New Ulm Sports Central - Preserving and Sharing New Ulm Area Sports History

ROCHESTER- After 11 straight victories, Cathedral High School dropped out of the Minnesota football playoff pictures with a 21-8 loss to Blooming Prairie here Saturday. A win would have put the Greyhounds into the state semi-finals at the Metrodome.

The 'Hounds fell behind 14-0 at the quarter and 21-0 at the half and managed the score late in the fourth quarter with time running down.

The line score:

New Ulm Cathedral .... 0 - 0 - 0 - 8 ---- 0
Blooming Prairie ....... 14 - 7 - 0 - 0 --- 21
Scoring:
(1) BP - Cooper Nelson, 25-yard pass from Luc Zellmer. PAT unreported.
(1) BP - Justin Ingvalson, 8 yard pass from Zellmer. PAT unreported.
(2) BP - Ingvalson, 75-yard punt return, PAT unreported.
(4) NUC - Brandon Berg, 85-yard fumble return. 2 Pt Conversion: Collin Wendinger, pass from Kevin Larson.

New Ulm Journal website posting reproduced for the historic files in the attachment.