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OWATONNA — It’s been just over four years since the Owatonna boys hockey team has won a playoff game.

OWATONNA — While its quarterfinal opponent was getting ready to play a first-round game on Tuesday, the OCS girls basketball team was busy with an intrasquad scrimmage.

WINONA — The Owatonna adapted floor hockey team took a trip east to face Winona, coming away with an 11-3 win and, possibly, some new positions for some players.

OWATONNA — As the calendar pages turn and spring gets closer, the mood at the Owatonna boys swimming and diving practices gets a little lighter.

MEDFORD — Defense, as the saying goes, wins games. But in order for that to be the case, offense has to do its job as well. Or at least sort of well.

WASECA — Matt Carlson scored 17 points, but the Waseca Bluejays defense was too tough for the Panthers on Tuesday in a 67-42 nonconference loss to end the regular season.

ROCHESTER — For the second game in a row, the Owatonna boys basketball team found itself on the wrong end of a three-point game.

OWATONNA — Toni Glynn’s normal job at the beginning of a game is, for lack of a better term, handshake general.

OWATONNA — Owatonna has another mixed martial arts title holder.

BLOOMING PRAIRIE — Friday the 13th is supposed to be a day of bad luck, but it was a big victory on that notorious date in January that turned the Blooming Prairie girls basketball team’s season aroun