SLEEPY EYE – With the game tied at 2 in the bottom of the ninth inning, Sam Knowles of the Hanska Lakers stepped up to the plate. With runners at first and second, Knowles knew he had a chance to get the hit that would give the Lakers the victory over the Courtland Cubs to become the ...
SLEEPY EYE – The Leavenworth Orioles will be headed into the Class C Amateur Baseball State Tournament with some momentum after defeating the Granite Falls Kilowatts 6-1 in the third-place game of the Region 2C Amateur Baseball Tournament on Saturday. "That was a good, clean ball game ...
FARIBAULT — Two seasons ago, the New Ulm Brewers made the Class C State Amateur Baseball Tournament. Last season, New Ulm was bumped up to Class B, but made the state tournament all the same. Now in Class A, New Ulm defied the odds, coming back from being the bottom seed in the Section ...
NEW ULM — The Leavenworth Orioles pounded out 18 hits and right-hander Mark Anderson struck out 11 in six innings as Leavenworth earned a berth in the Class C Amateur Baseball State Tournament with a 15-4 win over the Springfield Tigers Friday night at Johnson Park. The Region 2C ...
NEW ULM — The Granite Falls Kilowatts’ 18-season state tournament drought came to end Friday night at Mueller Park. With a 6-3 win over the Stark Longhorn in a Region 2C Amateur Baseball Tournament state-qualifying elimination game, the Kilowatts earned a Class C state tourney berth for ...
By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Major League Baseball came back to the Field of Dreams carrying a big piece of Cooperstown. The pregame pomp before the Minnesota Twins played the Philadelphia Phillies — adjacent to the farmland where the 1989 fantasy was filmed — featured 26 members of the Hall of Fame emerging from the outfield corn just as the ghost players did in the movie. With some of the loudest cheers saved for former Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt and former Twins catcher Joe Mauer, the capacity crowd of about 8,000 at the newly constructed ...
