Thirty years ago, Laurie Kes, Tam Seifert, and Kim Hentges made the all-Minnesota River Conference. girls basketball team.

Read more of Jordan's history in the Looking Back column published in
the March 18 print edition of the Jordan Independent.

Ten years ago, six Panthers were named to the all-Minnesota River Conference team. They are David Whipps, Justin Roberts, Steve Gregory, Jeff Strack, Jacob Lucas, Mat Meger, and Ryan Valek.

Read more of Jordan's history in the
Looking Back column published in the March 11 print edition of the
Jordan Independent.

The Scott West wrestling team closed out the 2009-10 wrestling season this past weekend by traveling to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul for the Minnesota State Wrestling Tournament.

Team Panther certainly isn't a stranger to the mats that sit just above the big sheet of ice where the Minnesota Wild hockey team make their home as Scott West was making their eleventh team trip to the State Tournament and it was the team's seventh appearance in the last eight years. 

The Scott West wrestling team rolled into Delano this past weekend for the Section 2AA Individual Championships having already secured the Team Championship the previous weekend in Belle Plaine. 

At stake would be 28 individual qualifying spots for the respective 14 weight classes.  Team Panther would claim 8 of those individual qualifying spots as the Scott Wester's wrestled an outstanding tournament from start to finish. 

An error was published in the High School Sports and Sports sections of this Web site. The Scott West Panthers wrestling team's state tournament meet begins on Thursday.

The Jordan Independent takes pride in providing accurate reports of the news.

The editor will make an effort to respond to any complaints about errors or inaccuracies in the newspaper. If it is determined that the paper printed an error, a correction will be prominently displayed, usually on page 2.

The Scott West wrestling team came into the 2009-10 season with the motto-theme of "We'll Bring the Fight!".  While that motto-theme may have left many Scott West wrestling faithful shaking their heads at different times throughout the season, there would be no need for head shaking when the real wrestling started on Saturday in Belle Plaine at the Section 2AA Team Championships. 

The Scott West wrestling will make another trip to the Xcel Energy Center.

The Panthers won the Class 2A, Section 2 wrestling tournament on Saturday to qualify for the state wrestling tournament.

They defeated Watertown-Mayer/Mayer Lutheran in the finals 50-16 to qualify for state.

To get to the finals they defeated Hutchinson 38-18 in the semifinals.

In the finals, they jumped out to a 16-0 lead as they cruised to the win.

Scott West got falls from Gabe Fogarty, Tyler Zilverberg, Jake Siegle, Nick Dvorak, Mike Kroells and Travis Hentges in the finals.

Tonight's boys basketball game and wrestling matches will not take place as scheduled.

The boys basketball game at Le Sueur-Henderson has been postponed until Tuesday, Feb. 16.

The Scott West home wrestling match in Belle Plaine against Delano has been canceled and will not be made up.

The Scott West wrestling team traveled to Orono on Thursday night to wrestle Dassel-Cokato and Orono. The Panthers wrestled their way to a pair of victories as they opened the night of wrestling with a 41-23 win over Class AA's No. 10 rated Dassel-Cokato, who came into the meet with a 22-2 dual meet record, and then closed it out with a 54-25 win over host Orono.