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Area roundup: Sleepy Eye moves on to sub-state semis

MONDAY JR. LEGION BASEBALL SLEEPY EYE 10, ST. CLAIR 0 (6 INNINGS) RUTHTON — Derek Wales struck out 12 and the Sleepy Eye Junior Legion baseball team’s offense did more than enough to shut out St. Clair 10-0 on Monday night in the second round of the American Junior Legion Division II Southwest Sub-State Baseball Tournament. The game ended in six innings due to the 10-run lead rule after Sleepy Eye scored three in the bottom of the sixth, with Gus Hoffmann singling in the game-ending run. Wales finished his shutout by pitching all six innings, allowing just four hits and no ...

Sleepy Eye downs Springfield in sub-state semifinals

ST. JAMES – The Sleepy Eye Legion Post 7 baseball team ran past Springfield Post 257 by a score of 12-4 on Saturday in the Senior Legion DII Southwest Sub-State Baseball Tournament Semifinals. While Springfield scored first for two runs in the bottom of the first, Sleepy Eye scored 12 unanswered to run away with the win. Sleepy Eye had 15 hits to Springfield's seven. Sleepy Eye also kept its errors to a minimum by committing one to Springfield's six. Tyler Mathiowetz led Sleepy Eye at the plate, going 3 for 4 with a double and three runs scored, while Merrick Mathiowetz was 2 for 4 ...

TEL roundup: Reds’ rally trumps Grizzlies’

SUNDAY GIBBON 9, SEARLES 7 GIBBON — The Gibbon Reds countered a Searles Grizzlies comeback with one of their own on Sunday as an eighth-inning rally helped give the Reds a 9-7 win in a Tomahawk East League amateur baseball game. Dominic Rose had a strong start on the hill for the Reds, ...

New Ulm United U17 girls capture summer state title

NEW ULM — For a talented young group of soccer players that have grown up and experienced great victories together over the years, the New Ulm United Soccer Club Girls U17 team experienced its biggest victory yet last Sunday. Winning a state championship. With a 3-1 win over St. Peter ...

Area roundup: Springfield, Sleepy Eye win sub-state quarterfinals games

LEGION BASEBALL SPRINGFIELD 6, LUVERNE 5 ST. JAMES — The Springfield Legion Post 257 baseball team held off Luverne 6-5 on Friday evening in a Senior Legion DII Southwest Sub-State Baseball Tournament quarterfinals game. Springfield took a 6-2 lead after two innings but Luverne got two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth to stay on Springfield’s heels. Starting pitcher Eli Hegund and Post 257 was able to hold on, however, for the win. Heglund earned the complete-game win, allowing six hits and two walks for five runs, four earned, while striking out two. Ely Streich was ...

Silver’s Cinderella run ends in District 2 finals

MANKATO — The fourth-seeded New Ulm VFW Silver’s Cinderella run came to an end Saturday at Wolverton Field as second-seeded New Prague scored runs in bunches to put things away early. Kick-started by a five-run first inning and 6-0 lead after two, New Prague had a six-run fifth inning ...