NEW ULM — None of the 2025 New Ulm Junior Legion Gold baseball players were born the last time a New Ulm team won the Junior Upper Midwest Classic. On a hot, windy Sunday afternoon, that changed as right-handed reliever Collin Forstner got the final strikeout to help New Ulm hold off ...

By Jim Bastian sports@nujournal.com NEW ULM — New Ulm Junior Legion Gold broke a 1-1 tie with a six-run third inning and went on to top Luverne Junior Legion 9-3 Saturday night at Johnson Park in a Junior Upper Midwest Classic quarterfinals game. Mitchell Hopp got the win for Gold. He went ...

FAIRFAX — The New Ulm Brewers downed the Fairfax Cardinals 7-1 in a Tomahawk East League Amateur baseball game on Friday. Sam Keckeisen was the winning pitcher, striking out seven and allowing one run on four hits in six innings. At the plate for New Ulm, Justin Hoffmann was 3 for 4 with ...

ESSIG — The Essig Bluejays downed the Springfield Tigers 11-8 in a Tomahawk East League amateur baseball game on Thursday night. Joey Schugel earned the win for Essig, striking out three in two hitless, scoreless innings. Winsten Nienhaus made the start, striking out three and allowing ...

NEW ULM — In the bottom of the eighth inning of a Junior Upper Midwest Classic baseball game against Alexandria Friday at Johnson Park, New Ulm Silver VFW’s Kaden Stueber hit a ball hard on the ground to the Alexandria second baseman. The infielder was unable to cleanly field the ball, ...

By Jeff Meder sports@nujournal.com NEW ULM — Hamel defeated Sleepy Eye Junior Legion 12-7 on Friday in a Junior Upper Midwest Classic baseball game at Mueller Park. Sleepy Eye, which fell to Alexandria earlier in the day 5-1 in Essig, fell to 0-3 in the JUMC with the loss to ...