Friday, September 30, 2011

Friday, Sept. 30

FOOTBALL
Melrose fell 33-6 to New London-Spicer in its homecoming game.
The team's scoring came on a fourth quarter touchdown pass from Isaac Sawyer to Scottie Stone.

Thursday, Sept. 29

SWIMMING
The Lady Dutchmen topped Albany 67-35 at Albany. Melrose took first in all but the 100 backstoke.
TENNIS
Melrose moved to 14-2 on the year with a 7-0 over MACCRAY at Melrose.
SOCCER CLUBS
The boys team defeated Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 7-1 at Melrose.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Tuesday, Sept. 27

SWIMMING
The Melrose swim team defeated St. Cloud/St. John's Prep  102-74.
TENNIS
The Lady Dutchmen tennis team won 5-2 at New London-Spicer.
VOLLEYBALL
The Lady Dutchmen volleyball team won defeated Albany 3-0. Game scores were: 25-21, 25-23, 28-26.

Monday, Sept. 26

SOCCER CLUBS
The Melrose Boys soccer club won 5-0.
The Melrose Girls soccer club fell 3-1.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Friday, Sept. 23

FOOTBALL
The Melrose Dutchmen fell 28-12 at Paynesville. Victor Scherping scored on a 15-yard run. Scottie Stone scored on a 14-yard pass from Isaac Sawyer.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Thursday, Sept. 22

TENNIS
The Lady Dutchmen tennis team defeated Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 7-0 at Belgrade.
VOLLEYBALL
Melrose defeated Minnewaska 3-1 at Melrose. Game scores were 25-18, 25-17, 20-25 and 25-17.
SOCCER
The girls' soccer club played to a 0-0 with a team from Sartell.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Tuesday, Sept. 20

SWIMMING
The Lady Dutchmen claimed 1-2-3 spots in the 100 backstroke as they posted a 113-71 win over Foley at Melrose. Melrose had the top times in every event, including the 400 freestyle relay, which it swam as a exhibition event.  Seniors Annie Herkenhoff and Samantha Rasmussen finished 1-2 in the 500 freestyle.
TENNIS
Melrose won 4-1 over Minnewaska at Melrose. The number three and number one singles events were tied at one set each, when rain forced them them to quit playing.  Melrose's double teams not only won, but all three won 6-0 6-0.
VOLLEYBALL
Melrose posted a five-game win at New  London. The game scores were 21-25, 25-17, 21-25, 25-19, 15-10. Shelby Uphoff had 13 kills, and was 25/25 with four ace serves for Melrose.

Monday, Sept. 19

FOOTBALL
Citing personal and family reasons Melrose head football coach Jay DeCann announced his resignation as head coach. Vaughn Glasener was named interim head coach.
TENNIS
The Lady Dutchmen defeated Sauk Centre 6-1 at Melrose.
Melrose won the number 1, 2 and 4 singles contests and the number 1, 2 and 3 doubles contests.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Saturday, Sept. 17

SWIMMING
The Lady Dutchmen earned 636 points to claim first place in the Park Rapids Invitational on Saturday. Second place Brainerd had 509 points.
VOLLEYBALL
The Lady Dutchmen went 2-2 and finished in sixth place at the Sauk Rapids-Rice Invite on Saturday.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Friday, Sept. 16

FOOTBALL
Melrose fell 23-12 at Montevideo.
Josh Harren scored on a 45-yard interception. 
Trevor Sawyer scored on a 15-yard pass from Isaac Sawyer.



Thursday, September 15, 2011

Thursday, Sept. 15

SWIMMING
Melrose finished 1-2-3 in the 200 freestyle, 200 individual medley, 100 freestyle, 500 freestyle, and 200 freestyle relay in a meet at Melrose.
The Lady Dutchmen won 110-68 over Montevideo.
TENNIS
The doubles teams won all three of their events as Melrose won 6-1 over Long Prairie-Grey Eagle at Melrose.
VOLLEYBALL
Melrose defeated Paynesville in three games posting scores of 25-12, 25-18, 25-13 to win at Melrose.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Tuesday, Sept. 13

VOLLEYBALL
The Lady Dutchmen fell in three games to Sauk Centre at Sauk Centre. The first game was a 30-28, but after that Sauk Centre posted wins of 25-14 and 25-10.
TENNIS
The Lady Dutchmen tennis team defeated New London-Spicer 5-2. Madison Rausch won the longest match of the day. It went three sets with two of the sets determined by tie-breakers. That match was played at Melrose
SWIMMING
Melrose topped Rocori 104-68 at Rocori.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Friday, Sept. 9

Plainview-Elgin-Millville defeated Melrose 56-13 at Elgin.
Melrose scored first in the game on a pass play from Isaac Sawyer to Alex Welle.
Melrose score next late in the fourth quarter on a run by Tanner Klaphake.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Thursday, Sept. 8

VOLLEYBALL
The Lady Dutchmen rallied from 25-22 first game loss to defeat Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 25-18, 28-26, 25-12 at Melrose.
TENNIS
Melrose defeated Minnewaska 6-1 at Glenwood. Melrose won all the doubles contests.
SWIMMING
St. Michael-Albertville defeated Melrose 81-59 at St. Michael.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Welcome to the Dutchmen Sports Blog!

Seniors Emily Hellerman and Kayla Uphus celebrate winning a point during the third set of their one doubles match against Sauk Centre yesterday...the duo won their match to give the Dutchmen a conference win over the rival Mainstreeters.

TENNIS
Sept. 6 at Sauk Centre
Melrose-4 Sauk Centre-3
Melrose won all three doubles matches in the win over Sauk Centre.  Number one doubles Kayla Uphus/Emily Hellermann won in three sets.  Hailey Brinkman, number 1 singles, was the only Lady Dutchmen to win a singles match.
SWIMMING
Sept. 6 at Melrose
Melrose-104 Holdingford-74
The Lady Dutchmen had the best time in the every event, had the top two times in most events and swept the 200 medley relay, diving and 100 freestyle races. The team swam the 100BK as an exhibition and finished 1-2-3.
VOLLEYBALL
Sept. 6 at Albany
Melrose-3 Albany-2
Melrose rallied from a 25-9 loss in the first and 25-21 in the third game, to win game two (25-16), game 3 (25-16) and game give 15-11.
FOOTBALL
Sept. 1 at Melrose
The Dutchmen moved the ball in the air and on the ground to post a 27-6 win over Yellow Medicine East.  Isaac Sawyer threw two touchdown passes. One to Andrew Welle, one to Tanner Klaphake. Klaphake also scored on the run as did Alex Welle.