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WILLMAR — The Minnesota Twins recently announced that their 54th annual Winter Caravan will make appearances in Willmar, Benson, Glenwood, Montevideo and Morris among its scheduled 58 stops in January 2014. All-Star closer Glen Perkins, second baseman Brian Dozier, relief pitcher...

Lou Nanne to lead sports fundraising for Gophers Former University of Minnesota hockey star Lou Nanne, now a prominent Gophers booster, has been picked to lead the school’s fundraising campaign for enhanced athletic facilities. The university announced the news on Monday. With...

Saturday’s results Luverne 7, Litchfield/DC 2 Luvurne (4-0) hogged the puck for three periods putting 51 shots on Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato netminder Braeden Wahl, who would log 44 stops. Deven Lundin and Ben Haugo scored for LDC, which got off only 10 shots on goal. Luverne...

MOORHEAD — Ridgewater’s Adam Sutlief, a freshman from Browerville, placed runner-up at 133-pounds on Saturday at the Minnesota State Moorhead Dragons Open. Sutlief pinned the Dragons’ Tyler Tensen (BBE) and won a decision over Brandon Peters of Augsburg before losing in the...

River Lakes 3, Northern Lakes 2 River Lakes rebounded from a two-goal deficit to defeat Pequot Lakes on Saturday. Abby Mooney, Rachel Klosterman and Alyssa Meed scored River Lakes’ goals. River Lakes (6-2) 0 1 2 — 3 Northern Lights (2-4) 1 1 0...

WILLMAR — The Willmar Cardinals came from seven points down to start the game’s second half where they outscored the Hutchinson Tigers 55-42 to grab an 87-81 non-conference victory on Saturday evening. This was a shooter’s game. Adam Nibaur, Willmar’s tallest player at...

WILLMAR — The host Willmar came away on Friday with six champions, four runners-up plus a third and a fourth while winning the 2013 Cardinal Classic. Willmar finished with 243 points to 191 for Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg, who shaded Willmar for first place in 2012. Cardinal...