KASSON (AP) — Kasson promoter Mark Houston has always enjoyed the gladiatorial simplicity of demolition derbies.
An early crooked number by visiting Westmont, Illinois made the difference in Owatonna’s 5-3 loss in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Dartts Park.
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OWATONNA — Roger Meyerhofer wanted to lose some weight.
OUTFIELDERS
BECKER — Blooming Prairie’s Jake Ressler wrapped up his career on the grandest of stages at the Class A state golf competition on Wednesday afternoon.
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AUSTIN — The Blooming Prairie baseball team saw its season come to an end on Saturday after a 1-0 loss to Wabasha-Kellogg in the Section 1-A final four at Riverland Community College.
ROCHESTER — The Blooming Prairie boys golf team put together one of its best rounds of the season and finished Day 1 of the Section 1-A competition atop the leaderboard on Wednesday at Willow Creek in Rochester.
AUSTIN — Picking up a game that was postponed from the day prior, the Blooming Prairie baseball team advanced to the Section 1-A final four with a thrilling 11-10 victory over United South Central on Tuesday evening.
Sub-Section 1-A competition (Triton High School)
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — A crafty performance from its top pitcher and some timely hitting snapped Blooming Prairie’s long playoff drought in the Awesome Blossoms’ 4-2 victory over J-W-P on Wednesday evening.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — In one of the more bizarre scenarios created by the nasty weather this spring, the Medford baseball team completed a 6-4 Gopher Conference victory over Blooming Prairie in a game that started on May 1 and ended on Friday night.
WASECA — The Blooming Prairie boys golf team finished fourth of five teams at the annual Gopher Conference competition on Thursday afternoon with a 377.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — The Blooming Prairie softball team wrapped up the regular season with a 2-0 victory over Kenyon-Wanamingo on Thursday evening.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — A close game quickly got out of hand as the Blooming Prairie baseball team suffered its second one-sided loss in the last 24 hours with a 13-3 setback to Mankato Loyola on Thursday evening in nonconference action.
HAYFIELD — When the Blooming Prairie baseball team gets out of its own way, the Awesome Blossoms are dangerous.
Gopher Conference meet
FARIBAULT — The Blooming Prairie baseball team remained squarely in the Gopher Conference championship race and won its fourth straight game with a 9-4 victory over Faribault Bethlehem Academy on Tuesday evening.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — The Blooming Prairie softball team scored the game-deciding run late and held on for a 6-5 Gopher Conference win over Faribault Bethlehem Academy on Monday night.
GLENVILLE — Utilizing more than a dozen players, the Blooming Prairie baseball team out-slugged Glenville-Emmons, 16-11, on Saturday afternoon.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — The Blooming Prairie baseball team answered NRHEG’s one-run top of the first inning with three of its own and added four more run in the fourth to pull away for a 7-4 victory on Thursday night.
NEW RICHLAND — The Blooming Prairie softball team came to life late in the game and rallied past NRHEG, 8-4, in Gopher Conference action on Thursday night.
WATERVILLE — Rebounding from a one-sided loss in the opener, the Blooming Prairie baseball team salvaged a split with W-E-M on Monday night.
MOORHEAD — Current sophomores Gabe Hagen, Kaden Thomas and Karson Vigeland of Blooming Prairie High School will be featured in Breakdown Sports annual yearbook of Minnesota high school boys basketball.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — The Blooming Prairie softball team suffered an 11-1 loss in six innings on Monday evening in Gopher Conference action.
FARIBAULT — The Blooming Prairie boys golf team finished fourth of five teams at the tightly-packed Gopher Conference invite hosted by Faribault Bethlehem Academy on Thursday.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it got the job done.
MEDFORD—Shut out through the first three innings, the Blooming Prairie softball team exploded in the fourth inning Tuesday night, scoring six runs on six hits in that frame and gliding past Medford for a 10-5 road victory.
DODGE CENTER -- Jake Ressler led three Blooming Prairie golfers in double-digits at the Triton invite on Monday evening.
MAPLE RIVER -- Linnea Sunde led of the game with a single for the Blooming Prairie and that would be the Awesome Blossoms' only hit in a Gopher Conference loss on Monday night.
Tuesday, May 1
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — The Blooming Prairie softball team scored 11 runs in the second through fourth innings and picked up a 13-9 nonconference win against Hayfield on Thursday evening.
Area track and field results
Medford invite results (Tuesday)
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — Riauna Bishop buzzed through the Mankato Loyola lineup and carried the Blooming Prairie softball team to a 3-0 victory in nonconference action on Tuesday evening.
BLOOMING PRAIRE—Too many walks and men stranded on base spelled doom for the Blooming Prairie baseball team Tuesday, as NRHEG—ignited by a five-run fifth inning—handled the Awesome Blossoms, 12-3.
Thursday
BLOOMING PRAIRIE — The Blooming Prairie baseball team played clean defense behind a trio of pitchers and started the season with a 6-3 Gopher Conference win against Faribault Bethlehem Academy on Monday night.
AUSTIN — The Medford softball team is 3-for-3 in close games.
WATERVILLE — Plenty of strikes were thrown by Gopher Conference baseball players Thursday.
MINNEAPOLIS — Gopher head coaches and administrators will pack into a bus this May and hit the highway for the 2018 Gopher Road Trip, stopping in Owatonna at the Country Club on May 8 at 8 a.m.
The weather situation has gone from a little annoying, to somewhat concerning to downright drastic.
Carlie Wagner will not have to travel far in her attempt to make it in the WNBA.
Carlie Wagner is staying home.
It’s been a frustrating season so far for high school baseball and softball teams with diamonds across the state snow and ice covered.
There hasn’t been a single game or match played, but the season has already become a bit of a grind for area teams.
It’s not going to be Saturday — and it might not be next week — but high school sports will be played this spring in Steele County.
The spring sports season is slated to kick off early next week, but Mother Nature might be creating a bit of a false start.
BOYS TEAM RESULTS
Jason Williamson, junior, Owatonna
Syd Schultz could have coasted and still manufactured a solid career based purely on her inherent physical tools.