FAIRMONT — Class AA No. 1-ranked Fairmont stormed to four sixth-inning runs on the heels of a lightning delay to exit Herb Wolf Field with a 10-run rule victory on Friday night. Ace right-hander Brendan Schmidtke pitched five near-perfect shutout innings of one-hit baseball, while Landen ...
FAIRMONT — Mathew Cone earned meet medalist honors and teammate Hartley Aust garnered runner-up individual accolades to power the Fairmont Cardinals to a 187-220 season-opening golf victory over the Truman/Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Martin Luther Jaguars on Thursday afternoon. Cone birdied ...
BLUE EARTH — The Class AA No. 1-ranked Fairmont Cardinals baseball team flexed its muscles during a 21-1 run-rule five-inning victory over the Blue Earth Area Bucs on Thursday at Veterans Field in Blue Earth. “We pride ourselves on pitching and defense, and we hit the ball today,” ...
FAIRMONT — When Ella Klunder’s pinch-hit single scored Fairmont teammate Nevaeh Rahm with two out in the bottom of the fourth inning on Thursday night, numerous high school softball fans at Cardinal Park did not realize it was a “walk-off.” Fairmont erupted for 10 third-inning runs ...
SPIRIT LAKE, IOWA — North Union’s Olivia Merrill placed in the top three in two events to lead the Warriors’ track and field team in Tuesday’s Spirit Lake Co-Ed Invitational meet at the Sheryl Maahs Track in Spirit Lake. Merrill tied for second with Elliana Heisinger of Spencer in the ...
ALGONA, Iowa — Bryer Prochniak and Colin Rasch each struck gold to pace the North Union boys track & field team’s third-place showing at the Adam Sundall Relays on Monday night on the Bishop Garrigan campus in Algona, Iowa. In the girls’ division, Shelby Fraker captured second ...