The Starbuck Jr. Legion is having a great season this year, finishing the regular-season with a 9-6 record, including a 9-3 record in league play.  That earned the team the second seed for the upcoming playoffs, which are set to begin Tuesday (tomorrow). Starbuck is set to host a game between #7-Long Prairie and #10-Benson at… Read More

The Starbuck Stars ended the regular-season with a 7-7 record after losing a 5-3, 15-inning game at home to Atwater Sunday afternoon.  The Stars, who also fell to NLS, Friday, June 30 (4-3), finished 4-6 in the County Line League while Atwater earned the regular-season title and NLS finished second. The Stars will open up the… Read More

The Glenwood-Lowry Legion baseball team is hitting its stride at the right time.  The team has won eight of its last 10 games after splitting a doubleheader at Parkers Prairie, June 29 (10-6 loss and 4-3 win) and sweeping a twinbill with Brooten last Wednesday (9-1 and 7-2).  Glenwood-Lowry, which ended the regular-season 12-5, also swept… Read More

The Minnewaska Area softball team announced its season-ending awards recently.  The Lakers finished 2-14 overall this season, which included a 2-10 mark in the WCC to tie with Montevideo and Benson for sixth place. The Lakers beat Montevideo and Benson by identical 8-7 scores for their only wins.  Morris Area won the league title with a… Read More

Four members of the Minnewaska Area boys golf team earned All-Conference honors this spring.  The Lakers won another WCC team title, winning the final meet at Morris to earn the title by one point over West Central Area. Earning All-Conference honors for the Lakers were Riley Larson, Zach Gugisberg, Thatcher Sherlin and Blake Nelson. Minnewaska Area won… Read More

(Correction:  Last week’s story about the Minnewaska Area Trap team contained an incorrect name.  Because of that, we are running most of the info again). Representing the team at the State Trap Shoot this year for Minnewaska Area were August Reichmann, Levi Schultz, Dylan VanZee, Mason Reichmann and Kyler Anderson, while alternates were Isaac Hennen and… Read More

The All-Area first and second team baseball squads for 2023 includes four players from Paynesville, two each from Minnewaska Area, YME, KMS and Montevideo and one each from LQP, Litchfield, Willmar, NLS, BBE and BOLD. Earning recognition from the Lakers were PJ Johnson on the All-Area first team and Dylan Alexander on the second team. Overall, the… Read More

The West Central Tribune (WCT) recently announced its All-Area softball teams for 2023.  Of the 18 players on the first or second All-Area team, nine are seniors, three are juniors, three are sophomores, two are ninth-graders and one is a seventh-grader. KMS and RCW/BOLD lead the way with three players each named to the teams, while… Read More

From left to right are Minnewaska Area girls golf awardwinners, Arivia DeBoer (2024 captain), Annika DeBoer (Most Improved and “Grinder” award) and Ava Kollman (Most Valuable Player for 2023).  All three were also named to the All-WCC team with Ava Kollman first among all golfers, Annika placing second, Arivia earning third and Lexi Barsness also… Read More

The Glenwood-Lowry Legion baseball team improved to 7-4 overall after winning four of five games last week.  The G-L Legion placed third at a tournament at Montevideo, June 24-25, beating Prinsburg (8-0) and losing to Byron (6-3) before beating Breck (17-2) in the third-place game. Last Monday, the Legion team hosted Ashby for a doubleheader and… Read More