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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...

WILMONT -- Timing is everything in baseball. Pitchers win by disrupting the timing of hitters. Hitters win by not allowing themselves to be disrupted. For a team, the worst timing of all is to be in a scoring slump during the playoff season. The Wilmont Cardinals are in such a mini-slump,...

WILMONT –– A three-run top of the fourth inning by Luverne Wednesday evening helped the third-seeded Redbirds break open a pitcher’s duel between Wilmont’s Justin Saufley and Pipestone draftee Greg Quist before a nice-sized crowd at Butts Probst Field. Later, the Redbirds...

WORTHINGTON - The Wilmont Cardinals completed a two-game sweep of the Worthington Cubs Saturday to advance to the Region 13C Region semifinals, where they will face off with the Luverne Redbirds, who swept the Heron Lake Lakers Saturday. Luverne, the Region's No. 3 seed, will now...

MILROY –– A two-run homer by Nick Bruning in the top of the third inning and a strong complete-game pitching performance by draftee Tom Hady were enough for the Hadley Buttermakers Friday evening in a 2-0 Region 13C amateur baseball playoff victory over the Milroy Irish. The...

WORTHINGTON -- One season ago, the Wilmont Cardinals smashed a combined 25 home runs over the fence as a team on their way to an Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Tournament appearance. However, despite boasting a better record through the second round of the playoffs than last year's...

WORTHINGTON -- With their first playoff series win in the last decade under their belts, the Worthington Cubs claimed the No. 7 seed in the Region 13C Amateur Baseball playoffs Monday and will face off with the No. 2 seed Wilmont Cardinals in a best-of-three series starting Wednesday....