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Fairmont trap team progresses through season

GRANADA – It’s crunch time for the Fairmont High School trap team. With just a handful of regular-season competitions remaining, head coach Rich Wolf knows his group has to keep progressing ahead of the 2026 Minnesota Trap Shooting Championships, a state qualifying competition that runs ...

Big seventh inning charges Fairmont past SJA

ST. JAMES – The turbulent wind conditions at Veterans Field prevented most flyballs from going outside the range of any fielders playing in the grass. That is, until Jensen Livesay came up to the plate in the seventh inning. Fairmont’s first baseman charged a ball that not only cleared the ...

Area roundup: Maverick softball swarms Nicollet

PREP SOFTBALL MCW 11, NICOLLET 1 NORTH MANKATO – Home runs from Stella Rohman and Maddie Carlson in the third inning of Thursday afternoon’s game against Nicollet pushed the Martin County West softball team to an 11-1 victory at Caswell Park. The Mavericks are now 20-1 and will face ...

Area roundup: Meade breaks program pole vault record

PREP TRACK AND FIELD WORTHINGTON – The Fairmont boys and girls track and field teams continued to show their dominance during Tuesday’s Trojan Relays in Worthington. The boys notched 174.5 points, while the girls finished with 179. Both teams beat the second-highest teams by at least 35 ...

Area roundup: Fairmont baseball extends winning streak to six

PREP BASEBALL FAIRMONT 14, JCC 2 JACKSON – 12 runs in the fourth and fifth innings proved to be the difference during Fairmont’s 14-2 victory over Jackson County Central on Tuesday afternoon. The Huskies tied the game up at two apiece in the bottom of the third. But four scores in the ...

JCC uses strong start to soar past Fairmont

FAIRMONT – Jackson County Central softball proved to everyone at Cardinal Park why they wear the title of No. 4 team in Minnesota High School’s Class AA rankings. Mady Wachal picked up 15 of her team’s 21 outs with her arm while the Huskie offense put up crooked numbers in the first two ...