05/17/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing seniors Bryan Horvat and Hope Sevlie woke up Friday on the warmest day of the spring thinking it would be another routine end of the week.
Were they ever in for a pleasant surprise.
05/17/2008 12:00 AM PEPIN — The Lakers entered Friday’s game against rival Plum City trying to break a frustrating four-game losing streak. The Blue Devils, on the other hand, were simply trying to hold on in their fifth game of a senior-less week.
05/17/2008 12:00 AM Zach Laffey’s three-run double in the fifth inning provided the offense and Steve Boldt came in to douse a late-inning fire as the Aces dispatched the St. Paul Roosters 6-4 Friday night at the Red Wing Athletic Field.
05/17/2008 12:00 AM BYRON, Minn. — Zumbrota-Mazeppa clinched the Hiawatha Valley League Blue Division title for the second straight season Friday with a 10-0 victory over Byron in five innings.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM Winger senior Brittany Lewis has been something of a one-person show the last few years on the track team. In fact, Tiffany Harvey and Dana Hoffman — the team’s second and third best performers last year — combined to barely outdistance her point total in 2007.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM LAKE CITY — Lydia Allen had a playoff game to remember Thursday as she powered La Crescent past Lake City 7-2 in the opening round of the Section 1AA East tournament.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM With his head held high and his serve down low, Ethan Ulrich’s high school tennis career came to a close Thursday afternoon in the Section 1AA quarterfinals against Rochester Century.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM FARMINGTON, Minn. — If Red Wing's season were a book, Thursday's game would have been the dramatic final chapter of a tragedy. The Wingers are hoping the sequel — or, in this case, the postseason — has a better ending.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM Fireworks weren't on the schedule, but the Wingers provided plenty of their own entertainment Thursday in an 11-4 victory over Farmington on "Pack the Ath" Night.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM ZUMBROTA — Cougar coach Kevin Nelson found himself apologizing after Thursday's 10-0 victory in six innings over No. 9 Kasson-Mantorville.
To his own team.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM BAY CITY — Mitch Johnson struck out 10 in 5 2/3 innings to help the Panthers slip past New Richmond 3-2 in Middle Border Conference action Thursday.
05/16/2008 12:00 AM DODGE CENTER, Minn. — Spencer Halder ran away with medalist honors Thursday at the Hiawatha Valley League Championships at Dodge Country Club.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM HUTCHINSON, Minn. — Red Wing’s chances for a Missota Conference championship took a giant step back Wednesday with a fourth-place finish at Crow River Country Club.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM ZUMBROTA — Sean Wingfield’s walk-off, RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning Wednesday gave the Cougars an exciting 6-5 win over Maranatha Christian Academy
05/15/2008 12:00 AM Who would like to come watch the Red Wing Aces this weekend? There are two opportunities to do so — Friday the Aces entertain the perennial Class A power St. Paul Roosters and Sunday they play host to the Northfield Knights in a Classic Cannon Valley League game.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM With Saturday’s True Team State Championships right around the corner, Red Wing’s girls track and field team cruised past Holy Angels and the Math and Science Academy Wednesday at Red Wing High School.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM DODGE CENTER, Minn. — Byron edged Lake City by 16 shots Wednesday at Dodge Country Club to capture the Hiawatha Valley League Championships.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM PRESCOTT — Aaron Nelson carded an 84 Wednesday to lead Ellworth’s boys golf team to a fourth-place finish at a Middle Border Conference event at Clifton Hills.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM LAKE CITY — Lake City’s pitching staff surrendered only one run in the top of the ninth inning Wednesday and hung on to beat Pine Island 2-1 in Twin Rivers action.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM CANNON FALLS — The story of this year’s Cannon Falls’ softball season would have to include multiple chapters about two-out rallies.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing easily dispatched winless Faribault in Tuesday's Section 1AA opener at Red Wing High School, but it may have been a costly victory.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM ZUMBROTA — It's been a good run for Zumbrota-Mazeppa coach Kevin Nelson, and he recorded his 300th career win Tuesday in the Cougars' 4-0 victory over Kasson-Mantorville in the regular-season finale.
