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New Ulm captures 1st JUMC title since 2001

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NEW ULM — None of the 2025 New Ulm Junior Legion Gold baseball players were born the last time a New Ulm team won the Junior Upper Midwest Classic. On a hot, windy Sunday afternoon, that changed as right-handed reliever Collin Forstner got the final strikeout to help New Ulm hold off ...

New Ulm VFW Silver fall in JUMC closer

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NEW ULM — New Ulm VFW Silver fell late to Hastings 14-10 in their final game of the Junior Upper Midwest Classic Saturday at Johnson Park. New Ulm held a 9-2 lead after the third inning, but Hastings scored in every inning from then on to put Silver away. Miles Castleman took the loss for ...

Jr. Gold move on to JUMC semifinals

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By Jim Bastian sports@nujournal.com NEW ULM — New Ulm Junior Legion Gold broke a 1-1 tie with a six-run third inning and went on to top Luverne Junior Legion 9-3 Saturday night at Johnson Park in a Junior Upper Midwest Classic quarterfinals game. Mitchell Hopp got the win for Gold. He went ...

New Ulm Brewers take down Fairfax 7-1 in TEL

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FAIRFAX — The New Ulm Brewers downed the Fairfax Cardinals 7-1 in a Tomahawk East League Amateur baseball game on Friday. Sam Keckeisen was the winning pitcher, striking out seven and allowing one run on four hits in six innings. At the plate for New Ulm, Justin Hoffmann was 3 for 4 with ...

Silver finish Day 2 of JUMC with walk-off

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NEW ULM — In the bottom of the eighth inning of a Junior Upper Midwest Classic baseball game against Alexandria Friday at Johnson Park, New Ulm Silver VFW’s Kaden Stueber hit a ball hard on the ground to the Alexandria second baseman. The infielder was unable to cleanly field the ball, ...

Sleepy Eye drops 2 on Day 2 of JUMC

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By Jeff Meder sports@nujournal.com NEW ULM — Hamel defeated Sleepy Eye Junior Legion 12-7 on Friday in a Junior Upper Midwest Classic baseball game at Mueller Park. Sleepy Eye, which fell to Alexandria earlier in the day 5-1 in Essig, fell to 0-3 in the JUMC with the loss to ...