PARKERS PRAIRIE — Sleepy Eye Junior Legion came up just short during the opening round of the DII Junior Legion Baseball State Tournament on Thursday, falling to Parkers Prairie 3-2. Sleepy Eye took an initial 1-0 lead, but Parkers Prairie took a 3-1 lead after the fifth. Sleepy Eye scored ...
By Jim Bastian sports@nujournal.com NEW ULM — Brody Nordby has found a hockey home. Nordby, who graduated from New Ulm High School last year and who had initially signed with Helena of the NA3HL, will be playing this upcoming hockey season with the Hudson (Wisconsin) Havoc of the Tier II ...
PARKERS PRAIRIE — Sleepy Eye enters the DII Junior Legion State Tournament with high expectations. This season, Sleepy Eye Junior Legion has posted a perfect 18-0 record headed into the tournament that begins Thursday in Parkers Prairie. Sleepy Eye faces the host team Parkers Prairie at 5 ...
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 ...
NEW ULM — John Sands of the Minnesota State Legion Board thinks that numbers for legion baseball in Minnesota are doing well. Sands, who is based out of Chaska, shared those thoughts this past weekend during the DI state legion baseball tourney. But that is not the case around the country. Texas has just one American Legion Baseball team. “And Oklahoma and Georgia only have one legion baseball team,” Sands said. “But here it is the community pride that the towns in Minnesota have to support legion baseball. “I am a coach at Hopkins for legion baseball and for the ...
