SEARLES — When Madelia junior Evan Coil got a hold of an inside fastball and sent it over the fence in left field for a grand slam Thursday at Searles Ballpark, he didn’t realize quite how big of a hit that would end up being. While it gave the top-seeded Blackhawks a solid 5-1 lead at ...

SPRINGFIELD — Sixth-seeded Cleveland topped second-seeded Springfield 8-5 in the elimination bracket of the Section 2A Baseball Tournament on Thursday. Eli Heglund took the loss for the Tigers, striking out three and allowing five earned runs on five hits in four innings. At the plate, ...

BUFFALO LAKE — Before the Section 3AA Golf Tournament came around, New Ulm’s Mason Buegler considered his junior year of golf a down season. But he certainly found his stroke when it mattered most. Buegler qualified for his second consecutive state golf tournament after his ...

NEW ULM — One small bump in the road didn’t stop Brandy Toomer from reaching her goal. After coming up just short of capturing her IFBB (International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation) Pro Cards on May 16 at NPC Worldwide Pittsburgh Natural Pro Qualifier, also known as Natural ...

Back when I was about 10 or 11 years old, I lived about a block and a half from Johnson Park, so my summers were basically going there to shag foul balls — I think returning those got you five cents a ball back then — or if you really got lucky, you were able to be a bat boy for the ...

NEW ULM — Terry Steinbach said that when the New Ulm Baseball Association was in the process of looking for a state-of-the art video scoreboard for Johnson Park, he and his wife, Mary, decided that making a very substantial donation towards that project was a way to give back to New Ulm and ...