Saturday, Oct. 29

SWIMMING

The Lady Dutchmen dominated the West Central Conference meet at Montevideo from the start to the end of the meet.  Melrose had 10 first place finishes in the match. They also had five 1-2 finishes.  In  diving and in the 500FS, where the team finished 1-2-3.
The next meet will be Friday and Saturday at Morris, the Section 6A meet.  That meet determines which swimmers and divers advance to the state meet.
Details of the conference match will appear in the Nov. 2 issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Friday, Oct. 28

Blocks by Shelby Uphoff (7) and Breanna Pierskalla (2) killed attacks by LP-GE.

VOLLEYBALL
The Melrose Lady Dutchmen held off a determined LPGE team and posted a 3-1 win in the quarterfinals of the 6AA-North sub-section tournament at Melrose.
The 25-15, 23-25, 25-23, 25-23 match saw a number of lead changes, long volleys, but few long serving runs.  Melrose's next game will be Tuesday, Nov. 1 in the semi-finals at Sauk Rapids where it will face Little Falls.
Details of the Melrose-LPGE game will appear in the Nov. 2 issue of the Beacon.

Wednesday, Oct. 26

CONFERENCE
The Minnesota State High School League has placed Melrose back into the West Central Conference for the 2012-13 sports season. Melrose Area Public School Officials received word on Wednesday afternoon about the placing.
The conference has 10 calendar days from today to appeal the placement.

Tuesday, Oct. 25

FOOTBALL
The Dutchmen fell 28-14 to Zimmerman in the quarter-finals of the 6AAA playoffs at Zimmerman. That ends the Dutchmen's season.
Seth Noll and Alex Welle both scored touchdowns for Melrose. They came in the third quarter when Melrose came back from a 21-0.  Noll also had an interception and recovered a fumble.
More details of the game will appear in the Nov. 2 Issue of the Melrose Beacon.

Monday, Oct. 24

VOLLEYBALL
Melrose concluded its regular season with a 3-1 win at Pierz.   Melrose hit on 94-of-95 serves with five ace serve.  More on the game will appear in the Nov. 2 issue of the Melrose Beacon.
CONFERENCE
A misunderstanding of the date of the announcement of which conference Melrose will be placed in means the district still does not know. The announcement will be made on Wednesday.

Thursday, Oct. 20

SWIMMING

The Lady Dutchmen finished fifth in the state Class A True team meet in Minneapolis.
It missed a fourth place finish by two points. Melrose was competing in its fourth meet in eight days. More information in the Oct. 26 issue of the Melrose Beacon.
Sam Rasmussen's (pictured) freestyle swimming help Melrose to a fifth place finish at the state true team meet.

Wednesday, Oct. 19

Seth Noll raced passed Sauk Centre defenders .

FOOTBALL
Air Dutchmen was not only off the ground but used long range attacks to post a 25-14 win over Sauk Centre in the final regular season game at Melrose. Quarterback Isaac Sawyer threw touchdown passes to Andrew Welle (seven yards), and tree to Tanner Klaphake (66, 16 and 25 yards).
Melrose finished the regular season winning its last two games.
This may the last time the two football teams will meet for at least a year in that they compete in different classes in football and may not be in the same conference next fall.
Melrose was seeded eighth and will travel to #1 seed Zimmermann to begin post season play on Tuesday night.