WILLMAR — The Dawson-Boyd girls golf team opened up the 2026 spring season with a third-place finish at the Willmar Girls Early Season Invite Wednesday morning. The Blackjacks finished with a team score of 365 out of the eight competing teams. Senior Alyssa Swedzinksi was the lead ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Southwest Minnesota State University baseball team came up short in a pair of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference games on Wednesday against Sioux Falls on the road. The Mustangs dropped the first game 6-2, and fell in the second of the doubleheader, 12-11. The ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have added a Viking. No, not a player from the local NFL team, but a defenseman named Viking Gustafsson Nyberg, a native of Sweden and former University of Connecticut standout who signed a two-year, entry-level contract Thursday that begins with the ...

TYLER — A handful of strong swings weren’t enough to put the Russell-Tyler-Ruthton softball team on top in its Red Rock Conference opener against Adrian/Ellsworth on Thursday afternoon. The Knights got a home run from Laken Baartman and loaded the bases in the other inning, but they ...

MANKATO — The Southwest Minnesota State women’s and men’s track & field teams put together several top marks and times, including one school record, competing at the Stomper Open hosted by Minnesota State on Wednesday afternoon. SMSU closed the day with four first-places ...

Marshall at Mankato West MANKATO — Taleigha Bigler, Katelyn Leibfried, Brooklyn Purrington and Autumn Deutz each earned individual first-place finishes for the Marshall girls track and field team at the Mankato West Outdoor Invite on Thursday, leading the Tigers to a runner-up ...