The Minnewaska Area boys golf team opened up the season at the Becker Invitational, Thursday, finishing seventh of 15 teams in a meet won by Waconia. The boys team is coached by Dion Harste, who took over for David Drexler and had been an assistant for many years. The Lakers were also set to compete at the… Read More

The Minnewaska Area softball team picked up its first win last Tuesday with a 10-6 victory at Yellow Medicine East.  It was the only game of the week for the Lakers, who were also set to play at Morris Area, Thursday and host the Minnewaska Invitational, Saturday. The game against Morris had to be postponed when… Read More

The Lakers suffered their first loss of the season during an 8-5 setback against Fergus Falls in a game played at Gustavus Adolphus College, Friday. The Otters scored seven runs in their first at-bat and the Lakers were left playing catchup the rest of the way. Minnewaska had started the season out 3-0 before losing for the… Read More

Tate Reichmann, a sophomore at North Dakota State University and 2022 graduate of Minnewaska Area High School, is a member of the NDSU tennis team, which qualified for the National USTA Tennis on Campus Tourney. Tate and other members of the NDSU tennis team competed at the National USTA Tennis on Campus Tournament at Rome, GA, recently… Read More

Speaking of Sports By John Fragodt, Sports Reporter I worked at the Swift County Monitor-News in Benson for a long time; a very long time.  In fact, after covering BHS sports for so long, I went from covering kids playing sports to covering their kids playing sports, while also having many of the kids I covered… Read More

The Minnewaska Area softball team is off to an 0-5 start after losing two doubleheaders to Melrose and BOLD along with a single game loss to ACGC, 17-12. The Lakers are coached by first-year head coach Luke Barkeim, who is assisted by Jacalyn Skoglund, Jesse Johnson and Abby VerSteeg. Morris Area won the league title last year… Read More

• Tennis team wins seven matches to help coach reach milestone The Minnewaska Area boys tennis team is off to a 9-0 start after winning seven matches last week.  The Lakers had opened up the season with a pair of matches at an indoor meet at Fargo, March 28, but the Lakers had all 5-2 and… Read More

The Minnewaska Area track and field teams opened up the outdoor schedule with a pair of meets at Morris and Litchfield last week. The Laker girls won the “Marv Meyer” meet at Morris last Tuesday and also won the 5-team meet at Litchfield, Thursday, while the Minnewaska Area boys were second at Morris and third at Litchfield…. Read More

The Minnewaska Area girls basketball team held its season-ending awards banquet last Monday night at which time the team announced the team awards for the highly-successful 2023-24 season. The Lakers went 20-9 overall this winter, including a 10-2 mark in the WCC to place second behind Sauk Centre.  Minnewaska Area was coached again by Sidney Barker,… Read More

The Laker Trap team just started its 10th season as a lettering sport at MAHS.  A reserve week shoot took place Sunday, April 14 followed by competitions set for Sundays, April 21 (#1), April 28 (#2), May 5 (#3), May 12 (#4) and May 19 (#5).   The State Shoot is set for June 10-18 at… Read More