The Hills-Beaver Creek boys’ basketball team played Southwest Minnesota Christian in Edgerton Tuesday, Jan. 9, and lost to the Eagles 66-55.

H-BC kept the game close in the first period, falling behind the Eagles 32-26 at the half.

The Cardinals traveled to Pipestone for a triangular with the Arrows and Marshall Tigers on Thursday, Jan. 11,

Luverne fell in both duals, falling to Marshall 47-18 and to Pipestone 38-36.

Mother Nature took a turn for the worse this past week causing several local sporting events to be postponed or rescheduled.

After a mild winter through the first of the year, this winter storm and freezing temperatures hit the area hard.

The Luverne girls’ basketball team pulled out a 58-51 win against Worthington Tuesday, Jan. 9, in Luverne.

“We are continuing to get better and realizing what it takes to win games,” TJ Newgard said. “Hopefully we can build on this game and get something going.”

We just had our first snow of the season, and it did not take very long to wish we had missed the snow for the entire winter. The cold temperatures expected later in the week would have gone a long way to creating safe ice for all of those ice anglers waiting on the shore.