Pipestone County Star

This past Thursday, Sept. 3, new Pipestone Area Schools’ cheer coach Kaylee Dupont escorted her team onto the track at Paulsen Field.  Dupont replaces Mariah Swanson in the role. Swanson has moved to Rochester.  A 2024 PAS graduate, Dupont was both a cheerleader and color guard member while in high school — so the transition to coach was easy to figure out.  Dupont twice won the Mandy Gillin Award...

INFORMATION HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD   Monday, Aug. 31 Boys Soccer  Southwest Minnesota Christian 2, Fairmont 1  Volleyball  George-Little Rock Tournament At George, Iowa  George-Little Rock d. Edgerton Public, 21-12, 21-12  Edgerton Public d. Hills-Beaver Creek, 26-24, 21-9  Edgerton Public d. Harris-Lake Park, 23-21, 21-18  Sibley-Ocheyedan d. Edgerton Public, 21-19, 19-21, 15-11 Also  Clark/Willo...

CANTON, S.D. — For openers, the Pipestone Area Schools volleyball team went 1-3 at the Canton Invitational on Saturday. That resulted in a sixth-place finish out of eight schools.  “After three weeks of practice, we had a little bit of nerves,” PAS head coach Shelly Hennager noted. “We did a lot of things well, and there are some things we can improve upon.”  This year, the Arrows have changed the...

The Pipestone Little Arrows youth running club has formed.  This is for children from age kindergarten through fifth grade as of fall 2026.  The cost is , and includes a running club T-shirt.  Runners will convene at Paulsen Field, and learn the sport through games, relays and short distance runs.  The club also a way to make new friends.   The program will take place from 4-4:45 p.m. Wednesdays f...

INFORMATION AMATEUR BASEBALL Minnesota Baseball Association Class “C” Tournament  SCOREBOARD  Friday, Sept. 4  Quarterfinals  At Jordan  Hanska 5, Windom 3  At Chaska  Fairmont 9, Richmond 1  Saturday, Sept. 5 Semifinals  At New Prague Fairmont 10, Starbuck 0 (7) Sunday, Sept. 6 Championship Game At New Prague  Fairmont 5, Elrosa 4 Record: Fairmont, 20-8 Outstanding pitcher: Spencer Chirpich  Outs...

INFORMATION TRAP SHOOTING At Pipestone Sportsmen’s Club  Wednesday, Aug. 26 Results  Individual Results 1, Mark Templin 2, Justin Krosschell 3, Jacob Fischer 4, Mark Steuven 5, Dar Sietsma 6, Kyle Viland 7, Torin Schroyer 8, Joe Schaffer 9, Dick Lange 10, Ron Krosschell Editor’s Note: There was just individual and no team shooting.  FALL LEAGUE Wednesday, Sept. 2  Results  Team Scores  1, Valley V...

INFORMATION CALENDAR Friday, Sept. 11  Football  7 p.m., Pipestone Area at Windom Area (Island Park)  7 p.m., Sleepy Eye United at Russell-Tyler-Ruthton (Homecoming Game/Tyler)  7 p.m., Granada-Huntley-East Chain-Truman at Edgerton Public  7 p.m., Estelline/Hendricks at Elkton-Lake Benton (Elkton Athletic Complex)  Boys Soccer  4:30 p.m., Marshall at Southwest Minnesota Christian (Edgerton)  Satur...

TYLER — For the second straight season, the Russell-Tyler-Ruthton football team opened by shutting out Yellow Medicine East. The Knights blanked the Sting, 34-0, as quarterback Brayden Chandler went 7-of-12 passing for 111 yards and two TD. Chandler also rushed 15 times for 107 yards and two more scores.  Micah Johnson also fared well for the Knights as the team’s leading rusher with 114 yards on...

Redwood Valley’s seasoned senior quarterback Zack Lundeen powered the Cardinals to 490 yards in total offense.  That told just part of the story as the Cardinals downed Pipestone Area Schools at Paulsen Field on Thursday, Sept. 3.  “They were bigger, faster and stronger than us,” PAS head coach Scott Boomgaarden said. “That was the difference.”  Redwood Valley’s blocking scheme won the edge all ga...

WINDOM — The Pipestone Area and Windom Area football teams squared off in the Section 3AA tournament last October 2025. The Eagles eventually nipped the Arrows, 38-36.  However, these days, both PAS and Windom share a painful truth — the Arrows and Eagles were both gutted by graduation. New talent is in development. There’s one thing already in the Arrows’ favor: season first downs.  In PAS’ loss...

The Minnesota State High School League defending Class A state champions visited Pipestone on Thursday, Sept. 3.  And the results pretty much went as expected.  St. James Area blanked PAS, 7-0, at Paulsen Athletic Complex-PAS Courts.  “It was good competition,” PAS head coach James Skyberg said, “and you want to see what you can get out of it.”  Getting to deuce points and forcing ad-scoring turne...

