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Fifth-ranked Wisconsin continued its longest Big Ten winning streak in more than 70 years on Saturday with its 10th straight win in a 63-53 victory Saturday against Minnesota at the Kohl Center. Wisconsin has a three-game lead in Big Ten race

FERGUS FALLS — A balanced attack led Ridgewater over M State Fergus Falls 74-63 in MCAC play on Wednesday. Aaron Ruter scored 14 points and dished out three assists, while Ty O’Brien added 12, Tyler Stegeman 10, Dylan Schueler 10, and Dazhown Coleman 10 in the victory. M State...

FERGUS FALLS — It’s not often a basketball team comes off a 20-point victory feeling depressed. But that was the mood around the Ridgewater women’s basketball team on Wednesday. The Warriors blitzed M State 72-52 in their penultimate regular season game, then found out that...

WILLMAR — The Willmar Stingers added three players to their roster Wednesday, putting the 2015 team at 16. The team signed two out of Pepperdine, sophomore infielder Manny Jefferson and freshman pitcher Kiko Garcia, and also added sophomore outfielder Ky Parrott out of James Madison. The...

WORTHINGTON — Ridgewater’s Chris Schmidt, Travis Cripe, Jacob Backlund and John Wittman all qualified for the NJCAA National Wrestling Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa on Feb. 27-28. The Warriors placed seventh with 47.5 points at the district tournament Sunday at Minnesota West...

WILLMAR — The Ridgewater men’s basketball team was in a tight game for the first 20 minutes but Anoka-Ramsey was too much offensively the rest of the way and downed the Warriors 83-64 on Saturday. The Warriors trailed by one at the half but surrendered 48 second-half points. Dylan...

WILLMAR — The Ridgewater women’s basketball team jumped on Anoka-Ramsey from the opening tip and never let up, thumping the Golden Rams 93-61 on Saturday. The Warriors scored 51 first-half points and led by 24 at the break. Ridgewater shot 53 percent from the field and hit 10...

WILLMAR — The Ridgewater women’s basketball team needed just 20 minutes to build a 20-point lead, and things only got worse for Western Wisconsin Tech in an MCAC game Wednesday at Ridgewater College. Erica Melbie scored 17 points and the Warriors stretched their advantage to...

Result Thursday MCAC Rochester 47, Ridgewater 0 125: Double forfeit 133: Carson Henry, Ro, won by forfeit 141: Mason Moreno, Ro, pin Thomas Keskey 1:27 149: Trevor Scott, Ro, tech fall William Saydee 15-0 157: Thomas Miller, Ro, won by forfeit 165: Connor Hanson,...

MINNEAPOLIS — Maurice Walker led all players with 19 points and eight rebounds as the host Minnesota Golden Gophers notched just their third win in the last 10 games by beating the Nebraska Cornhusker 60-42 Saturday at Williams Arena. Walker was 7-of-10 from the field and 5-of-5...

GRAND RAPIDS — The Ridgewater wrestlers took third place in the MCAC Conference Tournament on Saturday with a score of 50.5. Warriors Jacob Backlund (133 pounds) and Chris Schmidt (157) took second place in their weight classes. Thomas Keskey (141), Travis Cripe (174) and John...