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Vikings seek draft spark from four top-100 picks

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By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings own nine picks in the NFL draft this year, including four top-100 selections, after missing the playoffs last season. That's plenty of capital that could be used for moving up and down the board next week as they seek to supplement a talented-yet-incomplete roster following a modest-at-best shopping trip through free agency. Don't expect any big splashes, though. Rob Brzezinski will be running the show. "We can't manufacture what's not there, so it's trying to look at the depth of the draft, where ...

Area roundup: MVL falls to LCWM in pitchers’ duel

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PREP BASEBALL LCWM 2, MVL 0 NEW ULM — While Minnesota Valley Lutheran got a strong outing from Kyan Kube on the hill Tuesday, Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial pitcher Griffin Larson got the one-up as he the Knights earned a 2-0 shutout win in a South Central Conference baseball game at ...

Eagles softball rolls Tigers

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By Jake McNeill sports@marshallindependent.com MARSHALL — Early offense and consistent pitching resulted in the New Ulm softball team downing Marshall 9-0 on Tuesday. The Eagles scored five runs in the first two innings and never looked back, cruising to a Big South Conference ...

Eagles record 19 hits, knock off Tigers

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NEW ULM — New Ulm and Marshall were both able to put up numbers in a Big South Conference baseball game on Tuesday. Both teams surpassed double-digit hits, and at least one run was scored in all but one half inning over the course of the game. But in the end, it was the Eagles that were able ...

Sleepy Eye takes down Cathedral 9-3

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NEW ULM — Sleepy Eye right-hander Kayden Klein scattered six New Ulm Cathedral hits and the bottom three hitters in the Indians’ batting order combined to drive in eight runs as Sleepy Eye downed the Greyhounds 9-3 in a Tomahawk Division baseball game Tuesday night at Johnson ...

Area roundup: Rabbits win in extra innings

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PREP SOFTBALL WABASSO 5, EDGERTON/SMC 4 (8 innings) WABASSO — Wabasso topped Edgerton/Southwest Minnesota Christian 5-4 in eight innings in a nonconference softball game on Monday. Aylah Jenniges earned the complete-game win for Wabasso, striking out two while allowing four runs, one earned, on eight hits. At the plate, Jenniges was 2 for 4 with a run scored, while Delaina Eis was 2 for 3 with an RBI and a run scored. Kayleigha Johnson was 2 for 4 with an RBI, while Cassie Bliss had a hit, an RBI and a run scored. Wabasso (6-2) plays at Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop on Tuesday. ...