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The Hadley Buttermakers remembered how to play defense and rediscovered their pitching prowess, too, on Sunday to secure a 2017 state amateur baseball berth. Hadley defeated Windom two games to one in their best-of-three Region 13C series, shutting out the Pirates 4-0 on Sunday in...

Hadley joined Fairmont and Milroy as Region 13C representatives at the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Class C State Tournament with a 4-0 victory over Windom in game three of a best-of-three third-place series on Sunday. Hadley defeated Windom 6-1 on Wednesday in Game 1 and Windom came...

With the preliminary rounds of the First Nite/Gopher League playoffs in the books, the Region 13C playoffs are set to begin today. The field consists of Fairmont, Jackson, Hadley, Milroy, Luverne, Lakefield, Pipestone, and Windom, with all four best-of-three series kicking off today....

The Minnesota Baseball Association Region 13C amateur baseball tournament field is set after all of the First Nite/Gopher League playoffs series ended in sweeps this weekend. Fairmont, Jackson, Hadley, Milroy, Luverne, Lakefield, Pipestone and Windom all advance to the Regional tournament....

By Aaron Hagen

LUVERNE -- Luverne’s Andrew Verley capped a come-from-behind 11-10 victory over Worthington, with a walk-off single that drove in Skyler Wenninger on Sunday at Redbird Field in Luverne.

By Les Knutson Daily Globe WINDOM --- A little over 11 weeks ago (May 28), I had a sports page column about Jack Kelly, while I also wrote a longer feature about Windom’s amazing “jack of all trades” which covered the Faces and Places page of the same edition.Both stories mentioned...

WORTHINGTON -- The Jackson Bulls and the Worthington Cubs spent some quality time Sunday reassuring themselves that all is not lost. Both southwest Minnesota amateur baseball clubs played for state tournament berths on Sunday, and both lost -- in demoralizing fashion. The Cubs,...

DELANO — Luverne Redbirds manager James Fisher said this week that his amateur baseball team would ride Brian Beuning’s arm wherever it would take them. On Friday, it took them further into the state Class C tournament. Beuning turned in a dominant pitching performance as the...

By Les Knutson Daily Globe sports columnist LAMBERTON —- While the Luverne Redbirds were impressively sweeping a trio of best-of-three series to win the championship of Region 13C in the area amateur baseball playoffs, the Lamberton Long Sox were going 4-1 in Region 2C’s...

HADLEY — Lucas Henning struck out 13 batters on the way to throwing a two-hit complete game to propel the Wilmont Cardinals to the Class C Amateur Baseball State Tournament after completing a two-game sweep of the Hadley Buttermakers with a 7-0 victory Sunday. “We had some really...