Helget to be honored in Essig Monday
ESSIG — The Essig Bluejays invite the public to join them Essig Ballpark on Monday, May 25, to honor the career and accomplishments of Mandy Helget. The plaque ceremony begins at 12:30 p.m., with a Tomahawk East League game against the Stark Longhorns to follow. Helget was inducted into the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame last year for his 24-year amateur baseball career with Stark and time as Essig Bluejays manager from 1988-1994.
Area roundup: Firebirds torch Mavericks
PREP BASEBALL GFW 12, MCW 1 (5 INNINGS) SHERBURNE — The Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Firebirds collected eight hits and capitalized on five Martin County West errors on Monday to roll to a 12-1 win over the Mavericks in a Tomahawk-Valley Conference crossover baseball game. Collin Hacker led GFW at the plate, going 2 for 4 with an RBI double and two runs scored, while Owen Swenson was 1 for 3 with two RBIs. Kaden Rieke was 1 for 1 with two walks and two RBIs also for the Firebirds, while Isaac Beckendorf was 1 for 2 with an RBI and Cayson Gosewich was 1 for 3 with an RBI. Rieke got the ...