St. Michael-Albertville football slips by Champlin Park without an offensive TD

St. Michael-Albertville took the Chicago Bears’ opening-game performance to heart.

The Knights slipped past Champlin Park 14-7 on Friday night without scoring an offensive touchdown. It was the third most points St. Michael-Albertville (3-2) has scored in a game the first five weeks of the season.

“I have never won one like that before,” Knights coach Jared Essler said. Both touchdowns were recorded by Essler’s punt return team.

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Lakeville South football edges Rochester Mayo football on final play

Rochester Mayo coach Donny Holcomb remained positive after a heartbreaking, gut-wrenching 46-43 loss to Lakeville South on the final play of the game.

“We have a lot very emotional guys right now,” Holcomb told the Rochester Post Bulletin. “They worked their tails off. But we will stay positive and learn from this.”

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Thief River Falls football does it with De-fense! De-fense!

Thief River Falls only scored 26 points in its first four losses to start the season. It was looking for a way to break the losing streak. The Prowlers turned to their defense.

Coach Kurt Reynolds’ defensive unit shut out East Grand Forks in registering a 6-0 victory, not quite the same offensive output it had been averaging.

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Inside the numbers from Week 5 of MN high school football

Here are the teams and players featured this week. To find more stats, click the team or player's name.

Kasson-Mantorville football and senior defensive back Caisen Thome

Hopkins football

Pequot Lakes football and senior Landen Brill

Renville County West football and senior defensive back Griffin Howard 

Alexandria football and senior quarterback Chase Thompson and junior Mason Witt

Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg football and senior running back Jett Olson

Dawson-Boyd football and senior wide receiver Brayson Boike

Two Harbors football and senior running back Tate Nelson

Mountain Iron-Buhl football

North Branch football

Click here to watch a replay of North Branch's convincing victory over Duluth Denfeld on Friday

BOLD football and senior halfback Hudson Vosika 

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Quote from Hermantown football coach

Hermantown football head coach Mike Zagelmeyer about his team.

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