BUFFALO LAKE — Before the Section 3AA Golf Tournament came around, New Ulm’s Mason Buegler considered his junior year of golf a down season. But he certainly found his stroke when it mattered most. Buegler qualified for his second consecutive state golf tournament after his ...
NEW ULM — Terry Steinbach said that when the New Ulm Baseball Association was in the process of looking for a state-of-the art video scoreboard for Johnson Park, he and his wife, Mary, decided that making a very substantial donation towards that project was a way to give back to New Ulm ...
Back when I was about 10 or 11 years old, I lived about a block and a half from Johnson Park, so my summers were basically going there to shag foul balls — I think returning those got you five cents a ball back then — or if you really got lucky, you were able to be a bat boy for the Brewers. Or you could do the scoreboard — be a “numbers hanger” as the late Eddie Konz, who was a groundskeeper there back in the early 60s, called you. Being a bat boy did not pay anything, but if you were lucky enough, you were able to get a cracked bat from one of the Brewers players to take ...
NEW ULM — One small bump in the road didn’t stop Brandy Toomer from reaching her goal. After coming up just short of capturing her IFBB (International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation) Pro Cards on May 16 at NPC Worldwide Pittsburgh Natural Pro Qualifier, also known as Natural ...
PREP BASEBALL MADELIA 3, MLA/C 2 SEARLES — The top-seeded Madelia Blackhawks stayed in the winners bracket of the Section 2A Baseball Tournament in dramatic fashion on Tuesday, earning a 3-2 walk-off win on an RBI single from Evan Coil. The win moves Madelia on to a 5 p.m. quarterfinals game against Mankato Loyola on Thursday in Searles. MLA/C will play at New Ulm Cathedral in an elimination bracket game on Thursday. Madelia trailed 2-0 after four innings and scored single runs in both the fifth and sixth innings before walking it off in the seventh on Coil’s big hit, a ...
SPRINGFIELD — Sleepy Eye St. Marys’ Landry Folkens allowed just two hits as he led the seventh-seeded Knights to a 4-2 upset victory over second-seeded Springfield in the second round of the Section 2A Baseball Tournament on Tuesday. Folkens put up six strikeouts in his complete-game win ...
