursday, Jan. 10 but lost to the Zumbrota-Mazeppa Cougars 54-76 the following day.
In the game against the Giants in Montgomery, Coach Eric Specht commented that the girls did an excellent job sharing the basketball, ending with six girls who scored at least seven points.
The Titans went into halftime with a ten-point lead that they only grew in the second half. Their coach also pointed out the girls rebounded the basketball very well on both ends of the floor.

The Tri-City United Boys’ Basketball Team added two more losses to its record last week when it fell to Sibley East on Tuesday with a score of 45-56 and Jordan on Friday with a score of 30-76.
The losses increase the Titan’s record to 1-11, with the team’s only win coming at the holiday tournament on December 28 against Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton.

The Minnesota River Bulldog Hockey Team, which includes Tri-City United School in its cooperative, scored another win on January 10 when they took on Waseca at the Waseca Community Center.
The Minnesota River Bulldog team’s 4-1 win came thanks to its depth and speed. According to their coach Shea Roehrkasse, the scoring came from several players.

Two weightlifters qualified for state after their performance in Northfield over the weekend.
Lexi Factor in junior varsity and Annabelle Davies in varsity made the state competition and will join Mike Fischer, who qualified for state at a meet in Armstrong in December. Factor took first place in 40 KG, and Davies took second in 55KG.

The Dakota-Rice-Scott League held its winter meeting Wednesday, Jan. 9, at the Doublewide Bar in Elko New Market.
All 13 teams were represented at the meeting. Shakopee’s Jesse Nystrom and New Prague’s Nick Schoenecker were introduced as new managers for 2019.
All league officers were elected for another year. President is Mike Sticha, vice president Greg Faue, secretary Sean O’Neill and treasurer Chris Hertaus. Sticha was appointed to manage the league’s website and social media and handle player contracts. O’Neill is the Region 3C Commissioner.

After a crushing 21-85 loss against Waterville-Elysian-Morristown to open the Tri-City United Basketball Tournament, the Titans rebounded with their first win against Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton (JWP), 58-51.
The boys opened the holiday tournament on Thursday, Dec. 27 with a winless record. They faced the Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Buccaneers who entered the contest with a 7-1 record, and as records predicted, the Buccaneers dominated the Titans in TCU territory.