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Baseball Game Preview: Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Plays at Home
Waterville-Elysian-Morristown is 9-1 against New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva since April of 2016, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Buccaneers will be playing in front of their home fans against the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva Panthers at 4:30 p.m. Things were looking good for Waterville-Elysian-Morristown after they put...
Huskies earn 1st place finishes in Northfield Triangular
Owatonna track and field took home first place finishes for both its boys and girls teams on Thursday as part of a Northfield triangular. The Huskies scored 108 points on the boys side, well ahead of Northfield with 52 and Red Wing with 18. On the girls side it was a 97 point first place finish ahead of Northfield’s 56 points and Red Wing’s 32 point effort. As for the individual events, on the boys side Lucas Webber took home first place in the 100...
Titans explode for 11 runs in 7th to defeat Waseca 20-1
The Tri-City United softball team traveled to Waseca Thursday night to take on the Bluejays in a preview of a future Big South Conference matchup. The offense for the Titans scored five runs through the first four innings before exploding for 15 more runs in the final three innings to defeat the Bluejays 20-1. With the win, the fourth in a row for the team, TCU improves to 9-9 (7-5 MRC) on the season. ...
Yetzer, Sietsema, Steinberg, Reuvers and Leichtnam honored for athletic accomplishments
Faribault High School honored a handful of top athletes on the same night as the rest of the senior awards May 8. Along with numerous scholarships and academic accomplishments, a handful of prestigious Falcon honors were handed out to four hard-working athletes, who have excelled on and led their respective teams. Rylee Sietsema was the Female Athlete of the Year. Sietsema was a captain on all three teams she played...
Owatonna rallies back to defeat Northfield in Big 9 showdown
It was a tale of two halves on Thursday night, as Owatonna held off Northfield to win 13-10 in a game that featured a little bit of everything from penalties to big saves and big goals. In the early going it was Northfield jumping out to a quick 4-3 lead after the first quarter but penalties in the second quarter would plague the Raiders as Owatonna raced out, responding to what had been a back-and-forth affair, to post a 6-0 second quarter scoring streak. ...
Titans host invitational featuring several of the top teams in the region
Tuesday afternoon, the Tri-City United golf program hosted several of the top squads in the region in an invitational on the grounds of Montgomery National Golf Club. The near-perfect conditions set the stage for a great day of golf which saw the Titans boys and girls teams finish sixth overall. The girls squad was led by Neysa Anderson who finished the day with a round of 110 to finish tied for 11th as an individual while Emma Mason finished 20th with a round of 119....
Faribault boys baseball loses close one to Rochester Century Senior night
It was a very sunny day on Senior Night, as the Faribault combined schools (including Shattuck and Bethlehem Academy) battled it out with Rochester Century in a Big 9 pitchers’ duel. Junior Ben Cunniff’s excellence on the mound kept the Falcons in the game in all seven innings of play. After Century put up two runs in the first inning, Cunniff was light’s out shutting out the Century battery, giving up only three hits in the last five innings he pitched. ...
Owatonna’s Emma Green set to throw for Bemidji State after senior season
Sometimes, life just has a way of working out to perfection, and for Owatonna senior Emma Green and the Bemidji State women’s track and field team, the ultimate win-win situation played out. Green is just one of 13 seniors competing on an Owatonna girls track and field team with around 120 total athletes and is currently in the process of closing out her final year as a thrower for the Huskies. ...
Giants hold off 7th inning rally from Waseca to pick up 3rd straight victory
Monday evening, the Le Sueur-Henderson baseball team hosted the Waseca Bluejays in a nonconference showdown. Peyton Tellijohn pitched the complete game for the Giants, earning a 4-2 victory while limiting Waseca to just five hits. With the win, LS-H improves to 11-4 (8-3 MRC) on the season with just four games remaining in the regular season schedule. Tellijohn pitched seven innings, six of them scoreless, allowing two runs on five...
Faribault softball demolishes Rochester John Marshall behind 9-run 3rd
Amira Williams went 3-3 and had two RBIs, while Rylee Sietsema pitched a shutout and struck out 10 batters, as Faribault girls blew out Rochester John Marshall 16-0 in a fourth inning mercy rule win. The Falcons are 6-1 in their last seven games and are peaking at the right time coming into section playoffs. Faribault scored early and often in the rout. They got on the board in the...
Falcon girls bats stay hot, but Komet bats were hotter
The majority of the time when you outhit the opposing team, you win the game. Wednesday night, the Falcons put up six runs on 12 hits, while Kasson-Mantorville had nine hits, but 10 runs. The Komets runs came off timely hits, though, with players on base highlighted by a three-run home run to put the game away for good, giving the Falcons a bad beat and only their second loss in the last eight games. ...
Cardinals outlast Hayfield in 2-1 thriller
As first baseman Liv Glumack snagged a bobbled ball between her arms, shortstop Anna Tobin yelled out to her. “Go to second!” With the ball finally under control, Glumack did in fact throw to second, recording the game’s final out on a double-play as Bethlehem Academy held on to beat Hayfield 2-1. If you were...
Bluejays advance to section quarterfinals with 5-2 victory over Red Wing
The No. 4 seeded Waseca boys tennis team defended its home courts Thursday evening by defeating the No. 5 seeded Red Wing Wingers 5-2 in the first round of the MSHSL Section 1A Team Tournament. With the victory, the Bluejays advance to the quarterfinals held at the Rochester Athletic Club where they will face the No. 1 seeded Winona Cotter at 8 a.m. Waseca swept the doubles competitions with each pairing, Oliver Rohwer with Dominic Grunzke, Tanner Hanson with Keenan Collins and Lucas McQuery with...
Faribault girls golf wins big over Lakeville South on Senior Day
Senior Faribault girls golfers Sara Dobson, Meredith Umbreit and Kaitlyn Worke played their last regular season home varsity meet as Falcons Thursday, going out as winners for the last time. Faribault won big over Lakeville South, beating them by 41 strokes in the four-person qualifier, 414 to 455. Mariana Hager was the low scorer for the Falcons with a 98. Lakeville's Charlotte Benolkin had the overall low match of the...
‘I’M SWINGING:’ Huskies answer Northfield’s late rally with Beyer’s 2-out walk-off single
Sometimes the common cliche, “It’s not over until it’s over,” can be hard to believe when things are looking bleak, like while you’re down one run in the bottom of the seventh with two outs and no runners on against one of your rivals. But thanks to Ethan Armstrong, Tyler Sheehan, Mitch Seykora and Owen Beyer, the Owatonna Huskies have proof that it truly wasn’t over until a two-out, walk-off RBI single from Beyer made it officially over in a 6-5 victory over Northfield Tuesday. ...
Lady Huskies golf finishes 3rd in Jewel Invitational
The Owatonna girls golf team traveled to The Jewel Golf Club in Lake City Wednesday afternoon to compete in the Jewel Invite. Led by a +3 round of 74 from sophomore Carmen Jirele, the Huskies finished third as a team with a compiled score of 335. East Ridge finished first in the invite with a score of 307 while the host Lake City Tigers claimed second with 315 strokes. Jirele’s...
TCU baseball downs Faribault at home before falling to Watertown-Mayer
The Tri-City United baseball team hosted Faribault Monday evening before traveling to Watertown-Mayer the following day as the regular season winds down. The Titans defeated the Falcons 3-0 behind a complete-game two hit effort from Parker O’Malley before TCU fell to the overpowering offense of Royals 14-4. With the results, the Titans record is now 8-10 (3-8 MRC) with just two games remaining on the regular season schedule. In the...
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