Sports
The Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder are undoubtedly in the midst of one of the best starts to a season they’ve seen in years. With the Thunder’s three wins last week, they move to an undefeated 7-0. The Thunder haven’t enjoyed this much success since they had a 13 game win streak in the 2015-2016...
Strong pitching was the name of the game when the LPGE Thunder baseball team took on the USA Patriots last Tuesday.
The Thunder were limited to just three hits on the night, and it was reflected on the scoreboard too as the Patriots beat the Thunder 7-1
Brady Swanson, Ben Larson and Joe Langer...
Nicholas Mettler led the Uspala/Swanville Area Patriots track team with four first place finishes at Wadena-Deer Creek last Thursday.
Mettler hurled a 39’3”, a personal best in the shot put, which was also a four foot improvement over his previous best distance.
In the discus, Mettler won by a...
After dropping a pair of games against Long Prairie-Grey Eagle and Browerville-Eagle Valley last week, the Upsala Cardinals softball team came into a busy week looking for some wins.
The Cards started the week out strong picking off Staples-Motley first then Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley with 35...
The Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale Raiders had a busy week on the diamond with a double-header against Menagha earlier in the week, then they traveled to LPGE to face the undefeated Thunder.
The Raiders would drop their first game against Menagha, but would rally in the second game.
BHV 11
Menahga 15
Both...
On Thursday April 29th the Bertha-Hewitt-Verndale Lady Raiders Track & Field team competed at the Osakis Invite.
The Lady Raiders finished third with 63.3 points.
Pillager won the meet with 90.3 points.
Scoring for the Raiders were Tess Jones, 3rd place-100 meter dash, 2nd place-long jump...
The Raiders started off slow in game one offensively by not scoring in the first four innings.
However, the Raiders bats started to come alive in the 5th and 6th inning scoring three runs in each inning and winning the game by a score of 6-5.
Kole Weishalla pitched all seven innings for the...
The Browerville-Eagle Valley track team traveled to Battle Lake on Thursday.
The girls team had Mackenzie Uhlenkamp, Brooklynn Wolf and Hadassa Morazan compete in the 100 dash finishing 8th, 13th, and 17th. Emma Webster ran the 800 meter dash finishing 2nd. Natalie Marxer ran the 1600 meter run...
The Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder softball team came out guns blazing against the Upsala Cardinals and Swanville Bulldogs last week.
The Thunder established an early 7 run lead in the first and added another 3 runs over the next two innings. Defensively, the Thunder were on point, keeping the...
The Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder baseball team dropped a heartbreaker to the Staples-Motley Cardinals Thursday at the Thunder’s home opener last Thursday.
The low scoring affair was backed up by good defense and what would become a pitcher’s duel.
The Thunder limited Staples-Motley to five...
