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MLC softball splits with Hamline

ST. PAUL — The Martin Luther College Knights softball team split a doubleheader against the Hamline Pipers on Wednesday, falling 7-0 in the opener before winning the nightcap 6-5. MLC pitcher Keightan Rank took the Game 1 loss, allowing five hits and four walks for four earned runs while ...

GETTING TO KNOW Emma Hoffmann

Interview by Ari Selvey Hoffmann was the top girls finisher in a meet against Minnesota Valley Lutheran on Tuesday, scoring a 51 to earn her second medal of the season. Q: What is your favorite club to use? A: My 7 Iron. Q: What is your favorite movie/TV show? A: My favorite movie is "10 ...

Altermatt, Hillesheim hold GFW scoreless in doubleheader

NEW ULM — New Ulm Cathedral’s star pitchers Jayde Altermatt and Abbey Hillesheim each captained a shutout win over Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop as the Greyhounds won 15-0 in four innings in Game 1 and 11-0 in five innings in Game 2 Thursday in a Tomahawk Division softball doubleheader. With ...

GETTING TO KNOW Tanner Backer

Interview by Travis Rosenau Backer, a senior pitcher and first baseman for the Eagles, collected two hits and three RBIs in New Ulm’s 23-2 rout of Westonka on Tuesday. Q: Who is your favorite baseball player, past or present? A: Miguel Sano. Q: What is your favorite pitch to throw? A: ...

‘Back into Eagles softball’

NEW ULM — While the New Ulm Eagles’ season opener Tuesday was one they’ll want to forget, Thursday’s home opener with Waseca was one the Eagles will want to remember going forward. The Eagles showed the type of softball their head coach Kristi Andersen Loose is accustomed to seeing ...

Eagles romp, roll Westonka

NEW ULM — In the bottom of the second inning of their nonconference baseball game against Westonka, the New Ulm Eagles trailed 2-0 to the Whitehawks. But after a Dirks Haynes groundout to start the inning, the Eagles erupted. New Ulm sent 18 batters to the plate and used seven walks, ...