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Guetter earns Tomahawk Boys Basketball POTY

The Tomahawk-Valley Conference, All-Tomahawk Division Boys Basketball Team was announced Wednesday night, with Wabasso’s Brayden Guetter earning the Tomahawk Division Boys Basketball Player of the Year award. The senior was joined on the All-Tomahawk team by junior teammate Caden Frericks and sophomore teammate Drew Kemp. Wabasso head coach Scott Leopold was also named the Tomahawk Division Coach of the Year after tying with Springfield for the best record in Tomahawk games this season, going 15-1. Also on the team was Springfield’s Bryan Buerkle, Brecken Heiling and Madden ...

Knights state title game bound

MINNEAPOLIS — With under a minute to play in the Class A State Girls Basketball Tournament semifinals, second-seeded Sleepy Eye St. Marys’ Morgan Mathiowetz pulled up from the right wing and drained a 3-pointer. That shot put the Knights up 53-47 over sixth-seeded Central Minnesota ...

MLC softball falls to Penn State schools on Day 4

By Adam Hussman/MLC SID LITTLE RIVER, S.C. — On the fourth day of Martin Luther College softball's spring break trip, the Knights fell to Penn State-Schuylkill 10-5 and Penn State-Altoona 10-7 on Wednesday in nonconference softball action. PSU-Schuylkill 10, MLC 5 (Game 1) The Knights persevered and overcame a two-run deficit by taking a 3-2 lead after manufacturing three runs off of a sac fly, wild pitch and an RBI ground out. MLC extended the lead to 4-2 when Kiara Humann singled up the middle to score Kierah Schultz. There'd be another lead change in the ensuing bottom half of ...

Poncelet sees bright future; New Ulm 12U girls ready for state

New Ulm Eagles head boys basketball coach Micheal Poncelet said that Saturday’s 85-45 loss to Mankato East in a Section 2AAA playoff game was a case of the top-ranked and heavily-favored Cougars jumping on the Eagles from the opening tip. “They jumped on us from the start and they kept on us and they finished us off,” he said. Poncelet said that he thought his team would shoot better than they did. “That was a big part of the issue,” Poncelet said. “East was really good defensively, but we came out absolutely ice cold. We were 4 of 22 from 3s. We had said going into ...

Four to join New Ulm Amateur Baseball HOF

NEW ULM — Two players and two non-players have been elected to the New Ulm Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. Players Aaron Pfaff and Mitch Bockenstedt and non-players Bob Skillings and Al For will be formally inducted on Sunday, July 12, prior to the 5 p.m. New Ulm Brewers-Springfield Tomahawk East League game. AARON PFAFF Pfaf f joins his father, Todd, a 2010 inductee. In four of his five seasons with the New Ulm Brewers, the team made it to the state tournament, finishing runners-up in the 2014 Class C state tournament where he was named to the All-State Tournament team. He had ...

St. Mary’s rematches with Mayer Lutheran at state level

MINNEAPOLIS — Sleepy Eye St. Marys’ trip to the state tournament is going to be a lot more familiar this year. Not only did the Knights gain a lot of experience in last year’s tournament run, but they will also be facing an opponent they’ve played frequently in nonconference games ...