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The Swanville Swans won their first ever road game in the Victory League on Memorial Day when they grabbed an extra innings win in Flensburg. The Swans nearly ended it in the ninth, but a rally by the Falcons forced extras. Derek Pfeiffer reached second base on a throwing error and then scored the...
Tiger second baseman Ian Gould hauls in a throw during a stolen base attempt last Tuesday against Osakis.
The Tigers nearly upended the Prairie Conference leading Osakis in game one of a doubleheader hosted in Browerville last Tuesday. A late inning rally came up just short, however, as the Silverstreaks were able to sneak away with a 4-3 win. Osakis scored runs in the first and third innings, and the...
Eighth grader Leona May tags out a Pelican Rapids runner who strayed too far off the base during Tuesday’s Section 6A playoff game.
The Tiger softball team kicked off Section 6A postseason play last Tuesday when they hosted Pelican Rapids for the opening round. No. 2 seed Browerville/Eagle Valley used good pitching and solid defense to pick up a 4-1 win over the No. 7 seed Vikings. The scoring started in the second inning when...
Senior Rachel Middendorf put the bat on the ball during an at bat against Pillager in last week’s playoffs.
The season came to a close for Thunder softball just one spot short of qualifying for the Section 6AA final four last Thursday afternoon in Alexandria. One inning was the difference as LPGE fell to Holdingford 5-2 to close out the season. The Huskers batted the ball around in the opening inning and...
The Thunder track team beat the heat and advanced a number of athletes on to the Section 6A track meet. The top five individual and top two relays advance from the subsection meet, and LPGE pushed on 10 events between the boys and girls teams when they competed in Sauk Centre last Thursday. The...
Senior Sam Olson reached base in all four plate appearances, and pitched a complete game gem for the Thunder as they took game one, 7-1, over Browerville/Eagle Valley last Thursday afternoon. LPGE got on the board on a fielding error by the Tigers in the second inning. They then added one more in...
The Upsala/Swanville Area track teams advanced seven events from last Thursday’s subsection meet hosted at Sauk Centre. The Patriot girls team will send three athletes, and five events, on to compete at the Section 6A meet. Peyton Guthrie qualified in three events, taking third in the 200 (27.70),...
Unearned runs helped aid BBE in picking up a 12-2 win in six innings over Upsala/Swanville Area last Monday. The Patriots got on the board in the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Gavin Koetter. The Jaguars responded with two unearned runs in the first, and seven more in the third. Nathan Graves...
Browerville/Eagle Valley will send two seniors on from the subsection meet held last week. Jordan Gorder and Devin Lange will be the two representatives for the Tigers when the Section 6A meet takes place at Minnewaska on May 31. Gorder qualified in two events, taking third in the long jump (18-08...
Rebekah Muhlenkamp had a good day on the track, taking first in the 800 and eighth in the long jump.
The Upsala/Swanville Area track athletes joined five other teams on a hot day at St. John’s University for the annual Prairie Conference meet last Wednesday. The Patriot boys finished third with 82 points while the girls placed fifth with 54. The biggest highlight of the day was senior Lawrence...

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