Breaking News

Sports

Tiger track earns eight first-place finishes in outdoor opener

Local Sports

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 finish. The boys team also competed in the meet, getting a pair of first-place finishes from Sam Deutz and another from Sam Meier to place fourth out of five teams. Marshall’s girls squad finished with 37 points, beating out third-place Waseca’s 25 and trailing only Mankato West’s 92. On the boys ...

Stelter’s leadoff triple carries Marshall past Fairmont

Local Sports

FAIRMONT – A seventh-inning leadoff triple from Marshall’s Andrew Stelter was the story of Thursday afternoon’s contest at Herb Wolf Field. The shot to the wall gave his offense the spark they needed, with an ensuing sacrifice flyout by Eli Weedman to left field breaking the one-score ...

Blackjacks walk off Vikings on Bothun single

Local Sports

Dawson-Boyd 3, Minneota 2 DAWSON — Colten Bothun’s seventh-inning single gave the Dawson-Boyd baseball team a walk-off win over Minneota in Camden Conference play Thursday. The Blackjacks trailed 2-1 heading into the bottom of the seventh when Kyan Moseng was hit by a pitch with one out, and Kameron Sather walked and Eli Olson singled to load the bases. Bothun capitalized on the opportunity, singling on an 0-2 count to score Moseng, and an error on the play allowed Sather to run home for the winning run. Sather earned the win on the mound for Dawson-Boyd, pitching two innings ...

Jenniges, Eis combine for 15 Ks in pair of mercy-rule wins

Local Sports

Wabasso 11, BLHS 1 (5 inn). WABASSO — Audrey Johnson rattled off three hits with three RBIs to help the Wabasso softball team defeat Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart 11-1 in five innings Thursday night in the first game of a doubleheader. Aylah Jenniges also pitched a complete game, throwing an impressive nine strikeouts to lead the Rabbits defensively. Wabasso got off to a quick start with a 4-0 lead following the first inning. Runs from Macy Rohlik, Delaina Eis, Sara Carlson and Ava Kodet got the Rabbits on the board. All of them scored on RBIs as well. Wabasso held BLHS ...

Knights' offense comes up short to Dragons

Local Sports

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 ...

Twins complete series sweep over Tigers

Minnesota Sports

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brooks Lee hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth inning for the Minnesota Twins in a 3-1 victory to complete a four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers on Thursday. Mick Abel pitched six scoreless innings and Josh Bell went 3 for 4 with a home run for the Twins, who ...