ESSIG — One big inning sank Post 36. Faribault American Legion Post 43 beat Fairmont, 6-4, during elimination-bracket action in the Division I, Sub-State 2 baseball tournament Thursday in Essig. With the win, Faribault moved on to play Mankato National, which lost the first game of the ...
SLEEPY EYE — The pitchers worked fast, threw strikes and kept the batters off-balanced. New Ulm Gold American Legion Post 132 beat Fairmont Post 36, 4-3, during first-round action in the Division I, Sub-State 2 baseball tournament Wednesday night in Sleepy Eye. With the win, New Ulm moves ...
FORT DODGE, Iowa — Prep softball can be called a game of inches, and North Union senior second baseman Vanessa Von Bank knows that fact all too well. Von Bank drilled a pivotal fifth-inning double off the Dodger Diamond fence and later scored the game-tying run on Naomi Jones’ two-out RBI ...
FORT DODGE, Iowa — No. 5-seeded North Union’s high-octane batting order produced a dozen hits in Monday’s state softball opener, but No. 4-seeded Earlham’s “small-ball” skills proved the difference at Harlan Rogers Sports Complex. Katie Janssen, Allison Beatty and Morgan Mineart ...
NORTH MANKATO — The Fairmont 16-18 girls fastpitch softball team compiled a 4-2 record to capture fourth place in the 16-team Southern Star League tournament over the weekend at Caswell Park. Fairmont opened Saturday’s diamond action by engineering a 15-0, three-inning run-rule triumph ...
WABASSO — Luverne American Legion Post 123 put Winnebago/Blue Earth in an early deficit, but the Post 82/89 team refused to believe it wouldn’t win. WBE (16-1) took a 9-5 win over Luverne on Saturday night in Wabasso to advance to the Minnesota Division II, Southwest Sub-State ...