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Mitchell Heid (L) was met at home by teammates Tim Zastrow (M) and Nate Petermeier (R) after his first inning home run against Carlos.
You can put one on the board for the Long Prairie Predators baseball squad. The Preds helped kick off the 2019 Prairie Days with a home game against Carlos under the lights in Long Prairie last Friday night. The home team got going early and held on late to pick up a 5-0 win in a lightning...
The No. 3 Upsala/Swanville Area baseball team kicked off the Section 6A playoffs last Tuesday by taking down No. 6 Ortonville, 8-1, to advance to the double elimination portion of the tournament. Three Patriot pitchers combined to scatter six hits and four walks to hold their opponents in check. At...
Athletes of the Month from left: Cathleen Rieffer, Nicholas Mettler, Haden Chuba, Mackenzie Feuling.
Swanville High School is pleased to announce its May Athletes of the Month:  Mackenzie Fueling for softball, Haden Chuba for baseball, Cathleen Rieffer for girls' track and Nicholas Mettler for boys' track. Coaches' Comments: "The Bulldog Softball team would like to nominate Mackenzie Fueling as...
Six LPGE athletes qualified for the Section 6A meet. From left: Caroline Kuehne, Megan Och, Nora Gamradt, Brianna Young, Kaitlyn Proell, and Ava Determan.
Long Prairie-Grey Eagle advanced six athletes on from last Thursday’s subsection meet hosted in Pillager. The Thunder athletes qualified in six individual events, and one relay.  The 4x100 relay of Megan Och, Nora Gamradt, Brianna Young, Kaitlyn Proell, and Ava Determan advanced with a second place...
Tiger senior Macy Murch put the bat on the ball during Tuesday’s opening round victory over Hillcrest Lutheran.
The No. 2 seeded Browerville/Eagle Valley softball team made quick work of Hillcrest Lutheran as the two teams opened up Section 6A postseason play last Tuesday afternoon. The Tigers came out swinging and cruised to a 13-0 win in five innings. B/EV scored two runs in the second, seven in the third...
Swanville High School had three seniors sign on to play sports when they attend college next fall. Gage VanRisseghem, a thrower on the Upsala/Swanville Area track and field team, signed on to compete at the University of Minnesota-Morris. Emily Beseman signed on with Concordia College in Moorhead...
Desiree Dingman had two hits and drove in two runs against WHN.
Putting runs on the board was not an issue for No. 1 seed Upsala in last Tuesday’s Section 6A opener against No. 8 Wheaton-Herman-Norcross. The Cardinals put multiple runs on the board in four different innings to fuel a 12-2 win in six innings. Desiree Dingmann delivered a RBI double and Laura...
Weston Herzog and Hudson Pung combined to allow just a lone run, and the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle offense scored runs in four different innings to fuel an 8-1 non-conference win over Brandon/Evansville last Monday. Both teams put one on the board in the opening inning, but the Thunder held the...
Upsala/Swanville Area qualified five athletes and seven events for the Section 6A meet. Three boys and two girls moved on after competing in the subsection meet hosted at Pillager last Thursday evening. Senior Gage VanRisseghem moved on in both throwing events, taking second in the discus with a...
Swanville softball suffered a heartbreaker last Tuesday, as Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley scored the winning run in walk-off fashion to end the Bulldogs’ season. The final score was 8-7. Five Bulldogs had multiple hits in the game. Sierra Bartkowitz had three hits and drove in one. Grace Schultz had...

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