Tuesday, Feb. 26

MELROSE DUTCHMEN BASKETBALL

The Dutchmen topped a strong, and bit taller, Sartell-St. Stephen team 84-62 at Melrose. Ty Reller (pictured) and eight points and 12 rebounds in the game.
Melrose next plays Thursday, Feb. 28 hosting Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City in a face off between the WCC-North and South Champions.
More information will appear in the March 6 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Monday, Feb. 25

MELROSE DUTCHMEN BASEBALL
The Melrose School Board approved Kyle Shaughnessy as head baseball coach.

Saturday, Feb. 23

LADY DUTCHMEN GYMNASTS

Melrose gymanst Jailyn Brinkman (left), Lydia Butkowski (center) and Mady Brinkman (right) all medaled at the state meet. Jailyn Brinkman was fifth on the floor and all-around, Butkowski was sixth on bars and Mady Brinkman sixth on bars.  Kayla Austing (video) competed on the beam at state

More information will be in the Feb. 27 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

MELROSE-SAUK CENTRE FUSION SWIMMING

The Fusion Swim team qualified Keenan Pearson,100FLY, Ethan Ross 100FS, Felipe Barreto 200FS and 500FS ; and John Schwieters 200IM, 100BK as individuals. The 200FSRof . Brent Blommel Pearson, Ross and Barreto;  and in the 400FSR team  of Blommel Ross, Barreto and Schwieters also qualified for state.
Schwieters (in photograph) set school record in the 100BK at sections. 

SAUK CENTRE-MELROSE WRESTLING

Will Funk (in photos left) finished third in the Section 6AA wrestling tournament. No SC-M wrestler advanced to state.

More information will be in the Feb. 27 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Friday, Feb. 22

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN GYMNASTS

The Lady Dutchmen finished second in the Class A gymanstics meet.
More information will be in the Feb. 27 issue of the Melrose Beacon.
MELROSE DUTCHMEN BASKETBALL

The Dutchmen defeated Lac qui Parle Valley 98-39 at Melrose.

Good defense by Ryan Elfering and the rest of the Dutchmen helped to keep LQPV in check, Scottie Stone (in video) had 38 points in the game.

More information will be in the Feb. 27 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Thursday, Feb. 21

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN BASKETBALL
Emily Goerdt (in video) scored with 16 seconds left to give Melrose a 53-51 win over Morris at Melrose.  Melrose had trailed by nine with 5:10 left.  Tayler Reller, who threw the pass to Goerdt for the winning basket, had 15 points in the game. Goerdt finished with 14. Melrose closed it regular season with a four game win streak.  It faces Sauk Centre next Thursday in the first round of playoffs.
More information in the Feb. 27 issue of the Beacon.

Tuesday, Feb. 19

MELROSE BOYS BASKETBALL
The Dutchmen downed Sauk Centre 81-67 to clinch the West Central Conference North Title.
Scottie Stone (right photograph) had 31 points. Isaac Sawyer had 21 points.
Mitch Niehaus (scoring in video) had seven points in the game.







MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN BASKETBALL
Melrose won its third game in a row defeating Brandon-Evansville 51-42. Emily Goerdt had 16 points and Gabi Sawyer had 14 points.

Saturday,Feb. 16

MELROSE LADY DUTCHMEN GYMNASTS

The Melrose Lady Dutchmen won the Section 6A gymnastics title.
Jailyn Brinkman,all-around champion,  Lydia Butkowski, Mady Brinkman and Kayla Austing will represent the team in individual championship Saturday, Feb. 23
More information appears in the Feb. 20  issue of the Beacon.