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The Twins won 4-1 at home against the Chicago White Sox Monday night. Francisco Liriano threw 7 innings with 4 hits and 1 earned run allowed to get the win and improve to 2-7. Minnesota scored 1 run in the 1st inning and added 2 more runs in the 2nd. Joe Mauer was 3-4 with a run scored and 1 RBI and Ben Revere was 4-5 for Minnesota. Mauer is hitting .323 while Revere is now hitting .331. Jared Burton threw a scoreless 9th inning to get his 2nd save in as many days.

The St. Cloud Rox have lost 14 straight games after falling 3-2 at home against Thunder Bay Monday night. The Rox led 2-1 entering the 6th inning but couldn't hold the lead. Thunder Bay scored 1 run in the 6th inning and 1 more run in the 7th. Phil Imholte went 2-3 with 1 RBI and Andy Henkemeyer was 1-2 with a triple and 1 RBI for the Rox. Will Flor allowed 3 hits and 1 earned run in 3 1/3 innings to take the loss in relief for the Rox. Keaton Siomkin threw the first 5 2/3 innings with 6 hits and 2 earned runs allowed for St. Cloud.

The Minnesota Wild have re-signed center Chad Rau to a 2-year contract and agreed to terms on a 1-year contract with left wing Stephane Veilleux. Veilleux returned to the Wild in a trade with New Jersey in February. Rau scored 2 goals in 9 games for the Wild last season. He's an Eden Prairie native.

Melrose native Amanda (Thieschafer) Smock has qualified for the Olympics later this summer in London. Twenty-nine year old Smock won the triple jump this (Monday) evening at the U.S. Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon.

Talk about a lot of stuff happening all at once this past weekend!  And we've captured a sliver of it in this photo gallery.

Nineteen firefighters are competing today (Monday) for the title of "Toughest Firefighter Alive" in downtown St. Cloud. Besides local firefighters from St. Cloud, St. Augusta, and Rice, there are also competitors from Rochester, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Toronto, Canada and elsewhere.

Seasoned police veterans from all around Minnesota and Iowa are squaring off in the Can-Am Games' S.W.A.T. team competition.

Some 30 officers and their police dogs are competing for top honors in the police service dog portion of the Can-Am Police-Fire Games.

The Twins came from behind Sunday afternoon to beat the Reds 4-3. Josh Willingham hit a 2-run homerun off Aroldis Chapman in the 9th inning to turn a 3-2 deficit to a 4-3 lead. Trevor Plouffe hit a solo homerun and Joe Mauer was 2-4 with a run scored for Minnesota. Scott Diamond threw 8 innings with 8 hits and 3 earned runs to get the win and improve to 6-3. Jared Burton threw a scoreless 9th inning to get the save.

A Melrose native will be competing for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team tonight (Monday). Amanda (Thieschafer) Smock is in first place in the triple jump after the preliminary round on Saturday.