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ST. CLOUD — Jeff Fasching no-hit Paynesville Friday to lift Class AA top-ranked St. Cloud Cathedral into the Section 6AA winner’s bracket final with a 2-0 win. Fasching surrendered just three base runners and struck out 10 to help the Crusaders improve to 21-2 on the season. That...

CANBY — The Lac qui Parle Valley baseball team split two games at the Canby wood bat tournament on Saturday. The Eagles defeated Southwest United 7-0 but lost its first game of the season 6-1 to Browerville, the team LQPV downed in the Class A state semifinals last spring. The...

Brett Buckingham tied for medalist honors in both West Central Conference meets on Friday and helped lead the Minnewaska boys golf team to two victories in Olivia and Granite Falls. The two wins puts the Lakers into a first-place tie with Benson/KMS in the conference standings...

The Minnewaska girls golf team won a pair of nine-hole West Central Conference meets on Friday. The Lakers shot 149 to win in Granite Falls and had the top four scorers, led by Jenna Janu’s 35. BOLD was second at 198 and Sauk Centre was third at 203. In Olivia, the Lakers...

Led by 39s from ninth-grader Bret Buckingham, eighth-grader Esten Stensrud and senior Austin Lieser, the Minnewaska Lakers prevailed in the second round of a West Central Conference twin bill at Morris on Tuesday. The Lakers’ 159 put them four shots up Benson/KMS and Morris Area,...

Morris/CA easily wins own tournament MORRIS — McKenzie VanBatavia struck out 21 in 17 innings of work and gave up just one earned run Saturday to help Morris/Chokio-Alberta win three games at its home tournament. The Tigers, who opened their season Saturday, toppled both West...

CLARA CITY — MACCRAY rallied from a 12-point deficit in the second half and downed Lakeview 45-43 on Saturday in a Camden Conference game. The Wolverines, who trailed by eight at the half, pulled ahead with about two minutes to play and held on down the stretch to break a seven-game...

GROVE CITY — The top-seeded Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City Falcons nearly posted a shutout in the quarterfinals of the Section 5A team tournament Tuesday on their home mat. The Falcons used six falls and four forfeits from Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted to collect a 70-3 win that propelled...

JACKSON — Two pins late in a non-conference dual Friday allowed Class A top-ranked Jackson County Central to edge Class AA No. 11 New London-Spicer 42-33. The Wildcats led 24-12 halfway through the dual after Tom Stageberg at 106 pounds, Jakob Stageberg at 113 and Jared Travis at...

CANBY — The Lancers defended their home mat Tuesday by beating Benson 57-18 and Quad County 42-24 at triangular. Quad County upended Benson 55-21 in the other dual. Quad County 55, Benson 21 Quad County won the first five matches — three by forfeit — to take a quick 30-0 lead....

GLENWOOD — Six champions and a total of nine in the top three and 15 in the top five separated Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City from the field at the West Central Conference Individual Tournament on Saturday held at Minnewaska Area High School between Glenwood and Starbuck. The Falcons...

The West Central Conference wrestling tournament is today starting at 9 a.m. at the Minnewaska High School in Glenwood. The favorite to win the 10-team tournament is Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City. Other teams competiting are Benson, BOLD, Dawson-Boyd/Lac qui Parle Valley, Minnewaska,...