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Elk River hits early, often in UMC win over Gold

NEW ULM — Elk River’s offense was connecting from the jump in Saturday evening’s Upper Midwest Classic quarterfinals matchup with New Ulm Legion Gold, and there wasn’t a whole lot Gold could do to stop it. Behind a 14-hit performance, Elk River rolled to a 12-2 win over Gold to ...

New Ulm Jr. Gold ends UMC in tie with Luverne

NEW ULM — New Ulm Junior Legion Gold finished its time in the 2024 Upper Midwest Classic with a rare 5-5 tie on Saturday in a consolation bracket game against Luverne at Johnson Park. Due to rain in the forecast and winner’s bracket games that still needed to be completed, the game was ...

Anderson, Gold shut out Waseca in UMC opener

NEW ULM — New Ulm Legion Gold won a close 2-0 game over Waseca behind the arm of Colin Anderson on Thursday in the opening game of the Upper Midwest Classic at Johnson Park. The scheduled first game of the day between New Ulm Junior Legion and Sleepy Eye was postponed to Saturday due to ...

Sleepy Eye 16/18U team wins NLS softball tourney

Submitted photo/information Sleepy Eye 16/18U Softball Team won the New London-Spicer Tournament on June 30. Sleepy Eye defeated Little Falls 22-0, Maple River 9-3 and BOLD 4-3 in the Championship game.

Braunworth wins 1st feature of year at Arlington Raceway

Courtesy of Arlington Raceway ARLINGTON — After a two-week hiatus in events due to rain, the Arlington Raceway managed to get an event in Saturday even though an inch and a half of rain fell the night before making for some wet sloppy conditions. Drivers were eager to get back to the track ...

VFW Silver drop doubleheader to Mankato East

NEW ULM — New Ulm VFW Silver dropped both games of a VFW baseball doubleheader against Mankato VFW East Tuesday at Mueller Park, but the second game showed an improvement from the first one for Silver. “First game [we needed to work on our] attitude,” New Ulm head coach Mark Grossmann ...