By Travis Rosenau trosenau@nujournal.com HUTCHINSON — The New Ulm Brewers needed their bats to come to life more often Sunday in order to keep up with the Nisswa Lightning and advance to the Class B Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Tournament championship game on Monday. The Brewers ...

BROWNTON — Despite some late-game heroics by Tanner Olson tying things up Sunday, the Hanska Lakers came up just short in the end as the Le Sueur Braves finished the game in the 12th with a 5-4 win in the Class C Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Tournament semifinals. The Braves ended up ...

NEW ULM — Methodius Amoah had a hat trick and the New Ulm Eagles shut down St. James 7-0 on Saturday in a Big South Conference boys soccer game. Amoah opened the scoring for New Ulm with 30:34 left in the first half on an assist from Jackson Ocampo, who also got into the scoring column ...

PREP FOOTBALL Springfield 68, Canby 7 CANBY — Springfield rolled Canby 68-7 in a nondistrict football game on Friday. Parker Kuehn had four touchdown passes for Springfield, while Madden Lendt and Isaac Fredin each had two receiving touchdowns. Conner Schmitt had two touchdown rushes, ...

Courtesy of Adam Hussman/MLC SID WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL MLC goes 1-1 at Ripon invite RIPON, Wis. — The MLC volleyball team had its season opener on Friday in the form of a doubleheader, where they took on Ripon and Emmaus (IA) at the Ripon College Classic. The Knights managed to take a ...

BROWNTON — It was another extra-inning affair for the New Ulm Brewers on Saturday night. And another win. This time it didn’t take the Brewers 18 innings to get the win, but it did take them one extra frame as they won a pitchers’ duel against the Foley Lumberjacks 1-0 in a Class B ...