Sports

Cathedral defeated Pillager 15-1 Wednesday to stay in the winners bracket in the Section 6-2-A baseball playoffs. Trevor Fleege pitched five strong innings for the complete game win, scattering four hits and giving up no earned runs.

The St. Cloud Rox lost 9-8 in 10 innings at Bismarck against the Larks Wednesday night. The Rox went out to a 5-1 lead in the 2nd inning only to see the Larks come back to lead 7-6 in the 8th inning.

Cathedral High School has announced the hiring of Abby Schneider as their new head girls soccer coach. Schneider is a 1999 Cathedral graduate who's had several years of coaching experience in various sports having been a head girls' swim and dive coach at the high school level for seven years, four at Cathedral.

Rocori softball is one win away from going to the state tournament after posting a 4-3 win over Sauk Rapids-Rice in the Section 8-3-A softball tournament Tuesday. The Spartans will play the Storm again tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Tech High School in the Section finals.

The St. Cloud Rox are 2-0 after an 11-0 win at Minot against the Hot Tots Tuesday night. St. Cloud outhit Minot 12-1. St. Cloud scored 5 runs in the 3rd inning, 3 in the 5th and 3 more runs in the 7th inning.

The St. Cloud Technical and Community College baseball team's season came to an end in Tennessee Tuesday afternoon.

The Freeport Black Sox will host the Avon Lakers on Wednesday June 7th to kickoff the Fox 9 Town Ball Tour. Rob Mettenberg is the Manager of the Black Sox. He says Fox 9 reached out to him and worked out a date that made sense.

The Softball section playoffs continue today throughout Central Minnesota and the baseball playoffs start in many sections.

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. St. Cloud Cathedral Crusaders, Albany Huskies, Foley Lumberjacks, Little Falls Flyers and Pierz Pioneers of the Granite Ridge Conference, the Becker Bulldogs of the Mississippi 8 Conference. Eden Valley-Watkins Eagles, Royalton Royals, Kimball Area Cubs, Paynesville Bulldogs, Holdingford Huskers, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City Falcons, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars and Maple Lake Irish of the Central Mn. Conference.

The St. Cloud Rox came from down 3-0 to win 5-3 in Minot Monday night to win their season opener. The Rox scored 1 run in the 5th inning and added 4 runs in the 6th inning.