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City councilors 'not giving up' on ice skating in park
Faribault city councilors are moving ahead with part of the plans for a new park downtown, while still debating what to name it and what a scaled down ice skating feature might look like. There were no official votes taken at a council workshop Tuesday evening, but there was consensus to seek some preliminary ideas and cost estimates on an alternative skating amenity. And the majority of councilors expressed support for giving the park a name of Viaduct Park. ...
Waseca tennis downs Stewartville ahead of Team Section Tournament
Monday night, the Waseca boys tennis team traveled to Stewartville to close out the 2024 regular season. The Bluejays earned a commanding 7-0 victory over the Tigers, bringing the spring to a close with a record of 12-3 ahead of the MSHSL Section 1A Team Tournament. Only the doubles No. 1 and No. 2 matches reached a third set as Waseca controlled the action from the opening serve. Postseason play...
Yetzer, Sietsema, Steinberg, Reuvers and Leichtnam honored for athletic accomplishments
Faribault High School honored a handful of top athletes on the same night as the rest of the senior awards May 8. Along with numerous scholarships and academic accomplishments, a handful of prestigious Falcon honors were handed out to four hard-working athletes, who have excelled on and led their respective teams. Rylee Sietsema was the Female Athlete of the Year. Sietsema was a captain on all three teams she played...
Faribault Softball Dominates, Baseball Loses Heartbreaker
The Faribault Falcons fastpitch softball team rolled to a 16-0 win over Rochester John Marshall at North Alexander Park Tuesday. At about the same time the baseball team was defeated 3-2 in walk-off fashion at John Marshall. Rylee Sietsema continued her stellar season in the pitching circle, amassing 10 strikeouts...
Bethlehem Academy Wins, Faribault Loses in Softball
The Bethlehem Academy Cardinals edged Hayfield 2-1 while the Faribault Falcons were defeated 10-6 by Kasson-Mantorville Wednesday. The games were played at North Alexander Park in Faribault. Cardinals pitcher Morgan Wilson tamed some previously hot Vikings bats, throwing a 3- hitter. The junior struck out 4 batters, walked none while...
Cardinals outlast Hayfield in 2-1 thriller
As first baseman Liv Glumack snagged a bobbled ball between her arms, shortstop Anna Tobin yelled out to her. “Go to second!” With the ball finally under control, Glumack did in fact throw to second, recording the game’s final out on a double-play as Bethlehem Academy held on to beat Hayfield 2-1. If you were...
Villafuerte and Radunz earn medals to lead JWP/Waseca bowlers at state
Eight members of the JWP/Waseca adapted bowling team traveled to Brooklyn Park’s Bowlero to compete in the MSHSL State Championship Friday morning and afternoon. AJ Radunz and Jasmyn Villafuerte earned medal finishes to lead the team with Villafuerte finishing third and Radunz claiming 10th for the Bulldogs. The full list of competitors for JWP included Radunz, Villafuerte, Makayla Clark, Abrielle Caples, Savanna Bonnifield, Valente Avalos, Wyatt Arndt and Blayden Elliot. ...
Waseca drops weekend doubleheader to Marshall
After bus troubles caused a roughly hourlong delay for the visiting Marshall baseball team, the Waseca Bluejays hosted the Tigers in a Saturday afternoon doubleheader. In game one, the Bluejays made a late rally that fell just short in a 5-4 loss before Marshall cruised to an 11-1 victory in game two. With the losses, Waseca stands with a record of 2-11 (0-9 BSB) on the season. Game one saw...
Faribault girls golf wins big over Lakeville South on Senior Day
Senior Faribault girls golfers Sara Dobson, Meredith Umbreit and Kaitlyn Worke played their last regular season home varsity meet as Falcons Thursday, going out as winners for the last time. Faribault won big over Lakeville South, beating them by 41 strokes in the four-person qualifier, 414 to 455. Mariana Hager was the low scorer for the Falcons with a 98. Lakeville's Charlotte Benolkin had the overall low match of the...
JWP track and field sees girls cap off historic week with Gopher Conference Championship
After the Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton girls track and field team started the week by securing a spot in the Class A True Team state championships by finishing first in the section, the Bulldogs returned to action Saturday at Maple River H.S. to compete in the Gopher Conference Championships. The girls added to their incredible season by claiming the conference title , defeating second-place finisher NRHEG by 30.5 points, while the boys finished second, just 19 points behind Maple River. ...
Lady Huskies golf finishes 3rd in Jewel Invitational
The Owatonna girls golf team traveled to The Jewel Golf Club in Lake City Wednesday afternoon to compete in the Jewel Invite. Led by a +3 round of 74 from sophomore Carmen Jirele, the Huskies finished third as a team with a compiled score of 335. East Ridge finished first in the invite with a score of 307 while the host Lake City Tigers claimed second with 315 strokes. Jirele’s...
‘I’M SWINGING:’ Huskies answer Northfield’s late rally with Beyer’s 2-out walk-off single
Sometimes the common cliche, “It’s not over until it’s over,” can be hard to believe when things are looking bleak, like while you’re down one run in the bottom of the seventh with two outs and no runners on against one of your rivals. But thanks to Ethan Armstrong, Tyler Sheehan, Mitch Seykora and Owen Beyer, the Owatonna Huskies have proof that it truly wasn’t over until a two-out, walk-off RBI single from Beyer made it officially over in a 6-5 victory over Northfield Tuesday. ...
Owatonna girls golf wins home quad; boys finish 3rd in Century quad
Big 9 Conference golf was in full swing Tuesday, as the Owatonna boys and girls golf teams competed against Rochester Century, Faribault and Red Wing in a pair of quad meets. The girls team hosted the Panthers, Falcons and Wingers at the Owatonna Country Club and finished first overall with a team-low 366. The boys were hosted by Century and finished third overall with a 317 at the Eastwood Golf Course. ...
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