05/14/2008 12:00 AM PRIOR LAKE, Minn. — Red Wing scored early and often Tuesday — jumping out to a 6-2 lead through 2 1/2 innings — but Prior Lake stayed at it and capped a comeback with five runs in the decisive fifth inning in a 10-8 victory.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM ZUMBROTA — The Cougars entered Monday’s doubleheader against Goodhue staring at a huge deficit. Things would get worse before they got better — but Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s A.J. Yusten made sure they did get better.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing suffered its first Missota Conference loss in years last week, putting its streak of seven straight titles in jeopardy with just two conference meets left. The Wingers responded like champions Monday at Mississippi National Golf Links.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM HASTINGS — Chris Olean closed a nail-biter Sunday striking out the final two hitters with the bases loaded in a 3-1 victory for Miesville over Hastings.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM HUTCHINSON, Minn. — The Wingers recovered from a sloppy first game Monday to score a split with Hutchinson in Missota Conference action.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM GOODHUE — Anna Ramboldt's RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Goodhue a 5-4 victory and the Wildcats rode the momentum to a 12-5 win in Monday's nightcap to sweep a doubleheader against Kasson-Mantorville.
05/13/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing's boys tennis team received the No. 2 seed on the North side of the Section 1AA Tournament and will play host today to No. 8 Faribault.
Diggin' the long ball Red Wing’s Rich “Geno” Buck (pictured) and his LongHaul Bombers teammate Denny Crine, from Las Vegas, Nev., entertained a large crowd at the Red Wing Athletic Field Friday before the Aces game. Buck and Crine, both members of the Stadium Power Tour, went head-to-head in a home run derby with Crine winning. The farthest home run was estimated at 420 feet. The Stadium Power Tour is an elite group of eight slow-pitch softball players that travel to Major League Baseball stadiums and compete against each other. Buck and Crine will compete June 19 in the Metrodome before the Twins take on the Washington Nationals. It’s one of 12 stops on the tour.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing’s wild 12-11 loss to the Minneapolis Angels in 10 innings Friday night at the Red Wing Athletic Field gave fans their first glimpse of the new cost-efficient lights.
First impressions were not good.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM LAKE CITY — In a head-to-head duel Friday at The Jewel Golf Club, Red Wing pulled out a 346-351 victory over Lake City in a battle between Section 1AA foes.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM NEW PRAGUE, Minn. — Red Wing jumped out to a 1-0 lead Tuesday and continued its hot hitting Friday in a 5-1 victory over New Prague in a suspended game.
Wet weather Tuesday forced the Missota Conference contest to Friday.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM ZUMBROTA — Cougars coach Kevin Nelson wished his batters would’ve opened up the throttle more Friday against Byron.
Lucky for him, Jess Hegseth was toeing the rubber.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — After storming through a semifinal game with an 11-4 victory against Mabel-Canton, the Wildcats fizzled in the championship against Stewartville.
05/10/2008 12:00 AM LAKE CITY — Alex Wallerich, Spencer Halder and Travis Heitman finished 1-2-3 Friday in the Lake City Invitational to power the Tigers past six other teams in boys golf.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM Goodhue football coach Clair Austin was recently named the Class A Coach of the Year for 2007 at the Minnesota High School Coaches Association annual banquet.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM When Winger sophomore Bryant Blahnik yelled in frustration before slamming his racquet into the net after missing a shot Thursday against Hutchinson, it came as little surprise to anyone watching. Red Wing's rivalry with the Tigers has blossomed over the last two seasons to the point where every shot was hotly contested.
"It's like a Duke-North Carolina game," Red Wing senior Kyle Klassen said. "We don't like each other."
05/09/2008 12:00 AM JORDAN, Minn. — Red Wing's Mark Giorgi earned medalist honors for the third time this season Thursday with 2-under par 70 in the Mankato West Invitational at the Ridges at Sand Creek.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM SHAKOPEE, Minn. — With former Minnesota Twins General Manager Terry Ryan in the stands Thursday, Red Wing split a doubleheader with Shakopee to stay at the .500 mark at 5-5 overall and in the Missota Conference. The Sabers took the first game 4-2, while Red Wing rebounded in the nightcap with a 4-3 victory.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM GOODHUE — Zumbrota-Mazeppa mashed three home runs and scored eight runs in the top of the seventh inning Thursday in a 15-3 drubbing of Goodhue in Hiawatha Valley League action.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM WANAMINGO — Goodhue's Micah Huneke got two chances to douse a Kenyon-Wanamingo rally Thursday night. He completed one as the teams split a doubleheader.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM NORTHFIELD - The Wingers lost their grip on the top spot in the Missota Conference with a second-place finish Thursday to Northfield.