TYLER — Tyler Golf Club will conduct its “Superintendent’s Revenge” tournament on Sept. 12.  This is a two-person scramble formatted tournament.  Registration is set for 9 a.m. with a shotgun start to follow at 10.  Expect to see unique hazards on every hole.  Tyler Golf Club is located at 420 Lincoln County Road 7.  For information, call the course at 1-507-247-3242 or log onto the website: www.t...

MARSHALL — Pipestone Area Schools’ Rhaelee Heidebrink clocked in with a time of 22:52.5 for 16th place at the Marshall Invitational on Monday, Aug. 31.  There were 34 varsity girls running at the event, which was conducted at Marshall Golf Club.  PAS’ Amelia Bucher was 20th (23:42.0) and Southwest Minnesota Christian/Edgerton’s Elia Van Dyke 31st (28:27.2).  On the boys’ side, Joshua Zupp was 20th...

Homecoming activities at Pipestone Area Schools (PAS) started the first day of school this year when members of the senior class nominated king and queen candidates. The candidates were announced on the second day of school, Wednesday, Sept. 2. The king candidates are Nickolas Bruns, Wyatt Corcoran, Griffin Smidt, Americ Suvandy, Matthew Swenson and Zayne Zollner. The queen candidates are Kaysa Do...

Rebuilding Together Minnesota, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps qualifying homeowners make repairs to their homes, now has office hours in Pipestone. Emily Ostercamp, Rebuilding Together Minnesota’s southwest project manager, will be in Suite 1 at the city of Pipestone’s municipal office building the first and third Tuesdays of each month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. She said the intention i...

The 2026 to 2027 school year begins Tuesday, Sept. 1 at Pipestone Area Schools (PAS). The school year is beginning prior to Labor Day this year due to Labor Day being as last as it could possibly be, on Sept. 7. When the first bell rings on Sept. 1, approximately 1,128 students will head to class. That’s down from approximately 1,180 students at the start of last year. See the accompanying chart f...

Separation agreement approved for administrative assistant Pipestone Area Schools (PAS) Board members approved a separation agreement with former middle school/high school administrative assistant Kathryn Baker. Baker signed a resignation letter dated July 28 and will be paid for August, September and October. School Board member Daphne Liknes made a motion during consideration of the consent agen...

Separation agreement approved for administrative assistant Pipestone Area Schools (PAS) Board members approved a separation agreement with former middle school/high school administrative assistant Kathryn Baker. Baker signed a resignation letter dated July 28 and will be paid for August, September and October. School Board member Daphne Liknes made a motion during consideration of the consent agen...

Utility service locators have been painting and flagging yards all over Pipestone this summer. They’ve been followed by fiber optic internet service installers who have dug up boulevards and left piles of dirt and weeds growing where grass used to be. They’ve also left behind green plastic boxes, known as pedestals. One was placed in the boulevard in front of my house. Two others were added on my...

As we prepare to start the new school year, we know there will be a great deal of activity at the schools. On any typical school morning at the Pipestone Area Schools, the parking lot starts filling before the first bell rings. A bus pulls in. Parents drop off their children. Teachers walk through the doors carrying coffee, lesson plans, student work and the hopes they have for their students. Ins...

All Pipestone Area Schools activities information will now be found on a mobile application and website called BOUND.  “It was a decision made by (Big South) conference schools,” PAS activities director Rick Zollner said of the switch made last spring.    Zollner said slowly, but surely, most of the activities conferences in Minnesota are transitioning to BOUND.  What’s more, the Red Rock Conferen...

The Pipestone Area Schools’ girls tennis team began practices on Monday, Aug. 17. Eight days later, the Arrows were thrust upon the 2026 regular season with matches at MACCRAY (Clara City) and Yellow Medicine East in Granite Falls.  Three seniors will serve as leaders in state qualifier Jasmine Boeke plus Aleryn Brinkmeyer and Iva Witte.  Boeke played both No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles with now-...

The Pipestone Parks & Recreation Department is offering fitness classes Monday though Friday.  No membership is required; everyone is welcome to participate in these sessions.  At 5:30 a.m. Mondays, instructor Danielle Bauman will teach a class called total body toning. This is a group workout using light weights, resistance bands and bodyweight exercises to shape major muscle groups.  Instruc...

Pipestone Area Schools sophomore student Jack Goelz competed at the Minnesota State High School Rodeo Association meet in Pine River Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 22-23. Goelz participated in both the team roping and tie-down roping events. During the team roping contest, Goelz served as a heeler while Weston Feist of Jordan was the header. This marked the second straight week a Pipestone student comp...

The 2026 Minnesota/Dakota Slowpitch Softball League wrapped up play on Tuesday, Aug. 18 in Lake Benton, with the Anacondas coming out on top. The Anacondas, seeded second in the postseason tournament, defeated No. 1 seed Lake Benton Bar, 19-13. The Anacondas also defeated Lake Benton Bar II that night, which pushed them to the championship game. Here’s the team (from left to right), Jonah Johnson,...