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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — There is only one word to describe Worthington’s Travis Pedersen’s day at the 56th Annual Trojan Relays Thursday.
Perfect.
In his last home meet, the senior won all four events to lead Worthington to an overall team title in Class AA with 199 points.
“It’s a great way to end a great year here,” Pedersen said. “All my time spent has really paid off by winning my last home meet. It really means a lot.”
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — Paced by a trio of gold-medal performances from Nicholas Pfeifle Thursday afternoon, the Southwest Christian Eagles claimed the Class A boys’ track and field team title at the 56th Annual Trojan Relays at a cold and wet Trojan Field.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
JACKSON — The Jackson County Central Huskies won a pair of softball games Thursday, knocking off Southwest Conference rival Redwood Valley, 6-0 and 15-9, in a split doubleheader.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
WESTBROOK — Jared Lindaman shot a medalist round of 40 to pace the host Westbrook-Walnut Grove Chargers to victory Thursday afternoon at the W-WG Triangular golf meet at the Rolling Hills Golf Course.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
LUVERNE — The Luverne Cardinals’ baseball team continues to set down Southwest Conference opponents with a quickness, defeating the visiting Worthington Trojans, 15-3, in five innings Thursday afternoon.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
BLUE EARTH — The Worthington boys’ tennis team nearly picked up a non-conference victory on the road Thursday afternoon, but was edged by the host Blue Earth Buccaneers, 4-3.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — The 2008 fishing opener is tomorrow. This should be an interesting day.
The weather guessers, as I call them, have forecast rain and wind for tomorrow. This will make for some very challenging conditions, especially if there is thunder and lightning associated with this forecast.
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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — Dating back to 1953 when Floyd “Baldy” Nelson, Worthington High School’s head track and field coach, organized a local meet, known as the Trojan Relays, the popular sporting event continues to be an area classic.
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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
JACKSON — In a tight pitcher’s duel that saw no earned runs cross home plate, the Worthington Trojans edged the host Jackson County Central Huskies, 2-1, Wednesday afternoon in Southwest Confernce baseball action.
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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
WINDOM — The Windom Eagles managed to best Southwest Conference rival Jackson County Central in both the boys’ and girls’ competition Wednesday in a conference golf match.
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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — Minnesota West Community and Technical College Lady Jays softball players Ashley DeBates and Stacy Bush were honored by the Minnesota Community College Conference Tuesday.
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05/07/2008 12:00 AM
FARIBAULT — The Worthington girls’ and boys’ track & field teams placed fifth and sixth, respectively, at Tuesday’s Section 2AA True Team Championships.
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05/07/2008 12:00 AM
MINNEOTA — The Fulda Raiders (205) and Adrian Dragons (212) captured second and third place, respectively, at Tuesday’s Minneota Viking Girls Invitational Golf Tournament.
The Raiders and Dragons were edged by host Minneota, which won the event with a team score of 184.
Lakeview placed fourth with 215 strokes, while Lincoln/HI (217) was fifth, Westbrook-Walnut Grove (220) sixth, Wabasso (226) seventh, MACCRAY (238) eighth and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton (242) ninth.
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05/07/2008 12:00 AM
WINDOM — With three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Windom Eagles captured a 6-5 victory over Luverne Tuesday in Game 1 of a Southwest Conference softball doubleheader.
However, the Cardinals came back with a 9-1 victory in the second game to earn a split.
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05/07/2008 12:00 AM
EDGERTON — DJ Berning scattered four hits and did not allow an earned run in leading Edgerton past Southwestern United 4-1 Tuesday in a Red Rock Conference baseball game.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
ELLSWORTH — After striking out five times in the first two innings, Worthington head coach Sam Baumgartner pulled his team aside before the start of the third.
“It seemed like the first couple of innings we were pressing a little bit and chasing some pitches that were out of the zone,” Baumgartner said. “We talked about that in the third inning to make the pitcher shoot strikes and don’t chase anything. It seemed like we had better plate discipline after that.”
Baumgartner’s advice paid dividends for the Trojans (4-8), as Worthington scored four runs in the third inning en route to a 7-2 victory over Adrian Area in a non-conference softball game Monday.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
SLAYTON — The Pipestone Area Arrows baseball team improved to 6-3 overall with an 8-1 non-conference victory over the Murray County Central Rebels Monday afternoon.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
GRANITE FALLS — Playing their most consistent match of the season, the Worthington Trojans claimed a 7-0 sweep of host Yellow Medicine East Monday afternoon in a non-conference boys’ tennis match.
