NEW ULM — The New Ulm VFW Silver baseball team put the ball in play more often than not on Monday at Johnson Park, but the New Prague VFW Trojans always seemed to find it and make a play. The Trojans also got hot with their bats, using a a nine-run fifth inning to run away with a 12-1 ...
ARLINGTON — The Geib Well & Water Sibley Co. Stock Car Shootout presented by Justice Brothers, one of the premier events of the season at Arlington Raceway, is set for Wednesday, July 29th during the Sibley County Fair. IMCA Stock cars will invade the track, drivers are expected to be from the upper midwest in the division as the drivers will be racing for over $30,000 in prize monies. The race will once again pay the IMCA Stock Car winner $5,000 to win and the race will pay $200 to start. Last year’s Stock Car winner was Dan Mackenthun from Hamburg, MN, a local driver that picked ...
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Reeling from an early exit in the NBA playoffs, Jaylen Brown was still a Boston Celtics star when he dissed Joel Embiid and called him a flopper on a livestream. "Joel Embiid is a great player, one of the best bigs in (expletive) ...
Two weekends ago, the Sleepy Eye Junior Legion won the Junior Upper Midwest Classic for the first time after sharing the crown in 2016 with Mankato West after Mother Nature rained out the title game. Last weekend, the Sleepy Eye Legion Post 7, coached by Caden Evers and Winsten Nienhaus, matched that by capturing the Upper Midwest Classic title. Post 7 shared the title in 1998 with Rochester after rained cancelled the title game. In 2023, Sleepy Eye finished second in the UMC to Plover, Wisconsin. The only other program to win both titles in the same year came in 1997 and 2001 when ...
SPRINGFIELD — The Sleepy Eye Legion Post 7 baseball team topped Springfield Post 257 on Thursday night by a score of 7-2 in legion baseball action. Eli Christensen got the win in 2 2/3 innings, allowing two hits and one walk for no runs. Carson Uecker got the start and went 3 1/3 innings, allowing two hits and six walks for two earned runs while striking out five. At the plate for Sleepy Eye, Merrick Mathiowetz was 2 for 3 with a double and an RBI, while Kayden Klein was 2 for 3 with an RBI. Uecker also was 2 for 3 with three runs scored, while Tyler Mathiowetz was 2 for 5 with two ...
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer The United States has World Cup fever. The U.S. match against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday night was the most-watched soccer telecast in English language history with more than 24.4 million viewers, according to Fox Sports. The peak audience was 31.8 million. The United States won the game 2-0 in Santa Clara, California, to advance to the round of 16, marking its first knockout win since 2002. The match topped the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final telecast in which 22.3 million viewers on English-language TV tuned in. By comparison, the ...
