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Tiger baseball splits with TCU

TCU 4, Marshall 2 MONTGOMERY — The Marshall baseball team’s bats fell short after a strong first inning against Tri-City United, Friday in the first game of a Big South Conference doubleheader. The Tigers put up a pair of runs in the first but were shut out for the remainder of the game, falling 4-2. TCU took advantage of a pair of beaned batters with a pair of RBI singles in the third to tie up the game. An inning later, they scored the game’s final runs when they loaded the bases on an error and two singles. The Tigers got consecutive strikeouts to nearly keep the tie intact, ...

Panthers show fight, come up short to Windom

TRACY — The Tracy-Milroy-Balaton baseball team put up a fight and got its bats going at times, but ultimately came up short in a 14-5 non-conference loss to Class 2A Windom Friday evening. “Windom is a very good baseball team, and being our fourth game of the week, you never know how high ...

Single-handedly overcoming the odds

I have been following sports of all kinds since I was a little kid, so I have really enjoyed watching some great athletes perform all over Minnesota the last 70 years. I have gotten to know many of them personally and I value their friendship more than I can say. And since I started doing ...

Tigers’ rally falls short in extra innings loss

MARSHALL — After trailing by as many as six runs early, the Marshall softball team rallied to push its Big South Conference matchup against Tri-City United into extra innings on Friday. Yet, the Tigers couldn’t capitalize with bases loaded in the eighth, falling 9-8 in the first game of ...

Winn ties for third at St. Cloud Invite

ST. CLOUD BOYS INVITE ST. CLOUD — Marshall freshman Elijah Winn tied for third in the field of 135 at the St. Cloud Boys Golf Invitational on Thursday, helping Marshall to a ninth-place finish out of 22 teams. Winn finished his round at 1-over 73, trailing only Buffalo’s Nicholas Kubu’s 71 and Benilde-St. Margaret’s 72. Winn birdied two of his first three holes, and logged a par on eight back-9 holes. The Tigers compiled a team score of320, beating out Albany and Willmar’s 322 and finishing just behind Mounds View’s 319. Benilde-St. Margaret’s topped the team field at ...

Blackjacks pull away from YME with 7-run seventh

Dawson-Boyd 13, YME 6 GRANITE FALLS — Following a back-and-forth first six innings, the Dawson-Boyd baseball team’s bats put everything together in the seventh to earn a Camden Conference win over Yellow Medicine East. The Blackjacks led by just a run heading into the final frame, but they strung together seven runs to earn a 13-6 win. Leading 6-5, the Blackjacks started the sixth with back-to-back walks to Eli Olson and Kyan Moseng, and Colten Bothun reached on an error to load the bases. Another walk to Kameron Sather pushed across one run and Nathan Hansen drove in another pair ...