The Minnesota Chapter of the National Football Foundation is incredibly proud to present Minnewaska coach Trevor Solem with this year’s Minnesota Football Honors Courage Award. Solem will be honored during this summer’s Minnesota Football Honors broadcast.  Football has always been a major part of Trevor Solem’s life. His father, Steve Solem, the eighth-winningest coach in Minnesota… Read More

Presenting the 2022 Legion All-Stars: 60 players that will be formed into four teams for the Prospect Series Tournament on Aug. 6 in Bloomington. To become an All-Star, coaches from around the entire state nominated players from their team (and sometimes other teams) that they felt represented some of the top talent in Minnesota this… Read More

Friday, July 1  at Marthaler Field Starbuck 3 Atwater 1 Both teams were strong on the pitcher’s mound Friday, but Starbuck Stars defeated Atwater 3-1 in a County Line League game that solidified the Stars with the second seed in the playoffs. Starbuck pitchers Matt Gruber and Austin VerSteeg combined to allow just seven hits to Atwater.  Gruber… Read More

The Starbuck Jr. Legion baseball team kept on winning last week, defeating Atwater on Tuesday and then Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg (KMS) on Friday before winning three more games in a tournament at Marthaler Field over the weekend.  The five consecutive wins gave Starbuck a 17-3 record on the season. In the weekend tournament, Starbuck defeated DGF in the… Read More

Although the Laker fall seasons don’t begin until Monday, August 15, Minnewaska Area Schools Activities Director Phil Johnsrud sent a letter to MAS district families notifying them of a fall sports meeting set for Wednesday, Aug. 3. “I want to make sure our Laker families are aware of our fall sports meeting that will take place… Read More

The Glenwood-Lowry Legion baseball team remained undefeated with a 10-0 record after defeating BBE 4-2 on July 1 and then defeating Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 10-0 and again 11-6 on Thursday, July 7. Friday, July 1 Glenwood-Lowry 4 BBE 2 The Glenwood-Lowry Legion team nabbed the lead late in the game in a 4-2 victory over Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. The game was… Read More

Minnewaska Area School wrestlers in grades 7-12, and coaches, enjoyed a road trip to the Wisconsin Dells June 27-30 for the annual Malecek Wrestling Camp. Over 1200 wrestlers were reported to have taken part in the camp for team and individual development, team building, strength and conditioning and nutrition and motivation. There were also breakout… Read More

The Starbuck Jr. Legion team defeated Eden Valley-Wakins in dramatic frashion with a 7-6 walk-off victory in the bottom of the seventh inning. Starbuck trailed EV-W 6-1 going into the bottom of the sevent and scored six runs to take the victory.  And, it all started with two outs.   Thomas Poegel grounded out to shortstop to… Read More

The Starbuck Stars jumped out to an early 3-1 lead on their way to a 10-2 victory over Norway Lake-Sunburg (NL-S) at Marthaler Field on Wednesday night. The visiting team did score one run in the first inning, but the Stars answered with 3 in the bottom of the first.  After Michael Gruber singled and Darion… Read More

Katherine Chevalier and her friend, Kathy, sent in this photo from their recent trip to Canada. They both caught a walleye within a minute of each other. Kathy’s was 24.5” and Katherine’s was 20.5”  They sent both fish back into the water to make more fish for them to catch.