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‘It’s truly unique being an SMSU Mustang’

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MARSHALL — Despite a strong start to their final home series of the season, the Southwest Minnesota State University baseball team dropped two of its three games against UMary on Senior Day weekend. The Mustangs claimed the first game of Saturday’s Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ...

Podoll places 16th, SMSU places 9th at NSIC golf championship

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SMITHVILLE, Mo. – The Southwest Minnesota State University women’s golf team closed its season on Sunday finishing ninth place at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship played at the par-72, 5,853-yard, Paradise Pointe - Outlaw Course. SMSU, which shot a 48-over-par 336 ...

Knights earn Saturday sweep of Mt. Lake Area

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GAME 1 RTR 5, MLAC 4 RUTHTON — Tyler Wichmann and Gavin Schreurs’ quality pitching helped the Russell-Tyler-Ruthton baseball team hold off a late rally for a 5-4 win over Mountain Lake Area/Comfrey in the first game of a Red Rock Conference matchup on Saturday. Wichmann pitched the ...

Mustangs end postseason drought despite losses to MSU

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MANKATO — For the first time since 2021, the Southwest Minnesota State University softball team is headed to the postseason. The Mustangs dropped each of the games in their weekend doubleheader against Minnesota State, falling 9-1 in five innings and 3-1 to the Mavericks in Northern Sun ...

Meagher scores on wild pitch for Minneota walk-off

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Minneota 4, KMS 3 MINNEOTA — The Minneota baseball team overcame a three-run deficit in a 4-3 win over Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg Friday with the go-ahead run from Ryan Meagher in the bottom of the seventh inning after stealing home off a wild pitch. Tied at 3-3 in the bottom of the ...

Yahya Black drafted by Pittsburgh Steelers

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Yahya Black, a 2020 graduate of Marshall High School and a defensive lineman for the University of Iowa, was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 28th pick of the fifth round of the NFL draft on Saturday. The 164th overall selection, Black has the opportunity to ...