high school baseball

Pine Island head coach Craig Anderson has seen a lot of high school baseball games in his 526-win coaching career. He knows after the close losses you can always point to one or two plays that make the difference. The top ranked and top seed Class AA Belle Plaine Tigers escaped Thursday with a 1-0 win in their first state baseball tournament game...

The Pine Island Panthers' first opponent at the Class AA State Baseball Tournament in St. Cloud will be top ranked and top seed Belle Plaine. The Minnesota River Conference Champions' only loss this season was to conference foe Sibley East on April 25...

The Big Nine Conference Champion Northfield Raiders are the No. 2 seed in the Class AAA State Baseball Tournament, which begins this Thursday in Minneapolis. Games are being played at Dick Siebert Field on the University of Minnesota campus and Roy Koenig will have the call for us on the radio...

You could not have scripted this final season coaching baseball at Pine Island better for head coach Craig Anderson. The Pine Island Panthers have used some incredible pitching, impressive defense and timely hitting to advance to their first state high school baseball tournament in 23 years...

The Pine Island Panthers could be a team of destiny. They have won so many close games in the playoffs, and Saturday was no exception, with a 2-1 thrilling victory over Lake City in 10 innings. Head coach Craig Anderson announced a couple of weeks ago this would be his last season...

The Section 2 AA baseball tournament had another upset Thursday when the Tri-City United Titans knocked off the Fairmont Cardinals 12-2 in five innings in Fairmont. The Titans are in the winners bracket and play top seed and top-rated Belle Plaine at 11AM Saturday at Veterans Field in St...

The Cannon Falls Bomber baseball team picked a bad time to have a hitting slump. Over the past two games of the subsection tournament hosted by Cannon Falls, the Bombers collected four total hits and one run. Usually that doesn't win you too many ballgames...

The Bethlehem Academy Game vs. Lyle Pacelli has been postponed due to rain. It has been rescheduled for 3PM Monday at Riverland Community College in Austin. United South Central vs. Hayfield has been rescheduled for Monday as well.

The Bethlehem Academy Cardinal baseball team opened up Subsection 1A West play with a come-from-behind win at Bell Field on Thursday. Blooming Prairie opened up the scoring first. As we went into the sixth inning, the score was tied. In the top of the seventh, Blooming Prairie took the lead 2-1...

The Faribault Falcon softball team received the No. 3 seed in the loaded Section 2 AAA tournament, which opens Thursday. Seeds were not determined until Wednesday and all eight teams will go to Caswell Park in Mankato to play Thursday. That is the same venue as the state tournament, which will be June 9 and 10...