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sports.yahoo.com | Tom Elliott |Joe Brown |Michael Lyne
May 13—DETROIT LAKES — The Willmar softball completed an impressive sweep of the Detroit Lakes Lakers on Tuesday. Willmar won 23-2 and 10-0. Both games went five innings. In Game 2, Claire Guennigsmann tossed a shutout, striking out 14 and walking one. She allowed two hits. AdvertisementParker Rucks homered and drove in two runs and Isley Ripperger ripped a double and scored two runs, driving in one, for the Cardinals. In Game 1, Willmar scored 10 times in the top of the fifth.
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1 day ago | 
wctrib.com | Joe Brown |Tom Elliott |Michael Lyne
ALEXANDRIA — The Alexandria boys and girls wound up with titles Tuesday at the Lohrman Invitational track and field meet. Willmar’s girls took fourth and the boys were fifth. Alexandria’s girls had 171 points through 17 of 18 events. The pole vault results weren’t posted. Willmar scored 68. It had three first-place finishes. Lauren Eilers won the 800-meter run in 2 minutes, 16.65 seconds.
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1 day ago | 
wctrib.com | Tom Elliott |Michael Lyne
BENSON — The Benson boys tennis team breezed to a first-round playoff victory Tuesday. The second-seeded Braves beat No. 7 Luverne 7-0 in the Section 3A quarterfinals. Benson plays No. 3 Montevideo in the semifinals at 8 a.m. Friday at Huether Match Pointe Tennis in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The final is set for 12:30 p.m. Friday in Sioux Falls. All five points that Benson won on the court were in straight sets. The Braves also won two doubles matches by default.
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1 day ago | 
wctrib.com | Tom Elliott |Joe Brown |Michael Lyne
DETROIT LAKES — The Willmar softball completed an impressive sweep of the Detroit Lakes Lakers on Tuesday. Willmar won 23-2 and 10-0. Both games went five innings. In Game 2, Claire Guennigsmann tossed a shutout, striking out 14 and walking one. She allowed two hits. Parker Rucks homered and drove in two runs and Isley Ripperger ripped a double and scored two runs, driving in one, for the Cardinals. In Game 1, Willmar scored 10 times in the top of the fifth.
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1 day ago | 
wctrib.com | Joe Brown |Tom Elliott |Michael Lyne
SUNBURG — The Lac qui Parle Valley baseball team continued its late-season roll on Tuesday. The Eagles won their fifth straight game with a 9-2 victory over host Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg in a Camden Conference contest at Willie Reigstad Park. The win puts LQPV at 8-6 overall and 5-4 in the Camden. KMS falls to 5-11 overall and 4-6 in Camden play.
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2 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Tom Elliott |Joe Brown |Michael Lyne
May 12—SPICER — Kaden Toutges, Nolan Johnson and Andres Rojas combined on a three-hitter Monday for the New London-Spicer baseball team at the Green Lake Diamonds. It helped NLS beat Watertown-Mayer 8-3 in a Wright County West Division game. AdvertisementToutges went the first five innings and got the win. He struck out one, walked no one and allowed four hits and two earned runs. Johnson went one inning, allowing no earned runs, striking out one. Rojas went the seventh, striking out two.
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2 days ago | 
wctrib.com | Tom Elliott |Joe Brown |Michael Lyne
SPICER — Kaden Toutges, Nolan Johnson and Andres Rojas combined on a three-hitter Monday for the New London-Spicer baseball team at the Green Lake Diamonds. It helped NLS beat Watertown-Mayer 8-3 in a Wright County West Division game. Toutges went the first five innings and got the win. He struck out one, walked no one and allowed four hits and two earned runs. Johnson went one inning, allowing no earned runs, striking out one. Rojas went the seventh, striking out two.
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2 days ago | 
wctrib.com | Michael Lyne |Joe Brown |Tom Elliott
WILLMAR — After seeing its 10-game winning streak snapped by Anoka on Friday, Rocori got the week started off with a 15-7 rout of the Willmar softball team on Monday. Rocori, which is now tied with St. Cloud for the top record in the Central Lakes Conference at 9-2, is 13-4 this season. Willmar is 4-6 in conference games and 6-10 overall. Led by Hailey Salzbrun, the Spartans belted out 17 hits to Willmar’s eight.
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3 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Tom Elliott |Joe Brown |Michael Lyne
May 11—MOUND — The Willmar softball team wound up with a 1-2 record Saturday at the Mound-Westonka Tournament. The Cardinals beat Holy Family 10-8 and lost to Hutchinson 9-8 in eight innings and Mound-Westonka 10-4. AdvertisementIn the Holy Family game, Willmar lashed out 15 hits. Norah Neges homered and went 2-for-4 with a walk, a stolen base, three runs and three RBIs for the Cardinals.
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3 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Tom Elliott |Michael Lyne
May 11—FERGUS FALLS — The New London-Spicer boys tennis team earned a couple of wins at a triangular in Fergus Falls on Saturday. NLS beat the host Otters 7-0 and defeated East Grand Forks 6-1. The Fergus Falls sweep was done in straight sets at all seven spots for the Wildcats. Perhaps the closest match came at No. 3 doubles. Oden Hanson and Quinn Wenke beat Isaiah Ibarra and Hudson Emerson 6-4, 6-1. AdvertisementIn the East Grand Forks match, NLS swept the singles and also won at Nos.