“We played a very consistent match,” Worthington head coach Mike Marquardt said. “Because of our consistency, we were able to set up our shots and finish them well.”
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
BLUE EARTH — Jackson County Central finally met its match Monday, as the host Blue Earth Buccaneers knocked off the Huskies’ boys and girls golf teams in a non-conference duel at the Estherville Golf Club.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
BREWSTER — After being defeated in all 10 of its softball games in April, Southwestern United has played well and won two straight games to open May.
Building a 7-1 lead after five innings, the Wildcats (1-5, 2-10) claimed a 7-5 non-conference win over Martin Luther/Granada-Huntley-East Chain Monday.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
SLAYTON — Southwest Christian’s boys and Luverne’s girls won team titles at the Section 3A True Team Monday.
With a total of 12 teams participating in each division, and with the high-scoring of the meet’s concept, team scores were in the triple digits.
Winning seven events, including three relays, Luverne ran away with the girls’ team title, as the Cardinals racked up 675 points to repeat as true team sectional champions.
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05/05/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — When Albert Lea’s Sam Matheson woke up Saturday morning, he wasn’t sure that the Tiger golf team would be making the trip to the Worthington Invitational.
Even on a windy, wet day, Matheson fired a 77 and defeated teammate Grant Stadheim for medalist honors.
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05/05/2008 12:00 AM
ADRIAN — With a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Adrian Dragons defeated the Pipestone Area Arrows in a non-conference baseball game Saturday.
The Dragons (10-1) trailed 4-3 heading into the bottom half of the last inning, but were able to score two runs to take the 5-4 victory.
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05/03/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — Spectacular head shots, acrobatic volleys and crushing tackles are just a few of the sights ready to greet the eyes of soccer aficionados May 11, as the Worthington Soccer League kicks off its season-opening weekend of play at Bus Fields in Worthington.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Trojans girls’ track & field team literally ran away from the competition Thursday afternoon at the Southwestern United Invitational, winning the meet by 77 points.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — Every time Southwest Christian’s Nicholas Pfeifle and Worthington’s Travis Pedersen face each other, the competition is always fierce.
“Every meet we have our eyes on each other because we can really compete against each other,” Pedersen said. “We always run really good times when we run against each other.”
Each runner finished with a trio of first place finishes, but it was Pfeifle’s Eagles that edged Pedersen’s Trojans 163.5 to 161 for the team title Thursday at the Southwestern United Invitational. Windom (63.5 points) finished third while Westbrook-Walnut Grove/Red Rock Central (56 points) finished fourth.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — The Trojans’ doubles teams ruled the court Thursday afternoon, and with a victory at No. 1 singles, Worthington defeated the visiting Redwood Valley Cardinals, 4-3, in a tight Southwest Conference boys’ tennis match.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
SLAYTON — Scoring nine runs in the first two innings Thursday, the Adrian Dragons claimed a key Red Rock Conference baseball victory by defeating Murray County Central 13-3 in five innings.
Ben Suedkamp led Adrian’s 13-hit offense with a 4-for-4 day that included two doubles and four RBIs. Adam Diekmann was 3-for-3 with a double and two RBIs.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — In a neck-and-neck boys’ golf meet, the Hills-Beaver Creek Patriots beat out both Southwest Christian and Round Lake-Brewster to win a Red Rock Conference triangular Thursday afternoon at the Prairie View Golf Links.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
MARSHALL — Worthington and Marshall played a pair of one-run games Thursday, as the Tigers rallied from a 9-0 deficit in the opener to earn a 10-9 victory before the Trojans captured a 2-1 victory in the nightcap in a Southwest Conference softball doubleheader.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — Only nine days until the 2008 fishing opener.
This day is a very important day if you are a resort owner or an avid fisherman. There will be thousands of anglers on the water Saturday, and almost all of them will be fishing for one specific fish.
That fish is the walleye.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — As fishermen anxiously await the May 10 walleye season opener, the Southwest Minnesota Fishing Club gathered for its annual banquet Monday night at the American Legion.
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