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Blackjacks flood top of the leaderboard at Knight Invite

GIRLS KNIGHT INVITE TYLER — The Dawson-Boyd girls golf team accounted for four of the top six finishers at the Russell-Tyler-Ruthton Knight Invitational on Friday, helping the Blackjacks run away with a first-place finish in the nine-team event. Alyssa Swedzinski led the charge for Dawson-Boyd, posting a 13-over 84 to finish as the individual runner-up to Lac qui Parle Valley’s Molly Halvorson’s 82. Swedzinski carded a birdie and three pars on the front 9, along with another pair of pars on the back 9. Dawson-Boyd finished with a team score of 346, beating out LQPV’s 372 and ...

RRC/WWG gets back in the win column vs. HLOF

RRC/WWG 21, HLOF 11 (5 inn.) WALNUT GROVE — Kendall Jenniges had a pair of doubles and drove in a team-high six runners off two hits to highlight the Red Rock Central/Westbrook-Walnut Grove softball team’s 21-11 mercy-rule win over Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda Friday night. The win snapped a seven-game losing streak for the Falcons. Bats became contagious and hits kept coming for RRC/WWG, and ultimately ended the game on an eight-run fifth inning. Natasha Wahl and Leah Carter shared a team-high three runs, while Kendra Schroeder went 3 for 5 at the plate along with two RBIs and ...

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 ...