Pipestone County Star

Both the Pipestone Area and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton youth football teams will begin the season on Saturday, Sept. 6. Youth football is for students in third through sixth grade. Pipestone Area will play at Tracy-Milroy-Balaton in the opener, while Russell-Tyler-Ruthton squares off against Marshall Orange at home. The Pipestone Area/RTR clash is set for Saturday, Oct. 11. The league features two Marshall-based teams plus Canby, Minneota, Dawson-Boyd, Lakeview (Cottonwood), Murray County Central, TMB, RTR and Pipestone Area.  All games begin at 10 a.m. Saturdays, with play a duration of two hours. INFORMATION YOUTH FOOTBALL 2025 Schedule Pipestone Area September 6, at Tracy-Milroy-Balaton;...

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STAPLES — This summer, Pipestone Area Schools graduate Paige Ahrendt found the perfect opportunity. Ahrendt has been named the community education/activities director for the Staples-Motley school district. Ahrendt, in a telephone interview with the Pipestone County Star last Friday, said her recent position at NCAA Division I LSU prepared her for this moment. She was an operations graduate assistant for the venerable SEC school, while enrolled in a Master’s degree program and receiving a modest stipend. “I loved the job, and I had a great experience,” said Ahrendt, who was looking to come back home to Minnesota. “I wanted to...

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Dahl Motors, the Chevrolet and GMC-branded dealership based in Pipestone, will conduct its second annual car show Saturday, Aug. 9. Registration begins at noon, with the show from 1-4 p.m. Dahl Motors’ physical address is 950 7th Street SE, at the confluence of U.S. Highway 75 and Minnesota State Highways 23 and 30.  The cost is , and serves as a fundraiser for the future Pipestone Veterans Memorial located in Moore Park. “This is for a good cause that we believe in,” said Connor Dahl, sales manager at Dahl Motors, who also serves as the main organizer for this event....

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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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The Pipestone Area Soccer League formed this year under the direction of Eric VanderPlaats. Games were played during the spring at the JBS Sportsplex. There were 18 games in all. About 50 youth soccer players participated, with a concluding league tournament on June 1. The Grades 4-6 White and Grades 2-3 Green teams were the winners. The 4-6 White squad featured Damian Salazar, Julian Perez, Elexis Perez, Kevin Perez, Daniel Osias, David Gomez, Angel Gabriel, Eli Paul and Sebastian Escobar, with Leo Salazar coaching them. The 2-3 Green team was composed Calyn Hulstein, Tyson Faber, Michael Barrios, Justin Lopez, Leo...

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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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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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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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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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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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