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CENTRAL MINNESOTA TOWN BALL REPORT Completing my eleventh year at 1390 Granite City Sports with your weekly amateur baseball (Town Team) reports. Including game summaries, upcoming schedules, league standings, tournament summaries and an occasional special interest feature...

ST. CLOUD TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE CYCLONES WEDNESDAY APRIL 17th ST. CLOUD TCC CYCLONES 10 ALEX TCC LEGENDS 8 The Cyclone out hit the legends ten to nine, including three doubles and a home run, it took ten innings. A walk off double in the top of tenth secured the huge win over their Central Division rivals...

The Cathedral Girls Golf team finished 7th among 17 teams at the Milaca Invite. The meet was played in a 6-6-6 format. The team of Cammy Sand and Averie Andvik carded an 86 to finish 10th overall. Abby Silver and Natalie Granowski shot a 93.

The Timberwolves are the 3rd seed in the Western Conference and will play 6th seeded Phoenix in a first round best of 7 series. Game 1 will be in Minnesota Saturday at 2:30, pregame on AM 1390/93.9 FM Granite City Sports at 2:15.

New sport to make its world premiere at Macalester College in St. Paul

Former St. Cloud State basketball player Forrest Witt is offering basketball camps in the St. Cloud area including one at Whitney Recreation Center July 16-18. Witt is the current Alexandria High School basketball coach who led the Cardinals to the State Tournament in 2023 and advanced to the State Tournament last month.

GRANITE CITY SPORTS HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ROUND UP I will bring to you game summaries of the following teams; weekly and possibly bi-weekly as well. Rocori Spartans, St. Cloud Crush, Sauk Rapids-Rice Storm and Sartell-St. Stephen Sabres of the Central Lakes Conference...

The St. Cloud Rox will start their 2024 season next month. A former Rox player, Michael Busch is seeing his first real significant opportunity in the majors playing for the Chicago Cubs. He is making the most of it and has reeled off home runs in 5 straight games.

Softball: ROCORI 6, Sartell-St. Stephen 5 (Jessica Boos threw all 7 innings with 5 earned runs with 11 strikeouts for ROCORI.  Jordyn Illies went 2-4 including the game-winning RBI single.  For ROCORI Sam Sufka went 1-3 with 2 RBI, Jessia Boos went 2-4 with a run and 1 RBI, Sophia Hess went 1-4 a a run scored and 1 RBI and Mady Hesse walked 3 times and scored the game-winning run). Cathedr... Read

Of course, fans in the State of Hockey didn't have to wait long for the league to return, as Minnesota was given an expansion team by the NHL in June of 1997 and began play in 2000 at the renovated St. Paul Civic Center.