The Pipestone A’s amateur baseball team saw its season come to an end on Saturday with an 8-1 loss at Hadley. The Buttermakers’ quality pitching proved to be the difference in the two-game sweep of this Region 10C Tournament series. Minnesota West Community & Technical College alum Tucker Sorenson and Lincoln Swonjord earned wins in the first and second games, respectively. Hadley won the opener, 3-0, at A’s/City Field Wednesday. “Tucker (Sorensen), he’s one of the top two or three pitchers in the league,” A’s coach Avery Ploeger said. “He’s tough. We were able to get six hits off him,...

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SCOREBOARD SOFTBALL Minn-Dakota Slowpitch Standings School       Record       Lake Benton Bar     18-0 Anacondas                   12-3 Lake Benton II     12-4 D&T Meat Mkt.     12-8 Sluggers     10-7 The Starfish     7-7 Dirty Dairymen             8-10 Alcobolics     7-11 Staci’s Bar     5-13 Ice Spice Elite     3-15 SB2     1-17 Schedule                  Tuesday, Aug. 5       The first week of playoff games...

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BLAINE — One of my most joyous childhood memories was attending the Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open in Connecticut with my grandfather. My grandfather, Nicholas Viccaro, and I would attempt to predict the winner of the tournament each year. In 1984, as an 11-year-old, this sports editor successfully forecasted that Peter Jacobsen would win — and he did so by two strokes over Mark O’Meara at Wethersfield Country Club (where the event was before moving to the TPC at River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn.). Jacobsen also claimed the 2003 championship. Last Thursday, as a member of the working press,...

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The Pipestone Area Schools athletic department will conduct an all-sports informational meeting on Thursday, Aug. 7, in the PAS auditorium. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. PAS activities director Rick Zollner will cover topics such as physicals, concussion testing, academic eligibility and both Minnesota State High School League and school rules. Remember, a student-athlete cannot practice until the appropriate forms have been filled out and approved. The proper paperwork will be available on site for parents to fill out at this event. After the informational meeting, coaches will conduct parents’ meetings in four different rooms. Those meetings will be for...

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ELKTON, S.D. — The Elkton-Lake Benton youth football program will conduct sign-ups at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10. There also will be equipment checkout during such time, with the event behind the GeoDome. The cost is . Youth football is for third- through sixth-grade students. The first practice for the fifth- and sixth-grade team will be 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12. The first session for third- and fourth-grade players is 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15. For information, call Lance Weber at 1-605-695-3252.

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WORTHINGTON — The Minnesota West Community & Technical College volleyball team will open the 2025 season on Aug. 13. The Bluejays will serve as hosts of a scrimmage at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, versus Iowa Lakes Community College. Minnesota West will open the regular season on Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Crossover Tournament, playing Williston State (N.D.) and Alexandria Tech at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids. The Bluejays also will play in the Siouxland Invitational versus Iowa Central, North Dakota State College of Science and Western Iowa at the CNOS Fieldhouse in North Sioux City, S.D. on...

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ROCKFORD, Ill. — Robert Petersen reported he played his first fastpitch softball game as a six-year-old. Fast forward to Saturday, Aug. 9, when Petersen will be enshrined in the North American Fastpitch Association Hall of Fame — the culmination of a lifetime playing this sport. “It’s quite an honor,” Petersen said in a telephone interview with the Pipestone County Star Monday. “I’m humbled. I’m fortunate to receive this honor from my peers.” Petersen serves as both the City of Pipestone recreation director and Pipestone Area Schools’ head softball coach. The future honoree said he’s been around great players and he’s...

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The annual Æbleskiver Amble was conducted on Saturday morning, July 26, under partly to mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 70s. There were several formats, including five-kilometer and eight-mile bicycle rides and a five-kilometer road race. Tyler’s Tarin Bingham was tops in the eight-mile bike ride. Avery Schreurs placed first in the five-mile bike ride, and Merrick Bloom of Tyler took second. Adam Kinner of Elkton, S.D., was the men’s five-kilometer winner, with Sawyer Schwartz of Garvin second. The Overgaauw sisters of Lake Wilson were the top-two finishers in the women’s division, with Ashley first and Amanda second. The...

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Æbleskiver Days festivities opened up on Friday morning with a tournament at Tyler Golf Club. This was a three-person formatted event. The winners were Rainey Reynolds, Justin Techen and Lance Collins; this threesome also won the tournament shootout.

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TYLER — Tyler Golf Club will conduct a youth nine-hole tournament on Monday, Aug. 4. The club’s physical address is 420 Lincoln County Road 7. Registration is set for 9 a.m., with the shotgun start set for 10. The entry fee is . There will be several age group categories: 10-under, 11-14 and 15-18. For information and to register, call 1-507-247-3242 or email: [email protected].

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