MARSHALL — The Fairmont Cardinals baseball team played with its 2023 season on the line against the Paynesville Area Bulldogs in an Section 3AA elimination-bracket game on Tuesday night at Legion Field. Fairmont (20-2) used a five-run fifth inning to beat Paynesville Area 6-3 to advance to ...

NEW PRAGUE — Blue Earth Area teammates Ashton Lloyd and Payten Gudahl earned Class AA state tee times at the Ridges at Sand Creek golf course in Jordan next Tuesday and Wednesday. Lloyd led the Section 2 boys field from beginning to end to capture the individual championship during ...

MANKATO — Martin County West’s Hunter Schmidt and Mitchell Weber will pack their golf clubs and make the annual trek to Pebble Creek Golf Club in Becker for next week’s Class A state golf meet. Schmidt captured the Section 2 Meet’s individual championship at North Links Golf Course in ...

SWEA CITY — Revamping Iowa Class 2A No. 6-ranked North Union’s batting order has been a work in progress for head softball coach Kim Price, but the one constant that does not need any fine-tuning is pitching. Senior ace right-hander Emily Meyer racked up a game-leading 11 strikeouts to ...

MANKATO — Blue Earth Area’s Addison Armstrong, the Bucs’ 4x100-meter relay team of Nick Nelson, Gage Barker, Jack Norman and Jacob Grandgenett, along with Madelia/ Truman/Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Martin Luther teammates Ryan Koberoski and Josiah DeMaris each made the Class A track ...

MARSHALL — “What’s the old saying? ‘It’s hard to beat a team three times during the same season.’ We’re hoping that’s true in the game today,” Luverne head baseball coach Phil Paquette said with a grin and a chuckle. Riley Sneller made his coach’s pre-game statement become ...