Photos courtesy of John Sherman/Sports Editor Sun Newspapers This past Saturday during the DI American Legion State Baseball Tournament, it was Terry Steinbach Day at Johnson Park. Steinbach was presented a plaque by New Ulm Mayor Kathleen Backer and he also threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Courtesy of Arlington Raceway ARLINGTON — Once again history was made at the Arlington Raceway during the Sibley County Fair and a full house of race fans. Sixteen-year-old Brayden Allen won his first-ever Rice Companies Sprint feature and veteran IMCA Stock Car driver Dan Mackenthun won his 200th feature win while Sport Compact driver Nate Coopman won his official 300th feature win and Joey Reimers won his first ever Arlington State Bank IMCA No. Sport Modified feature. There were three different leaders in the Jack Pines Resort IMCA Hobby feature with Mason Goettl taking the ...
SUNDAY HANSKA 9, STARK 8 NEW ULM — The top-seeded Hanska Lakers held off the eighth-seeded Stark Longhorns for a 9-8 win in the second round of the Region 2C Amateur Baseball Tournament on Sunday. Aaron Portner got the win for Hanska, striking out six and allowing three runs on six ...
ALEXANDRIA — The New Ulm Junior Gold baseball team fell to the Eagan Patriots 6-5 on Friday night in a DI Junior Legion State Baseball Tournament elimination game. The loss ended the Junior Gold’s season with a 22-10 record. New Ulm scored three runs in the fifth and one in the sixth to cut into an early 6-1 deficit but was unable to get a runner across in the seventh. Miles Castleman was 1 for 4 with a double and an RBI to lead the Junior Gold, while Mitchell Hopp was 1 for 3 with two RBIs. Trevan Thordson also was 1 for 4 with an RBI, while Owen Castleman, Parker Ranweiler, ...
HASTINGS — The New Ulm Brewers opened play in the Section 1A Amateur Baseball Tournament this past Saturday by falling to the Hastings Hawks 4-1. The Brewers fell to the elimination bracket with the loss and will travel to take on Dundas in a win-or-go-home game at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Brewers took the first lead in the first inning with a sac fly from Sam Keckeisen that scored Colten Schaefer, who led off with a walk. JT Hoffmann and Cole Ranweiler also singled after that walk to load the bases for Keckeisen. After the sac fly, however, Hastings turned a double play to end the ...
NEW ULM — Power at the plate, no errors in the field and a complete-game outing from right-hander Adam Perry was more than enough for the Excelsior Blue to finish the Division I Senior Legion State Baseball Tournament as champions. The Blue downed the Wayzata Wizards 8-2 on Sunday ...
