Sports

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Area high school sports schedule

(Events are subject to change due to weather conditions or other factors)

Friday, December 5, 2025

Basketball Tournament - Girls - Ashby, Minneapolis South, & Bertha-Hewitt at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle:  5:00pm Minneapolis South vs Bertha-Hewitt, 7:00pm Ashby vs Long Prairie-Grey Eagle

Basketball -Girls - St. John's Prep at Maple Lake 5:30pm

Basketball - Girls - Pierz at Osakis 5:45pm

Basketball - Girls - Ortonville at Benson 6:00pm

Basketball - Boys - Browerville-Eagle Valley at Bertha-Hewitt 5:00pm

Basketball - Girls & Boys Double Header - Morris at Osakis 5:45pm Boys Varsity game then, Girls game follows Pierz at Osakis. Both games on 99.7 FM Hot Rod Radio

Basketball - Boys - Swanville at Pine River-Backus 5:45pm

Basketball - Boys - Long Prairie-Grey Eagle at Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 6:45pm

Hockey -Girls - Worthington vs Prairie Centre Blue Devils in Sauk Centre 6:00pm

Hockey - Boys - Prairie Centre North Stars at Redwood Valley 7:00pm

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Wrestling Tournament - Little Falls at Edina 10:00am

Wrestling Tournament - Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Browerville, Border West, Fargo North, Kindred, Lisbon, Sisseton & Wahpeton in Wahpeton at North Dakota State College of Science 9:00am

Wrestling Tournament - Osakis, Badger-Greenbush-Middle River, Blackduck/Cass Lake-Bena, Detroit Lakes, Frazee, Ottertail Central, Pillager, Pine River-Backus/Pequot Lakes, Thief River Falls, United North Central, & Wadena-Deer Creek at Wadena 10:30am

Basketball - Boys - Sebeka at Browerville-Eagle Valley 11:00am

Basketball - Girls - Bertha-Hewitt, Ashby, & Minneapolis South at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle:  11:00am Ashby vs Bertha-Hewitt, 1:00pm - Long Prairie-Grey Eagle vs Minneapolis South

Gymnastics - Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Browerville, Benson, New London-Spicer, & Park Rapids at Morris Area 11:00am

Basketball - Boys & Girls Doubleheader - Holdingford at Upsala 1:00pm

Hockey - Girls - Prairie Centre Blue Devils vs Princeton-Becker-Big Lake at Princeton 1:00pm

Basketball - Girls - Benson at Browerville-Eagle Valley 3:30pm

Basketball - Boys - Benson at Border West 5:00pm

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Basketball - Boys - Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 4:45pm

Basketball - Boys - Pierz at Upsala 4:45p

Basketball  - Boys - Swanville at Benson 5:45pm

Basketball - Boys - St. John's Prep at Osakis 5:45pm

Basketball - Girls - Long Prairie-Grey Eagle at Swanville 4:45pm - Varsity game at 7:12 on 99.7 FM Hot Rod Radio

Basketball - Girls - Browerville-Eagle Valley at Bertha-Hewitt 5:00pm

Basketball - Girls - Osakis at Melrose 5:45pm

Basketball - Girls - Upsala at Staples-Motley 6:00pm

Gymnastics - Albany & Benson at Long Prairie- Grey Eagle/Browerville 5:00pm

Hockey - Girls - Prairie Centre Blue Devils vs Northern Lakes at Breezy Point Arena 5:00pm

Wrestling Triangular - Benson & Luverne at Springfield 5:00pm

Wrestling Triangular - Little Falls & Moorhead at Alexandria 5:00pm

Wrestling Triangular - Osakis & New York Mills at West Central Area 5:00pm

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Basketball - Boys - Browerville-Eagle Valley at St. John's Prep 4:45pm

Basketball - Boys - Benson at Swanville 5:45pm

Wrestling Triangular - Albany & Pine River-Backus/Pequot Lakes at  Little Falls 5:00pm

Wrestling Triangular - United North Central & Wadena-Deer Creek at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Browerville in Long Prairie 5:00pm

Basketball - Girls - Pierz at Swanville 5:45pm

Basketball - Girls - Milaca at Upsala 5:45pm

Basketball - Girls - Dawson-Boyd at Benson 5:45pm

Hockey - Boys - Prairie Centre North Stars vs Breckenridge/Wahpeton on Wahpeton 7:00pm

KEYL and Hot Rod Radio are proud of our Sports Director - Kevin Houdek 

KEYL/KXDL Sports Director Kevin Houdek honored with WCCO Viewers’ Choice For Best H.S. Football Announcer In Minnesota 

Kevin Houdek has been calling games for the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder for 30 years. His knowledge of the teams and the game sheds a bright light for those who can’t attend.

“People all over the country [listen in],” Houdek said. “A guy from Browerville that’s down in Arizona, I’ll get a text from him every once and a while, you know, saying, ‘Great game.'”

On this night, the Thunder are playing the Staples-Motley Cardinals. Both teams were 0-2 — and hungry for a win.

“It’s not life or death,” he said. “It’s to have a good time and stay professional, and remember you’re broadcasting for two teams, not just your home team.”

Kevin Houdek (credit: CBS)

Sports teams and the media often clash, but Houdek has earned the respect of Activities Director Dan Zetah.

“Our coaches … really like him and respect him,” Zetah said. “He’s very savvy with the numbers, with stats. You ask him a stat about something, he’s got it right there.”

Listening to Houdek — as he delivers names and stats with computer-like precision — might be overwhelming to some, but it’s like poetry to someone who’s into the game.

“I think you can get some broadcasters … that can maybe get a little more opinionated or maybe get negative more, if you want to use that term. He doesn’t get that way at all,” Zetah said.

And it’s clear that Houdek loves his work.

“It’s so much fun,” he said. “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve appreciated it even more. Even at this level, I go to a game and every night I know somebody’s going to do something amazing.”

So if you’re ever driving through central Minnesota on game night, tune your radio to 1400 AM to hear the small-town guy who, in his own way, has hit the big time.

“A teenager’s going to pull off a big play, or they’re going to play their best game ever, and everybody’s having fun, and I’m having fun, too,” Houdek said.

-- Courtesy WCCO

 

KEVIN HOUDEK NAMED SID HARTMAN MEDIA AWARD WINNER

 

He was recognized at the 11th Annual Minnesota Football Honors on April 29 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

 

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - April 16, 2018 - Longtime radio sports director and broadcaster Kevin Houdek will receive the Sid Hartman Media Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the National Football Foundation. He was recognized at the 11th Annual Minnesota Football Honors on April 29 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Houdek has spent 30 years as the sports director at KEYL/KXDL Radio in Long Prairie, Minnesota. Last fall he won WCCO TV’s Viewers’ Choice Award for Best High School Football Announcer. Houdek has been providing play-by-play for the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder for three decades.

In addition to football, Houdek has broadcast other high school sports including volleyball, boys’ and girls’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ hockey, wrestling, baseball and softball. He has covered Minnesota State High School League state tournament games for many of those sports for his station and the Minnesota Sports Broadcast Network.

Houdek is a Minnesota native who attended Danube High School before getting his associate’s degree in radio and television broadcasting at Brown Institute in Minneapolis. He is also a volunteer coach for youth baseball and wrestling and women’s slo-pitch softball, and is a 15 year veteran of the Long Prairie volunteer fire department.

The Sid Hartman Media Award is named after the Star Tribune’s most famous sports writer who is still covering local teams at age 98.