Sports
It was a busy spring and start to the summer for the LPGE trap shooting team. The Thunder shooters held an awards night and fun shoot at the Long Prairie Sportsmen’s Club on June 5, and then wrapped up competition for the season at the state shoot hosted in Alexandria on June 13.
LPGE was in Class...
After placing third last season, the Long Prairie Predators returned to the top of this year’s Pine Grove Classic, making it three times in four years of the tournament’s existence that they grabbed the championship.
Preds 2, Marble 0
The Preds got a stellar performance on the mound from Eric...
It was a high-scoring, back-and-forth battle when the Legion squads from LPGE and Browerville met up in Tiger town last Thursday evening.
It ended up being Browerville putting together the last rally of the evening and coming away with an 11-8 victory.
The Tigers jumped out to a 6-0 lead, scoring...
The Upsala Blue Jays snapped a two-game losing streak by sweeping a doubleheader with Randall on Sunday.
Upsala 4, Randall 3 - game one
There was some pop in the Upsala bats when game one got started and it helped boost them to a 4-3 win over the Cubs.
John Fuchs reached base all four times,...
Swanville snapped a two-game skid in a big way by picking up a decisive 10-4 win over Cuyuna Range on Sunday.
The Swans jumped out to a 10-1 lead on their home field after piling on six runs in the fourth inning.
Austin Johnson collected four of the team’s nine hits, one being a double, and...
The Hinnenkamp brothers gave their old man, Rod, an early Father’s Day gift when they had big games on the diamond to help lead the Predators over Sauk Centre 6-2 last Saturday night.
Eric threw seven dominant innings to pick up the win on the mound, and Mitchell reached base four times and tossed...
The LPGE Legion baseball squad was edged by Sauk Centre, 7-3, in a full nine inning game in Long Prairie last Thursday night.
Post 12 got off to a good start, scoring a pair of first inning runs to take an early lead. Hudson Pung led off with a double and Travis Miller followed with a walk. Eric...
Sobieski extended its lead in the Victory League West Division with an 11-1 home win over Upsala in seven innings on Saturday.
The Skis, who remain undefeated at 10-0 overall and now 5-0 in league play, got a complete game shutout on the mound from Tyler Jendro, who scattered five hits and a walk,...
The Predators got back into the win column in a big way last Sunday when they cruised to a 17-0 win in seven innings in Carlos.
Two big innings fueled the offense, with Long Prairie scoring eight in the third inning and another seven in the seventh. The Preds scored all seven runs in the final...
Tiger baseball closed out its season during the last week of May, falling in the Section 6A tournament.
B/EV 9, Ashby 0
Browerville/Eagle Valley picked up a 9-0 shutout of Ashby in the opening round of the playoffs.
The Tigers scored once in the second, twice in the third, four times in the fifth,...