05/08/2008 12:00 AM As Red Wing’s 4x400-meter relay team was cruising around the track in an anxiety-filled final event Wednesday at the True Team Section 1AA meet, head coach Jesse Nelson was running back and forth on the infield, cheering on his girls.
05/08/2008 12:00 AM Austin won Wednesday’s True Team Section 1AA meet with 479 points, while the Wingers finished fifth with 360 points at Red Wing High School.
05/08/2008 12:00 AM WANAMINGO — The scores of Wednesday's game don't reveal a real positive spin for the Knights after falling 20-4 to Stewartville and finishing Tuesday's suspended game with a 9-2 loss against Rochester Lourdes.
05/08/2008 12:00 AM To a baseball player the playing field is referred to as many things — the ball park, the ball field — but to many of us who have spent many a years at these sacred pieces of real estate, it is simply called The Yard.
05/07/2008 12:00 AM Augie Lindmark battled his way through a rain delay, an umpiring controversy and New Prague Tuesday evening to lead the Wingers to a 6-2 victory.
05/07/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing’s softball game Tuesday at New Prague was suspended after one inning with the Wingers leading 1-0. It will be finished at 4:15 p.m. Friday in New Prague.
05/07/2008 12:00 AM The Hiawatha Valley League championship baseball game scheduled for May 17 has been canceled. The decision was made based on extensive postponements throughout the spring season.
The extra game will return to the schedule next year.
St. Paul Saints march into Miesville Madonna, the St. Paul Saints mascot, hugs a young fan between innings Tuesday night a Jack Ruhr Field in Miesville. The Saints beat the Mudhens 12-0 in seven innings. Matt Vanderbosch connected for Miesville's only hit, but it was good enough for entire crowd as Vanderbosch was the "Beer Batter." "We just appreciate them coming down," Miesville player/manager Chris Olean said. "They're good players and we did what we could. they just showed why they were professionals."
05/07/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing athletic/activities director Don Featherstone called boys tennis coach Kris Klassen on Tuesday to ask about making up Tuesday’s match at home against New Prague.
No need.
05/07/2008 12:00 AM Curt Wersal’s 75 tied for medalist honors Tuesday and helped Red Wing top three other Missota Conference teams on a wet day at Mississippi National Golf Links.
05/07/2008 12:00 AM AMERY, Wis. — Mitch Johnson tossed five shutout innings and the Ellsworth offense provided him with ample run support in a 16-0 blowout over Amery in five innings Tuesday.
05/07/2008 12:00 AM BOYCEVILLE, Wis. - The Lakers have struggled in one-run games this season, losing their first four such contests. One of those disappointing losses came against Boyceville early in the year.
05/06/2008 12:00 AM Poor starts have plagued the Red Wing Aces over the last few years. That doesn’t seem to be the case after the opening weekend of 2008.
Red Wing dispatched Bay City 10-4 on Saturday and Jimmy Bohmbach cracked a two-run, two-out single in the bottom of the ninth to send the Aces past Hastings 4-3 on Sunday.
05/06/2008 12:00 AM The Minnesota Baseball Association board met Saturday and approved today's game between the St. Paul Saints and Miesville Mudhens at Jack Ruhr Field.
05/06/2008 12:00 AM LAKE CITY — A strong start Monday night helped settle the nerves for Lake City's Michelle Becklund, who was making just her second start of the season. The Tigers rode that early rush to a 6-4 victory over Cannon Falls.
05/03/2008 12:00 AM The Miesville Mudhens know a thing or two about tough competition after battling through the Classic Cannon Valley League last season on their way to the 2008 Class B state championship.
05/03/2008 12:00 AM WANAMINGO — The weather canceled plenty of local events Friday, but Zumbrota-Mazeppa and Kenyon-Wanamingo moved their matchup up an hour to avoid the downpour.
05/03/2008 12:00 AM Red Wing's Casey Ide finished 33rd overall and fifth in his division April 26 at the Get in Gear 2008 10K in Minneapolis. He finished in 35 minutes, 1 second.
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