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MCC wins 3A South meet behind 15 championship qualifiers

LUVERNE — The Murray County Central boys track and field team dominated the 3A South Subsection Championships on Thursday. The Rebels will now send 15 individual boys and three relay teams to next week’s Section 3A championship meet. The Rebels paced the eight-team boys field with 186 points, beating out Luverne’s 108 and Southwest Minnesota Christian/Edgerton’s 104 to top the podium. Tracy-Milroy-Balaton also placed fifth with 77 points and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton placed seventh with 35.5 points to edge out Pipestone by a half-point. On the girls side, Luverne topped the team ...

Rabbits rally past LQPV in 3A quarterfinals

MARSHALL — Despite a slow start to the game, the Wabasso softball team’s pitching and bats prevailed in their Section 3A quarterfinal matchup against No. 2S Lac qui Parle Valley on Saturday. The Rabbits trailed 3-0 after the top of the second, but they responded with 10 unanswered runs ...

Big fifth inning paces Tigers past St. Cloud

ST. CLOUD — The Marshall baseball team erupted for five fifth-inning runs in its non-conference matchup against St. Cloud Crush on Thursday, riding that momentum to a 6-2 victory in its regular-season finale. The Tigers trailed 1-0 heading into the fifth, but a walk to Andrew Lee and a ...

Marshall softball season ends with loss to Albert Lea

NORTH MANKATO — The Marshall softball team wasn’t able to bounce back from its opening-round loss in its elimination bracket game against Albert Lea on Thursday. After falling to No. 3 Mankato West in the opening round, the No. 6 Marshall Tigers got off to a hot start against the No. 7 ...

Winn, Tigers lead field after Day 1 of 3AA boys meet

BUFFALO LAKE — Elijah Winn leads the 95-player field after the first day of competition at the Section 3AA boys golf tournament on Thursday at Oakdale Golf Club. The freshman standout’s performance led a group of four Tigers in the top 10 of the field, helping Marshall to the top of the ...

Cards’ clutch hitting staves off Kilo comeback

GRANITE FALLS — Seth Boerboom’s ninth-inning single helped the Cottonwood Cardinals stave off Granite Falls’ comeback bid in a non-conference matchup on Wednesday night. The Cardinals led by as many as five runs before the Kilowatts tied up the game, but they pulled out in the end for a 7-6 win. With the score knotted up at six runs apiece, Cody St. Aubin was hit by a pitch and Noah Aubin reached base on an error to put the winning run in scoring position in the ninth. Bryce Sneller took over on the mound for the Kilowatts and got a strikeout, but Boerboom followed up with an ...