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Caledonia, back where it belongs – State

The Caledonia High School football team is back at its second home, again.

A year after missing the MSHSL Class 2A state playoffs for the first time since 2004 – yes, 2004 – the Warriors are back and looking for state title number six since 2007.

Caledonia (11-0) will play Maple Lake (10-1) at 7 p.m. Friday at Rochester Community and Technical College.

Last season, the Warriors lost a heartbreaker 13-10 in overtime to Chatfield in the section championship to get to the state tourney.

This season, it’s business as usual, but the No. 2-ranked Warriors – a team that’s 95-5 in its last 100 games and two of those losses came in overtime – will have their hands full with the sixth-ranked Irish (10-1), who lost in the state semifinals last season.

Cal Redemske and Dustry Strub are the Maple Lake offense. Redemske, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound senior, is the power, while Strub and his 5-11, 165 frame, is the speed.

Between them, they have 44 touchdowns and nearly 3,000 yards rushing. Strub is averaging 11.5 yards a carry, while Redemske has worn down defenses with 235 carries.

Nobody on Caledonia compares.

The offenses are miles apart. The Warriors have nearly 2,000 less yards rushing and average 140-yards less a game. Maple Lake also has scored 50 points a game to Caledonia’s 34.6.

Defensively, the Warriors have an advantage, but not by much. The Warriors give up a minuscule 5.5 points and 123 yards a game to Maple Lake’s 10 and 170.

It’s hard to draw comparisons against opponents, either. The combined records of Maple Lake’s opponents are 48-61. Of those opponents, two are in the state tournament, including 10-0 Pierz, which beat the Irish 28-21 – their only loss. Four of those teams have a record above .500, four of them have two or fewer wins.

Caledonia’s opponents are 45-61. None of its opponents are in the state tournament – though Rushford-Peterson, which lost to the Warriors 7-6, came close. Four teams they’ve played have an above .500 record and four have two wins or fewer.

TEAM STATISTICS

OFFENSE RUSHING PASSING TOTAL YDS./GM POINTS
MAPLE LAKE 3,758 613 4,371 397 50
CALEDONIA 1,797 1,027 2,824 257 34.6
DEFENSE RUSHING PASSING TOTAL YDS./GM POINTS
MAPLE LAKE 1,132 767 1,878 170 10
CALEDONIA 661 688 1,349 123 5.5

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

PASSING          
Name (Tm) Comp-Att. % Yards TDs INTs
Tony Goelz (ML) 31-64 48 1,605 10 2
Austin Bauer (C) 58-104 56 807 12 4
RUSHING        
Name (TM) Att. Yards Avg. TTDs
Dusty Strub (ML) 139 1,605 11.5 27
Cal Redemske (ML) 235 1,361 5.8 17
Devan Heaney (C) 148 813 5.5 11
Tanner Gran (C) 80 376 4.7 9
RECEIVING        
Name (Tm) Rec. Yards Avg. TTDs
Ryan Kalinowski (ML) 18 280 15.6 5
Colton Lampert (C) 22 344 15.6 8
Tanner Gran (C) 14 216 15.4 9
 *TTD=Total TDs        

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