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

The Minnewaska Area boys golf team is set to open up the season Thursday, April 18 at the Becker Invitational.  The new coach of the Lakers’ boys golf team is Dion Harste. The first two WCC meets are scheduled for Friday, April 19.  The Minnewaska Area boys and girls golf teams will join the other WCC… Read More

The Minnewaska Area baseball team picked up right where it left off last spring.  The Lakers, who went 15-5 overall last year while earning co-share of the WCC title, swept a doubleheader at BOLD, Thursday, scoring 20 runs on the way to the 6-1, 14-4 sweep, and then edged Osakis in a non-conference game, Saturday, 7-5…. Read More

Speaking of Sports By John Fragodt, Sports Reporter Although the college NCAA mens and womens basketball tourneys have taken center stage over the last few weeks, the NBA playoffs are set to begin soon and almost all the teams are in a battle to move up a place or two in the standings before the end… Read More